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CT Gen Stat § 7-329h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329h - Securing of bonds.

 In the discretion of the port authority any bonds issued under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, may be secured by a trust indenture by way of conveyance, deed of trust or mortgage of any project or any other property of the port authority, whether or not financed in whole or in part from the proceeds of such bonds, or by a trust agreement by and between the port authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state or by both such conveyance, deed of trust or mortgage and indenture or trust agreement. Such trust indenture or agreement may pledge or assign any or all fees, rents and other charges to be received or proceeds of any contract or contracts pledged, and may convey or mortgage any property of the port authority. Such trust indenture or agreement may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including provisions which have been specifically authorized to be included in any resolution or resolutions of the port authority authorizing the issue of bonds. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the state may act as depository of the proceeds of such bonds or of revenues or other moneys and may furnish such indemnifying bonds or pledge such securities as may be required by the port authority. Such trust indenture may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders. In addition to the foregoing, such trust indenture or agreement may contain such other provisions as the port authority may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust indenture or agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of a project.(P.A. 98-240, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329j - Receipts to be trust funds.

 All moneys received pursuant to the authority of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in said sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive.(P.A. 98-240, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329k - Rights of bondholders.

 Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of borrowing issued under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust indenture or agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust indenture or agreement, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, injunction, mandamus or other proceedings, protect and enforce any and all rights under the provisions of the general statutes or granted by said sections or under such trust indenture or agreement or the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, notes or certificates, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by said sections or by such trust indenture or agreement or resolution to be performed by the port authority or by any officer or agent thereof, including the fixing, charging and collection of fees, rents and other charges.(P.A. 98-240, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329l - Tax exemption.

 The exercise of the powers granted by sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, shall be in all respects for the benefit of the inhabitants of the state, for the increase of their commerce and for the promotion of their safety, health, welfare, convenience and prosperity, and as the operation and maintenance of any project which the port authority is authorized to undertake constitute the performance of an essential governmental function, no port authority shall be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any project acquired and constructed by it under the provisions of said sections; and the bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of debt issued under the provisions of said sections, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free and exempt from taxation by the state and by any political subdivision thereof.(P.A. 98-240, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329m - Bonds to be legal investments.

 Bonds issued by the port authority under the provisions of sections 7-329a to 7-329u, inclusive, shall be securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, investment companies and executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds shall be securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.(P.A. 98-240, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329n - Municipal powers to aid port authority.

 For the purpose of aiding a port authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any port facility, any municipality may (1) acquire real property in its name for such port facility or for the widening of existing roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways or for new roads, streets, parkways, avenues or highways to any such port facility, or partly for such purposes and partly for other municipal purposes, by purchase or condemnation in the manner provided by law for the acquisition of real property by such municipality, (2) furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan parks, streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, and (3) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of any such port facility, and cause services to be furnished to the port authority of any character which such municipality is otherwise empowered to furnish, and to incur the entire expense thereof.(P.A. 98-240, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329o - Provision of property to port authority.

 Any municipality, by ordinance, and any other governmental unit is empowered, without any referendum or public or competitive bidding, and any person is empowered, to sell, lease, lend, grant or convey to any port authority, or to permit a port authority to use, maintain or operate as part of any port facility, any real or personal property which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the port authority and accepted by the port authority. Any such sale, lease, loan, grant, conveyance or permit may be made or given with or without consideration and for a specified or an unlimited period of time and under any agreement and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the port authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with the holders of bonds, the port authority may enter into and perform any and all agreements with respect to property so purchased, leased, borrowed, received or accepted by it, including agreements for the assumption of principal or interest or both of indebtedness of such municipality, governmental unit or person or of any mortgage or lien existing with respect to such property or for the operation and maintenance of such property as part of any port facility.(P.A. 98-240, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329p - Lease of facilities.

 Any municipality, governmental unit or person is empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with any port authority for the lease to or use by such municipality, governmental unit or person of all or any part of any port facility or facilities. Any such lease or other agreement may provide for the payment to the port authority by such municipality, governmental unit or person, annually or otherwise, of such sum or sums of money, computed at fixed amounts or by any formula or in any other manner, as may be so fixed or computed. Any such lease or other agreement may be made and entered into for a term beginning currently or at some future or contingent date and with or without consideration and for a specified or unlimited time and on any terms and conditions which may be approved by such municipality, governmental unit or person and which may be agreed to by the port authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds, and shall be valid and binding on such municipality, governmental unit or person whether or not an appropriation is made thereby prior to authorization or execution of such lease or other agreement. Such municipality, governmental unit or person shall do all acts and things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out and perform any such lease or other agreement entered into by it and to provide for the payment or discharge of any obligation thereunder in the same manner as other obligations of such municipality, governmental unit or person.(P.A. 98-240, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329q - Financial aid by municipality.

