Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Section 8-1. - Zoning commissions. - (a) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body,...

Section 8-1a. - “Municipality” and “town” to include district; “selectmen” to include district officers. Definitions. - (a) “Municipality” as used in this chapter shall include a...

Section 8-1aa. - Ridgeline protection: Definitions. - As used in section 8-2: (1) “Traprock ridge” means Beacon...

Section 8-1b. - Alternate members of zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission. - Any town, city or borough, in addition to such powers...

Section 8-1bb. - Temporary health care structures. Municipal permit required. Municipal opt-out. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Caregiver” means...

Section 8-1c. - Fees for municipal land use applications. - (a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish a schedule of...

Section 8-1cc. - (Note: This section is effective April 1, 2022.) Outdoor food and beverage service as accessory use. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “beverage” includes alcoholic...

Section 8-1d. - Hours for holding land use public hearings. - Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish an hour at or...

Section 8-1z. - Exclusion of conservation easement from open space percentage allocation required for land use application. - For the purpose of final approval of a municipal land...

Section 8-2. - Regulations. - (a)(1) The zoning commission of each city, town or borough...

Section 8-2a. - Copies of zoning and subdivision regulations to be available. - The secretary or clerk of each regulatory board of a...

Section 8-2b. - Use of maps of Soil Conservation Service as standard. - Any planning commission, zoning commission or planning and zoning commission...

Section 8-2c. - Payment of a fee in lieu of parking requirements. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, any town, city...

Section 8-2d. - Planned unit developments under former chapter 124a continue to be valid. - Any land use regulations concerning planned unit developments or planned...

Section 8-2e. - Municipal agreements regarding development rights. - Any two or more municipalities which have adopted the provisions...

Section 8-2f. - Joint applications necessary for transfer of development rights. - Any zoning regulations adopted pursuant to section 8-2 concerning development...

Section 8-2g. - Special exemption from density limits for construction of affordable housing. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, any zoning...

Section 8-2h. - Zoning applications filed prior to change in zoning regulations not required to comply with change. Applications for building permit or certificate of occupancy filed prior to adoption of zoning regulations not required to comply with... - (a) An application filed with a zoning commission, planning and...

Section 8-2i. - Inclusionary zoning. - (a) As used in this section, “inclusionary zoning” means any...

Section 8-2j. - Village districts. Compatibility objectives with other uses in immediate neighborhood. Applications. Village district consultant. - (a) The zoning commission of each municipality may establish village...

Section 8-2k. - Zoning regulations re construction near lakes. - Section 8-2k is repealed, effective October 1, 2006. (P.A. 04-248,...

Section 8-2l. - Zoning regulations re structures or uses located in floodplain. - (a) As used in this section and section 25-68i, “floodplain”...

Section 8-2m. - Floating and overlay zones and flexible zoning districts. - The zoning authority of any municipality that (1) was incorporated...

Section 8-2n. - Zoning regulations re crematories. - The zoning regulations adopted under section 8-2 or any special...

Section 8-2o. - Zoning regulations re accessory apartments. Municipal opt-out; exception. - (a) Any zoning regulations adopted pursuant to section 8-2 shall:...

Section 8-2p. - Municipal opt-out re dwelling unit parking space limitations. - The zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission, as...

Section 8-3. - Establishment and changing of zoning regulations and districts. Enforcement of regulations. Certification of building permits and certificates of occupancy. Site plans. District for water-dependent uses. - (a) Such zoning commission shall provide for the manner in...

Section 8-3a. - Findings of consistency of proposed regulations or boundaries with the plan of development. Referral of proposed regulations or boundaries to planning commission. - (a) In any municipality which has a combined planning and...

Section 8-3b. - Notice to regional council of governments of proposed zone or zone use change. - When the zoning commission of any municipality proposes to establish...

Section 8-3c. - Special permits, exceptions and exemptions. Hearings. Filing requirements. Expiration and extensions. - (a) If an application for a special permit or special...

Section 8-3d. - Variances, special permits, special exceptions and special exemptions to be recorded. - No variance, special permit or special exception granted pursuant to...

Section 8-3e. - Regulation of community residences for persons with intellectual disability, child-care residential facilities, community residences for persons receiving mental health or addiction services and hospice facilities. - (a) No zoning regulation shall treat the following in a...

Section 8-3f. - Establishment of community residences for persons with intellectual disability and child-care residential facilities. - No community residence or child-care residential facility established pursuant to...

Section 8-3g. - Regulation of community residences for mentally ill adults and UCONN 2000 projects. - (a) No zoning regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter or...

Section 8-3h. - Notice to adjoining municipalities. - Section 8-3h is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (P.A. 87-307,...

Section 8-3i. - Notice to water company re projects within aquifer protection area or watershed of water company. - (a) As used in this section “water company” means a...

Section 8-3j. - Regulation of family child care homes. - No zoning regulation shall treat any family child care home...

Section 8-3k. - Expirations and extensions of site plan, subdivision, permit, special permit and special exception approvals. - (a)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, any site...

Section 8-4. - Zoning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission. - Section 8-4 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 840; 1959, P.A....

Section 8-4a. - Zoning or planning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission. - Any town, city or borough, unless otherwise provided by special...

Section 8-4b. - Change from combined commission to separate commissions. - Any town, city or borough which has designated its zoning...

Section 8-4c. - Training for members of planning, zoning or combined planning and zoning commissions and zoning boards of appeals. Training guidelines. Statement of compliance. - (a) On and after January 1, 2023, each member of...

Section 8-5. - Zoning board of appeals. Alternate members. - (a) In each municipality having a zoning commission there shall...

Section 8-5a. - Designation of alternate members to act. - If a regular member of a zoning board of appeals...

Section 8-5b. - Ordinance may provide for appointment of alternate members. - Any town, city or borough, in addition to such powers...

Section 8-6. - Powers and duties of board of appeals. - (a) The zoning board of appeals shall have the following...

Section 8-6a. - Appeal to be heard before variance when both joined. - Whenever an application to a zoning board of appeals for...

Section 8-7. - Appeals to board. Hearings. Effective date of exceptions or variances; filing requirements. - The concurring vote of four members of the zoning board...

Section 8-7a. - Evidence at hearings and meetings to deliberate formal petitions, applications, requests or appeals to be taken by stenographer or recorded. - The zoning commission, planning commission, planning and zoning commission and...

Section 8-7b. - Notice to contiguous municipalities of variance applications. - Section 8-7b is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (February, 1965,...

Section 8-7c. - Disclosure of beneficiaries of real property held in trust. - Any person who makes an application to a planning commission,...

Section 8-7d. - Hearings and decisions. Time limits. Day of receipt. Notice to adjoining municipality. Public notice registry. - (a) In all matters wherein a formal petition, application, request...

Section 8-7e. - Notice to adjoining municipalities of applications or requests. - Section 8-7e is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (P.A. 87-307,...

Section 8-8. - Appeal from board to court. Mediation. Review by Appellate Court. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Aggrieved person” means...

Section 8-8a. - Process for mediation. - (a) As used in this section, “mediation” means the process...

Section 8-9. - Appeals from zoning commissions and planning and zoning commissions. Review by Appellate Court. - Appeals from zoning commissions and planning and zoning commissions may...

Section 8-10. - Appeals procedure to apply to all municipalities. - The provisions of sections 8-8 and 8-9 shall apply to...

Section 8-11. - Disqualification of members of zoning authorities. - No member of any zoning commission or board and no...

