Sec. 52-46a. Return of process.
Sec. 52-50. Persons to whom process shall be directed.
Sec. 52-45a. (Formerly Sec. 52-89). Commencement of civil actions. Contents and signature of process. Civil actions shall be commenced by legal process consisting of a writ of summons or attachment, describing the parties, the court to which it is returnable, the return day, the date and place for the filing of an appearance and information required by the Office of the Chief Court Administrator. The writ shall be accompanied by the plaintiff's complaint. The writ may run into any judicial district and shall be personally signed in ink by the hand of a commissioner of the Superior Court. The writ may also be signed by the hand of a judge, an authorized court employee or clerk of the court. The Chief Court Administrator may prescribe an alternative means for the signing of writs involving Judicial Branch employees.
(1949 Rev., S. 7811; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 107; 1969, P.A. 520, S. 2; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 82-160, S. 7; P.A. 98-13, S. 2; P.A. 25-78, S. 25.)
History: 1959 act deleted provision for writs returnable before a justice of the peace; 1969 act substituted “the return day and the date and time for the filing of an appearance” for “and the time and place of appearance”; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 82-160 replaced “mesne process in civil actions shall be” with “civil actions shall be commenced by legal process consisting of”; Sec. 52-89 transferred to Sec. 52-45a in 1983; P.A. 98-13 added “information required by Office of Chief Court Administrator”; P.A. 25-78 substituted “personally signed in ink by the hand of” for “signed by”, added that a writ may be signed by “an authorized court employee”, deleted reference “to which it is returnable” and added that Chief Court Administrator may prescribe alternative means for signing of writs involving Judicial Branch employees.
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Sec. 52-46a. Return of process. Process in civil actions returnable to the Supreme Court shall be returned to its clerk at least twenty days before the return day and, if returnable to the Superior Court, except process in summary process actions, the commencement of any civil action containing the issuance of a prejudgment remedy when the defendant in a commercial transaction has waived notice and hearing as provided under chapter 903a and petitions for parentage and support, to the clerk of such court at least six days before the return day.
(P.A. 76-436, S. 178, 681; P.A. 93-187, S. 6; P.A. 21-15, S. 143; P.A. 25-91, S. 30.)
History: P.A. 93-187 added “and petitions for paternity and support” after “summary process actions”; P.A. 21-15 replaced “paternity” with “parentage”, effective January 1, 2022; P.A. 25-91 added exception for commencement of civil action containing issuance of prejudgment remedy when defendant in commercial transaction waived notice and hearing as provided for under Ch. 903a.
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Sec. 52-50. Persons to whom process shall be directed. (a) All process shall be directed to a state marshal, a constable or other proper officer authorized by statute, or, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, to an indifferent person. A direction on the process “to any proper officer” shall be sufficient to direct the process to a state marshal, constable or other proper officer.
(b) Process shall not be directed to an indifferent person unless authorized by statute. Any indifferent person who, knowing that he is not authorized to do so under this section or any other provision of the general statutes, serves process shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(c) Service of motions for modification, motions for contempt and wage withholdings in any matter involving a beneficiary of care or assistance from the state and in other IV-D child support cases may be made by any investigator employed by the Commissioner of Administrative Services or the Commissioner of Social Services.
(d) Service of motions for modification, motions for contempt and wage withholdings in any matter involving child support, including, but not limited to, petitions for support authorized under sections 17b-745 and 46b-215, and those matters involving a beneficiary of care or assistance from the state, and service of other process in IV-D support cases, as defined in subdivision (13) of subsection (b) of section 46b-231, may be made by a support enforcement officer or support services investigator of the Superior Court.
(e) Borough bailiffs may, within their respective boroughs, execute all legal process which state marshals or constables may execute.
(f) (1) Process directed to a state marshal by an attorney-at-law or public agency, as defined in section 52-50a, shall be delivered to such state marshal by either (A) providing the original process printed on paper and personally signed in ink by the issuing authority, along with sufficient copies for the state marshal to effectuate service, except that in matters where the process to be served has been issued by or filed with the Judicial Department before delivery to a state marshal, the original process delivered to such state marshal as prescribed by this subparagraph may be a printed copy of the process as filed with the Judicial Department, or (B) transmitting the process to a state marshal electronically pursuant to the provisions of section 52-50a.
