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CT Gen Stat § 7-253a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-253a - Adjustments in sewer assessment payments for elderly or disabled property owners.

 Any municipality may, by ordinance, permit any property owner who is eligible for tax relief for (1) elderly taxpayers under the provisions of section 12-129b, section 12-170aa, or a plan of tax relief for elderly taxpayers provided by such municipality in accordance with subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 12-129n or (2) any property owner under age sixty-five who is eligible under the provisions of a plan for tax relief provided by such municipality in accordance with subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 12-129n to apply to the water pollution control authority in such municipality for approval of a plan of payment of such property owner's sewer assessment in a manner other than as provided under section 7-253. Such ordinance may allow optional methods of payment of any sewer assessment by an eligible property owner, subject to approval of the authority, including an option to pay only the annual interest charge, as provided in said section 7-253, on any deferred payments or outstanding balance of principal, provided in any such optional method of payment, the outstanding balance of principal deferred under such optional method of payment shall become due upon any transfer of title to the property subject to such assessment or upon the death of such property owner. Any such optional method of payment shall be subject to annual review by the authority.(P.A. 78-301, S. 1, 2; P.A. 80-77, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-442, S. 1, 3; P.A. 91-98, S. 1, 3.)History: P.A. 80-77 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; P.A. 85-442 applied provisions to property owners eligible for tax relief in accordance with Sec. 12-129n; P.A. 91-98 applied provisions to disabled property owners under Sec. 12-129n and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1991, and applicable to assessment years commencing on and after October 1, 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 7-254a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-254a - Waiver of interest.

 Section 7-254a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(P.A. 97-215; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-256 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-256 - Revision of rates for payment of bonds.

 Whenever a municipality has pledged revenue to be derived from charges for connection with or for the use of a sewerage system to the payment of the principal or the interest of any bonds or notes, the water pollution control authority shall establish and, when necessary, revise such charges at rates which shall produce sufficient revenue for the punctual payment of the annual interest and amortization requirements of such bonds or notes and, together with any moneys available from other sources, for the fulfillment of any covenant or agreement which has been made by the municipality with the holders of any bonds or notes with respect to the operation of such sewerage system.(1949, S. 323d; P.A. 78-154, S. 13.)History: P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority.
CT Gen Stat § 7-257 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-257 - Order to connect. Appeal.

 The water pollution control authority may order the owner of any building to which a sewerage system is available to connect such building with the system or order the owner to construct and connect the building to an alternative sewage treatment system. No such order shall be issued until after a public hearing with respect thereto after due notice in writing to such property owner. Any owner aggrieved by such an order may, within twenty-one days, appeal to the superior court for the judicial district wherein the municipality is located. Such appeal shall be brought to a return day of said court not less than twelve or more than thirty days after service thereof. The judgment of the court shall be final. If any owner fails to comply with an order to connect, the water pollution control authority shall cause the connection to be made and shall assess the expense thereof against such owner.(1949 Rev., S. 737; 1949, S. 324d; 1971, P.A. 179, S. 3; P.A. 76-436, S. 287, 681; P.A. 78-154, S. 14; 78-280, S. 1, 127; P.A. 82-472, S. 17, 183; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 143.)History: 1971 act required that appeal be made within 21 days of order and that return day be not less than 12 or more than 30 days after service rather than the “next” or “next but one” return day within the 21-day period after the order; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to “county”; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to county as venue for superior court; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 authorized a water pollution control authority to order the owner to construct and connect the building to an alternative sewage treatment system.
CT Gen Stat § 7-261 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-261 - Full faith and credit.

 Bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, except those which are secured only by sewerage system use charges, shall be obligatory upon the municipality and the inhabitants and property thereof according to the tenor and purport of the same and the full faith and credit of the municipality shall be pledged to the payment thereof, whether or not such pledge is stated in the bonds or notes or in the vote authorizing their issuance, and thereafter the municipality shall appropriate in each year during which any such bonds or notes are outstanding, and there shall be available on or before the date when the same are payable, an amount of money which, together with other revenue available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on such bonds or notes payable in that year, and there shall be included in the tax levy for each such year an amount which, together with other revenues available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to meet such appropriation.(1949, S. 328d; P.A. 07-51, S. 2.)History: P.A. 07-51 added reference to Sec. 7-263a, included in existing reference to “this chapter”, effective May 22, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 7-262 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-262 - Signatures of officers on date of execution binding.

