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CT Gen Stat § 8-246 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-246 - Executive director. Appointment and duties.

 The board of directors of the authority shall appoint an executive director who shall not be a member of the board and who shall serve at the pleasure of the board and receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the board. He shall be the chief administrative officer of the authority and shall direct and supervise administrative affairs and technical activities in accordance with the directives of the board. He shall approve all accounts for salaries, allowable expenses of the authority or of any employee or consultant thereof, and expenses incidental to the operation of the authority. He shall perform such other duties as may be directed by the board in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. The executive director and all other employees of the authority shall be exempt from the classified service. The executive director shall attend all meetings of the board, keep a record of the proceedings of the authority and shall maintain and be custodian of all books, documents and papers filed with the authority and of the minute book or journal of the authority and of its official seal. He may cause copies to be made of all minutes and other records and documents of the authority and may give certificates under the official seal of the authority to the effect that such copies are true copies, and all persons dealing with the authority may rely upon such certificates.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 8; 1972, P.A. 208, S. 4; P.A. 88-266, S. 6, 46.)History: 1972 act replaced provision that designated executive personnel be exempt from classified service with provision that all employees of authority be exempt from classified service; P.A. 88-266 substituted references to “board of directors” for references to authority throughout section.
CT Gen Stat § 8-247 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-247 - Bonds of board members and executive director of authority.

 Each member of the board of directors of the authority shall execute a surety bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars and the executive director shall execute a surety bond in the penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or, in lieu thereof, the chairman of the board shall execute a blanket position bond covering each member, the executive director and the employees of the authority, each surety bond to be conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office or offices covered, to be executed by a surety company authorized to transact business in this state as surety and to be approved by the Attorney General and filed in the office of the Secretary of the State. The cost of each such bond shall be paid by the authority.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 5; P.A. 88-266, S. 7, 46.)History: P.A. 88-266 replaced references to the authority with references to the board of directors where appearing.
CT Gen Stat § 8-248 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-248 - Perpetual succession of authority.

 The authority shall have perpetual succession as constituted in section 8-244 and shall adopt procedures for the conduct of its affairs in accordance with the provisions of section 1-121, provided regulation-making proceedings commenced before January 1, 1989, shall be governed by chapter 54. Such succession shall continue until the existence of the authority is terminated by law, but no such law shall take effect as long as the authority shall have bonds, notes or other obligations outstanding. Upon termination of the authority, its rights and properties shall pass to the state.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 6; P.A. 79-332; P.A. 88-266, S. 8, 46; P.A. 06-196, S. 47.)History: P.A. 79-332 substituted “chapter 54” for “sections 4-41 to 4-50, inclusive”; P.A. 88-266 required adoption of procedures rather than the adoption, amendment and repeal of regulations but specified that regulation-making proceedings commencing before January 1, 1989, are to be governed by chapter 54; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change, effective June 7, 2006.Section requires Connecticut Housing Finance Authority to adopt regulations in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act. 184 C. 311.
CT Gen Stat § 8-249 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-249 - Quorum. Board action. Written procedures.

 (a) The powers of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by not less than five of the members of the board of directors then in office. Such number of members shall constitute a quorum and the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present at a meeting of the board shall be necessary for any action taken by the authority. No vacancy in the membership of the board shall impair the right of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the authority. Any action taken by the board, under the provisions of this chapter may be authorized by resolution at any regular or special meeting, and each such resolution shall take effect immediately and need not be published or posted.(b) The board of directors of the authority may delegate to three or more of its members such board powers and duties as it may deem proper. At least one of such members shall not be a state employee.(c) The board of directors of the authority shall adopt written procedures, in accordance with the provisions of section 1-121, for: (1) Adopting an annual budget and plan of operations, including a requirement of board approval before the budget or plan may take effect; (2) hiring, dismissing, promoting and compensating employees of the authority, including an affirmative action policy and a requirement of board approval before a position may be created or a vacancy filled; (3) acquiring real and personal property and personal services, including a requirement of board approval for any nonbudgeted expenditure in excess of five thousand dollars; (4) contracting for financial, legal, bond underwriting and other professional services, including a requirement that the authority solicit proposals at least once every three years for each such service which it uses; (5) issuing and retiring bonds, bond anticipation notes and other obligations of the authority; (6) awarding loans, grants and other financial assistance, including eligibility criteria, the application process and the role played by the authority's staff and board of directors; and (7) the use of surplus funds to the extent authorized under this chapter or other provisions of the general statutes.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 7; P.A. 88-266, S. 9, 46.)History: P.A. 88-266 divided existing Sec. into Subsecs. (a) and (b), amended Subsec. (a) to establish board of directors as governing body of the authority, amended Subsec. (b) to authorize board to delegate powers and duties to three or more of its members, at least one of whom shall not be a state employee, instead of to one or more of its members or its officers, agents and employees and added Subsec. (c) re adoption of procedures for certain powers exercised by board.
CT Gen Stat § 8-254 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-254 - Applications for mortgage insurance.