(2) Process directed to a state marshal by parties other than an attorney-at-law or public agency, as defined in section 52-50a, including self-represented parties, which are returnable to a court, agency, board or tribunal, as the case may be, which is located in this state and is established by the general statutes or a special act, shall be delivered to such state marshal by providing the original process printed on paper and personally signed in ink by the issuing authority, along with sufficient copies for the state marshal to effectuate service, except that in matters where the process to be served is on file with the Judicial Department before delivery to a state marshal, the original process delivered to such state marshal as prescribed by this subparagraph may be a printed copy of the process as filed with the Judicial Department.
(3) Process directed to a state marshal which originates from a court or public agency outside of this state, which is established under a law other than the law of this state may be transmitted to a state marshal electronically pursuant to the provisions of section 52-50a.
(4) In the case where sufficient copies of the documents to be served, as provided for in this section, have not been given to a state marshal to effectuate service, a state marshal may charge for the production of actual copies produced as needed to complete service of process, and shall charge the fees provided for in subsection (i) of section 52-50a, subject to the exclusions set forth in said subsection, as if the process were transmitted electronically.
(1949 Rev., S. 7771; 1967, P.A. 828; P.A. 76-334, S. 8, 12; P.A. 77-452, S. 26, 67, 72; 77-594, S. 5, 7; 77-614, S. 70, 521, 610; P.A. 79-560, S. 21, 39; P.A. 82-160, S. 10; P.A. 83-295, S. 16; P.A. 90-213, S. 36, 56; P.A. 93-262, S. 74, 87; 93-396, S. 6; P.A. 00-99, S. 108, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 57, 181; P.A. 04-257, S. 79; P.A. 13-194, S. 12; P.A. 14-86, S. 2; P.A. 23-23, S. 4; P.A. 25-78, S. 23.)
History: 1967 act authorized investigators employed by finance and control commissioner to make service of motions for modification or contempt or wage executions in matters involving beneficiaries of state care or assistance; P.A. 76-334 extended provision added in 1967 to apply to investigators of social services commissioner and added similar provision empowering court domestic relations officers to act in matters involving child support; P.A. 77-452 removed reference to domestic relations officers of court of common pleas, that court's functions having been transferred to superior court by P.A. 76-436, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 77-594 specifically included petitions for support as a matter involving child support and authorized family relations officers and support services investigators power to act in such matters; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of finance and control with commissioner of administrative services and, effective January 1, 1979, replaced commissioner of social services with commissioner of human resources; P.A. 79-560 extended power to make service of motions, etc. to investigators of commissioner of income maintenance; P.A. 82-160 rephrased section, inserted Subsec. indicators and added Subsec. (e) which was formerly Sec. 52-66; P.A. 83-295 amended Subsec. (d) to delete a reference to service by a “domestic relations officer” or “family relations officer” and to authorize service by a family relations caseworker, family relations counselor or support enforcement officer; P.A. 90-213 deleted provisions concerning family relations caseworker and family relations counselor; P.A. 93-262 changed reference in Subsec. (c) from commissioners of income maintenance and human resources to commissioner of social services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-396 replaced the word “executions” with “withholdings”; P.A. 00-99 replaced references to sheriff and deputy sheriff with state marshal in Subsec. (a), effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 01-195 substituted “state marshals” for “sheriffs” in Subsec. (e), effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 04-257 made technical changes in Subsec. (d), effective June 14, 2004; P.A. 13-194 amended Subsec. (d) to add provision re service of other process in IV-D support cases, as defined in Sec. 46b-231(b)(13); P.A. 14-86 amended Subsec. (b) by adding provision re indifferent person who serves process, knowing that he is not authorized to do so, to be guilty of a class A misdemeanor; P.A. 23-23 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing existing provisions concerning when process may be directed to indifferent persons with “unless authorized by statute”; P.A. 25-78 added Subsec. (f) re various means of delivering or transmitting process to a state marshal based on the nature of process involved and authority of state marshal to charge fees for making copies of process.
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Sec. 52-50a. Receipt of electronic transmission of process by state marshal. When permitted; requirements re; fees for. (a) As used in this section:
(1) “Amended process” means, at the direction of the issuing authority, changes made by a state marshal to a process to modify, adjust or correct minor, technical, clerical, typographical or scrivener's errors or conforming changes made during service of process, including adjustments made to the name, alias, agent or addresses of the parties, the court or the return date of the process.
