(a)(1) On or before April first of each year, the Probate Court Administrator shall prepare a proposed budget for the next succeeding fiscal year beginning July first, for the appropriate expenditures of funds from the Probate Court Administration Fund to carry out the statutory duties of the Probate Court Administrator. The proposed budget shall reflect all costs related to the office of the Probate Court Administrator and the operation of the courts of probate, including, but not limited to, compensation, group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plans and retirement benefits for probate judges and employees. Expenditures in the proposed budget shall not exceed anticipated available funds.

(2) The Probate Court Administrator shall submit the proposed budget to the executive committee of the Connecticut Probate Assembly for review. The executive committee shall return the proposed budget to the Probate Court Administrator not later than May first, together with its comments and recommendations concerning the proposed expenditures. The Probate Court Administrator shall thereafter prepare a proposed final budget, including such changes recommended by the executive committee as the Probate Court Administrator deems appropriate. On or before May fifteenth, the Probate Court Administrator shall transmit the proposed final budget to the Chief Court Administrator for approval, together with the comments and recommendations of the executive committee of the Probate Assembly. On or before June fifteenth of that year, the Chief Court Administrator shall take such action on the budget, or any portion thereof, as the Chief Court Administrator deems appropriate. If the Chief Court Administrator fails to act on the proposed budget on or before June fifteenth, the budget shall be deemed approved as proposed.

(b) The Probate Court Administrator may, from time to time, request authority from the Chief Court Administrator to expend additional money from the Probate Court Administration Fund to respond to any matter that could not have been reasonably anticipated in the regular budget process. A copy of all such requests shall be sent to the president-judge of the Connecticut Probate Assembly. If the Chief Court Administrator fails to act on the request within twenty-one calendar days of receipt of the request, the request shall be deemed approved.

(c) The Probate Court Administrator may authorize such expenditures from the Probate Court Administration Fund for emergency purposes as from time to time may be necessary. If an expenditure under this subsection exceeds ten thousand dollars, the Probate Court Administrator shall send a report on the expenditure to the Chief Court Administrator and the president-judge of the Connecticut Probate Assembly within ten days after the expenditure is made.

(P.A. 93-279, S. 5; P.A. 09-114, S. 3.)

History: (Revisor's note: In 1995 references to “Probate Administration Fund” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Probate Court Administration Fund” to conform section to Sec. 45a-82); P.A. 09-114 inserted Subdiv. designators (1) and (2) in Subsec. (a), amended Subsec. (a)(1) to require proposed budget to reflect all costs related to office of administrator and operation of courts of probate, including compensation, insurance and retirement benefits, and provide that expenditures in proposed budget not exceed anticipated available funds, amended Subsec. (c) to replace provision re $5,000 limit on emergency expenditures with requirement that administrator send report on expenditures that exceed $10,000, and made technical changes, effective January 1, 2011.