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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-569. - Obligation for which there is a special capital reserve fund. State Treasurer's approval.

No municipality, including any certified or designated municipality, shall issue any obligation for which there is a special capital reserve fund of any kind which is in any way contributed to or guaranteed by the state unless and until such obligation, and the indenture or agreement establishing such special capital reserve fund, is approved by the Treasurer. The approval of the Treasurer shall be based on documentation provided and certified by such municipality demonstrating to the Treasurer's satisfaction that (1) (A) the secretary has certified the municipality, (B) the municipality has requested designation as a tier I, II or III municipality, or (C) the secretary has designated the municipality as a tier III or IV municipality, (2) the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission, in the case of a certified municipality or designated tier I municipality, or the Municipal Accountability Review Board, in the case of a designated tier II, III or IV municipality, has approved the obligation to be issued under sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, (3) the municipality is not in default on any general obligation after giving effect to an obligation approved under this section, (4) the municipality has funded or made due provision to fund the special capital reserve fund, (5) the financing is in the public interest, and (6) the secretary and the Treasurer have approved the property tax intercept procedure authorized by sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 10, 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 356.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added reference to designated municipalities, amended Subdiv. (1) by designating provision re secretary certified municipality as Subpara. (A), adding Subpara. (B) re municipality requesting designation as tier I, II or III municipality, adding Subpara. (C) re municipality that secretary designated as tier III or IV and amended Subdiv. (2) by adding provision re certified municipalities or designated tier I municipality and the Municipal Accountability Review Board and adding reference to tier III or IV municipality and deleting references to Sec. 7-394b(a), effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-572. - Application by tier I municipality to Secretary of Office of Policy and Management for certification or designation to issue general obligations.

Any municipality that desires to issue general obligations under section 7-573 shall apply to the secretary for certification or designation. The secretary may certify as a tier I municipality any municipality which applies to be certified, provided such municipality (1) has a long-term bond rating from at least one bond rating agency which is investment grade or higher, (2) is unable to secure municipal bond insurance from any bond insurance company on reasonable terms and conditions on the date the secretary certifies such municipality, and (3) otherwise meets the standards established by the secretary. Such standards shall be established in writing by the secretary, after consulting with the Treasurer, shall provide for a level of supervision over such municipality which the secretary deems to be sufficient to minimize the risk of a draw upon the special capital reserve fund and a transfer from the state General Fund and shall be posted on the Internet web site of the Office of Policy and Management. The secretary may recertify and decertify any municipality then certified, provided the secretary shall not automatically decertify any municipality which is able to secure bond insurance after it has been certified by the secretary.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 13, 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 359.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added reference to applying to the secretary for designation, deleted provision re standards to be adopted as regulation and added provision re standards to be established in writing and posted on the Internet web site of the Office of Policy and Management, and made technical changes, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-573. - Requirements for general obligations by tier I certified or designated municipality.

Any tier I certified municipality or designated tier I municipality that meets the eligibility requirements of subdivisions (1) to (3), inclusive, of section 7-572, may issue general obligations with a term of more than one year which are supported by a special capital reserve fund, but not general obligations to fund a general fund deficiency, as provided in sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive. Any such tier I municipality shall, within the time and in the manner prescribed by written procedures adopted by the secretary, in consultation with the Treasurer: (1) Notify the secretary of its intent to issue such obligations, (2) provide the secretary with the documentation required under sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, (3) establish a property tax intercept procedure and debt service payment fund in accordance with the provisions of sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, and (4) comply with sections 7-569 to 7-571, inclusive. The secretary shall refer to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission, pursuant to the provisions of section 7-395, any tier I certified municipality which notifies the secretary that it intends to issue obligations under this section.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 14, 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 361.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added provisions re issuance by certified or designated tier I municipality, deleted references to Sec. 7-394b(a), replaced provision re regulations adopted by secretary with provision re written procedures adopted by secretary, added reference to tier I certified municipality re referral to Municipal Finance Authority Commission, and made technical changes, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-574. - Application by tier II municipality to Secretary of Office of Policy and Management for certification to issue general obligations.

