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CT Gen Stat § 8-37ooo (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37ooo - Deputy Commissioner of Housing. Appointment. Duties.

 The Commissioner of Housing may appoint a Deputy Commissioner of Housing who shall be qualified by training and experience for the duties of the office of commissioner and shall, in the absence, disability or disqualification of the commissioner, perform all the functions and have all the powers and duties of said office. The position of the Deputy Commissioner of Housing shall be exempt from the classified service.(P.A. 13-234, S. 1.)History: P.A. 13-234 effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37rrr (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|Section 8-37rrr - Annual report re rental assistance.

 Not later than January 1, 2014, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Housing, in consultation with the Commissioners of Social Services, Children and Families, Mental Health and Addiction Services and Developmental Services, shall submit a report, in accordance with the requirements of section 11-4a, on the number of departmental clients and the number who have been recipients of rental assistance certificates to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations, housing, human services and public health. Such report shall detail the utilization of the rental assistance vouchers issued pursuant to sections 8-345 to 8-346a, inclusive, and establish targets to ensure that rental assistance program resources are allocated in accordance with legislative intent.(P.A. 13-234, S. 69; P.A. 14-26, S. 2.)History: P.A. 13-234 effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-26 deleted “the Department of” re Developmental Services.
CT Gen Stat § 8-37sss (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 127c - Department of Housing: General Provisions|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 to 8-13x, inclusive, and 12-170e the term “secretary” is used, the term “commissioner” shall be substituted in lieu thereof, and wherever the term “the Office of Policy and Management” is used, the term “Housing” shall be substituted in lieu thereof.(b) Wherever the term “Economic and Community Development” is used in the following general statutes, the term “Housing” shall be substituted in lieu thereof: 4b-21, 7-392, 8-37v, 8-37w, 8-37y, 8-37aa, 8-37jj, 8-37pp, 8-37qq, 8-37rr, 8-37tt, 8-37vv, 8-37zz, 8-37aaa, 8-37lll, 8-37mmm, 8-39, 8-44a, 8-45, 8-47, 8-49, 8-57, 8-64c, 8-68, 8-68a, 8-68b, 8-68d, 8-68e, 8-68f, 8-68g, 8-68h, 8-68j, 8-70, 8-71, 8-72, 8-72a, 8-73, 8-74, 8-76a, 8-77, 8-78, 8-79, 8-79a, 8-80, 8-82, 8-83, 8-84, 8-85, 8-87, 8-89, 8-92, 8-113a, 8-114a, 8-114d, 8-115a, 8-116a, 8-117b, 8-118a, 8-118b, 8-118c, 8-119a, 8-119c, 8-119h, 8-119i, 8-119j, 8-119k, 8-119l, 8-119m, 8-119x, 8-119dd, 8-119ee, 8-119ff, 8-119gg, 8-119hh, 8-119jj, 8-119zz, 8-126, 8-154a, 8-154c, 8-154e, 8-161, 8-162, 8-169b, 8-169w, 8-206, 8-206e, 8-208, 8-208b, 8-208c, 8-209, 8-214a, 8-214b, 8-214e, 8-214f, 8-214g, 8-214h, 8-215, 8-216, 8-216b, 8-216c, 8-218, 8-218a, 8-218b, 8-218c, 8-218e, 8-219a, 8-219b, 8-219c, 8-219d, 8-219e, 8-220, 8-220a, 8-243, 8-265p, 8-265w, 8-265oo, 8-271, 8-272, 8-273, 8-274, 8-278, 8-279, 8-280, 8-281, 8-284, 8-286, 8-336f, 8-336m, 8-336p, 8-355, 8-356, 8-357, 8-359, 8-365, 8-367, 8-367a, 8-376, 8-381, 8-384, 8-386, 8-387, 8-388, 8-389, 8-400, 8-401, 8-402, 8-403, 8-404, 8-405, 8-410, 8-411, 8-412, 8-420, 8-423, 12-631, 16a-40, 16a-40j, 17a-3, 17a-485c, 17b-337, 21-70, 21-70a, 21-84a, 22a-1d, 29-271, 47-88b, 47-284, 47-288, 47-294, 47-295, 47a-56i, 47a-56j and 47a-56k.(c) Wherever the term “Social Services” is used in the following general statutes, the term “Housing” shall be substituted in lieu thereof: 8-339, 8-345, 8-345b, 8-345c, 8-346, 8-346a, 8-347, 8-347a and 8-359c.(d) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.(P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: P.A. 13-234 effective June 19, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-38 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-38 - Finding and declaration of necessity.