 For the purpose of aiding a port authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any port facility, any municipality, by ordinance or by resolution of its legislative body, shall have power from time to time and for such period and upon such terms, with or without consideration, as may be provided by such resolution or ordinance and accepted by the port authority, (1) to appropriate moneys for the purposes of the port authority, and to loan or donate such money to the port authority in such installments and upon such terms as may be agreed upon with the port authority, (2) to covenant and agree with the port authority to pay to or on the order of the port authority annually or at shorter intervals as a subsidy for the promotion of its purposes not more than such sums of money as may be stated in such resolution or ordinance or computed in accordance therewith, (3) upon authorization by it in accordance with law of the performance of any act or thing which it is empowered by law to authorize and perform and after appropriation of the moneys, if any, necessary for such performance, to covenant and agree with the port authority to do and perform such act or thing and as to the time, manner and other details of its doing and performance, and (4) to appropriate money for all or any part of the cost of acquisition or construction of such port facility, and, in accordance with the limitations and any exceptions thereto and in accordance with procedure prescribed by law, to incur indebtedness, borrow money and issue its negotiable bonds for the purpose of financing such port facility and appropriation, and to pay the proceeds of such bonds to the port authority.(P.A. 98-240, S. 17.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329s (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329s - Pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.

 Any lease or other agreement, and any instruments making or evidencing the same, may be pledged or assigned by the port authority to secure its bonds and thereafter may not be modified except as provided by the terms of such instrument or by the terms of such pledge or assignment.(P.A. 98-240, S. 19.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329t - Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.

 All property of a port authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against the same nor shall any judgment against a port authority be a charge or lien upon its property; provided nothing herein contained shall apply to or limit the rights of the holder of any bonds to pursue any remedy for the enforcement of any pledge or lien given by a port authority on its facility revenues or other moneys.(P.A. 98-240, S. 20.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-329u (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-329u - Payment by port authority of sums in lieu of taxes.

 Every port authority and every municipality in which any property of the port authority is located may enter into agreements with respect to the payment by the port authority to such municipality of annual sums of money in lieu of taxes on such property in such amounts as may be agreed upon between the port authority and the municipality, and each such port authority may make, and each such municipality is empowered to accept, such payments and to apply them in the manner in which taxes may be applied in such municipality; provided no such annual payment with respect to any parcel of such property shall exceed the amount of taxes paid thereon for the taxable year immediately prior to the time of its acquisition by the port authority.(P.A. 98-240, S. 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-330 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-330 - Formation of municipal district.

 Any two or more towns, cities or boroughs may, by vote of their legislative bodies, vote to form a district for the performance of any municipal function which the constituent municipalities of such district may, under any provision of the general statutes or of any special act, perform separately. The affairs of any such district shall be managed by a board consisting of two members from each constituent municipality appointed by the board of selectmen of towns, the council or board of aldermen of cities and the board of burgesses of boroughs. Any town, city or borough having a population of more than five thousand inhabitants as determined by the last-completed federal census shall be entitled to one additional representative for each additional five thousand population or part thereof. The board shall, at its first meeting, determine by lot which members shall serve for one, two or three years, provided the terms of office of not more than fifty per cent of the board shall expire in any one year. Thereafter, the terms of office shall be for three years. Such board shall choose by ballot from its membership a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer. Such treasurer shall give bond to the board to the satisfaction of its members, the cost of such bond to be borne by the board.(1955, S. 344d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 35.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-331 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-331 - Payment of expenses.

 The proportional share of each constituent municipality of the indebtedness and current expenditures of the district for its projects under the provisions of sections 7-330 to 7-332, inclusive, shall be determined by the board, which board shall have all the powers and duties with regard to such projects as such constituent municipalities would have severally.(1955, S. 345d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-332 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-332 - Admission to or withdrawal from district.

 Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, after the formation of a district in accordance with the provisions of section 7-330, elect to apply for admission to such district and the board of such district may admit such municipality. Any constituent municipality of any district may, by vote of its legislative body, elect to withdraw from such district, but such withdrawal shall not be effective until six months after such vote, nor shall such withdrawal relieve such municipality of any liability which it incurred as a member of such district.(1955, S. 346d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-333 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-333 - Metropolitan districts. Definitions.

 Whenever used in sections 7-334 to 7-339, inclusive, “metropolitan area” means any area in which there is a city having a population according to the last-completed federal census of twenty-five thousand or more, designated hereafter as the “central city”, and any town, city or borough any part of which is not more than fifteen miles distant from the nearest boundary of such central city.(1955, S. 347d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 36; 1961, P.A. 313.)History: 1961 act reduced size of city in definition of “metropolitan area” from 50,000 to 25,000.
CT Gen Stat § 7-334 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-334 - Formation of metropolitan district. Jurisdiction.

 The central city and any one or more towns, cities or boroughs within a metropolitan area may join to form a metropolitan district for the performance of any one or more functions, services or works which any of such towns, cities or boroughs is by special act or general statute authorized to perform. The jurisdiction of the metropolitan district for the performance of such functions, services or works as it may perform shall be coterminous with the area of the respective towns, cities and boroughs comprising such district.(1955, S. 348d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-335 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-335 - Powers of districts.

 The central city and any one or more towns, cities or boroughs, in addition to such powers as each has under any provision of the general statutes or any special act, may adopt and amend a charter for the metropolitan district, which charter shall, among other things, provide for the structure and organization of the metropolitan district government, the powers and duties of such government, the means of financing its operations, the admission of additional towns, cities and boroughs as members of the metropolitan district, the withdrawal of any constituent municipality and the dissolution of such district. Said charter shall supersede any existing charter provisions and all special acts inconsistent with the provisions of the metropolitan district charter. In addition, such district, unless prohibited by the provisions of its charter, shall have such powers as are granted to any of its constituent towns, cities and boroughs under the Constitution, general statutes or special acts.(1955, S. 349d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-336 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-336 - Petition to establish district.

 Any action to establish a metropolitan district shall be initiated by a two-thirds vote of the legislative body of the central city and of any one or more towns, cities or boroughs in the metropolitan area, or by petition filed with the clerk of any such municipality for submission to the legislative body and signed by not less than ten per cent of the electors of such town, city or borough wishing to form a metropolitan district. Upon the filing of such petitions, the clerk with whom the petitions are filed shall proceed forthwith to determine the sufficiency thereof by comparing the signatures thereon with the names contained in the registry list of the municipality in which the petition has been circulated.(1955, S. 350d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-337 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-337 - Charter commission.

 Within sixty days after action to establish a metropolitan district has been initiated by vote of the legislative bodies or by petition, the legislative bodies of the central city and any towns, cities or boroughs which have indicated an intention of forming a metropolitan district shall meet jointly at a time and place designated by the presiding officer of the legislative body representing the largest number of electors and shall provide by joint resolution for the appointment of a metropolitan district charter commission, which shall consist of at least one representative from each town, city or borough to be included in such district, but in no case shall such commission consist of less than five nor more than fifteen members regardless of the number of towns, cities or boroughs involved. Where representation exceeds one representative per town, city or borough, the representation shall be, as nearly as possible, in proportion to the number of electors residing within the boundaries of any town, city or borough to be included in such metropolitan district. On any matter coming before the joint meeting of the legislative bodies as hereinbefore provided which requires a vote, no town, city or borough shall be accorded more than one vote on each such matter. The choice of the charter commission representatives from each town, city or borough to be included in the metropolitan district shall be the responsibility of such town, city or borough and such representatives shall be selected in such manner as the legislative body of such town, city or borough prescribes.(1955, S. 351d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-338 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 105 - Fire, Sewer and Other Districts|Section 7-338 - Preparation of charter.

 Such charter commission shall prepare a district charter providing for the administration of the property and affairs of the metropolitan district. The functions, services or works to be performed by such district shall be determined after an investigation of the needs of the district to be formed and after public hearings held for the purpose of obtaining the views of the electors. The members of the charter commission shall serve without compensation but any expense incurred in the discharge of its duties shall be paid by each town, city or borough to be included in the proposed metropolitan district in proportion to the percentage which the population, as determined by the last-preceding federal census, of each participating town, city or borough is of the total population of such district. The charter commission may engage such employees and contract for the services of such consultants as it may need for the proper execution of its duties.(1955, S. 352d.)