 All applications for mortgage insurance shall be forwarded, together with an application fee prescribed by the authority, to the executive director of the authority. The authority shall cause an investigation of the proposed housing to be made, review the application and the report of the investigation, and approve or deny the application. No application shall be approved unless the authority finds that it is consistent with the purposes of this chapter and further finds that the financing plan for the proposed housing is sound. The authority shall notify the applicant and the proposed lender of its decision. Any such approval shall be conditioned upon payment to the authority, within such reasonable time and after notification of approval as may be specified by the authority, of the commitment fee prescribed by the authority.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-254a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-254a - Tenant selection plans of mortgagors.

 Prior to making a commitment for a mortgage loan or mortgage insurance under this chapter, the authority shall approve a tenant selection plan submitted by the applicant mortgagor. The authority shall adopt and publish regulations from time to time governing the terms of such tenant selection plans. Such plans shall include aggregate family income limits for initial admission and continued occupancy, which may vary with family size and the municipality in which such housing is located; the computation of aggregate family income for the purpose of determining eligibility for occupancy; and procedures relating to tenants whose incomes exceed continued occupancy limits. To the extent possible and consistent with project feasibility, income limits shall be sufficiently flexible to avoid undue economic homogeneity among the tenants of the proposed housing. In the event that a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States or this state participates in the financing of the proposed housing, the regulations of such department, agency or instrumentality shall supersede the terms of the tenant selection plan, to the extent to which they are inconsistent therewith, as to those dwelling units in the proposed housing which are so financed or assisted. Tenant selection plans shall provide that, as between tenants equally in need and eligible for occupancy of a dwelling unit, preference shall be given to families and persons displaced by natural disaster or governmental action, pursuant to such regulations as the authority may adopt and publish.(1972, P.A. 208, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-255 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-255 - Mortgage insurance premiums.

 The authority shall fix mortgage insurance premiums for the insurance of mortgage payments under the provisions of this chapter. Such premiums shall be computed as a percentage of the principal of the mortgage outstanding at the beginning of each mortgage year, but shall not be more than one-half of one per cent per year of such principal amount. The amount of premium need not be uniform for all insured loans. Such premiums shall be payable by mortgagors or mortgagees in such manner as prescribed by the authority.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-257 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-257 - Mortgages insured by authority to be legal investments. Certificate of title required.

 (a) Loans secured by mortgages the payments of which are insured by the authority shall be legal investments, for all trust companies, banks, investment companies, savings banks, building and loan associations, executors, administrators, guardians, conservators, trustees and other fiduciaries, and pension, profit-sharing and retirement funds. For the purpose of determining the percentage of capital, surplus, assets or deposits which may be invested therein by an institution under the supervision of the Banking Commissioner, such loans shall be treated similarly to loans insured or to be insured by the Federal Housing Administrator. Otherwise, such loans shall not be subject to limitations, conditions or restrictions imposed by law except as provided by this chapter.(b) The property, real or personal, securing such loans shall be unencumbered except for reservations to the United States of America of fissionable materials and for leases, easements and, in the case of insured second mortgages, prior liens to the extent deemed appropriate by the authority. A certificate of title issued by some suitable person approved by the mortgagee or a policy of title insurance shall be lodged with the mortgagee until the mortgage loan is paid. Loans for construction or rehabilitation shall provide for advances at the discretion of the lender as the work progresses and shall not exceed the amount of the advance commitment to insure without the consent of the authority.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 17; P.A. 77-614, S. 161, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 14, 348; P.A. 87-9, S. 2, 3; P.A. 03-84, S. 9.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted banking commissioner for bank commissioner and made banking department a division within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation in Subsec. (a); (Revisor's note: Pursuant to P.A. 87-9, “banking commissioner” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “commissioner of banking”); P.A. 03-84 changed “commissioner of banking” to “Banking Commissioner” in Subsec. (a), effective June 3, 2003.
CT Gen Stat § 8-259 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-259 - State bonds.