 Any bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, if properly executed and signed by officers of a municipality in office on the date of execution, shall be valid and binding according to their terms notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor such officers have ceased to be officers of the municipality.(1949, S. 329d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-264 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-264 - Temporary notes.

 Any municipality which has authorized the acquisition or construction of all or of any part of a sewerage system and which has made an appropriation therefor may borrow temporarily upon the credit of the municipality such sum or sums as may be necessary for such acquisition or construction and may issue temporary notes for any such loan, including temporary notes issued in anticipation of the sale of bonds to be secured by the full faith and credit of the municipality, by the pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges or by both the full faith and credit of the municipality and the pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges. That portion of the proceeds of the issue of any such temporary notes being issued as part of a common sale, which portion is not used to refund outstanding temporary notes shall be deemed a separate loan and be considered to have a separate original issue date. Each such portion of any such temporary notes may be renewed for a period of not more than two years, from the date of original issue of such temporary notes, except that any temporary notes issued in anticipation of the sale of bonds to be secured solely by the pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges may be for a period of not more than four years from the date of original issue of such temporary notes. Such temporary note or notes may be renewed from time to time by the issue of other temporary notes, provided the period from the date of original issue of such temporary note or notes to the date of maturity of the last renewal notes shall not be more than two or four years, as the case may be. The interest or discount on such temporary notes, including renewals thereof, and the expense of preparing, issuing and marketing the same, may be included as a cost of the acquisition or construction of a sewerage system and may either be borrowed temporarily under the provisions of this section or funded by the issue of serial bonds or notes under the provisions of this chapter. Temporary notes may be issued under the authority of this section in anticipation of proceeds to be derived from the sale of bonds notwithstanding that, at the time of issuing such temporary notes, the municipality has not actually authorized the issue of such bonds.(1949, S. 331d; P.A. 86-350, S. 16, 28.)History: P.A. 86-350 clarified the determination of the date of issuance of notes.Cited. 216 C. 436.
CT Gen Stat § 7-265 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-265 - Revenue or guaranteed bonds not included in debt limitation.

 Bonds and notes issued pursuant to this chapter and (a) secured solely by a pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges or (b) guaranteed, in whole or in part, by state, federal or private grants of money shall not be subject to any statutory limitation, to the extent of such security or guarantee, on the indebtedness of the municipality and such bonds and notes when issued shall not be included in computing the aggregate indebtedness of the municipality in respect to and to the extent of any such limitation. Any provision of any special act inconsistent with the provisions of this section is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 740; 1949, November, 1949, 1953, S. 332d; 1953, S. 364d; 1969, P.A. 162.)History: 1969 act excluded bonds and notes guaranteed by state, federal or private grants from statutory limitation on indebtedness to the extent guaranteed.Issuance of revenue bonds alternative to method of financing provided for in Secs. 7-259 to 7-261. 5 CS 256.
CT Gen Stat § 7-266 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-266 - Agreement with bondholders.