Section 8-11a. - Disqualification of board member as enforcement officer. - No person may serve as zoning enforcement officer in any...

Section 8-12. - Procedure when regulations are violated. - If any building or structure has been erected, constructed, altered,...

Section 8-12a. - Establishment of municipal penalties for violations of regulations. - (a) Any municipality may, by ordinance adopted by its legislative...

Section 8-13. - Controlling requirement in case of variation. - If the regulations made under authority of the provisions of...

Section 8-13a. - Nonconforming buildings, structures and land uses. - (a)(1) When a building or other structure is so situated...

Chapter 124a - Planned Unit Development (Repealed)

Section 8-13b to 8-13l. - Planned unit development. - Sections 8-13b to 8-13l, inclusive, are repealed. (1969, P.A. 764,...

Chapter 124b - Incentive Housing Zones

Section 8-13m. - Definitions. - As used in this section and sections 8-13n to 8-13x,...

Section 8-13n. - Requirements for incentive housing zones. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of a charter or special act,...

Section 8-13o. - Design standards. - (a) A zoning commission, at the time of and as...

Section 8-13p. - Application for preliminary determination of eligibility for zone adoption payment. - On or before June 30, 2017, a municipality may file...

Section 8-13q. - Preliminary determination of eligibility for financial incentive payments. Letter of final approval of incentive housing zone. Waiver of right to receive payment. - (a) Upon application by a municipality under section 8-13p, the...

Section 8-13r. - Incentive housing zone certificate of compliance. - (a) Each municipality whose zoning commission has received a final...

Section 8-13s. - Zone adoption payments. Building permit payments. - (a) Upon the determination that (1) the housing incentive zone...

Section 8-13t. - Application process for incentive housing development. - (a) A zoning commission shall prescribe, consistent with the provisions...

Section 8-13u. - Report on incentive housing zone program to Governor and General Assembly. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall be responsible for the...

Section 8-13v. - Repayment by municipality of payments or reimbursements. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing may require the municipality to...

Section 8-13w. - Grants for technical assistance and predevelopment funds for incentive housing zones. - Within available resources, the Commissioner of Housing may make grants...

Section 8-13x. - Grants for housing development. - Within available appropriations, the Commissioner of Housing may make grants...

Chapter 125 - Zoning Districts for Commercial Structures and Advertising Signs (Repealed)

Section 8-14 to 8-17. - Purpose. License. Appeal. Exceptions. - Sections 8-14 to 8-17, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....

Chapter 125a - Local Land Use Ordinances

Section 8-17a. - Land use ordinances. - Any town, city or borough which, on June 8, 1982,...

Chapter 126 - Municipal Planning Commissions

Section 8-18. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter: “Commission” means a planning commission;...

Section 8-19. - Creation of planning commissions. Exemption re certain affordable housing. - (a) Any municipality may create by ordinance a planning commission,...

Section 8-19a. - Alternate members of planning commission. - Any municipality, in addition to such powers as it has...

Section 8-20. - Designation of planning commission as planning and zoning commission. - Section 8-20 is repealed. (1951, S. 169b; 1953, S. 387d;...

Section 8-21. - Disqualification of members in matters before planning or zoning commissions or zoning board of appeals. Replacement by alternates. - No member of any planning commission and no member of...

Section 8-22. - Contracts and expenditures. Action by majority vote. - The commission may engage such employees as are necessary for...

Section 8-23. - Preparation, amendment or adoption of plan of conservation and development. - (a)(1) At least once every ten years, the commission shall...

Section 8-24. - Municipal improvements. - No municipal agency or legislative body shall (1) locate, accept,...

Section 8-25. - Subdivision of land. - (a) No subdivision of land shall be made until a...

Section 8-25a. - Proposals for developments using water. Prerequisite. - No proposal for a development using water supplied by a...

Section 8-25b. - Fund. Payments in lieu of open spaces. - Any municipality which provides in regulations, adopted pursuant to section...

Section 8-26. - Approval of subdivision and resubdivision plans. Waiver of certain regulation requirements. Fees. Hearing. Notice. Applications involving an inland wetland or watercourse. - (a) All plans for subdivisions and resubdivisions, including subdivisions and...

Section 8-26a. - Effect of change in subdivision or zoning regulations or boundaries of districts after approval of plan. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act...

Section 8-26b. - Notice to regional council of governments of proposed subdivision; report of agency findings. - Whenever a subdivision of land is planned, the area of...

Section 8-26c. - Subdivision to be completed within five years of plan approval. Exceptions. - (a) Any person, firm or corporation making any subdivision of...

Section 8-26d. - Hearings and decisions. - In all matters wherein a formal application, request or appeal...

Section 8-26e. - Hearings by planning commission on applications for special permit or exception. Notice of decision. Expiration and extensions. - (a) The planning commission of any municipality shall hold a...

Section 8-26f. - Notice to adjoining municipalities. - Section 8-26f is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (P.A. 87-307,...

Section 8-26g. - Subdivision projects consisting of four hundred or more dwelling units to be completed within ten years of approval of plan. Exceptions. - (a) Any person, firm or corporation making a subdivision of...

Section 8-26h. - Validation re erected structures on lot or lots shown on filed map or plan of subdivision. - No use or occupancy of or the presence of any...

Section 8-27. - Building on unaccepted streets. - Any municipality having a planning commission may, by ordinance, prohibit...

Section 8-28. - Notice of decision of planning commission. Appeal. - Notice of all official actions or decisions of a planning...

Section 8-28a. - Change in zoning regulations or districts not to affect approved subdivision plan. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or...

Section 8-28b. - Change in subdivision regulations or zoning districts not to affect approved subdivision plan. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or...

Section 8-29. - Filing of maps and plans. Notice and hearing. Assessments. - Such commission is authorized, unless otherwise provided by ordinance adopted...

Section 8-30. - Appeals. Action by court. - Section 8-30 is repealed. (1951, 1953, S. 391d; P.A. 76-436,...

Section 8-30a. - Appeals provisions to apply in all municipalities. - The provisions of section 8-8 shall apply to appeals from...

Chapter 126a - Affordable Housing Land Use Appeals

Section 8-30g. - *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (l) and effective date.) Affordable housing land use appeals procedure. Definitions. Affordability plan; regulations. Conceptual site plan. Maximum monthly housing cost. Percenta... - (a) As used in this section and section 8-30j: (1)...

Section 8-30h. - Annual certification of continuing compliance with affordability requirements. Noncompliance. - On and after January 1, 1996, the developer, owner or...

Section 8-30i. - Sales price of certain housing subject to affordable housing deed restriction or limitation of bylaws of condominium unit owners' association. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or the bylaws...

Section 8-30j. - Affordable housing plan. Submission to Office of Policy and Management. Hearing and adoption. Filing requirement. Review and amendment of plan. - (a)(1) Not later than June 1, 2022, and at least...

Chapter 127 - Regional Councils of Governments

Section 8-31. - Formation. Representation. - Section 8-31 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 863, 865; 1955,...

Section 8-31a. - Formation of regional planning agencies. Representation. - Section 8-31a is repealed, effective January 1, 2015. (1959, P.A....

Section 8-31b. - Restructure of regional planning agencies and regional councils of elected officials into regional councils of governments. - (a) On or before January 1, 2015, each regional planning...

Section 8-31c. - Term “regional council of governments” substituted for “regional planning agency”. - (a) (1) Wherever the term “regional planning agency” is used...

