Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-326
At such meeting, the voters may establish a district for any or all of the following purposes: To extinguish fires, to light streets, to plant and care for shade and ornamental trees, to construct and maintain roads, sidewalks, crosswalks, drains and sewers, to appoint and employ watchmen or police officers, to acquire, construct, maintain and regulate the use of recreational facilities, to plan, lay out, acquire, construct, reconstruct, repair, maintain, supervise and manage a flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system, to plan, lay out, acquire, construct, maintain, operate and regulate the use of a community water system, to collect garbage, ashes and all other refuse matter in any portion of such district and provide for the disposal of such matter, to implement tick control measures, to install highway sound barriers, to maintain water quality in lakes that are located solely in one town in this state, to establish a zoning commission and a zoning board of appeals or a planning commission, or both, by adoption of chapter 124 or chapter 126, excluding section 8-29, or both chapters, as the case may be, which commissions or board shall be dissolved upon adoption by the town of subdivision or zoning regulations by the town planning or zoning commission, to adopt building regulations, which regulations shall be superseded upon adoption by the town of building regulations, and to provide ferry service. Any district may contract with a town, city, borough or other district for carrying out any of the purposes for which such district was established.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-326
(1949 Rev., S. 765; 1955, S. 341d; 1957, P.A. 465, S. 17(c); 1959, P.A. 577, S. 3; P.A. 78-145; P.A. 81-319, S. 5, 6; P.A. 89-356, S. 4; P.A. 05-106, S. 1; 05-289, S. 1; P.A. 09-173, S. 1; P.A. 11-61, S. 7.)
Fire district may lay taxes to accomplish object of its organization. 92 C. 674. Cited. 122 Conn. 395. District is body politic within confines of larger municipal corporation. 145 Conn. 570. Cited. 208 Conn. 543; 218 Conn. 144. Cited. 35 CA 795. Special act is not affected by general statute unless intent to repeal or alter it is clearly manifest and section does not repeal prior special acts establishing two fire districts in Watertown. 28 Conn.Supp. 413.