CT Gen Stat § 8-86 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-86 - Housing bonds or notes.

 (a) For the purposes of this part the State Treasurer is authorized and directed, subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, to issue bonds and notes of the state to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate sixty million dollars, including bonds and notes issued under the authority of section 130a of the 1949 supplement to the general statutes, subsection (a) of section 4 of number 1 of the public acts of the special session of October, 1949, section 1 of number 1 of the public acts of the special session of September, 1950, section 227b of the 1951 supplement to the general statutes, section 363c of the 1953 supplement to said statutes and section 462d of the 1955 supplement to said statutes, exclusive of bonds or notes issued for refunding purposes, to be denominated on the face thereof “Housing Bonds of the State of Connecticut” or “Housing Notes of the State of Connecticut”, as the case may be. Such bonds and notes shall be issued at such times and in such amounts as may be determined by said commission. The full faith and credit of the state of Connecticut is pledged for the payment of the interest on such bonds and such notes as the same become due and the payment of the principal thereof at maturity. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds and notes, except refunding bonds and notes, shall be used to encourage and facilitate the construction of housing to be purchased by veterans of World War II and other citizens of the state in accordance with the provisions of this part.(b) Said bonds shall be in such form and in such denominations as may be determined by the State Bond Commission and shall be issued with coupons attached and registrable as to principal and interest, or as to interest alone. They shall bear interest payable semiannually on dates to be determined by said commission at the State Treasurer's office in Hartford, and shall be signed in the name of the state by the Governor, the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller, and the coupons attached to said bonds shall be signed by the State Treasurer. Said notes shall be in such form and in such denominations as shall be determined by said commission and shall be signed in the name of the state by the State Treasurer or his deputy. The use of the facsimile signatures of said officials is authorized and such bonds and notes may be issued notwithstanding that any of the officials signing them or whose facsimile signatures appear on the bonds, coupons or notes have ceased to hold office at the time of such issue or at the time of the delivery of such bonds or notes to the purchaser.(c) The State Treasurer shall, at least thirty days before the date of issue of any bonds, advertise for proposals for bids for such portion of such bonds as he has before that time designated to be issued at such date, such proposals to be under seal and opened in public by said Treasurer at some time and place by him appointed. Such bids shall contain proposals for the rate of interest to be paid on the interest coupons and shall be submitted in eighths of one per cent and multiples thereof. Notes shall be sold at public sale on such notice and terms as the State Bond Commission determines.(d) Said bonds shall not be sold at less than par and shall be issued in serial form maturing in such annual installments, beginning approximately one year from the date of issue, that the whole amount thereof shall be paid within such period of time as the State Bond Commission determines. Said notes shall not be sold at less than par and shall be issued for such terms as said commission determines.(e) The State Treasurer shall have the power to reject any and all bids and to readvertise for the sale of such bonds or notes.(1949, October, 1949, September, 1950, 1951, S. 462d; 1963, P.A. 54, S. 4.)History: 1963 act added “For the purposes of this part” to subsection (a) and substituted the state bond commission for a committee consisting of the governor, treasurer, finance commissioner and public works commissioner.