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CT Gen Stat § 7-130h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130h - Securing of bonds.

 In the discretion of the authority any bonds issued under the provisions of sections 7-130a to 7-130w, 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 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 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 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 particularly such provisions as have hereinabove been specifically authorized to be included in any resolution or resolutions of the 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 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 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.(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 9; 1967, P.A. 810, S. 9.)History: 1967 act substituted reference to Sec. 7-130w for reference to Sec. 7-130n.See Sec. 7-130t re pledge or assignment of lease to secure bonds.
CT Gen Stat § 7-130j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130j - Use of receipts.

 All moneys received pursuant to the authority of sections 7-130a to 7-130w, 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.(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130k - Enforcement of rights of bondholders and trustees.

 Any holder of bonds, notes, certificates or other evidences of borrowing issued under the provisions of sections 7-130a to 7-130w, 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 authority or by any officer or agent thereof, including the fixing, charging and collection of fees, rents and other charges.(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130l - Tax exemption.

 The exercise of the powers granted by sections 7-130a to 7-130w, 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 authority is authorized to undertake constitute the performance of an essential governmental function, no 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.(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 13.)See Sec. 7-130v re payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.
CT Gen Stat § 7-130m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130m - Bonds to be legal investments.

 Bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of sections 7-130a to 7-130w, 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.(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130n - Liberal construction. Consent of other bodies not required.

 Section 7-130n is repealed.(February, 1965, P.A. 460, S. 15; 1967, P.A. 810, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130o - Municipal powers to aid authority.

 For the purpose of aiding an authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any public facility, any municipality may (a) acquire real property in its name for such public 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 public 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, (b) 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 (c) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of any such public facility, and cause services to be furnished to the authority of any character which such municipality is otherwise empowered to furnish, and to incur the entire expense thereof.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130p - Provision of property to 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 an authority, or to permit an authority to use, maintain or operate as part of any public facility, any real or personal property which may be necessary or useful and convenient for the purposes of the authority and accepted by the 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 authority in conformity with its contracts with the holders of any bonds. Subject to any such contracts with the holders of bonds, the 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 public facility.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130q - Lease of facilities.

 Any municipality, governmental unit or person is empowered to enter into and perform any lease or other agreement with an authority for the lease to or use by such municipality, governmental unit or person of all or any part of any public facility or facilities. Any such lease or other agreement may provide for the payment to the 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 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. Every 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.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130r (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130r - Financial aid by municipality.

 For the purpose of aiding an authority and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, acquisition, construction or operation of any public 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 authority, (a) to appropriate moneys for the purposes of the authority, and to loan or donate such money to the authority in such installments and upon such terms as may be agreed upon with the authority, (b) to covenant and agree with the authority to pay to or on the order of the 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, (c) 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 authority to do and perform such act or thing and as to the time, manner and other details of its doing and performance, and (d) to appropriate money for all or any part of the cost of acquisition or construction of such public 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 public facility and appropriation, and to pay the proceeds of such bonds to the authority.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130t - 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 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.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130u (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130u - Exemption of property from levy and sale by virtue of execution.

 All property of an 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 an 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 an authority on its facility revenues or other moneys.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 17.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130v (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130v - Payment by authority of sums in lieu of taxes.

 Every authority and every municipality in which any property of the authority is located may enter into agreements with respect to the payment by the 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 authority and the municipality, and each such 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 authority.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 18.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-130w (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-130w - Construction of statutes. Consent of other agencies not required.

 Sections 7-130a to 7-130w, inclusive, shall constitute full and complete authority, without regard to the provisions of any other law, for the doing of the acts and things therein authorized and shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof, provided the ordinance creating the authority may include limitations on the powers and procedures of the authority. Unless otherwise provided in such ordinance, neither the consent nor approval of any planning commission, regional council of governments, historic district commission, municipal or regional economic development commission or any other board, body or commission established or created before or after July 1, 1965, shall be required for the exercise of the powers conferred by said sections; provided no project shall be constructed in any municipality if it is inconsistent with the plan of conservation and development for the municipality adopted pursuant to section 8-23, except with the approval of the planning commission of such municipality.(1967, P.A. 810, S. 19; P.A. 95-335, S. 11, 26; P.A. 13-247, S. 267.)History: P.A. 95-335 replaced “plan of development” with “plan of conservation and development”, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 13-247 substituted “council of governments” for “planning agency”, effective January 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 7-131 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-131 - Municipal forests. Public shade trees.