Section 8-32. - Jurisdiction. - Section 8-32 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 863; 1955, S....

Section 8-32a. - Jurisdiction. Extension to contiguous municipality. - Section 8-32a is repealed, effective January 1, 2015. (1959, P.A....

Section 8-33. - Termination. - Section 8-33 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 635, S. 3; 1959,...

Section 8-33a. - Officers of agency. Bylaws. Meetings. Annual report. - Section 8-33a is repealed, effective January 1, 2015. (1959, P.A....

Section 8-34. - Withdrawal from regional planning authority. - Section 8-34 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 864; 1955, S....

Section 8-34a. - Receipt of funds. Dues. Borrowing. Employees and consultants. Contracts. Audits. - Section 8-34a is repealed, effective January 1, 2015. (1959, P.A....

Section 8-35. - Officers of board. Meetings. - Section 8-35 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 866; 1959, P.A....

Section 8-35a. - Regional plan of conservation and development. Assistance to municipalities or other public agencies. - (a) At least once every ten years, each regional council...

Section 8-35b. - Recommendations for metropolitan, regional or intermunicipal arrangements. - A regional council of governments may make recommendations to the...

Section 8-35c. - Feasibility studies for municipalities. - Whenever any municipality is considering the feasibility of developing or...

Section 8-35d. - Referral of proposal for interlocal agreement or formation of district to regional planning agency. - Section 8-35d is repealed. (1967, P.A. 862, S. 3; P.A....

Section 8-35e. - Intercouncil committees and staff sharing. - (a) Two or more regional councils of governments may establish...

Section 8-36. - Authority to receive funds. Employees and consultants. - Section 8-36 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 867; 1955, S....

Section 8-36a. - Withdrawal from agency. - Section 8-36a is repealed, effective January 1, 2015. (1959, P.A....

Section 8-37. - Regional plans of development. - Section 8-37 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 868; 1959, P.A....

Section 8-37a and 8-37b. - Termination of agency. Powers and duties of prior authorities. - Sections 8-37a and 8-37b are repealed, effective January 1, 2015....

Chapter 127a - New England Interstate Planning Compact

Section 8-37c. - Compact. - The New England Interstate Planning Compact is hereby enacted into...

Section 8-37d. - Appointment of commission member and alternate. - The member of the New England Interstate Planning Commission and...

Section 8-37e. - Renunciation. - Renunciation, within the meaning of Article XII of the compact,...

Chapter 127b - Department of Economic and Community Development: General Provisions

Section 8-37i. - Department of Economic and Community Development. Commissioner. Successor department to Department of Commerce and to economic development functions of Department of Community Affairs. - (a) There shall be a Department of Economic and Community...

Section 8-37k. - Terms “Commissioner of Commerce” and “Department of Commerce” and “Department of Community Affairs” and “Commissioner of Community Affairs” deemed to mean the Commissioner or Department of Economic Development, when. Terms “Departmen... - (a) Whenever the term “Commissioner of Commerce” occurs or is...

Section 8-37m. - Special responsibility for provision of housing for low or moderate income persons or families. - Section 8-37m is repealed. (P.A. 77-614, S. 591, 610; P.A....

Section 8-37o. - Functions and duties of Committee of Concern for Connecticut Jobs transferred to department. - The Committee of Concern for Connecticut Jobs is abolished and...

Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions

Section 8-37r. - Department of Housing. Commissioner. Successor to certain functions, powers and duties. Designation as public housing agency. - (a) There shall be a Department of Housing, which shall...

Section 8-37s. - Commissioner to monitor housing needs and publish data on housing production. - The Commissioner of Housing shall monitor the progress of the...

Section 8-37t. - State's consolidated plan for housing and community development. - The Commissioner of Housing, in consultation with the Connecticut Housing...

Section 8-37u. - Commissioner to coordinate housing policy and activities. Operating plan to be submitted and followed by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. Commissioner to consult with Commissioner of Agriculture. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall work with regional councils...

Section 8-37v. - Research activities. - The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to undertake and carry...

Section 8-37w. - Model ordinance and procedures for regulation of land development. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall develop and publish a...

Section 8-37x. - Powers of Commissioner of Housing. Housing authority purchases. Deferred payments of interest or principal. When commissioner deemed an eligible developer. Dissolution of eligible developer of state-financed property. Exceptions. Reg... - (a) As used in this section, “authority” or “housing authority”...

Section 8-37y. - Powers of Commissioner of Housing re state real property transferred to Department of Housing and surplus real property made available by the federal government. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing may, with the approval of...

Section 8-37z. - Duties of commissioners re involuntary displacement of residents of single-family or multifamily dwellings. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall ensure that the involuntary...

Section 8-37aa. - Income-grouped housing: Definitions. - As used in sections 8-37bb to 8-37dd, inclusive, “housing agency”...

Section 8-37bb. - Annual report re fair housing choice and racial and economic integration. - (a) On or before December 31, 2013, and annually thereafter,...

Section 8-37cc. - Housing agencies to serve households with incomes less than fifty per cent of area median income and to promote fair housing choice and racial and economic integration. - (a) Each housing agency, as defined in section 8-37aa, shall,...

Section 8-37dd. - Retention of housing assisted by housing agencies. - Not more than six months after July 1, 1990, each...

Section 8-37ee. - Establishment of affirmative duty for entities participating in programs assisted or supervised by state housing agencies to promote fair housing. - (a) Each entity participating in any program administered by a...

Section 8-37ff. - Maintenance of comprehensive inventory of all assisted housing. - The Department of Housing shall develop and maintain a comprehensive...

Section 8-37gg. - Fair hearings by commissioner. Application. - An aggrieved person authorized by law to request a fair...

Section 8-37hh. - Decision. Appeal. Extension of time for filing appeal. - (a) Not later than sixty days after such hearing, the...

Section 8-37jj. - Electric resistance as primary source of heat. - (a) The Department of Housing may not approve electric resistance...

Section 8-37kk. - Preference to loans for energy efficient projects. - The Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of...

Section 8-37ll. - Submission of residential antidisplacement and relocation assistance plan to responsible commissioner. Regulations. - (a) No state financial assistance shall be provided by the...

Section 8-37mm. - Homelessness prevention and response fund. Grants to capitalize operating and replacement reserves in supportive housing units. Bonds. - (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this...

Section 8-37pp. - Affordable housing. State assistance authorized. Terms and conditions. Regulations. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Affordable housing” means...

Section 8-37qq. - Uses of funds for bond-financed state housing programs. Housing Assistance Bond Fund. Housing Repayment and Revolving Loan Fund. - (a) For the purposes of this section and sections 8-44a,...

Section 8-37rr. - Definitions. - As used in this section, sections 3-21b and 8-37ss and...

Section 8-37ss. - Housing funds consolidation. Procedures. - (a) As of the consolidation date, the commissioner shall: (1)...

Section 8-37tt. - Administrative oversight charges. - (a) As used in this section, “administrative oversight charge” means...

Section 8-37uu. - Transfer of housing loan portfolio to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Department of...

Section 8-37vv. - Rental Housing Revolving Loan Fund. Regulations. - (a) As used in this section, (1) “eligible building” means...

Section 8-37ww. - Demonstration program for energy-efficient and environmentally safe housing. - (a) As used in this section, “eligible building” means a...

Section 8-37xx. - State-assisted housing sustainability: Definitions. - As used in sections 8-37yy to 8-37aaa, inclusive: (1) “Eligible...