Any municipality that desires to issue general obligations under section 7-575 shall apply to the secretary for certification. The secretary may certify as a tier II municipality any municipality which applies to be certified to issue a general obligation authorized by sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, provided such municipality (1) has a long-term bond rating from at least one bond rating agency which is investment grade or higher, (2) is unable to obtain municipal bond insurance from any bond insurance company on reasonable terms and conditions on the date the secretary certifies such municipality, (3) has not issued a deficit obligation in the last five years, (4) has no deficit obligations outstanding, and (5) otherwise meets the standards established by the secretary. Such standards shall be established in writing by the secretary, after consulting with the Treasurer, shall provide for a level of supervision over such municipality which the secretary deems to be sufficient to minimize the risk of a draw upon the special capital reserve fund and a transfer from the state General Fund and shall be posted on the Internet web site of the Office of Policy and Management. The secretary may recertify and decertify any municipality then certified, provided the secretary shall not automatically decertify any municipality which is able to secure bond insurance after it has been certified by the secretary.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 15, 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 362.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 deleted reference to Sec. 7-349b(a), replaced provision re adoption of standards by regulation with provision re establishment of standards in writing, added provision re written standards to be posted on Internet web site of Office of Policy and Management, and made technical changes, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-575. - Requirements for general obligations by certified tier II municipalities or designated tier II, III or IV municipalities. Designation as tier III municipality for issuance of deficit obligation.

Any tier II certified municipality or any designated tier II, III or IV municipality that meets the eligibility requirements of subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of section 7-574 or any designated tier IV municipality that does not meet such eligibility requirements but receives approval by the Municipal Accountability Review Board pursuant to subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 7-576e, may issue general obligations with a term of more than one year which are supported by a special capital reserve fund, including general obligations to fund a deficit, as provided in sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, provided no municipality shall issue an obligation with a term of more than one year to fund a projected fiscal year deficit. Any such certified or designated tier II municipality shall, within the time and in the manner prescribed by written standards established by the secretary, after consulting with the Treasurer: (1) Notify the secretary of its intent to issue such obligations, (2) provide the secretary with the documentation required under sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, (3) establish a property tax intercept procedure and debt service payment fund in accordance with the provisions of sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, and (4) comply with sections 7-569 to 7-571, inclusive. The secretary shall refer to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission, pursuant to the provisions of section 7-395, any certified tier II municipality which notifies the secretary that it intends to issue obligations under this section. A municipality that issues a deficit obligation pursuant to this section shall be a designated tier III municipality.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 17, 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 364.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added provision re issuance of obligations by certified tier II municipality or designated tier II, III or IV municipality, deleted references to Sec. 7-394b(a), added references to certified or designated tier II municipality, replaced provision re establishing standards by regulation with provision re establishing written standards, added provision re municipality that issues deficit obligation to be designated tier III municipality, and made technical changes, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-576. - Referral of tier II municipality to Municipal Finance Advisory Commission. Three-year financial plan. Monthly reports.

Each tier II certified municipality shall work with and report to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission as provided for in this section. The secretary shall refer to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission any tier II certified municipality for the purpose of improving the fiscal condition of such municipality. Such municipality shall prepare and present to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission for its review and approval a three-year financial plan and monthly financial report in the manner prescribed by the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission. In addition, in preparing and adopting its annual budgets, such municipality shall include assumptions respecting state revenues and property tax revenues as approved by the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission. The Municipal Finance Advisory Commission shall approve or disapprove all obligations issued by a tier II certified municipality pursuant to section 7-575 and this section, provided it shall only approve such obligations which in its judgment improve the financial condition of such municipality.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 18, 22; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 365.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 replaced references to tier II municipality with references to certified tier II municipality, and made a technical change, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-576a. - Designation as tier I municipality. Application for designation as tier I municipality. Referral to Municipal Finance Advisory Commission.

