Section 2-71h - Supervision, control and maintenance of State Capitol and Legislative Office Building, parking garage, grounds and other facilities and areas. Provision of press room. Display of flags(a) The supervision, security, utilization and control of the State Capitol building, the State Capitol grounds and parking facilities, exclusive of the present offices and parking facilities of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State and Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and their respective staffs, the Legislative Office Building and parking garage and related structures and the grounds and parking facilities thereon, and other facilities and areas made available to or used by the committee shall be as determined by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall maintain such buildings, related structures, grounds and parking facilities. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall adopt regulations (1) for the maintenance of order within such buildings and related structures and on such grounds and on those grounds, buildings and facilities made available for the use of said committee and (2) establishing the regular business hours for such buildings and all offices housed within such buildings. Any person violating any such regulations shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, except that any person who parks a motor vehicle in violation of such regulations shall have committed an infraction and shall be fined not more than ninety dollars. The enforcement of such regulations shall be by the Office of State Capitol Police. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the Commissioner of Administrative Services may provide for additional parking on land under the control of the Joint Committee on Legislative Management with the approval of said committee.(b) The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall assign permanent office space in a room in a building under its control for the use of authorized representatives of newspapers and press associations.(c) The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall cause the national and state flags to be displayed on the State Capitol and at the Legislative Office Building from sunrise to sunset of each day.(1969, P.A. 749, S. 12; P.A. 76-192, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 20, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 2, 136; P.A. 81-364, S. 1, 4; P.A. 82-268; 82-472, S. 3, 183; P.A. 83-13, S. 4; P.A. 84-48, S. 5, 17; P.A. 85-301, S. 2, 13; P.A. 86-396, S. 2, 25; P.A. 87-496, S. 6, 110; P.A. 89-82, S. 3, 11; P.A. 96-219, S. 5; P.A. 97-28; P.A. 11-51, S. 44.)
See Sec. 4b-54(b) for powers and duties re paintings, portraits, statues or tablets to be hung or placed at the State Capitol. See Sec. 5-142(a) re injuries sustained by State Capitol Police. See Sec. 5-145a re disability or death resulting from hypertension or heart disease suffered by State Capitol Police. See Secs. 29-8a and 53-39a re indemnification of State Capitol Police.