If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management ascertains that the assessors or board of assessment appeals or any official charged with any of the duties imposed on assessors or boards of assessment appeals, or the tax collector, treasurer or any official authorized to fix a rate of tax in any town, city or borough or other taxing district, fails to discharge his or its administrative duty according to law, said secretary may in writing call such failure to the attention of each such board or member thereof or official failing to perform its or his duties. If such board or official fails to comply thereafter with the law with respect to which attention has been so called in writing, the secretary may apply to the superior court in the judicial district wherein such board or official has jurisdiction or, in case the Superior Court is not in session, to a judge thereof, setting forth such failure, and the judge or court, as the case may be, upon ascertaining the facts stated in such application to be true, shall issue an order in the nature of a mandamus requiring compliance with the provisions of the statute particularly mentioned in such application, and shall render judgment against any official, board or person who has so failed, with costs, as in mandamus proceedings. Any person who fails to comply with any order so issued shall be in contempt and said court or such judge may punish him therefor as in mandamus proceedings. Any person claiming to be aggrieved by any order issued by authority of the provisions of § 12-2 and of this section shall have the same right of appeal to the Appellate Court as in mandamus cases.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 12-4

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: means any individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, public or private corporation, society, association, trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary or custodian. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
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