HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut has abolished nearly 1,000 pages of obsolete and unnecessary rules that include a ban on women working alone in early morning hours and regulations for billing procedures dating to 1976.

Lobbyists for businesses and small municipalities say the law signed Wednesday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is a good start.

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