 It is declared: (a) That there exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that families of low and moderate income are forced to reside in such insanitary or unsafe accommodations; that within the state there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations available at rents which families of low and moderate income can afford and that such families are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommodations; that such conditions cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the state and impair economic values; that such conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, fire and accident protection and other public services and facilities; (b) that slum areas cannot be cleared, nor can the shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for families of low and moderate income be relieved, through the operation of private enterprise, and that the construction of housing projects for families of low and moderate income would, therefore, not be competitive with private enterprise; (c) that the clearance, replanning and reconstruction of the areas in which insanitary or unsafe housing conditions exist and the providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for families of low and moderate income are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired; and the necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted is declared as a matter of legislative determination.(1949 Rev., S. 923; 1949, 1955, June, 1955, S. 435d; November, 1955, S. N13.)See Sec. 8-69 for declaration of policy re moderate rental and moderate cost housing.Cited. 145 C. 196.
CT Gen Stat § 8-39a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-39a - “Affordable housing” defined.

 As used in this title, “affordable housing” means housing for which persons and families pay thirty per cent or less of their annual income, where such income is less than or equal to the area median income for the municipality in which such housing is located, as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.(P.A. 88-13, S. 2, 3.)Cited. 37 CA 303; 42 CA 94.
CT Gen Stat § 8-40 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-40 - Creation of housing authorities.

 In each municipality of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “housing authority” of the municipality; provided such authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers hereunder until the governing body of the municipality by resolution declares that there is need for a housing authority in the municipality, provided it shall find (1) that insanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the municipality or (2) that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the municipality available to families of low income at rentals they can afford or (3) that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the municipality available to families of moderate income at rentals they can afford. In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or insanitary, said governing body may take into consideration the degree of overcrowding, the percentage of land coverage, the light, air, space and access available to the inhabitants of such dwelling accommodations, the size and arrangement of the rooms, the sanitary facilities and the extent to which conditions exist in such buildings which endanger life or property by fire or other causes. The governing bodies of two or more municipalities may create a regional housing authority, which shall have all the powers, duties and responsibilities conferred upon housing authorities by this chapter and chapter 130. The area of operation of such authority shall include the municipalities for which such authority is created. Such authority shall act through a board of commissioners composed of two representatives from each municipality appointed for terms of four years in the manner provided in section 8-41.(1949 Rev., S. 925; 1949, S. 437d.)Cited. 133 C. 546. Hartford Housing Authority is a distinct corporate entity and the city is not responsible for its debts. 143 C. 338. Cited. 208 C. 161; 213 C. 354; 216 C. 112.Cited. 38 CA 175.Cited. 11 CS 465. Local housing authorities are corporations established pursuant to state statutes, with delegated authority to regulate rent subsidy programs; activities of landlord of low cost housing development constitute “state action” re federal constitution; informal hearing required before summary process eviction may be instituted. 33 CS 15.
CT Gen Stat § 8-41a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-41a - Liability of authority for actions of commissioners and employees.

 Each housing authority shall protect and save harmless any commissioner or any full-time or part-time employee of such authority from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment by reason of alleged negligence, or for alleged infringement of any person's civil rights, on the part of such commissioner or such employee while acting in the discharge of his duties.(P.A. 81-168; P.A. 05-53, S. 1.)History: P.A. 05-53 extended protections to part-time employees of housing authorities.Cited. 208 C. 161.
CT Gen Stat § 8-42 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-42 - 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 an authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project. If any commissioner or employee of an authority owns or controls an interest, direct or indirect, in any property included or planned to be included in any housing project, he shall immediately disclose the same in writing to the authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. Failure so to disclose such interest shall constitute misconduct in office. Occupancy of a dwelling unit owned by the housing authority or enrolled in a program of housing authority assistance to low-income families in private accommodations shall not be deemed an interest in any project or in a contract for materials or services or in property included in any project for the purposes of this section.(b) No person who has served as a commissioner of an authority shall be employed by such authority for a period of two years after leaving office. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a commissioner who has served for more than twenty years for a housing authority which does not have an executive director.(1949 Rev., S. 927; P.A. 75-415, S. 2; P.A. 83-483, S. 2; P.A. 93-401, S. 3; P.A. 12-161, S. 8.)History: P.A. 75-415 excluded occupancy from consideration as “an interest in any project or in a contract for materials or services or in property included in any project”; P.A. 83-483 inserted Subsec. (b) concerning employment of former commissioners; P.A. 93-401 amended Subsec. (b) to exempt commissioners who have served more than 20 years for a housing authority without an executive director from the employment prohibition; P.A. 12-161 amended Subsec. (a) by adding “an executive or managerial” re employee of authority, effective June 15, 2012.Tenant may not serve as commissioner of the housing project in which he lives. 164 C. 247.
CT Gen Stat § 8-43 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-43 - Removal of commissioners; subpoenas.

