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      Sec. 17a-240. (Formerly Sec. 19a-471). Establishment of Unified School District #3 in the Department of Developmental Services. The Commissioner of Developmental Services shall, within available appropriations, operate a school district within the Department of Developmental Services, to be known as State of Connecticut-Unified School District #3. The school district shall provide educational services to persons eligible to receive services from State of Connecticut-Unified School District #3. The school district shall operate on a twelve-month calendar to provide uninterrupted educational programming.

      (P.A. 77-587, S. 2, 9; P.A. 79-35, S. 3; P.A. 81-282; P.A. 82-302, S. 1, 2; P.A. 83-169, S. 4; P.A. 86-79, S. 1, 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-11, S. 3, 25; P.A. 01-195, S. 131, 181; P.A. 04-54, S. 4; P.A. 07-73, S. 2(a), (b).)

      History: P.A. 79-35 deleted words "severely or profoundly mentally retarded" to describe children requiring functional education in Subsec. (a); P.A. 81-282 amended Subsec. (a) to change membership of the education council adding one person from the board of trustees of the Mansfield Training School and one from the board of Southbury Training School and reducing from three to one the number representing the council on mental retardation and to reduce the number of meetings from six to four per year and substituted "persons" for "children" throughout the section; P.A. 82-302 authorized operation of the special school district on a twelve-month calendar; Sec. 19-575c transferred to Sec. 19a-471 in 1983; P.A. 83-169 amended Subsec. (a), changing name designation of school district to State of Connecticut-Unified School District #3; P.A. 86-79 revised council membership, reducing number from fifteen to seven; Sec. 19a-471 transferred to Sec. 17a-240 in 1991; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-11 amended Subsec. (a) to replace "severely or profoundly handicapped persons" with "infants and toddlers with developmental delays", to make operation of the school district by the department subject to available appropriations, and to make technical language changes; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes, effective July 11, 2001; P.A. 04-54 amended existing Subsec. (a) to eliminate provisions re education council for the school district within the Department of Mental Retardation and deleted former Subsec. (b) and Subsec. (a) designator; pursuant to P.A. 07-73 "Commissioner of Mental Retardation" and "Department of Mental Retardation" were changed editorially by the Revisors to "Commissioner of Developmental Services" and "Department of Developmental Services", effective October 1, 2007.

      See Sec. 10-15d re applicability of education general statutes to special school district.