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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 4-183

Citation
Section 4-183
Parent Document
Bittle v. Commissioner of Social Services, 249 Conn. 503 (1999)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1999-07-20

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The department concedes that our inteipretation of General Statutes (Rev. to 1987) § 4-183 (b) is a plausible reading, but argues that because, through P.A. 88-317, the language of the statute evolved from “service upon an agency may be made by the appellant mailing a copy of the petition . . . to the office of the commissioner of the agency”; General Statutes (Rev. to 1987) § 4-183 (b); to “[appellant] . . . shall serve . . . the appeal on the agency ... at its office”; General Statutes § 4-183 (c); the legislature intended that service be perfected when an agency has received the appeal papers. The legislative history with respect to this point essentially traces the language of the statute, as amended, and it does not, therefore, add any new evidence for our consideration: “Service of the appeal on the agency and parties may be made either by mail or by sheriff within forty-five days of the mailing or personal delivery of the final decision.” Conn. Joint Standing Committee Hearings, Judiciary, Pt. 2,1988 Sess., p. 385. We have not discovered, and the department has not provided this court with, any evidence in support of the claim that the changing of the word “to,” to the word “at,” *510was intended to make the receipt, rather than the mailing, of appeal documents the event that perfects service under the statute.