2005 Formal Opinions

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• Honorable Theresa C. Lantz, Commissioner, Department of Correction, 2005-020 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  You have requested our advice on whether you have the authority to place offenders serving sentences of two years or less into halfway houses pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 18-100c prior to completion of one-half of their sentences. You also seek our advice on whether you are prevented, by statute, from transferring offenders serving sentences greater than two years to a halfway house prior to completion of one-half of the sentence imposed.

• Honorable Shaun B. Cashman, Commissioner, Dept. of Labor, Formal Opinion 2005-030, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This will acknowledge and reply to your request on behalf of the State Apprenticeship Council (SAC) for a formal opinion concerning the propriety of the issuance of apprenticeship registrations by an agency other than the Department of Labor (DOL), in particular the State Apprenticeship Council (SAC) or the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP).

• Honorable Pam Law, Commissioner of Revenue Services, 2005-033, Formal Opinion, Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, State of Connecticut

  You have asked for an opinion whether non-profit employers’ mutual insurance associations under Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 31-328 to 31-339 (“Mutual Association Statutes”) are “insurance companies” within the meaning of Conn. Gen. Stat. §12-201(4) and are therefore subject to the Connecticut insurance premium tax, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§12-201 to 12-212a (“Connecticut Premium Tax”).