 A commissioner of an authority may be removed by the appointing power for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but a commissioner shall be removed only after opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel before the appointing power, at least ten days prior to which he shall have been given a copy of the charges against him. In the event of the removal of any commissioner, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed in the office of the clerk. Such appointing power, for its purposes under this section, may subpoena any books, papers, records, accounts, contracts, deeds, regulations or documents. Any person who wilfully refuses to produce such books, papers, records, accounts, contracts or documents shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.(1949 Rev., S. 928; 1949, 1951, S. 439d; 1967, P.A. 124, S. 2.)History: 1967 act made slight change in wording.Cited. 208 C. 161; 213 C. 354; 216 C. 112.
CT Gen Stat § 8-45a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-45a - 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 8-39, in determining eligibility for the rental of public housing units may establish criteria and consider relevant information concerning (1) an applicant's or any proposed occupant's history of criminal activity involving: (A) Crimes of physical violence to persons or property, (B) crimes involving the illegal manufacture, sale, distribution or use of, or possession with intent to manufacture, sell, use or distribute, a controlled substance, as defined in section 21a-240, or (C) other criminal acts which would adversely affect the health, safety or welfare of other tenants, (2) an applicant's or any proposed occupant's abuse, or pattern of abuse, of alcohol when the housing authority has reasonable cause to believe that such applicant's or proposed occupant's abuse, or pattern of abuse, of alcohol may interfere with the health, safety or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises by other residents, and (3) an applicant or any proposed occupant who is subject to a lifetime registration requirement under section 54-252 on account of being convicted or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect of a sexually violent offense. In evaluating any such information, the housing authority shall give consideration to the time, nature and extent of the applicant's or proposed occupant's conduct and to factors which might indicate a reasonable probability of favorable future conduct such as evidence of rehabilitation and evidence of the willingness of the applicant, the applicant's family or the proposed occupant to participate in social service or other appropriate counseling programs and the availability of such programs.(1969, P.A. 133; P.A. 95-247, S. 7; P.A. 99-157, S. 4.)History: P.A. 95-247 replaced prior provisions that had prohibited a housing authority from refusing to rent a dwelling accommodation to an otherwise qualified applicant on the ground that any of the proposed occupants has a criminal record with provisions that authorize a housing authority to establish criteria and consider relevant information concerning an applicant's or any proposed occupant's history of criminal activity, that specify types of criminal activity that may be considered, that require the housing authority to give consideration to the time, nature and extent of the applicant's or proposed occupant's conduct and to factors which might indicate a reasonable probability of favorable future conduct and that specify examples of such factors; P.A. 99-157 designated existing provisions re criminal activity as Subdiv. (1), redesignating Subdivs. (1), (2) and (3), re types of crimes, as Subparas. (A), (B) and (C), respectively, and added new Subdiv. (2) re alcohol abuse and new Subdiv. (3) re lifetime registration as a sexual offender.Cited. 213 C. 354.
CT Gen Stat § 8-45b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-45b - Waiver of regulations.

 Section 8-45b is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 96; P.A. 13-234, S. 155.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-46 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-46 - Penalty for false statement.

 Any person who makes a false statement concerning any of the eligibility requirements for a public housing project, as defined in subsection (b) of section 21a-278a, in an application for admission to or continued occupancy of such public housing may be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.(1949 Rev., S. 930, 952; 1949, 1953, S. 441d; 1957, P.A. 667, S. 1; September, 1957, P.A. 24, S. 2; P.A. 99-245, S. 2.)History: P.A. 99-245 expanded prohibition against false statements from those concerning family income to any eligibility requirements.See Sec. 8-72 re penalty for false statement with respect to moderate income rentals.
CT Gen Stat § 8-47 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-47 - Considerations in fixing income limits.

 In fixing maximum income limits under section 8-45, the authority and the Commissioner of Housing shall take into consideration (1) the latest average wage as computed by the Labor Commissioner for the city or town served by the authority, (2) the number of vacancies in the projects under the authority's control, and (3) the number of applications for admission to tenancy which are refused because of income disqualification.(1957, P.A. 399, S. 2; 1967, P.A. 522, S. 8; P.A. 77-614, S. 284, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 81, 136; P.A. 79-598, S. 3, 4, 10; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)History: 1967 act substituted commissioner of community affairs for public works commissioner; P.A. 77-614 substituted department of economic development for commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of economic development for department of economic development; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 8-48 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects|Section 8-48 - Rentals for persons receiving welfare aid.

 In the cases of any tenants who are the recipients of one hundred per cent social services aid from the Department of Social Services of the state or any municipality and who have no income from any other source, rentals shall be fixed by each housing authority for the ensuing rental year established by the authority based on one-half of the costs and expenses set forth in subsection (a) of section 8-45, plus the full amount of costs and expenses set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of said section as set forth in the operating statements of the authority for the preceding fiscal year, which total amount shall be divided by the total number of rooms contained in all low-rent housing projects operated by such housing authority to establish the rental cost per room per annum for such tenants, from which figure shall be computed the rent per month per room. Said rentals shall govern for said rental year.(September, 1957, P.A. 24, S. 3; 1959, P.A. 41; 615, S. 27; P.A. 77-614, S. 587, 608, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87.)History: 1959 acts provided costs and expenses be as set forth in operating statements of authority for preceding fiscal year rather than as set forth in annual budgets of the authority and deleted a termination date of June 30, 1959, for section; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 allowed substitution of department of income maintenance for welfare department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of social services department for income maintenance department, effective July 1, 1993.Cited. 213 C. 354.