Section 8-37yy. - State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Fund. Financial assistance for preservation of eligible housing. Regulations. - (a) The Department of Housing shall, in consultation with the...

Section 8-37zz. - State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Advisory Committee. - (a) There is established a State-Assisted Housing Sustainability Advisory Committee....

Section 8-37aaa. - Grants for physical needs assessment of eligible housing. - (a) The Department of Housing shall design and administer a...

Section 8-37lll. - Certification of affordable housing units within certified historic structures. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall review applications for tax...

Section 8-37mmm. - Visitable housing. - (a) For purposes of this section, “visitable housing” means one-to-four...

Section 8-37nnn. - Interagency council on affordable housing. - (a) There is established an interagency council on affordable housing...

Section 8-37ooo. - Deputy Commissioner of Housing. Appointment. Duties. - The Commissioner of Housing may appoint a Deputy Commissioner of...

Section 8-37qqq. - Annual report re activities of Department of Housing. - (a) Annually, on or before March thirty-first, the Commissioner of...

Section 8-37rrr. - Annual report re rental assistance. - Not later than January 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the...

Section 8-37sss. - Term “commissioner” to be substituted for “secretary”. Term “Housing” to be substituted for “the Office of Policy and Management”, “Economic and Community Development” and “Social Services”. - (a) Wherever in sections 4-66h, 8-13m to 8-13s, inclusive, 8-13u...

Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects

Section 8-38. - Finding and declaration of necessity. - It is declared: (a) That there exist in the state...

Section 8-39. - Definitions. - The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this...

Section 8-39a. - “Affordable housing” defined. - As used in this title, “affordable housing” means housing for...

Section 8-40. - Creation of housing authorities. - In each municipality of the state there is created a...

Section 8-41. - Appointment. Qualifications and tenure of commissioners. Selection of tenant commissioners. Commissioners authorized to serve as justice of the peace or registrar of voters. - (a) For purposes of this section, a “tenant of the...

Section 8-41a. - Liability of authority for actions of commissioners and employees. - Each housing authority shall protect and save harmless any commissioner...

Section 8-42. - Commissioners and executive or managerial employees to have no interest in project. Limitation on employment of former commissioners. - (a) No commissioner or an executive or managerial employee of...

Section 8-43. - Removal of commissioners; subpoenas. - A commissioner of an authority may be removed by the...

Section 8-44. - Powers of authority. - (a) An authority shall constitute a public body corporate and...

Section 8-44a. - Housing authority programs for social and supplementary services, project rehabilitation and improvement and energy conservation. State grants-in-aid, loans and deferred loans. Rental Rehabilitation Fund. Operation or management plan... - (a) Any housing authority may prepare and submit to the...

Section 8-44b. - Housing authority police force. - (a) Any housing authority created by section 8-40 shall have...

Section 8-45. - Rental rates and tenant selection for low rental projects. - Each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects...

Section 8-45a. - Consideration of criminal record, alcohol abuse and status as registered sexual offender of applicant or proposed occupant. - A housing authority, as defined in subsection (b) of section...

Section 8-45b. - Waiver of regulations. - Section 8-45b is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (May Sp....

Section 8-46. - Penalty for false statement. - Any person who makes a false statement concerning any of...

Section 8-47. - Considerations in fixing income limits. - In fixing maximum income limits under section 8-45, the authority...

Section 8-48. - Rentals for persons receiving welfare aid. - In the cases of any tenants who are the recipients...

Section 8-49. - Cooperation of housing authorities. - Any authority or authorities may join or cooperate with one...

Section 8-50. - Eminent domain. - An authority shall have the right to acquire by the...

Section 8-51. - Zoning and building laws. - Each housing project of an authority shall be subject to...

Section 8-52. - Bonds. - An authority shall have the power to issue bonds, from...

Section 8-53. - Provisions of bonds, trust indentures and mortgages. - In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring...

Section 8-54. - Remedies of an obligee of authority. - An obligee of an authority shall have the right, in...

Section 8-55. - Additional remedies conferrable by authority. - An authority shall have power, by its resolution, trust indenture,...

Section 8-56. - Aid from federal and state governments. - In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by...

Section 8-56a. - Public hearing prior to construction by authority or developer of HUD-assisted projects. - Whenever a developer or a housing authority intends to construct...

Section 8-57. - Agreements to secure federal assistance. - In addition to the powers conferred by law upon any...

Section 8-58. - Exemption from taxes and Uniform Securities Act. Payments in lieu of taxes. - Bonds of any authority or of any agency or instrumentality...

Section 8-59. - Contracts for payments to state public body. - In connection with any housing project located within the area...

Section 8-60. - Cooperation in undertaking housing projects. - For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning,...

Section 8-61. - Advances to housing authority; bonds and notes issued to finance housing projects. - When any housing authority created for any municipality becomes authorized...

Section 8-62. - Procedure for state public body. - The exercise by a state public body of the powers...

Section 8-63. - Reports. - At least once a year an authority shall file with...

Section 8-64. - Disposal of property by a housing authority. - A housing authority shall have the power, in addition to...

Section 8-64a. - Disposal of housing project by housing authority. - No housing authority that receives or has received any state...

Section 8-64b. - Nondisclosure of tenant Social Security and bank account numbers. - (a) No entity purchasing a housing project or a portion...

Section 8-64c. - Resident participation plan for major physical transformation and disposition activities. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Disposition” means a...

Section 8-65. - Exemption of property from execution sale. - All real and personal property, including choses in action, of...

Section 8-66. - Administration of projects established for housing war workers. - Projects established under sections 116g to 124g, inclusive, of the...

Section 8-67. - Injury on housing authority property. - Any person injured in person or property within boundaries of...

Section 8-68. - Housing research and studies. - In addition to its other powers, any housing authority, within...

Section 8-68a. - State grants for community centers. - The state, acting by and through the Commissioner of Housing,...

Section 8-68b. - Bond issue. - For the purposes of section 8-68a the State Treasurer is...

Section 8-68c. - Notice of certain actions concerning federally assisted multifamily rental housing for low and moderate income persons and families. - (a) As used in this section, “covered program” means: (1)...

Section 8-68d. - Housing authority annual report. - Each housing authority shall submit a report to the Commissioner...

Section 8-68e. - Financial assistance to housing authorities for rehabilitation of uninhabitable dwelling units. - The state, acting by and in the discretion of the...

Section 8-68f. - Tenants' rights and grievance procedures. Regulations. - Each housing authority which receives financial assistance under any state...

Section 8-68g. - Developer's fees charged by eligible developers. - The Commissioner of Housing may, in accordance with regulations adopted...

Section 8-68h. - Tenant escrow accounts. - (a) Each housing authority created pursuant to section 8-40 shall...

Section 8-68i. - Emergency housing in projects. - A housing authority, created under section 8-40, may allow one...

Section 8-68j. - Financially distressed development. Transfer to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Commissioner” means the...

Section 8-68k. - Compliance with requirements for operation and disposition of housing projects by successor. - Whenever the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority or its subsidiary is...

Section 8-68l. - Tenants' use of common areas for political activity. - (a) For purposes of this section, (1) “public housing project”...

Section 8-69. - Moderate rental housing projects and moderate cost housing; declaration of policy. - It is hereby declared (a) that there is a serious...

Section 8-70. - State assistance. - (a) Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant...

Section 8-70a. - Pilot program for rehabilitation and private management of moderate rental housing projects. - Section 8-70a is repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (P.A. 97-307,...

