Judicial business shall not be transacted by any justice of the peace.

(1959, P.A. 28, S. 44; February, 1965, P.A. 187, S. 1; P.A. 74-183, S. 71, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 83, 681; P.A. 82-248, S. 80.)

History: 1965 act allowed storage of judicial files, records and dockets as provided in Sec. 51-52; P.A. 74-183 replaced general reference to files, records and dockets of justices, judges and courts with “justice of the peace and trial justices, judges of the borough, city, town and police courts, the traffic court of Danbury and the circuit court” and their respective courts and required that files, etc. be kept in common pleas court clerks' offices rather than in circuit court clerks' offices, reflecting transfer of circuit court functions to common pleas court, effective December 31, 1974; Sec. 51-273 transferred to Sec. 51-164h in 1975; P.A. 76-436 applied provisions to records, files, etc. of court of common pleas and required that files, etc. be kept in superior court clerks' offices rather than in common pleas court clerks' offices, reflecting transfer of common pleas court functions to superior court, effective July 1, 1978; Sec. 51-164h transferred to Sec. 51-193a in the 1977 Court Reorganization Supplement; P.A. 82-248 deleted provision that prohibited “after December 31, 1960” a justice of the peace transacting judicial business and deleted provisions concerning judicial records and reenacted them as part of Sec. 51-52; Sec. 51-193a transferred to Sec. 51-95a in 1983.

Annotations to former section 51-273:

Cited. 149 C. 151.

Cited. 23 CS 410.

Cited. 2 Conn. Cir. Ct. 58, 59. With regard to judgment records of former minor courts, clerks of circuit court exercise duty of custody and safekeeping; they are not successors in office to clerks of said courts and are not enabled to amplify or complete any record of such courts in their custody; they may certify only to authenticity of documents in their custody, without verbal alteration. Id., 688.