(2) “Attorney-at-law” means an attorney admitted to practice law in this state, another state, district, territory or insular possession of the United States, foreign country or admitted to practice law in a United States federal or tribal court. “Attorney-at-law” includes an individual duly authorized by the attorney-at-law to transmit documents to a state marshal in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(3) “Business day” has the same meaning as provided in section 36a-330.
(4) “Portable document format” means an electronic file format that facilitates document exchange, is designed to be independent of the software, hardware and operating systems used to create the document, and that preserves the fonts, formatting, pagination and graphics of the source document, allowing the document to be viewed as it was intended to appear, regardless of the device or platform.
(5) “Public agency” includes (A) a public agency as defined in section 1-200, (B) a quasi-public agency as defined in section 1-120, and (C) an executive, legislative or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution or instrumentality of another state or of a county, municipality or other political subdivision of another state.
(6) “Special occasion” means a time when a party authorized to electronically transmit process to a state marshal determines it to be necessary, convenient or desirable to utilize the provisions of this section, subject where applicable to a fee as prescribed by this section, instead of tendering a state marshal an original process printed on paper, along with sufficient copies for service of process.
(b) On any special occasion, an attorney-at-law or public agency may direct process, including, but not limited to, any writ, summons, complaint, subpoena, attachment, execution, application, order, notice, motion or petition, to a state marshal in an electronic format, which clearly and accurately provides an image of the original process, including the signature of the authority issuing such process, provided:
(1) Such attorney-at-law or public agency obtains the permission of the state marshal prior to the electronic transmission of such process for service.
(2) The attorney-at-law or public agency transmits each process to the state marshal in one electronic file per process, in a letter-sized document, in a portable document format, that contains all pages of the document to be served, collated in the proper order for which the attorney-at-law or public agency is directing the state marshal to serve, so that the state marshal may print one electronic file per process, without the need to collate, assemble or print multiple electronic documents in a particular matter before making service.
(3) The attorney-at-law or public agency additionally electronically transmits to the state marshal, a letter, electronic mail or written instruction for service for each process to be served that succinctly provides the necessary information required for the state marshal to make legal service. In matters involving service under chapter 815a, or any other process where personal service is requested, information concerning the profile of the person to be served, when known and available, shall be electronically transmitted to the state marshal. Information electronically transmitted to the state marshal shall include, but is not limited to: (A) Any location where the person is known to spend time, (B) the telephone numbers of the person, (C) the employer, work location and working hours of the person, (D) a photo or physical description of the person, (E) the age or date of birth of the person, (F) the vehicles of the person, including make, model and plate numbers, and (G) safety concerns to be aware of when making service on the person. Such information may be provided by utilizing the respondent profile form accessible electronically on the Internet web site of the Judicial Branch.
(4) The attorney-at-law or public agency does not electronically transmit the same process to more than one state marshal for service.
(5) The attorney-at-law or public agency retains the original process which has been electronically transmitted to the state marshal, and when filed with the court, agency, board or tribunal, as the case may be, where the process is to be returned, the attorney-at-law or public agency causes the same document that was electronically transmitted to the state marshal for service, to be filed, without any alteration or amendment, except that in matters where amendments are made to the process by a state marshal at the time of service, the attorney-at-law or public agency shall file the amended process.
(c) For purposes of a state marshal serving a true and attested copy of any process under any provision of the general statutes, process that is electronically transmitted to a state marshal for service by an attorney-at-law or public agency under the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be an original document in the hands of a state marshal for service.
(d) Except as otherwise provided by law, no state marshal shall be required to accept process in an electronic format. A state marshal may voluntarily elect to receive the electronic transmission of process under the provisions of this section at the request of an attorney-at-law or public agency, subject to the provisions and fees prescribed in this section.
(e) If a state marshal elects to receive the electronic transmission of process, the state marshal shall maintain and monitor an electronic mail address used for the purposes of this section.
(f) An attorney-at-law or public agency shall not transmit process to a state marshal in an electronic format, where the number of pages to be printed in any one matter for all parties to be served exceeds fifty pages in total, or the number of processes for separate matters to be transmitted, within a time period of one week, exceeds five processes, except that a state marshal and an attorney-at-law or public agency may agree to a different number of processes or pages to be accepted by electronic transmission.