Section 8-71. - Payments in lieu of taxes, assessments and use charges. Municipal waiver of payment. Exception. - (a) In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments...

Section 8-72. - Operation of projects. Rentals. Tenant eligibility. Inspections. Semiannual statements. Penalty for false statement. - Each developer or housing authority shall manage and operate its...

Section 8-72a. - Maximum income limits. Exceptions: Factors to be considered. - (a) The maximum income limits under section 8-72 shall be...

Section 8-73. - Eviction of families having income over maximum limits. Waiver of eviction requirement. - (a) A tenant in a moderate rental housing project shall...

Section 8-74. - Hearing on and approval of proposed projects. Use of modern materials. Regulations. Wage rates. - No moderate rental housing project shall be developed until (1)...

Section 8-75. - Veterans' preference. - As among applicants eligible for occupancy at the rent involved...

Section 8-76. - Sale of projects. Regulations to establish priority order of purchasers. Payment and disposition of purchase price. - Upon the determination by the Commissioner of Housing of the...

Section 8-76a. - Commissioner's authority to service notes and mortgages. - The Commissioner of Housing is authorized and directed on behalf...

Section 8-77. - Preference among municipalities. - In reviewing the needs of municipalities of the state for...

Section 8-78. - Aggregate of bonds and notes state may issue for moderate rental housing projects. - The aggregate amount of all bonds and notes issued by...

Section 8-79. - Preliminary expenses. - Funds borrowed by a developer to pay for options on...

Section 8-79a. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing shall make and enforce regulations to...

Section 8-80. - Issuance of bonds and notes. - (a) For the purposes of this part, the State Treasurer...

Section 8-81. - Repayment of loans. - Repayment by an authority of the sums loaned to it...

Section 8-81a. - Housing project adaptable for use and occupancy by disabled persons. Pilot program. Regulations. Report. - Section 8-81a is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (P.A. 88-268,...

Section 8-82. - Purchase and sale of units by state. Insurance of mortgage loans. Mortgage loans. - In order to encourage and facilitate the construction or rehabilitation...

Section 8-83. - Preference in granting mortgage loans. - In granting any mortgage loan or construction mortgage loan or...

Section 8-84. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing shall make and enforce reasonable regulations...

Section 8-85. - Foreclosure; conveyance of title and assignment of claims to state. - If the mortgagee, under a construction mortgage insured under the...

Section 8-86. - Housing bonds or notes. - (a) For the purposes of this part the State Treasurer...

Section 8-87. - Housing Mortgage Fund. - The proceeds from the sale of such bonds and notes,...

Section 8-88. - Investment. - The State Treasurer is authorized to temporarily invest in direct...

Section 8-89. - Commissioner to be agent for mortgages and loans. - The Commissioner of Housing is designated as the state agency...

Section 8-90. - Applicability of provisions. - Section 8-90 is repealed. (1949, 1951, S. 466d; P.A. 77-614,...

Section 8-91. - Payment of administrative expenses. - Subject to the approval of the Governor, any expense incurred...

Section 8-92. - Inspection by commissioner. - The Commissioner of Housing shall have the right of inspection...

Section 8-93. - Tax exemption. - The principal and interest of bonds and notes issued under...

Section 8-94. - Wage rates. - The provisions of section 31-53 shall apply to the construction...

Section 8-95 to 8-104. - Flood relief housing, generally. - Sections 8-95 to 8-104, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1,...

Section 8-105. - Declaration of public necessity. - It is declared that the national defense involves large increases...

Section 8-106. - Definitions. - As used in this part: (a) “Persons engaged in national...

Section 8-107. - Development of projects. - Any housing authority may, during a national defense period, undertake...

Section 8-108. - Cooperation with housing authorities or federal government. - Any state public body shall have the same rights and...

Section 8-109. - Bonds to be legal investments. - Bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority for...

Section 8-110. - Federal aid. - In exercising any powers or carrying out any authorization contained...

Section 8-111. - Powers to be additional. - The powers conferred by this part shall be in addition...

Section 8-112. - Declaration of policy. - Section 8-112 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 1;...

Section 8-112a. - Declaration of policy. - It is hereby declared (a) that there exists in the...

Section 8-113. - Definitions. Powers of housing authorities. - Section 8-113 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 2;...

Section 8-113a. - Definitions. - The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this...

Section 8-114. - Contracts for state assistance. - Section 8-114 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 3;...

Section 8-114a. - State assistance to authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit corporations and housing partnerships. - (a) Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant...

Section 8-114b. - Municipal authorities. - Contracts for state financial assistance for mobile manufactured home parks,...

Section 8-114c. - Mobile manufactured homes. Transfer to municipal housing authorities. - In addition to any grant of state assistance to housing...

Section 8-114d. - Resident services coordinators. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall award grants-in-aid to housing...

Section 8-115. - Commission to approve plans, financing and rental. - Section 8-115 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 5;...

Section 8-115a. - Authority of Commissioner of Housing. - (a) No housing project or projects for elderly persons shall...

Section 8-115b. - Powers of authority. - Section 8-44 shall apply to the development and maintenance of...

Section 8-116. - Occupants need not be family units; design of construction; housing restricted to elderly. - Section 8-116 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 4;...

Section 8-116a. - Occupants need not be family units; design of construction; maximum income and asset limit; waiting list; false statement. - The following provisions shall be applicable to housing for elderly...

Section 8-116b. - Possession of pets. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “pet” means a...

Section 8-116c. - Eligibility for occupancy. Eviction. - (a) An elderly person, as defined in subsection (m) of...

Section 8-116d. - Termination of lease or rental agreement upon acceptance for admission to housing project. - Any elderly person, as defined in subsection (m) of section...

Section 8-117. - Establishment of rentals. Penalty for false statement concerning income. - Section 8-117 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 6;...

Section 8-117a. - Applicability of other statutes. - Except as limited by the provisions of section 8-118a, sections...

Section 8-117b. - Disposal of projects. Conversion to a congregate housing project. - (a) Upon the determination by the Commissioner of Housing of...

Section 8-118. - Payments in lieu of taxes and assessments. - Section 8-118 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 7;...

Section 8-118a. - Payments in lieu of taxes and assessments. - In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments and...

Section 8-118b. - Contract to convey project to state on default. - In addition to the powers conferred by law upon any...

Section 8-118c. - Bond issue for additional development cost of projects. - (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this...

Section 8-119. - Bond issue. - Section 8-119 is repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 26, S. 8;...

Section 8-119a. - Bond issues. - (a) For the purposes of this part, the State Treasurer...

Section 8-119b. - Expenses payable from fund. - Subject to the approval of the Governor, any administrative or...

Section 8-119c. - Amendment of contracts for assistance. - Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant to...

Section 8-119aa. - Purchase of conversion condominiums for state assisted housing. - Section 8-119aa is repealed. (P.A. 80-396, S. 3, 5; P.A....

Section 8-119bb. - Declaration of policy. - It is hereby declared (1) that there exists in the...

Section 8-119cc. - Implementation. - The provisions of sections 8-39 and 8-72 to 8-74, inclusive,...

Section 8-119dd. - State assistance to authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit corporations and housing partnerships. - (a) Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant...

Section 8-119ee. - Bond issue. - The proceeds from the sale of any bonds issued pursuant...

Section 8-119ff. - Preliminary expenses. - Funds borrowed by an authority, municipal developer or nonprofit corporation,...