 In connection with any bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, the municipality may, by resolution of the body having power to make appropriations for such municipality, covenant and agree with the holders thereof as to (1) the rates or charges to be imposed upon the users of such sewerage system, including the municipality, for connection with or the use of such system, (2) the use and disposition of the revenue from such rates or charges, (3) the creation and maintenance of special funds and reserves derived from any revenue source, and the management, use and disposition thereof, (4) the purposes for which the proceeds of the sale of such bonds or notes may be used, (5) the acts or conduct which shall constitute a default and the rights and liabilities of the holders arising upon such default, (6) the terms and conditions upon which bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter shall become or may be declared due before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived, (7) the conditions upon which other or additional bonds or notes may be issued and secured by revenue from sewerage system use charges or benefit assessments or both, and the refunding of outstanding bonds, (8) the insurance to be carried upon the sewerage system, or parts thereof, and the use and disposition of any insurance moneys, (9) the maintenance of books of account and the inspection and audit thereof, (10) the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders may be amended or abrogated, including the number or percentage of bondholders that must consent to such amendment or abrogation, the manner in which such consent may be given and any restrictions on the rights of individual bondholders, and (11) provisions for the execution of reimbursement agreements or similar agreements in connection with credit facilities, including, but not limited to, letters of credit, policies of bond insurance, remarketing agreements and agreements for the purpose of moderating interest rate fluctuations. Such covenant and agreement may take the form of a trust indenture between the municipality and a corporate trustee approved by the municipality.(1949, S. 333d; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 133.)History: June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 redesignated existing Subdivs. (a) to (i) as Subdivs. (1) to (9), added “and reserves derived from any revenue source” in Subdiv. (3), added “and the refunding of outstanding bonds” in Subdiv. (7), added Subdivs. (10) re procedure for amendment or abrogation and (11) re execution of reimbursement agreements and added language re covenant and agreement taking form of trust indenture between municipality and corporate trustee.
CT Gen Stat § 7-267 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-267 - Use of funds.

 All benefit assessments and charges for connection with or use of the sewerage system, whether pledged for payment of bonds or notes or otherwise, shall be kept separate from other funds of the municipality and shall be used for the sewerage system, including the payment of debt incurred for the sewerage system and interest thereon, and for no other purpose.(1949, S. 334d.)Cited. 171 C. 74.
CT Gen Stat § 7-268 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-268 - Special fund.

 Any municipality which has issued bonds or notes in accordance with this chapter may by ordinance establish a special fund for payment of all or any part of such bonds or notes or interest thereon, may make and revise necessary rules and regulations not contrary to this chapter for the management of such special fund and may provide for payments into such special fund of all or any part of any charges for connection with or use of the sewerage system or from any other source. The municipality shall not withdraw any moneys from the fund except for such purpose and shall not alter any vote or agreement in respect to revenues to be paid into the fund until such bonds or notes have been paid in full or the special fund is sufficient to do so.(1949 Rev., S. 742; 1949, S. 335d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-269 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-269 - Tax exemption.

 Each bond or note issued in accordance with this chapter shall be exempt, both as to principal and interest, from taxation.(1949, S. 336d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-269a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-269a - Anticipation notes.

 In addition to its other powers under this chapter, any municipality operating a sewerage system may issue temporary notes to be paid from anticipated income from sewer assessments and may renew such notes annually for not more than fifteen years.(1959, P.A. 583; 1963, P.A. 342; 1967, P.A. 413; P.A. 76-375, S. 1, 2.)History: 1963 act increased number of years notes may be renewed from 3 to 5; 1967 act specified anticipated income from sewer assessments for payments of temporary notes and increased number of annual renewals from 5 to 12; P.A. 76-375 increased number of renewals to 15.
CT Gen Stat § 7-269b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-269b - Special municipal taxing districts for sewerage system purposes.

 Any town may, by ordinance, establish a special taxing district for the purpose of defraying, by taxes levied solely upon properties within such district, any of the costs of acquisition or construction of a sewerage system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such special taxes shall be based upon annual budget appropriations and estimates of receipts from special benefit assessments and use charges levied with respect to such system approved by such town for the special taxing district in the manner required for the adopting of the annual budgets of such town and shall be included but shown separately in the annual tax levies of such town. Such town may, from time to time, by ordinance, alter the boundaries of such special taxing district. To meet any costs of acquisition or construction, including planning, of any such sewerage system the town may issue its general or special obligation bonds in accordance with the laws applicable thereto, the principal and interest on which shall be paid from the budgets of such special taxing district. For the purposes of this section “town” means town, consolidated town and city and consolidated town and borough.(1967, P.A. 57, S. 26.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-270 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-270 - Application to existing systems.

