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2021 Op. Conn. Att'y Gen. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.sag/sagct0075 and id is 1 raw text is: OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL CONNECTICUT WILLIAM TONG ATTORNEY GENERAL February 25, 2021 Lawrence Fox Chair, State Contracting Standards Board 165 Capitol Avenue Suite 1060 Hartford, CT 06106 Dear Chairman Fox: You have requested a formal legal opinion concerning the scope of the State Contracting Standards Board's (the Board's) jurisdiction with respect to the Connecticut Port Authority (the Port Authority), a quasi-public agency. As explained below, the Board's jurisdiction over quasi-public agencies in general is quite limited and the Board's jurisdiction is even more circumscribed with regard to the Port Authority. The Board's power derives from its statutes. See Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 4e-1 to 4e-69. Those statutes draw distinctions between state contracting agencies and quasi-public agencies, such as the Port Authority. Most of the Board's rights, powers, duties, and authorities extend only to state contracting agencies, as opposed to quasi-public agencies. In addition, the Port Authority's enabling statutes include a provision that excludes certain of the Port Authority's agreements from approval, review or regulation by the Board and other state agencies. See Conn. Gen. Stat. § 15-31b(a)(15). We conclude that the Board's jurisdiction with respect to the Port Authority would primarily be limited to regulating a bidder's contest under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 4e-36 involving a Port Authority contract that did not involve real property. The General Assembly would have to change the statutes to expand the Board's oversight. 165 Capitol Avenue Hartford, Connecticut 06106 An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportwnity Eplyer

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