(a) Any municipality referred pursuant to subsection (d) of section 7-395 to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission shall be designated a tier I municipality. The chief elected official of any municipality that does not meet the conditions identified under subsection (d) of section 7-395 may apply to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission for designation as a tier I municipality, provided such official (1) expects that such municipality will meet one or more such conditions in the following twenty-four month period, and (2) submits a report to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission, in a form and manner prescribed by the commission, that confirms that such condition or conditions will be met in such period.
(b) The secretary shall refer any municipality designated as a tier I municipality to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission, pursuant to the provisions of section 7-395. In addition to the requirements of section 7-394b, such municipality shall prepare and present a five-year financial plan to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission for its review and approval.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 360; P.A. 22-35, S. 7.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 22-35 deleted former Subsec. (a) re application by chief elected official to secretary for designation as tier I municipality and added new Subsec. (a) re designation as tier I municipality after referral pursuant to Sec. 7-395 or application by chief elected official of municipality, and amended Subsec. (b) by substituting “designated” for “which has requested designation” and substituting “five-year” for “three-year” re financial plan.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-576f. - Retention of designation as tier I, II, III or IV municipality. Requirements for ending designation. Municipal Finance Advisory Commission authority to end tier I designation.

(a) A municipality designated as a tier I municipality in accordance with section 7-576a, tier II municipality in accordance with section 7-576b, tier III municipality in accordance with section 7-576c, or tier IV municipality in accordance with section 7-576e, shall retain such designation, notwithstanding any positive changes in the factors leading to its current designation, until, in the fiscal years following such designation, (1) there have been no audited operating deficits in the general fund of the municipality for two consecutive fiscal years, (2) the municipality's bond rating has either improved or remained unchanged since its most current designation, (3) the municipality has presented and the commission or board has approved a financial plan that projects a positive fund balance for the three succeeding consecutive fiscal years covered by such financial plan, where a positive fund balance of at least five per cent is projected in the third such fiscal year, and (4) the municipality's audits for such consecutive fiscal years have been completed and contain no general fund deficit.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission may, by unanimous vote, end the designation of a municipality designated as a tier I municipality, based on an evaluation of such municipality's financial condition.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 369; P.A. 22-35, S. 13.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 22-35 redesignated existing provisions re retention of designation as tier I or tier II as Subsec. (a) and in same added references to tier III and tier IV municipalities, in Subsec. (a)(1), substituted “no audited operating deficits” for “no annual operating budgetary deficits”, and in Subsec. (a)(3), substituted “positive fund balance” for “positive unreserved fund” and added provision re positive fund balance of at least 5 per cent, deleted provision re undesignated municipality, added Subsec. (b) authorizing Municipal Finance Advisory Commission to end designation as tier I municipality, and made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-576g. - Retention of designation as tier III or IV municipality. Requirements for ending designation.

Section 7-576g is repealed, effective October 1, 2022.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 371; P.A. 22-35, S. 15.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-576h. - Property tax levy by tier II, III or IV municipality. Limitation. Exception.

A designated tier IV municipality shall not enact a property tax levy in its annual budget that is more than three per cent greater than the property tax levy contained in its annual budget for the prior fiscal year. The secretary shall develop such procedures and guidelines as may be needed to assist in the implementation of such property tax levy limitation. Any designated tier II, III or IV municipality may apply to the Municipal Accountability Review Board for exceptions to such property tax levy limitation. Factors to be considered by such board in approving or disapproving such exception shall include the need to address critical matters impacting the health and welfare of the citizens, funding needed to reduce a municipality's long-term obligations and the implementation of court orders or legal settlements.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 372.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-576i. - Municipal Restructuring Fund. Eligibility for funds. Submission of restructuring plan. Board monitoring of use of funds. Guidance development by secretary. Board approval of budgets. Exception.