Section 8-119gg. - Payments in lieu of taxes and assessments. - In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments and...

Section 8-119hh. - Disposal of projects. - Upon the determination by the Commissioner of Housing of the...

Section 8-119ii. - Expenses payable from fund. - Subject to the approval of the Governor, any administrative or...

Section 8-119jj. - Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations in accordance...

Section 8-119kk. - Rental assistance for elderly persons residing in state-assisted rental housing for the elderly. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall implement and administer a...

Section 8-119ll. - Comprehensive assessment of rental assistance for elderly persons and persons with disabilities. - Annually, the Department of Housing in consultation with the Connecticut...

Section 8-119d. - Declaration of policy. - It is found and declared that there is a growing...

Section 8-119e. - Definitions. - As used in this part: (a) “Congregate housing” means a...

Section 8-119f. - Program design and oversight. - The Commissioner of Housing shall design, implement, operate and monitor...

Section 8-119g. - Implementation. Maximum income limits for admission. Deduction for congregate housing employment income. - (a) The provisions of section 8-113a and sections 8-115a to...

Section 8-119h. - State assistance to authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit corporations and housing partnerships. - Upon preliminary approval by the State Bond Commission pursuant to...

Section 8-119i. - Bond issues. Administrative costs. - (a) For the purposes of this part, the State Treasurer...

Section 8-119j. - Conversion to a “housing project”. - In the event that sufficient appropriations for the operation of...

Section 8-119k. - Payment in lieu of taxes. - In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments and...

Section 8-119l. - Operating subsidies for congregate housing projects. - The state, acting by and through the Commissioner of Housing,...

Section 8-119m. - Congregate housing and congregate housing project joint pilot program. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing and the Commissioner of Social...

Section 8-119n. - Congregate housing project pilot program offering assisted living services. Regulations. Report. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall maintain a pilot program...

Section 8-119t. - Grants-in-aid for expanding independent living opportunities. Definition. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall encourage the development of...

Section 8-119x. - Database of dwelling units suitable for persons with disabilities. - The Commissioner of Housing shall, in consultation with the Department...

Chapter 129 - Connecticut Housing Authority: Housing Projects

Section 8-119zz. - Connecticut Housing Authority established. Board members, appointment, term, procedure. - (a) There is established the Connecticut Housing Authority, which shall...

Section 8-120. - Area of operation. - The area of operation of the Connecticut Housing Authority in...

Section 8-121. - Connecticut Housing Authority a successor to housing authority powers of Commissioner of Housing. Powers of Connecticut Housing Authority. - (a) The Connecticut Housing Authority shall, in accordance with the...

Section 8-121a. - Issuance of bonds. Hearings. - Section 8-121a is repealed, effective May 25, 1994. (P.A. 83-339,...

Section 8-122. - Applicable laws. - The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition...

Section 8-123. - Citizens' Advisory Commission on Housing. - Section 8-123 is repealed. (March, 1950, S. 481d; 1967, P.A....

Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property

Section 8-124. - Declaration of public policy. - It is found and declared that there have existed and...

Section 8-125. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter: (1) “Redevelopment” means improvement by...

Section 8-126. - Redevelopment agency. - (a) The legislative body of any municipality may designate as...

Section 8-126a. - Agency employees not to promote political parties or members. - No person shall cause any employee of a redevelopment agency...

Section 8-127. - Preparation and approval of redevelopment plan. Notice of approval. Review. - (a) The redevelopment agency may prepare, or cause to be...

Section 8-127a. - Limits on redevelopment agency's use of eminent domain under a redevelopment plan. - (a)(1) No real property may be acquired by a redevelopment...

Section 8-128. - Acquisition or rental of real property by redevelopment agency. Limitations. - (a) Within a reasonable time after its approval of the...

Section 8-129. - Agency to determine compensation and file with Superior Court and town clerks; notice to owners and interested parties. Possession of land. Certificate of taking. - (a)(1) The redevelopment agency shall determine the compensation to be...

Section 8-129a. - Apportionment and abatement of taxes on acquisition of property. - In any case where a redevelopment agency acquires real property,...

Section 8-130. - Deposit filed with Superior Court clerk. Withdrawal of agency from proceeding. - Whenever any redevelopment agency files a statement of compensation as...

Section 8-131. - Acceptances to be filed. Approval by judge or judge trial referee. - After the statement of compensation provided for in section 8-129...

Section 8-132. - Judicial review of statement of compensation. - (a) Any person claiming to be aggrieved by the statement...

Section 8-132a. - Determination of equities of parties in deposit or compensation. - (a) Any person making application for payment of moneys deposited...

Section 8-133. - Costs taxable against agency. - If, as the result of any review under the provisions...

Section 8-133a. - Relocation or removal of public service facilities from streets closed as part of project. - As used in this section, “public service facility” includes any...

Section 8-133b. - Payments in lieu of taxes. - The redevelopment agency of a municipality shall make payments in...

Section 8-134. - Bonds: Authorization; terms, security, payment. Issuance by Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated or its subsidiary for specified project. - For the purpose of carrying out or administering a redevelopment...

Section 8-134a. - Allocation of taxes on real or personal property in a redevelopment project. - Any redevelopment plan authorized under this chapter or any proceedings...

Section 8-135. - Acceptance of funds. Financing. - For the purpose of carrying out or administering a redevelopment...

Section 8-136. - Modification of redevelopment plan. - A redevelopment plan may be modified at any time by...

Section 8-137. - Transfer, sale or lease of real property in a redevelopment area. - The redevelopment agency, for the purpose of this chapter, may...

Section 8-137a. - Other authority re transfer unaffected. - Nothing in section 8-137 shall be deemed to diminish or...

Section 8-138. - Bonds and title to land to be in name of municipality. - Any redevelopment agency shall exercise its powers in the name...

Section 8-139. - Joint action by two or more municipalities. - By concurrent action the legislative bodies of two or more...

Section 8-140. - Policy concerning slum areas. - In addition to the findings and declarations made in section...

Section 8-141. - Urban renewal projects authorized. - In addition to its authority under other provisions of this...

Section 8-142. - Urban renewal plan. - Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to section 8-141 shall...

Section 8-143. - Powers of redevelopment agency. - A redevelopment agency shall have all the powers necessary or...

Section 8-144. - Powers of municipality. - Any municipality or other municipal corporation is hereby authorized, without...

Section 8-145. - Legislative body to prepare program. - The legislative body of the municipality, or such public officer...

Section 8-146 to 8-150. - Finding and declaration of necessity. Contract for state assistance. Form of aid. Bond issue. Maximum amount of loan notes. Requirements of notes and bonds. Regulations. - Sections 8-146 to 8-150, inclusive, are repealed. (November, 1955, S....

Section 8-151. - Declaration of policy. - It is found and declared that there exist in the...

Section 8-152 to 8-154. - Grants-in-aid for redevelopment or urban renewal. Bond issue. Commissioner of Community Affairs to administer program. - Sections 8-152 to 8-154, inclusive, are repealed. (March, 1958, P.A....

Section 8-154a. - Contracts for state financial assistance; eligibility. Net cost of project. Disposition of land by municipalities. - (1) The state, acting by the Commissioner of Housing, may...

Section 8-154b. - Bond issues. - To provide funds for state grants provided pursuant to section...

Section 8-154c. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to make and enforce...

Section 8-154d. - Certified list of contractors for project prerequisite to grant payment. - Section 8-154d is repealed. (1963, P.A. 646, S. 3; P.A....

