State v. Bletsch

How courts have described this case

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• noting that ‘‘under the ‘may exempt’ language in § 54-251 [b], even when the two enumerated factors are satisfied in a given case, the court still may decline to grant the registry exemption’’
• “may” is construed as directory “[o]nly when the context of legislation permits such an interpretation and if the interpretation is necessary to make a legislative enactment effective”
• “as opposed to [definitive words, such as must or shall, [which] ordinarily express legislative mandates of a nondirectory nature . . . the word may imports permissive conduct and the conferral of discretion” [citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted]
• use of ‘‘may’’ in statutory language imports permissive conduct and conferral of discretion

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