 Any municipality, for all or any part of any existing sewerage system, may exercise any authority of this chapter pertaining to the operation of a sewerage system and may establish sewerage use charges, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to pay the cost of operation of such sewerage system or for the payment of all or any part of bonds or notes issued for the acquisition or construction of such sewerage system, including interest thereon.(1949, S. 338d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-271 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-271 - Power to be additional.

 Any power granted by this chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any power granted to any municipality under the provisions of any special act or of any general statute.(1949, S. 339d.)Any powers granted under statute are in addition to and not in derogation of powers already granted to municipalities. 160 C. 446.
CT Gen Stat § 7-272 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-272 - Joint operation of sewerage system.

 Any two or more municipalities may enter into and revise from time to time, and may fulfill, contracts jointly to acquire, construct or operate all or any part of a sewerage system. Any such agreement shall particularize (a) the portion or portions of the sewerage system to be jointly acquired, constructed or operated, (b) the acts relating to acquiring, constructing or operating such portion or portions of the sewerage system to be performed jointly by the municipalities and (c) the method of apportioning the cost thereof. Whenever any two or more municipalities have entered into such an agreement, the sewer authorities of such municipalities jointly shall have, for the portion or portions of the sewerage system and for the acts relating to acquisition, construction or operation of the sewerage system covered by the agreement, all of the authority conferred by this chapter on a municipality and each such municipality shall continue to have all other authority conferred by this chapter.(1949, S. 337d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-273 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-273 - Contract for use of sewerage system.

 Any town, city, borough or fire or sewer district, maintaining a sewerage system, may contract with any adjoining town or property owner therein for connection with and the use of such sewerage system.(1949 Rev., S. 635.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-273a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems|Section 7-273a - Charges when no assessment made.

 In all cases in which any municipality or any sewer commission or authority established in accordance with law has constructed or caused to be constructed a public sanitary sewer or sewers through any public highway or highways within the territorial limits of its jurisdiction, for which no assessment of benefits and damages has been made, such municipality, commission or authority may establish service charges payable in equal annual installments for a period of not more than five years for the payment for the use of such sewer, until such time as the fair and proportionate cost of installing such sewer has been paid by the property owner or owners whose property has been benefited by the construction and use of such sewer. This section shall apply only to public sewers constructed otherwise than in accordance with this chapter and after October 1, 1950.(1959, P.A. 532.)Cited. 216 C. 436.
CT Gen Stat § 7-273f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 103a - Transit Districts|Section 7-273f - District budget. Audit of accounts.

 Annually the board of directors shall hold a public meeting at which itemized estimates of the expenditures of the district for the ensuing fiscal year shall be presented and at which all persons within the district shall be heard in regard to any appropriation which they are desirous that the board should recommend or reject. The board shall, after such public hearing, prepare and cause to be published in a newspaper or newspapers having a substantial circulation in such district a report in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Revenue Services containing: (1) An itemized statement of all actual receipts from all sources of such district during its last fiscal year; (2) an itemized statement of classification of all actual expenditures during the same year; (3) an itemized estimate of anticipated revenues during the ensuing fiscal year from each source; (4) an itemized estimate of expenditures for such ensuing fiscal year; and (5) the amount of revenue surplus or deficit of the district at the beginning of the fiscal year for which estimates are being prepared. Not less than two nor more than four weeks after such publication the board shall make such specific appropriations as appear advisable, but no appropriation for any purpose shall be made exceeding the amount published for that purpose and no appropriation shall be made for any purpose not published. If it becomes necessary during any fiscal year for the board to appropriate additional sums, the provisions of this section governing annual appropriations shall govern so far as they are applicable. The accounts of the district shall be audited in the manner provided by section 7-392.(1961, P.A. 507, S. 5; 1972, P.A. 261, S. 5; P.A. 73-2, S. 10, 11; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610; P.A. 13-277, S. 24.)History: 1972 act permitted assessments against member municipalities and required inclusion of assessments in municipal budgets; P.A. 73-2 deleted provisions concerning assessments against municipalities; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 13-277 deleted references to executive sessions, effective July 1, 2013.