The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance to initiate, expand or improve housing code enforcement programs to promote the preservation or rehabilitation of housing, in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to two-thirds of the cost of the program, as approved by the commissioner, for two years after execution of the state assistance agreement, one-half of such cost for an additional period not to exceed three years and thereafter one-third the cost of the program. To facilitate the effective enforcement of housing codes throughout the state, the commissioner may prepare a model State Housing Code. Any municipality may adopt such code by ordinance.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 11; P.A. 73-338; P.A. 75-368, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 291, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 11; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 73-338 placed three-year limit on additional aid for cost after initial two-year period and placed five-year limit on additional aid for programs under federal Housing Act of 1949; P.A. 75-368 added provision that code enforcement programs promote preservation and rehabilitation of housing, deleted provision placing five-year limit on aid from programs under federal Housing Act and provided for continuing aid after three-year limit expires for one-third of the program's cost; P.A. 77-614 gave contracting authority to commissioner of economic development, “commissioner” previously having referred to commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs
Section 8-201. - Declaration of policy.
Section 8-206. - Duties of Commissioner of Housing.
Section 8-206c. - Effective date of Secs. 8-206b and 16a-45.
Section 8-208. - State grants-in-aid for housing code enforcement.
Section 8-208a. - Appeals from municipal housing code board decisions and enforcement. Cost.
Section 8-208b. - Neighborhood Housing Services Program Fund. State assistance. Definitions.
Section 8-208c. - Urban revitalization pilot program. Goals. Reports.
Section 8-209. - State grants-in-aid for demolition of unsafe structures; for urban beautification.
Section 8-209a. - State aid for relocation of buildings.
Section 8-213. - Housing site development agencies.
Section 8-214. - State financial assistance for housing site development projects.
Section 8-214b. - Housing land bank and land trust program: Definitions.
Section 8-214c. - Community Housing Land Bank and Land Trust Fund.
Section 8-214g. - Limited Equity Cooperative and Mutual Housing Fund.
Section 8-214h. - Regulations.
Section 8-215. - Tax abatement for housing for low or moderate-income persons.
Section 8-216a. - Capitalized value of net rental income, basis for property valuation.
Section 8-217. - Community housing development corporations.
Section 8-218b. - Bond issue. Housing Development Corporation Fund.
Section 8-218c. - Regulations.
Section 8-218f. - Community housing development corporations.
Section 8-218g. - Determination of interest rate on loans to housing development corporations.
Section 8-218h. - Task force on building accessibility. Annual report to General Assembly.
Section 8-219a. - Senior Citizen Emergency Home Repair and Rehabilitation Fund.
Section 8-219c. - Regulations.
Section 8-226. - Use of prior bond proceeds for redevelopment and urban renewal.
Section 8-228 to 8-238. - Relocation assistance.
Section 8-239. - Other powers of department or commissioner unaffected.