 The State Bond Commission may authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series in accordance with section 3-20 and in principal amounts necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter but not in excess of the aggregate amount of one million dollars. All of said bonds shall be payable at such place or places as may be determined by the Treasurer pursuant to section 3-19 and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or different or varying rates, be payable at such time or times, be in such denominations, be in such form with or without interest coupons attached, carry such registration and transfer privileges, be payable in such medium of payment and be subject to such terms of redemption with or without premium as, irrespective of the provisions of said section 3-20, may be provided by the authorization of the State Bond Commission or fixed in accordance therewith. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds, after deducting therefrom all expenses of issuance and sale, shall be paid to the authority and deposited in the Housing Mortgage Capital Reserve Fund, Housing Mortgage Insurance Fund and the Housing Mortgage General Fund in such manner as the State Bond Commission shall determine, provided not more than one million dollars shall be deposited in the Housing Mortgage Insurance Fund and not more than an aggregate amount of four million dollars shall be deposited in the Housing Mortgage Capital Reserve Fund and Housing Mortgage General Fund. When the State Bond Commission has acted to issue such bonds or a portion thereof, the Treasurer may, pending the issue of such bonds, issue, in the name of the state, temporary notes in anticipation of the money to be received from the sale of such bonds.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 19; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2, S. 7, 203.)History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2 decreased bond authorization from $5,000,000 to $1,000,000, effective July 1, 1994.
CT Gen Stat § 8-260 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-260 - Reports to Governor and General Assembly. Audit.

 Within the first ninety days of each calendar year, the authority shall report on its operations for the preceding calendar year to the Governor. The authority shall make a report to the General Assembly on or before March fifteenth in each year that the General Assembly meets in general session. The report shall include a summary of the activities of the authority, a complete operating and financial statement and recommendations for legislation to promote the purposes of the authority. The accounts of the authority shall be subject to annual audits by the State Auditors of Public Accounts.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 20; P.A. 76-13, S. 6, 7; 76-41, S. 2, 3; P.A. 97-36, S. 1.)History: P.A. 76-13 changed report deadline from January to February fifteenth in each year; P.A. 76-41 deleted requirement that report be made to bank commissioner and that authority be subject to examination by bank commissioner although not considered a bank or banking institution; P.A. 97-36 changed report deadline from February to March fifteenth in each year.
CT Gen Stat § 8-261 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-261 - Pledge by state as to limitation or alteration of rights vested in authority.

 The state of Connecticut does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any obligations issued under this chapter, and with those parties who may enter into contracts with the authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, that the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in the authority until such obligations, together with the interest thereon, are fully met and discharged and such contracts are fully performed on the part of the authority, provided nothing herein contained shall preclude such limitation or alteration if and when adequate provision shall be made by law for the protection of the holders of such obligations of the authority or those entering into such contracts with the authority. The authority as agent for the state is authorized to include this pledge and undertaking for the state in such obligations or contracts.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-262 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-262 - Interpretation of powers.

 The powers enumerated in this chapter shall be interpreted broadly to effectuate the purposes thereof and shall not be construed as a limitation of powers.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 22.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-262a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-262a - Penalty for false statement.

 The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority may require any application or document submitted with respect to any program of, or program administered by, said authority to be signed under penalty of false statement as provided in section 53a-157b.(P.A. 99-245, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-263 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-263 - Provisions controlling over inconsistent law.

 To the extent that the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any general statute or special act or parts thereof, the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed controlling.(1969, P.A. 795, S. 23.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-265a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-265a - Land of authority subject to local regulation.

 All land and improvements owned by the authority or in which the authority has an interest through a mortgage held or insured by it shall be subject to the planning, zoning, health and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the town in which such land and improvements are situated, provided, as to land owned by the authority, the authority shall have the same rights of appeal and review from an adverse decision or order based on such laws, ordinances and regulations as are granted by such laws, ordinances and regulations to other owners.(1972, P.A. 208, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-265b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 134 - Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Act|Section 8-265b - Tax-exempt status of authority. Payment in lieu of taxes.

 The real and personal property of the authority, and its income and operations, shall be exempt from taxation by the state and any political subdivision thereof, except that the authority shall make payments in lieu of taxes on real and personal property it acquires in any project in an amount equal to the taxes that would be paid on such property were the same not exempt from taxation hereunder, unless agreement is reached with a municipality for payment of a lesser amount. The authority shall have the same right of appeal from any assessment made on real and personal property as any person. In the event the authority acquires real or personal property in a project the authority shall succeed to the interests of its predecessor in title in any agreement concerning the abatement of taxes on the property.(1972, P.A. 208, S. 10.)