(g) (1) The provisions of this section shall not apply for the purposes of personal delivery to a state marshal, pursuant to section 52-593a, before the passage of the time limited by law within which an action may be brought. (2) No process relating to a matter in which a statute of limitations is tolling within sixty days shall be electronically transmitted to a state marshal; such process shall only be delivered to a state marshal for service as original process, printed on paper and personally signed in ink by the issuing authority, along with sufficient copies for the state marshal to effectuate service.
(h) Receipt of electronic process under this section shall occur by reply of the state marshal to the attorney-at-law or public agency transmitting such process. A state marshal electing to receive process in an electronic format from an attorney-at-law or public agency under the provisions of this section may, within two business days after receiving such process, reject any such process for service, if (1) the requirements of subdivision (2) or (3) of subsection (b) of this section have not been met, (2) the process is not signed, or is out of order, (3) the process is not received in a clear and legible format, or cannot be accessed electronically, (4) the lawful deadline for service of the process cannot reasonably be met, or (5) the number of pages or processes to be printed exceeds the limitations prescribed in subsection (f) of this section. A state marshal shall provide notification of the rejection of electronic process for service to the attorney-at-law or public agency by electronic mail.
(i) (1) A state marshal shall receive for each process, in any one matter that is electronically transmitted for service under this section, a fee of fifty dollars, irrespective of the number of persons to be served, as a fee for the receiving and handling electronic process for service. A state marshal shall also receive a fee of one dollar for each page printed under the provisions of this section. Fees assessed pursuant to this section shall not be a taxable cost of the action. Such fees for electronic receipt and handling and printing of process shall be listed on the state marshal's return of service under a separate total segregated from other fees.
(2) A state marshal receiving and printing an electronic process shall charge the fees prescribed by this section and shall not adjust or waive such fees, nor shall such fees be subject to a minimum rate promulgated by the state pursuant to section 6-38a. Fees under this section shall not apply or be charged in the case of the transmittal and printing of executions issued under chapter 832 or 906, warrants issued under chapter 204, ejectments under section 49-22, service of process under a waiver of fees issued pursuant to section 52-259b, capias mittimus orders issued under any provisions of the general statutes or orders of protection and relief under chapter 815a. Fees under this section shall not be considered a fee for copies of writs and complaints pursuant to chapter 901 and shall be in addition to any fee under said chapter payable to the officer serving process.
(j) A state marshal when printing documents for service, as provided by this section, shall print such documents on letter-sized paper. When making service of electronically transmitted documents printed for service under this section, the state marshal shall not be required to send printed documents or a printed return of service back to the attorney-at-law or public agency which electronically transmitted such process, but the state marshal shall electronically transmit the marshal's return of service to such attorney-at-law or public agency. In the event that the process was amended by a state marshal at the time of service, such amended process shall also be returned.
(k) No state marshal shall, in the performance of receiving electronically transmitted process, be liable for damage, errors or omissions related to the electronic transmission, receipt, printing or filing of electronically transmitted process, including, but not limited to: (1) Missing pages in the transmission, (2) the failure to receive the electronic transmission due to electronic or technical malfunctions, or such other similar errors, or (3) erroneous service of process on account of the failure of an attorney-at-law or public agency to comply with the provisions of this section in the transmission and filing of such process.
(P.A. 25-78, S. 13.)
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Sec. 52-57. Manner of service upon individuals, municipalities, corporations, partnerships and voluntary associations. (a) Except as otherwise provided, process in any civil action shall be served by leaving a true and attested copy of it, including the declaration or complaint, with the defendant, or at his usual place of abode, in this state.
(b) Process in civil actions against the following-described classes of defendants shall be served as follows: (1) Against a town, upon its clerk, assistant clerk, deputy clerk, manager or one of its selectmen; (2) against a city, upon its clerk, assistant clerk or deputy clerk or upon its mayor or manager; (3) against a borough, upon its manager, clerk, assistant clerk or deputy clerk or upon the warden or one of its burgesses; (4) against a school district, upon its clerk, assistant clerk, deputy clerk, superintendent, assistant superintendent or deputy superintendent or one of its committee; (5) against a board, commission, department or agency of a town, city or borough, notwithstanding any provision of law, upon the clerk, assistant clerk, deputy clerk of the town, city or borough, provided two copies of such process shall be served upon the clerk and the clerk shall retain one copy and forward the second copy to the board, commission, department or agency; (6) against any other municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, upon its clerk, assistant clerk, deputy clerk or upon its chief presiding officer or managing agent; and (7) against an employee of a town, city or borough in a cause of action arising from the employee's duties or employment, upon the clerk, assistant clerk, deputy clerk of the town, city or borough, provided two copies of such process shall be served upon the clerk and the clerk shall retain one copy and forward the second copy to the employee.
