Editor’s note:
Complete copies of all Public Acts and Special Laws of the Town of East Lyme are available at the Town Hall.
Public Act/Special Law | Date Approved | Description
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Public Act/Special Law | Date Approved | Description
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Special Laws Vol. 4, page 1242 | - - | An Act incorporating the Town of East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 4, page 1244 | Passed 1840 | Mileage of the Town of East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 4, page 1166 | Passed 1841 | Changing name of Second School Society of Lyme to the First School Society of East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 4, page 1135 | Passed 1844 | Annexing Austin F. Perkins to Second School District in East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 6, page 403 | 7-24-1868 | Providing for the appointment of a trustee of the fund devised by Elisha Miller, late of Lyme, deceased, for school purposes. |
Special Laws Vol. 9, page 238 | 4-14-1881 | An Act relating to the encampment of the Connecticut National Guard. |
House Joint Res. 25 | 4-14-1882 | An Act incorporating the Connecticut Spiritualist Camp- Meeting Association. |
Special Laws Vol. 9, page 758 | 3-28-1883 | Establishing school district lines in the Town of East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 9, page 849 | 5-3-1883 | Providing for the purchase of Niantic Bridge by the Towns of East Lyme and Waterford. |
Special Laws Vol. 9, page 923 | 3-5-1884 | Concerning the Smith Memorial Home. |
Special Laws Vol. 10, page 28 | 3-6-1885 | Changing school district boundaries in East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 10, page 312 | Passed 3-26-1886 | Concerning the Niantic Burying Ground in East Lyme. |
Special Laws Vol. 11, page 574 | 5-25-1893 | In favor of the Town of East Lyme; burial expenses of Marshall Dean. |
Special Laws Vol. 12, page 733 | 3-17-1897 | An Act relating to the encampment of the Connecticut National Guard. |
Special Laws Vol. 13, page 141 | 4-18-1899 | Amending an act dividing the Town of East Lyme into two voting districts. |
TM Volume 11, page 312 | 11-6-1973 | Repealed by referendum. |
TM Volume 21, page 5 | Changed to three districts. | |
Special Laws Vol. 14, page 223 | 3-15-1903 | Incorporating the East Lyme Fire District. |
Special Laws Vol. 14, page 562 | 4-5-1905 | Providing for the payment of the funeral expenses of Peter Dyer. |
Special Laws Vol. 14, page 1095 | 7-18-1905 | Concerning the purchase by the state of the Rope Ferry Bridge. |
Special Laws Vol. 16, page 377 | 7-25-1911 | An Act making an appropriation for the maintenance of the Drawbridge across the Niantic River between the Towns of East Lyme and Waterford; for the two years ending September 30, 1913. |
Special Laws Vol. 17, page 1155 | An Act directing the Highway Commissioner to construct a bridge over the Niantic River between the Towns of East Lyme and Waterford. | |
State of Connecticut | Senate, 5-17-1917 | Reconsidered and passed by Yeas and Nays: Yeas 23, Nays 8, the objections of the Governor notwithstanding. John Buckley, Clerk. |
State of Connecticut | House of Representatives, 5-17-1917 | Reconsidered and passed by Yeas and Nays: Yeas 220, Nays 16, the objections of the Governor notwithstanding. Edward J. Kenealy, Clerk. |
Special Laws Vol. 16, page 597 | 9-5-1911 | An Act concerning the organization of districts for fire, sewer and other purposes. |
Special Laws Vol. 17, page 1078 | 5-16-1917 | An Act granting to the Town of East Lyme the use of certain property for highway purposes. |
Special Laws Vol. 18, page 375 | 3-29-1921 | An Act authorizing the Selectmen of the Town of East Lyme to sell the schoolhouse in Flanders. |
Special Laws Vol. 22, page 797 | 6-8-1937 | An Act concerning exchange of land between the state and residents in the Town of Lyme, Old Lyme and East Lyme at Stone’s Ranch. |
Special Laws Vol. 22, page 75 | 4-4-1935 | An Act including a highway in the Town of East Lyme in the trunk line system. |
Special Laws Vol. 23, page 124 | 5-2-1939 | An Act including a highway in the Town of East Lyme in the trunk line system; Bride Brook Road. |
Special Laws Vol. 22, page 66 | 6-3-1939 Approved by town meeting 8-1-1939 | An Act providing for biennial elections in the Town of East Lyme. (Many portions of this Act no longer in effect.) |
Received 4-30-1940 | Perambulations of town line Lyme and East Lyme. (Note: recorded in either Lyme or Old Lyme.) | |
Special Laws Vol. 23, page 1000 | 6-16-1941 | An Act authorizing the Town of East Lyme to construct a water system. |