(a) Any designated tier II, III, or IV municipality shall be eligible to receive funding from the Municipal Restructuring Fund, which fund shall be nonlapsing. A designated tier II, III or IV municipality seeking such funds shall submit, for approval by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, a plan detailing its overall restructuring plan, including local actions to be taken and its proposed use of such funds. Notwithstanding section 10-262j, a municipality may, as part of such plan and in consultation with its local board of education, submit a proposed reduction in the minimum budget requirement related to its education budget. The secretary shall consult with the Commissioner of Education in approving or rejecting such proposed reduction. The secretary shall consult with the municipal accountability review board in making distribution decisions and attaching appropriate conditions thereto, including the timing of any such distributions and whether such funds shall be distributed in the form of a municipal restructuring fund loan subject to repayment by the municipality. The distribution of such assistance funds shall be based on the relative fiscal needs of the requesting municipalities. The secretary may approve all, none or a portion of the funds requested by a municipality. In attaching conditions to such funding, the secretary shall consider the impact of such conditions on the ability of a municipality to meet legal and other obligations. The board shall monitor and report to the secretary on the use of such funds and adherence to the conditions attached thereto. The secretary shall develop and issue guidance on the (1) administration of the municipal restructuring fund, (2) criteria for participation by municipalities and requirements for plan submission, and (3) prioritization for the awarding of assistance funds pursuant to this section. Any municipality that receives funding from the municipal restructuring fund, in addition to the other responsibilities and authority given to the board with respect to designated tiers II, III and IV municipalities, shall be required to receive board approval of its annual budgets.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, in making distributions from the Municipal Restructuring Fund, the board shall give immediate consideration to any municipality that shall default on debt obligations by January 1, 2018, without an immediate distribution of such funds.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 370; P.A. 22-35, S. 14.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 22-35 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re distribution of funds in form of municipal restructuring fund loan as condition of distribution.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-577. - Attorney General to apply for writ of mandamus.

(a) The Attorney General may apply for a writ of mandamus on behalf of the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission or the Municipal Accountability Review Board, requiring any official, employee or agent of the municipality to carry out and give effect to any determination of such commission or board authorized by sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, and any obligation by a municipality to repay to the state any amounts the state pays into a special capital reserve fund and compliance by a municipality with any agreements or indenture pertaining to a special capital reserve fund or tax intercept procedure or debt service payment fund related thereto. Each such application shall be filed in superior court for the judicial district of Hartford.
(b) The superior court for the judicial district of Hartford may, by application of the secretary, the commission, the board or the Attorney General, enforce, by appropriate decree or process, any provisions of sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, or any act or determination of the commission or board rendered pursuant to sections 7-560 to 7-579, inclusive, as applicable.
(P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 93-421, S. 19, 22; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 373.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993 (Revisor's note: P.A. 88-230, P.A. 90-98 and P.A. 93-142 authorized substitution of “judicial district of Hartford” for “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain” in public acts of the 1993 session of the general assembly, to take effect September 1, 1996); P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “commission, acting through its chairperson” with “Municipal Finance Advisory Commission or the Municipal Accountability Review Board,”, deleted references to Sec. 7-394b(a), and made technical and conforming changes, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-578. - Municipal comprehensive economic development plan to increase tax base.

Within one year of initial participation as a certified tier I or tier II municipality, a participating municipality may develop a comprehensive economic development plan designed to increase the tax base of the municipality to a level that will allow the municipality to provide an adequate level of municipal services. The plan shall be approved by the legislative authority of the municipality. If at any time after the comprehensive economic development plan has been completed and the municipality fails to show substantial progress in meeting the goals of the plan, the state may suspend further assistance to the municipality. The secretary, in consultation with the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, shall evaluate the comprehensive economic development plan annually. The secretary may provide qualified staff and financial assistance to the qualifying municipality for purposes of developing a comprehensive economic development plan.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 20, 22; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 374.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 added reference to certified tier I or tier II municipality and made a technical change, effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-579. - Definition of deficit obligation re town and city of New Haven.