 (a) The legislative body of any town, city or borough may vote to establish a municipal forest for the purpose of raising timber, protecting water supplies, providing opportunities for outdoor recreation or employment of relief labor. For such forest such town, city or borough may appropriate money and purchase land, accept land or money by gift or bequest and allocate any land to which it holds title and which is suitable for the production of timber.(b) The management and care of such forest shall be in charge of a forest commission of three members, to be appointed by such legislative body, one member to serve for three years, one for two years and one for one year, from the date of appointment. At the expiration of the term of office of each member, his successor shall be appointed in like manner for a term of three years. Such commission shall choose its chairman, shall serve without compensation and shall make an annual report to the town, city or borough and to the State Forester.(c) Upon the establishment by a town, city or borough of a forest, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection may, upon application in such form as he prescribes, furnish such town, city or borough with stock for the planting of the land contained in such forest.(d) The legislative body of any town, city or borough may vote to assign to its forest commission or, in the absence of a forest commission, to a shade tree commission, to be constituted and appointed in the manner provided for in subsection (b) of this section for a forest commission, the supervision of public shade trees within such town, city or borough not under the supervision of the Commissioner of Transportation including the appointment of the town tree warden and the supervision of the town tree warden's work.(1949 Rev., S. 647; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 15; P.A. 10-32, S. 14; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 10-32 made technical changes in Subsec. (d), effective May 10, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection” in Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 7-131b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-131b - Acquisition of open space land and easements. Revaluation of property subject to easement.

 (a) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, by purchase, condemnation, gift, devise, lease or otherwise, acquire any land in any area designated as an area of open space land on any plan of development of a municipality adopted by its planning commission or any easements, interest or rights therein and enter into covenants and agreements with owners of such open space land or interests therein to maintain, improve, protect, limit the future use of or otherwise conserve such open space land.(b) Any owner who encumbers his property by conveying a less than fee interest to any municipality under subsection (a) of this section shall, upon written application to the assessor or board of assessors of the municipality, be entitled to a revaluation of such property to reflect the existence of such encumbrance, effective with respect to the next-succeeding assessment list of such municipality. Any such owner shall be entitled to such revaluation, notwithstanding the fact that he conveyed such less than fee interest prior to October 1, 1971, provided no such revaluation shall be effective retroactively.(c) Any owner aggrieved by a revaluation under subsection (b) of this section may appeal to the board of assessment appeals in accordance with the provisions of sections 12-111 and 12-112 and may appeal from the decision of the board of assessment appeals in accordance with the provisions of section 12-117a.(1963, P.A. 490, S. 6; 1971, P.A. 73; P.A. 95-283, S. 24, 68.)History: 1971 act added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re revaluation of property; P.A. 95-283 amended Subsec. (c) to replace board of tax review with board of assessment appeals and made technical changes, effective July 6, 1995.See Secs. 12-107a and 12-107b re open space land.Cited. 178 C. 295.
CT Gen Stat § 7-131c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-131c - Open space land. Definitions.

 Section 7-131c is repealed, effective July 1, 1998.(1963, P.A. 649, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 368, S. 1; 574, S. 3; 1971, P.A. 842, S. 1; P.A. 90-239, S. 3; P.A. 92-206, S. 1; P.A. 98-157, S. 14, 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-131f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-131f - Considerations for approving grants from funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998.

 In making grants-in-aid for open space land acquisition or development from out of funds authorized before July 1, 1998, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall: (a) Seek to achieve a reasonable balance among all parts of the state in the relative adequacy of present areas devoted to recreational and conservation purposes and the relative anticipated future needs for additional areas devoted to recreational and conservation purposes; (b) give due consideration to the special park requirement needs of urban areas; (c) wherever possible, give priority to land which will be utilized for multiple recreational and conservation purposes; (d) give due consideration to coordination with the plans of departments of the state and regional planning agencies with respect to land use or acquisition; and (e) give primary consideration to the needs of municipalities that have formed local housing partnerships pursuant to the provisions of section 8-336f.(1963, P.A. 649, S. 4; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 406; P.A. 79-607, S. 7; P.A. 88-305, S. 2, 4; P.A. 98-157. S. 13, 15; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 1971 act substituted commissioner of environmental protection for council on agriculture and natural resources; P.A. 79-607 included grants for development; P.A. 88-305 added Subdiv. (e) re consideration of needs of municipalities that have formed local housing partnerships; P.A. 98-157 made this section applicable to funds authorized prior to July 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1998; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 7-131h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 97 - Municipalities: General Provisions|Section 7-131h - Charges by municipality.

 Reasonable charges may be made by a municipality, when necessary, to aid in the proper maintenance of recreational facilities developed on land acquired under sections 7-131d to 7-131k, inclusive.(1963, P.A. 649, S. 6.)History: (Revisor's note: In 1999 a reference to Sec. 7-131c was changed editorially by the Revisors to Sec. 7-131d, since Sec. 7-131c was repealed by P.A. 98-157).