(c) In actions against a private corporation, service of process shall be made either upon the president, the vice president, an assistant vice president, the secretary, the assistant secretary, the treasurer, the assistant treasurer, the cashier, the assistant cashier, the teller or the assistant teller or its general or managing agent or manager or upon any director resident in this state, or the person in charge of the business of the corporation or upon any person who is at the time of service in charge of the office of the corporation in the town in which its principal office or place of business is located. In actions against a private corporation established under the laws of any other state, any foreign country or the United States, service of process may be made upon any of the aforesaid officers or agents, or upon the agent of the corporation appointed pursuant to section 33-922.
(d) In actions against a partnership, service of process may be made by personally serving any process within the state upon any one of the partners or, if none of the partners are residents of the state, service may be made upon the Secretary of the State; provided, prior to the return date, the officer serving the writ shall mail a copy of the writ and the complaint by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the last-known address of every partner named in the writ not personally served. A statement of such mailing and receipt therefor shall be included in the officer's return.
(e) In actions against a voluntary association, service of process may be made upon the presiding officer, secretary or treasurer. If all of such officers are not residents of the state and the voluntary association is doing business, acting or carrying out its operations or its functions within the state, the voluntary association shall be deemed to have appointed the Secretary of the State as its attorney and to have agreed that any process in any civil action brought against it may be served upon the Secretary of the State and that the process shall have the same validity as if served personally upon the presiding officer, secretary or treasurer of the voluntary association. The process shall be served by any officer to whom the process is directed upon the Secretary of the State by leaving with, or at the office of, the Secretary of the State, at least twelve days before the return day of the process, a true and attested copy thereof, and by sending to the defendant at its last-known address by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, a like true and attested copy with an endorsement thereon of the service upon the Secretary of the State. The officer serving the process upon the Secretary of the State shall leave with the Secretary of the State, at the time of service, a fee of fifty dollars, which fee shall be taxed in favor of the plaintiff in the plaintiff's costs if the plaintiff prevails in the action. The Secretary of the State shall keep a record of each such process and the day and hour of service.
(f) When the other methods of service of process provided under this section or otherwise provided by law cannot be effected, in actions concerning the establishment, enforcement or modification of child support orders other than actions for dissolution of marriage, including, but not limited to, such actions under sections 17b-122, 17b-124 to 17b-132, inclusive, 17b-136 to 17b-138, inclusive, 17b-194 to 17b-197, inclusive, 17b-222 to 17b-250, inclusive, 17b-263, 17b-340 to 17b-350, inclusive, 17b-689b, 17b-743 to 17b-747, inclusive, and 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive, and chapters 815, 815p, 815t, 815y and 816, and actions to implement garnishments for support under section 52-362, service of process may be made upon a party to the action by one of the following methods, provided proof of receipt of such process by such party is presented to the court in accordance with rules promulgated by the judges of the Superior Court:
(1) By certified mail to a party to the action addressed to the employer of such party. Any service of process so sent shall include on the outside envelope the words “To be delivered to the employee in accordance with subsection (f) of section 52-57”. The employer shall accept any such service of process sent by certified mail and promptly deliver such certified mail to the employee; or
(2) When a party to an action under this subsection is employed by an employer with fifteen or more employees, by personal service upon an official of the employer designated as an agent to accept service of process in actions brought under this subsection. Each employer with fifteen or more employees doing business in this state shall designate an official to accept service of process for employees who are parties to such actions. The person so served shall promptly deliver such process to the employee.
(1949 Rev., S. 7774; 1955, S. 3149d; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 73; P.A. 73-50; P.A. 82-160, S. 15; P.A. 83-445; P.A. 85-303, S. 1, 5; P.A. 89-195, S. 5; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 106, 117; P.A. 96-271, S. 217, 254; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1, S. 69, 75; P.A. 03-19, S. 116; 03-224, S. 8; 03-278, S. 126; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, S. 97; P.A. 04-76, S. 56; 04-78, S. 3; P.A. 05-288, S. 175; P.A. 11-214, S. 29; P.A. 15-71, S. 90; P.A. 19-40, S. 14; 19-118, S. 38; P.A. 25-78, S. 17.)
