(a) Any person, including, but not limited to, a state or municipal agency, requesting funds from the state, including, but not limited to, any authority created by the general statutes or any public or special act, with respect to any capital city project or any economic development project in the capital region in which the Capital Region Development Authority is involved, shall, at the time it makes such request for funds from the state, present a full and complete copy of its application or request, along with any supporting documents or exhibits, to the Capital Region Development Authority for its recommendation and to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. The authority shall, not later than ninety days after receipt of such application or request, prepare and adopt a capital city economic development statement, summarizing its recommendations with respect to such application or request, and deliver such statement to the state officer, official, employee or agent of the state or authority to whom such application or request was made. The recommendations in such statement shall include contract provisions regarding performance standards, including, but not limited to, project timelines.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, public or special acts, any regulation or procedure or any other law, no officer, official, employee or agent of the state or any authority created by the general statutes or any public or special act, shall expend any funds on any capital city project or any project in the capital region in which the authority is involved, unless such officer, official, employee or agent has received a capital city economic development statement adopted by the authority pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, provided, if no such statement is received by the time ninety days have elapsed from the date of the initial application or request for such funds, such funds may be expended. If funds are expended pursuant to this subsection in a manner not consistent with the recommendations contained in a capital city economic development statement for such expenditure, the officer, official, employee or agent of the state expending such funds shall respond in writing to the authority, providing an explanation of the decision with respect to such expenditure.
(c) The authority shall not adopt any statement recommending funding for any capital city project or any economic development project in the capital region in which the authority is involved, unless and until the town and city of Hartford has created a municipal parking authority in accordance with chapter 100 and has transferred, or scheduled the transfer of, in a legally binding way, the rights and responsibilities of the municipality for all municipally owned or operated parking facilities, as defined in section 7-202.
(d) The authority shall coordinate the use of all state and municipal planning and financial resources that are or can be made available for any capital city project or any economic development project in the capital region in which the authority is involved, including any resources available from any quasi-public agency.
(e) All state and municipal agencies, departments, boards, commissions and councils shall cooperate with the Capital Region Development Authority in carrying out the purposes enumerated in section 32-602.
(P.A. 98-179, S. 7, 30; P.A. 08-185, S. 3; P.A. 12-147, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 98-179 effective June 1, 1998; P.A. 08-185 amended Subsec. (f) by extending termination date from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2013, effective June 12, 2008; P.A. 12-147 replaced “Capital City Economic Development Authority” with “Capital Region Development Authority”, added provisions re economic development project in the capital region in which authority is involved and deleted former Subsec. (f) re termination date, effective June 15, 2012.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 32 - Commerce and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 588x - Capital Region Development Authority
Section 32-600. - Definitions.
Section 32-601. - Capital Region Development Authority. Operations.
Section 32-602a. - Assistance to science center.
Section 32-603. - Adoption of procedures.
Section 32-604. - Feasibility and implementation study.
Section 32-605. - Reports. Audits. Compliance of operations.
Section 32-607. - Bonds, notes and other obligations. Special capital reserve funds.
Section 32-608. - State contract assistance.
Section 32-609. - Loans from Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated.
Section 32-610. - Exemptions from taxes.
Section 32-610a. - Assessment of apartment property.
Section 32-611. - State pledge to bond holders and contractors.
Section 32-612. - Downtown higher education center project development.
Section 32-613. - Applications for licenses, permits, approvals and administrative actions.
Section 32-614. - Bond authorization for the convention center project.
Section 32-615. - Bond authorization for the downtown higher education center project.
Section 32-617. - Indemnification of officials of Capital Region Development Authority.
Section 32-617a. - Limitation on liability of state officials.
Section 32-617g. - Bond authorization for residential housing development.