[Amended 1-10-2017]
A Department of Human Services is hereby created under the authority
of Section 1 of Chapter VI of the Town Charter. Said department may
also identify itself as the Department of Social Services and be identified
herein as such.
[Amended 10-7-2019]
The Department of Social Services shall be vested
with the exercise within the Town of all the powers and duties relating
to poor, infirm and dependent persons as are vested by law in the
Selectmen of towns or as otherwise provided in the Connecticut General
Statutes.
[Amended 10-7-2019]
Public assistance payments not reimbursable
by the State of Connecticut may be made to qualified local recipients,
at the discretion of the Department of Social Services, up to an amount
appropriated annually by the Town Council under the heading "Local
Assistance."