History: 1959 act deleted provisions for actions against county, county commissioners and county clerks, county government having been abolished; P.A. 73-50 allowed service to be made upon an assistant vice president and upon attorneys of foreign corporations appointed pursuant to Sec. 33-400 rather than upon “resident” attorneys of such corporations appointed pursuant to Sec. 33-138; P.A. 82-160 inserted Subsec. indicators, added Subsec. (d) concerning service upon partnerships which was formerly Sec. 52-57b, and added Subsec. (e) concerning service upon voluntary associations which was formerly Sec. 52-59; P.A. 83-445 specified that copy of writ and complaint be mailed to partners “named in writ”; P.A. 85-303 substituted reference to corporation's attorney for reference to corporation's agent in Subsec. (c) and raised fee for service of process upon secretary of the state from $5 to $10; P.A. 89-195 added Subsec. (f) re service of process in actions concerning child support orders where other methods of service of process cannot be effected; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 amended Subsec. (e) to raise fee from $10 to $25; P.A. 96-271 amended Subsec. (c) to replace reference to Sec. 33-400 with Sec. 33-922, effective January 1, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1 added reference to Secs. 46b-212 to 46b-213v, inclusive, to Subsec. (f), effective January 1, 1998 (Revisor's note: References in Subsec. (f) to Secs. “17b-115” and “17b-693” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “17b-616” and “17b-689b”, respectively, and the word “to” preceding “17b-693” was deleted to reflect repeal of Secs. 17b-115, 17b-689a and 17b-690 to 17b-693, inclusive); P.A. 03-19 made a technical change in Subsec. (f), effective May 12, 2003; P.A. 03-224 amended Subsec. (b) by adding new Subdiv. (5) re service on municipal board, commission, department or agency, redesignating existing Subdiv. (5) as Subdiv. (6) and adding Subdiv. (7) re service on municipal employee, effective July 2, 2003; P.A. 03-278 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting Subdiv. (5)(B) re service on clerk, chief presiding officer or executive head of municipal board, commission, department or agency, deleting Subdiv. (7)(B) re service on municipal employee pursuant to Subsec. (a) and making technical changes, effective July 9, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, in repealing Secs. 17b-19, 17b-62 to 17b-65, inclusive, 17b-116, 17b-116a, 17b-116b, 17b-117, 17b-120, 17b-121, 17b-123, 17b-134, 17b-135, 17b-220, 17b-259 and 17b-287, authorized deletion of internal references to said section in this section, effective March 1, 2004; P.A. 04-76 amended Subsec. (f) by deleting references to Secs. 17b-118b and 17b-221 that were repealed by the same act; P.A. 04-78 amended Subsec. (b)(5) by replacing “any provision of the general statutes” with “any provision of law”; P.A. 05-288 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective July 13, 2005; P.A. 11-214 amended Subsec. (f) to substitute reference to Sec. 46b-213w for reference to Sec. 46b-213v and make a technical change; P.A. 15-71 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing reference to Secs. 46b-212 to 46b-213w with reference to Secs. 46b-301 to 46b-425, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 19-40 amended Subsec. (e) by replacing fee of $25 with fee of $50 and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 19-118 amended Subsec. (f) by deleting reference to Sec. 17b-256, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 25-78 amended Subsec. (b) in Subdivs. (1) to (7) by adding references to deputy clerk, in Subdivs. (4) to (7) by adding references to assistant clerk and further amended Subdiv. (4) by adding references to superintendent, assistant superintendent and deputy superintendent.
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Sec. 52-64a. Service of writ of summons in civil action naming correction officer or employee of Department of Correction. A writ of summons in a civil action naming a correction officer or an employee of the Department of Correction, except where it may be served under the provisions of section 52-64, may be served upon a person designated by the Commissioner of Correction at the correctional facility where the correction officer or employee is assigned who shall act as the agent of the correction officer or employee named in the writ. Service upon such agent shall be deemed to be service upon the correction officer or employee. The provisions of this section shall not be construed as the exclusive or required means of serving a correction officer or employee of the Department of Correction when service cannot be made under section 52-64.
(P.A. 25-78, S. 12.)
History: (Revisor's note: The words “correctional officer”, which appeared in the engrossed bill, were changed editorially by the Revisors to “correction officer” for consistency).
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