Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 31 - Labor
1 - Establishment of Rules of Procedure for Hearings in Contested Cases to be Conducted by the Labor Commissioner
Rules of Procedure for Declaratory Rulings by the Labor Commissioner
Section 31-1-11 - Definitions
Current through September 9, 2024
For purposes of Sections 31-1-11 through 31-1-17, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Agency" means the Connecticut Labor Department.
(b) "Commissioner" means the Labor Commissioner of the state of Connecticut, whose mailing address is 200 Folly Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, Connecticut 06109.
(c) "Contested case" means a proceeding, including but not restricted to rate-making, price fixing and licensing, in which the legal rights, duties or privileges of a party are required by statute to be determined by an agency after an opportunity for hearing or in which a hearing is in fact held, but does not include proceedings on a petition for a declaratory ruling under section 4-176 or hearings referred to in section 4-168 of the general statutes;
(d) "Final decision" means (A) the agency determination in a contested case, (B) a declaratory ruling issued by an agency pursuant to section 4-176 of the general statutes or (C) an agency decision made after reconsideration, but does not include a preliminary or intermediate ruling or order of an agency, or a ruling of an agency granting or denying a petition for reconsideration;
(e) "Intervenor" means a person, other than a party, granted status as an intervenor by an agency in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of section 4-176 or subsection (b) of section 4-177a of the General Statutes of Connecticut;
(f) "Party" means each person (A) whose legal rights, duties or privileges are required by statute to be determined by an agency proceeding and who is named or admitted as a party, (B) who is required by law to be a party in an agency proceeding or (C) who is granted status as a party under subsection (a) of section 4-177a of the General Statutes of Connecticut;
(g) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, agency or public or private organization of any character, but does not include the agency conducting the proceeding.