Section 8-154e. - Certification by agencies of employees and persons performing work under contract. - All local redevelopment agencies or commissions administering urban renewal or...

Section 8-154f. - State grants-in-aid not subject to repayment. Contracts for financial assistance in effect prior to October 1, 1977, valid and binding. - (a) All state financial assistance authorized by sections 8-154a to...

Section 8-155 to 8-159. - Commercial or industrial development. - Sections 8-155 to 8-159, inclusive, are repealed; provided, that in...

Section 8-159a. - State grants for urban problems. - (a) During each fiscal year the Comptroller shall pay to...

Section 8-160. - Capital improvement programs. Definitions. - As used in sections 8-160 to 8-162, inclusive, “capital improvement...

Section 8-161. - Commissioner to assist. State payments toward preparation of program. - The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to make available technical...

Section 8-162. - Procedure for obtaining technical assistance. - Any municipality may receive technical assistance from the Commissioner of...

Section 8-163. - Definitions. - As used in this part: (a) “Redevelopment area” means those...

Section 8-164. - Authority to participate in federal act. - Any board, commission, agency or department of this state, any...

Section 8-165. - Overall economic development program. - In furtherance of the requirement of the federal act for...

Section 8-166. - Application for federal aid. - (a) An application under the provisions of either the Public...

Section 8-167. - Department of Economic and Community Development to act for state. Reimbursement of small business development centers. - (a) The Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized...

Section 8-168. - State loans for industrial or business projects. - Section 8-168 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 619, S. 4;...

Section 8-168a. - Funds transferred to the Connecticut Growth Fund. - Effective July 1, 1988, funds from the repayment of loans...

Section 8-169. - Bond issue. - Section 8-169 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 619, S. 5;...

Section 8-169a. - Declaration of policy. - It is found and declared that the state's cities, towns...

Section 8-169b. - Definitions. - As used in this part: (a) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner...

Section 8-169c. - Preparation and content of a community development plan. - (a) Any municipality may prepare, or cause to be prepared...

Section 8-169d. - Adoption and implementation of community development plan. - (a) A community development plan prepared by a municipality pursuant...

Section 8-169e. - Modification of existing development plans. Acquisition of property. - (a) No activity under a community development plan which is...

Section 8-169f. - Community development activities. - (a) A municipality or community development agency is authorized to...

Section 8-169g. - Issuance of municipal bonds. - For the purpose of carrying out or administering a community...

Section 8-169h. - Acceptance of financial assistance. Issuance of temporary notes. - For the purpose of carrying out a community development program,...

Section 8-169i. - Modification of a community development plan. - A community development plan may be modified from time to...

Section 8-169j. - Joint activity by two or more municipalities. - Any two or more contiguous municipalities may enter into, and...

Section 8-169k. - State and federal assistance for community development projects. - Section 8-169k is repealed. (P.A. 75-443, S. 11, 15; P.A....

Section 8-169l. - Discretionary funds. Planning advances. - (a) The state, acting by the commissioner, may enter into...

Section 8-169m. - Receipt of funds. Issuance of bonds. - (a) The commissioner may receive and accept aid or contributions...

Section 8-169n. - Regulations. - Section 8-169n is repealed. (P.A. 75-443, S. 14, 15; P.A....

Section 8-169aa. - Appointment of receiver to rehabilitate abandoned and blighted property. Petition to superior court. Powers and duties of receivers. Disposition of property. Termination of receivership. Exceptions. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Abandoned property” means...

Section 8-169hh. - Definitions. - For purposes of this section and sections 8-169ii to 8-169ss,...

Section 8-169ii. - Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority established. Board of directors; appointments; record of proceedings; action. Authority's procedures for conduct. Termination. - (a) There is hereby established and created a body politic...

Section 8-169jj. - Purposes of authority. Powers. - (a) The purposes of the Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority shall...

Section 8-169kk. - Written procedures for conduct of board of directors. - The board of directors of the Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority...

Section 8-169ll. - Member municipalities; joint member entities. Appointment of local development board. - (a)(1) Any municipality with a population of seventy thousand or...

Section 8-169mm. - Reports to the Governor, Auditors of Public Accounts and General Assembly. Annual compliance and independent financial audits. Contract compliance officer; report. - (a) In lieu of the report required under section 1-123,...

Section 8-169nn. - Application or request for funds re authority development project. Economic development statement. Expenditure of funds. Coordination of resources. - (a) Any person, including, but not limited to, a state...

Section 8-169oo. - Bonds, notes and other obligations of the authority. - (a) The board of directors of the Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment...

Section 8-169pp. - State's pledge to not limit or alter rights of authority or holders of bonds, notes and obligations or parties to contracts. - The state of Connecticut does hereby pledge to and agree...

Section 8-169qq. - State's protection of authority's directors, officers and employees from financial loss arising from claim. State's assumption of liability on debt authority unable to pay. - (a) The state shall protect, save harmless and indemnify the...

Section 8-169rr. - Economic development master plan. Development and submission to authority; review and approval. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “economic development master...

Section 8-169ss. - Encouragement to hire local employees. Office of Workforce Strategy assistance with training and recruitment. - The authority, member municipalities and joint member entities shall encourage...

Section 8-169o. - Declaration of policy. - It is hereby found and declared that there exists within...

Section 8-169p. - Definitions. - As used in this part: (a) “Abandoned property” means any...

Section 8-169q. - Designation of urban homesteading agency. - Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish an urban homesteading program...

Section 8-169r. - Acquisition of abandoned property by urban homesteading agency. Certification of vacant municipally owned property. - (a) In any municipality adopting an ordinance pursuant to section...

Section 8-169s. - Disposition of property by urban homesteading agency. - (a)(1) Upon acquisition of real property by the urban homesteading...

Section 8-169t. - Selection of urban homesteaders. - The urban homesteading agency shall select from among applicants for...

Section 8-169u. - Financial assistance. Abatement of real property taxes. - (a) An urban homesteading agency may provide financial assistance to...

Section 8-169v. - Acceptance of real property from United States government. - Notwithstanding any other provision of sections 8-169o to 8-169u, inclusive,...

Section 8-169w. - Urban Homesteading Fund created. Regulations. Bond authorization. - (a) A fund to be known as the “Urban Homesteading...

Chapter 131 - Department of Economic and Community Development: Industrial and Research Development Projects (Conditionally Repealed)

Section 8-170 to 8-185. - Industrial and research development projects. - Sections 8-170 to 8-185, inclusive, are repealed; provided, that in...

Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects

Section 8-186. - Declaration of policy. - It is found and declared that the economic welfare of...

Section 8-187. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, (1) “municipality” means a town,...

Section 8-188. - Designation of development agency. - Any municipality which has a planning commission is authorized, by...

Section 8-189. - Project plan. Approval. Notice. Review. - (a) The development agency may initiate a development project by...

Section 8-190. - Planning grants and special planning grants. - The commissioner is authorized to make planning grants and special...

Section 8-191. - Adoption of development plan. - (a) Before the development agency adopts a plan for a...

Section 8-191a. - Effect of commissioner's failure to make environmental evaluation. - No plan prepared and approved under sections 8-189 and 8-191,...

Section 8-192. - Bond issues. Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated or its subsidiaries. Federal and state aid. Taxes. Temporary notes. - (a) For the purpose of carrying out or administering a...

