1993 Formal Opinions

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• Steven Weinberger, Director, Office of the State Comptroller, 1993-009 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your letter of April 1, 1993 to this office in which you ask whether an active state employee who is currently a member of the State Employees Retirement System is barred from collecting a pension from the Judge's Retirement System while serving as a state employee.

• T. William Knapp, Municipal Police Training Council, 1993-028 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have asked our opinion on several matters pertaining to the extent of the authority of the Municipal Police Training Council (MPTC) to impose mandatory training requirements upon those persons empowered by statute to act in the capacity of a police officer.

• The Hon. William E. Curry, Jr., State Comptroller, 1993-023 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your letter of August 3, 1993 concerning the Health Care Cost Containment Committee (HCCCC) and U.S. Healthcare. Pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 5-259, you have the statutory obligation to establish group hospitalization, medical and surgical insurance coverage for state employees, retirees and others, and are authorized to enter into contracts for that purpose.

• Honorable Audrey Rowe , Department of Income Maintenance , 1993-016 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  By your letter of May 4, 1992, you requested our opinion on several questions about the exclusion of irrevocable funeral accounts from consideration as assets in determining eligibility for your Department's programs. Essentially, you asked whether the monetary limit Conn. Gen. Stat. §42-207 places on such accounts is a requirement for their validity. If it is, you asked whether the limit may be exceeded either by creating an account outside the state and then transferring it to the state or by creating multiple irrevocable accounts whose total amount exceed the limit.

• Honorable Allan A. Crystal , Department of Revenue Services , 1993-037 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have asked what liability, if any, a state agency would have "with respect to any incidents arising at, during or after" an off-site holiday party attended by agency employees during working hours.

• Hon. William E. Curry, Jr., State Comptroller, 1993-020 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You recently sought our advice as to whether you may discontinue the practice of providing on request lists of outstanding state checks to asset finder organizations ("AFO").

• Edward C. Krawiecki, Jr., State Representative, 1993-006 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  By letter dated January 11, 1993 you ask one question regarding the effect of Art. III, § 18(a), the balanced budget amendment, on deficiency legislation authorized by Conn.Gen.Stat. § 2-36. You also ask four questions on the relationship between the statutory and constitutional spending caps set forth in Public Act 91-3, § 30 and Article III, § 18.