Connecticut General Statutes

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The Connecticut General Statutes are official General Statutes of Connecticut, revised to 2005, contains the Constitution of the United States, the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Connecticut, and the thirty Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Connecticut adopted since 1965.

[edit] Latest revision

The latest revision incorporates all public acts and certain special acts of the public nature, passed from 1959 through 2004, in effect on January 1, 2005, except that any section which has been repealed, been repealed by implication or become obsolete is not included if such section was never printed in a previously revised volume but only appeared in one or more of the several supplements to the General Statutes issued since 1959.

[edit] Organization of the General Statutes

Titles: contain chapters, articles and sections of the statutes grouped in broad subject areas.
Chapters: contain sections of the statutes grouped in broad subject areas.
Articles: (used instead of Chapters in Title 42a – Uniform Commercial Code), contain sections of the statutes grouped in more specific subject areas.
Sections: contain the text of each statute