Section 8-192a. - Allocation of taxes on real or personal property in a development project. - Any development plan authorized under this chapter or any proceedings...

Section 8-192b. - Temporary notes. Extension of time for renewal. - Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 8-192 and...

Section 8-193. - Acquisition and transfer of real property. Procedure. Powers of agency. Limitations. - (a) After approval of the development plan as provided in...

Section 8-194. - Readjustment, relocation and removal of public service facilities. - As used in this section, “public service facility” includes any...

Section 8-195. - Development grants and special development grants. - (a) The commissioner is authorized to make development grants to...

Section 8-196. - Joint projects. - Any two or more municipalities by vote of their respective...

Section 8-197. - Furnishing of municipal services to other municipalities. - Any municipality by vote of its legislative body may for...

Section 8-198. - Regulations. - The commissioner is authorized to make and enforce reasonable regulations...

Section 8-199. - Action to be taken in name of municipality. - Any development agency shall exercise its powers in the name...

Section 8-200. - Modification of development plan. Abandonment of plan and conveyance of property. Limitations. - (a) A development plan may be modified at any time...

Section 8-200a. - Conversion of balance of prior loans to grants-in-aid. - The unpaid balance of all loans made under the provisions...

Section 8-200b. - Payment of administrative costs under prior law. - Administrative or other costs or expenses incurred by the state...

Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs

Section 8-201. - Declaration of policy. - It is found and declared that improvement of the conditions...

Section 8-202. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter: (a) Repealed by P.A. 77-614,...

Section 8-203 to 8-205. - Department of Community Affairs; commissioner. Advisory Council on Community Affairs. Duties of council. - Sections 8-203 to 8-205, inclusive, are repealed. (1967, P.A. 522,...

Section 8-206. - Duties of Commissioner of Housing. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall (1) administer and direct...

Section 8-206a. - Transfer of certain powers and duties to the Commissioner of Community Affairs, and then to the Commissioner of Housing. - (a) In accordance with the provisions of section 4-38d, all...

Section 8-206b. - Emergency fuel assistance program. Eligibility requirements. Participation in weatherization program. - Section 8-206b is repealed, effective October 1, 2004. (P.A. 78-184,...

Section 8-206c. - Effective date of Secs. 8-206b and 16a-45. - Sections 8-206b and 16a-45 shall take effect November 20, 1979,...

Section 8-206d. - Emergency fuel assistance program for group homes, halfway houses, housing authorities and municipalities. Regulations. - The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall administer an...

Section 8-206e. - Housing assistance and counseling demonstration program. Assisted living demonstration program in HUD Section 202 and Section 236 elderly housing developments. Regulations. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall, within available appropriations, establish...

Section 8-206f. - Designation of HUD Section 202 or Section 236 elderly housing development as demonstration program. - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8-206e, the Commissioner of Housing,...

Section 8-207 and 8-207a. - Community development action plan. State financial assistance for implementing, reviewing and revising community development action plan. - Sections 8-207 and 8-207a are repealed. (1967, P.A. 522, S....

Section 8-208. - State grants-in-aid for housing code enforcement. - The state, acting by and in the discretion of the...

Section 8-208a. - Appeals from municipal housing code board decisions and enforcement. Cost. - Any person or persons severally or jointly aggrieved by any...

Section 8-208b. - Neighborhood Housing Services Program Fund. State assistance. Definitions. - (a) A Neighborhood Housing Services Program Fund is hereby created....

Section 8-208c. - Urban revitalization pilot program. Goals. Reports. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall, within existing resources of...

Section 8-209. - State grants-in-aid for demolition of unsafe structures; for urban beautification. - (a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of...

Section 8-209a. - State aid for relocation of buildings. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any project...

Section 8-210. - State financial assistance for the planning, construction, renovation, site preparation and purchase of property for neighborhood facilities and the development and operation of licensed child care centers, group child care homes and... - (a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of...

Section 8-210a. - Bond issue. - The State Bond Commission may authorize the issuance of bonds...

Section 8-213. - Housing site development agencies. - Section 8-213 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 522, S. 16; 1971,...

Section 8-213a. - Apportionment and abatement of taxes on acquisition of property by redevelopment or housing site development agency. - In any case where a redevelopment agency or housing site...

Section 8-214. - State financial assistance for housing site development projects. - Section 8-214 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 522, S. 17; P.A....

Section 8-214a. - Bond issue. - (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this...

Section 8-214b. - Housing land bank and land trust program: Definitions. - As used in this section and sections 8-214c to 8-214e,...

Section 8-214c. - Community Housing Land Bank and Land Trust Fund. - There is established a fund to be known as the...

Section 8-214d. - State financial assistance for establishing community housing land bank and land trust. Regulations. - (a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of...

Section 8-214e. - Bond issue. - (a) For the purposes described in sections 8-214b to 8-214d,...

Section 8-214f. - Financial assistance for development of limited equity cooperatives and mutual housing. - (a) As used in this section and sections 8-214g and...

Section 8-214g. - Limited Equity Cooperative and Mutual Housing Fund. - (a) The proceeds from the sale of bonds issued for...

Section 8-214h. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations, in accordance with...

Section 8-215. - Tax abatement for housing for low or moderate-income persons. - Any municipality may by ordinance provide for the abatement in...

Section 8-216. - State reimbursement for tax abatements. Payment in lieu of taxes on housing authority or state land. - (a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of...

Section 8-216a. - Capitalized value of net rental income, basis for property valuation. - (a) The provisions of any other general statute or special...

Section 8-216b. - Housing site development agencies. Financial assistance for housing and community development projects. Regulations. - (a) As used in this section, “housing site development agency”...

Section 8-216c. - Pilot program of postconstruction permanent financing of not more than five developments of affordable housing. Terms. Eligibility for financial assistance. Monitoring of projects. Exemption from certain provisions of the general st... - (a) As used in this section, “nonprofit corporation” means a...

Section 8-217. - Community housing development corporations. - A community housing development corporation may qualify for assistance under...

Section 8-218. - State financial assistance to community housing development corporations and eligible developers. Funds for rehabilitation and acquisition. Grants-in-aid to community housing development corporations for accessible housing. Grants fo... - (a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of...

Section 8-218a. - Grants, loans and deferred loans to housing development corporations and eligible developers for public and private cooperation projects. - The Commissioner of Housing shall establish and administer a program...

Section 8-218b. - Bond issue. Housing Development Corporation Fund. - (a) For the purposes described in sections 8-217 to 8-218c,...

Section 8-218c. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations in accordance with...

Section 8-218d. - State financial assistance to community housing development corporations for administrative expenses. Regulations. Report. - Section 8-218d is repealed. (P.A. 85-461, S. 2, 4; P.A....

Section 8-218e. - State financial assistance for provision of technical assistance and management training. - The state, acting by and in the discretion of the...

Section 8-218f. - Community housing development corporations. - Co-Opportunity, Inc., the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the Connecticut Housing...

Section 8-218g. - Determination of interest rate on loans to housing development corporations. - Any loans originated by the state pursuant to sections 8-218...

Section 8-218h. - Task force on building accessibility. Annual report to General Assembly. - (a) There is established a task force consisting of the...

Section 8-219. - State grants-in-aid for relocation costs of persons, businesses and farms displaced by governmental action. - Section 8-219 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 522, S. 24; 1969,...

Section 8-219a. - Senior Citizen Emergency Home Repair and Rehabilitation Fund. - There is established a “Senior Citizen Emergency Home Repair and...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development