Special Acts 1951, Page 70 TM Volume 11, page 312 | 5-16-1951 | An Act providing for the appointment of an Assessor and for the filing of assessment lists in the Town of East Lyme; repealed 11-6-1973 by referendum. |
House Bill No. 1462 (417) | 7-8-1955 | An Act authorizing the Connecticut Spiritualist Camp-Meeting Association to levy a tax. |
Special Acts 1955, page 404 | 7-8-1955 | An Act changing the property tax assessment date in the Town of East Lyme. See Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-62a (1995). |
Special Acts 1955, page 654 | 8-11-1955 | An Act validating notice of sale by the Tax Collector of the Town of East Lyme. |
Special Acts 1957, page 23 | 4-3-1957 | An Act concerning the filing of assessment abstracts in the Town of East Lyme. |
Substitute for House Bill No. 1935 (619) | 7-17-1957 | An Act authorizing the Connecticut Spiritualist Camp-Meeting Association to levy a tax. |
Special Acts Vol. 34, page 176 | 5-22-1969 | An Act including the Towns of Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme, Haddam and East Haddam in the franchise area of the Southern Connecticut Gas Company. |
Special Acts, Vol. 34, page 257 | 6-19-1969 | An Act authorizing the Town of East Lyme to acquire a section of Colton Road in the Town of Old Lyme. |
Special Acts Vol. 34, page 329 | 7-2-1969 | An Act concerning an appropriation to the Waterford-East Lyme Shellfish Commission. |
Special Act 293 (Section 29) of the 1969 Session of the General Assembly Special Acts, Vol. 34, page 384 | 7-8-1969 | Shore erosion control project at Giant’s Neck. |
Public Act No. 33 of the 1971 Session of the General Assembly Special Acts January Session, 1971 Vol. 1, page 53 (Vol. 35) | 4-9-1971 | An Act concerning the Waterford-East Lyme Shellfish Commission. |
Special Act Vol. 35, page 26 January Session 1971, 1972 Vol. 36 (none) | 5-5-1971 | An Act concerning conveyance of land of the state to the Town of East Lyme and grant of two easements to said town. |
Special Act No. 73-138 Special Acts Vol. 37, page 231 | 6-21-1973 (vol 3 of set) | An Act granting easements to the town of East Lyme (re well sites and easements). |
Special Act No. 75-43 | 5-30-1975 | An Act creating the Pine Grove, Niantic Association. |
Special Act No. 77-68 Special Act Vol. 2, page 77, part 2, January Session 1977 | 6-20-1977 | An Act concerning the conveyance of land to the Town of East Lyme. |
Special Act No. 78-3 | 3-29-1978 | An Act concerning the correction of errors in a property conveyance to the Town of East Lyme; amending Special Act No. 77-68. |
House Bill No. 5918 Special Act No. 84-31 | 5-29-1984 | An Act concerning the transfer of Pine Grove Road to the Town of East Lyme. |
Substitute House Bill No. 7535 Public Act No. 85-358 PA 87-512 - SB 395 | An Act concerning authorization of state grant commitments for school construction projects. | |
PA 87-520 - sSB 865 | Effective 10-1-1987 | An Act concerning establishment of a Niantic River Gateway Commission. |
Effective 10-1-1987 | An Act concerning the depositing of shellfish and shellfisheries in Branford and increasing the penalty for a violation concerning the Waterford-East Lyme Shellfish Commission and the taking of shellfish from the Niantic River. | |
PA 88-364 | An Act concerning the revisor’s technical corrections to the General Statutes and to certain Public and Special Acts. | |
Special Act No. 90-23 | 6-6-1990 | An Act concerning authorization of state grant commitments for school building projects. |
Special Act No. 90-37 | 6-6-1990 | An Act concerning the conveyance of certain parcels of state land in Hartford, New Milford, Ansonia and East Lyme. |
Special Act No. 93-34 Substitute House Bill No. 7207 | 6-6-1990 | An Act concerning the conveyance of state land in East Lyme, Meriden and South Windsor, an easement to the state at Central Connecticut State University and the transfer of property of the Department of Transportation. |
PA 92-108 - HB 5826 Judiciary Committee | 10-1-1992 | An Act concerning composition of the Department of Correction. |
September 2009 Special Session Special Act No. 13-23 | An Act concerning the conveyance of certain parcels of state land, the boundaries of Fenwick, the validation of certain town actions, the City Point Yacht Club and Wheeler Library. | |
Effective 1-5-2011 | Probate redistricting. | |
Special Act No. 15-22 | 7-10-2015 | An Act concerning mutual consolidation of dispatch facilities in New London, East Lyme and Waterford. |
June Special Session, Special Act No. 15-1 | An Act concerning the conveyance of certain parcels of state land and amending the Charters of the Borough of Fenwick and the Giants Neck Beach Association. | |