CT Gen Stat § 4-67g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 4 - Management of State Agencies|Chapter 50 - Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning|Section 4-67g - State real property: Long-range planning, efficiency and appropriateness of use and inventories. Secretary approval re ownership and use.

 (a) The Office of Policy and Management shall be responsible for: (1) Long-range planning with regard to the use of all state real property; (2) determining the level of efficiency of each and every state agency's use of any and all real property under its control; (3) maintaining an inventory of state real property; (4) maintaining an inventory of real property leased by state agencies; and (5) determining the appropriate use of state real property.(b) In creating and maintaining such inventories, the secretary shall make recommendations concerning the reuse or disposition of state real property and identify in such inventories existing buildings that (1) are of historic, architectural or cultural significance, including buildings listed or eligible to be listed in the national register established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 80 Stat. 915 (1966), 16 USC 470a, and (2) would be suitable, whether or not in need of repair, alteration or addition, to meet the public building needs of the state or to meet the needs of the public in accordance with the provisions of subsection (m) of section 4b-23. At the request of the secretary, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall advise the secretary as to whether such buildings are of historic, architectural or cultural significance.(c) All state agencies shall provide the secretary, in the manner and form prescribed by the secretary, with any information requested by said secretary for purposes of maintaining the inventories required by this section.(d) The secretary shall update such inventories not less than annually and shall provide the Commissioner of Administrative Services with a copy of such inventories whenever the inventories are updated.(e) Not later than July 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall submit a copy of such inventories, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government administration and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies.(f) Each state agency shall request and obtain the written approval of the secretary or his or her designee prior to any (1) change in ownership of state real property, (2) change in use of state real property, (3) use of state real property by an entity other than a state agency, or (4) use of state real property by a state agency other than the state agency with custody and control over such state real property. For purposes of this subsection, “state agency” does not include a constituent unit of the state system of higher education, a technical education and career school or an agency in the legislative or judicial branch of state government.(g) Except as otherwise provided, for the purposes of this section, “state real property” means any improved or unimproved real property owned by a state agency, and “state agency” means any office, department, board, council, commission, institution, constituent unit of the state system of higher education, technical education and career school or other agency in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government.(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-7, S. 28, 36; P.A. 11-51, S. 96; P.A. 12-116, S. 87; 12-205, S. 2; P.A. 16-180, S. 1; P.A. 17-237, S. 27.)History: P.A. 11-51 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to delete reference to Bureau of Real Property Management, require Office of Policy and Management to maintain rather than review inventory and delete reference to Commissioner of Public Works and Sec. 4b-1(6), and added Subsecs. (b) to (d) re inventory, updating of inventory and definitions, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 12-116, “vocational-technical school” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “technical high school”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 12-205 amended Subsec. (a) to add “real” re property in Subdiv. (3) and add Subdiv. (4) re inventory of leased property and Subdiv. (5) re appropriate use determination, amended Subsec. (b) to add “and maintaining” re inventories and add provision re Commissioner of Economic and Community Development to advise secretary re buildings' significance, amended Subsec. (c) to add “in the manner and form prescribed by the secretary” and reposition provision re update of inventories to new Subsec. (d) and provision re copy of inventories sent to certain committees to Subsec. (e), added Subsec. (f) re approval of secretary, redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (g) and made conforming changes, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 16-180 amended Subsec. (e) by replacing “March 15, 2013” with “July 1, 2016”, effective June 7, 2016; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsecs. (f) and (g) by replacing “technical high school” with “technical education and career school”, effective July 1, 2017.