For the purposes of sections 7-560 to 7-578, inclusive, deficit obligation, as defined in section 7-560, with respect to the town and city of New Haven, means such obligation issued on or after July 1, 1993.
(P.A. 93-421, S. 21, 22; P.A. 14-122, S. 76; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 375.)
History: P.A. 93-421 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 14-122 made a technical change; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 deleted reference to Sec. 7-394b(a), effective October 31, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 117 - Municipal Deficit Financing › Section 7-579a. - Determination of cumulative excess of expenditures and excess of estimated expenditures for certain fiscal years.

Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (6) of section 7-560, for purposes of determining the cumulative excess of expenditures under said subdivision for any fiscal year ending on or after July 7, 2017, and on or before June 30, 2022, such excess shall not include the impact of any refunding bonds issued pursuant to section 7-370c.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (16) of section 7-560, for purposes of determining the excess of estimated expenditures under said subdivision for any fiscal year ending on or after July 7, 2017, and on or before June 30, 2022, such excess shall not include the impact of any refunding bonds issued pursuant to section 7-370c.
(P.A. 17-147, S. 50.)
History: P.A. 17-147 effective July 7, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones › Section 7-600. - Neighborhood revitalization zones: Establishment.

(a) Any municipality may by resolution of its legislative body establish neighborhood revitalization zones, in one or more neighborhoods, for the development by neighborhood groups of a collaborative process for federal, state and local governments to revitalize neighborhoods where there is a significant number of deteriorated property and property that has been foreclosed, is abandoned, blighted or substandard or poses a hazard to public safety. The resolution shall (1) provide that the chief executive official facilitate the planning process for neighborhood revitalization zones by assigning municipal staff to make available information to neighborhood groups and to modify municipal procedures to assist neighborhood revitalization zones and (2) establish a process for determination of the boundaries of neighborhood revitalization zones.
(b) Public buildings in the municipality shall be available for neighborhood groups to meet for neighborhood revitalization purposes as determined by the chief executive official.
(c) As used in this section “deteriorated property” means property in serious noncompliance with state and local health and safety codes and regulations.
(P.A. 95-340, S. 1; P.A. 14-122, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 14-122 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones › Section 7-603. - Legislative finding; exercise of power of eminent domain in neighborhood revitalization areas.

It is found and declared that there has existed and will continue to exist in municipalities of the state substandard, insanitary and blighted neighborhoods in which there are significant properties that have been foreclosed, and are abandoned, which constitute a serious menace to the environment, public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the state; that the existence of such conditions in neighborhoods contributes substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, necessitating excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for the preservation of the public health and safety, for crime prevention, correction, prosecution, punishment and the treatment of juvenile delinquency and for the maintenance of adequate police, fire and accident protection and other public services and facilities, and the existence of such conditions constitutes an economic and social liability, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of municipalities and retards the provision of housing accommodations; that this menace is beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory process in the exercise of the police power and cannot be dealt with effectively by the ordinary operations of private enterprise and government without the powers herein provided; that the acquisition of the property because of the substandard, insanitary and blighted conditions thereon, the removal of structures and improvement of sites, the disposition of the property for revitalization incidental to accomplish the purposes of sections 7-600 to 7-607, inclusive, the exercise of powers by municipalities acting to create neighborhood revitalization zones as provided in sections 7-600 to 7-602, inclusive, and any assistance which may be given by any public body in connection therewith, are public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and the power of eminent domain exercised; and that the necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this section and section 48-6 is declared to be a matter of legislative determination.
(P.A. 95-340, S. 4.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones › Section 7-604. - Reuse and resale of property acquired by eminent domain.

In the reuse and resale of residential property acquired by a municipality pursuant to subsection (c) of section 48-6, the municipality shall give preference to persons who declare an intent to reside in such property. The municipality may establish financial penalties for failure to reside in such residential property when a declaration has been made. In establishing such penalties the municipality shall take into consideration any mitigating factors.
(P.A. 95-340, S. 6.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones › Section 7-607. - Duties of Office of Policy and Management re neighborhood revitalization zones.

The Office of Policy and Management, within available funds, shall be the lead agency for coordination of state services to neighborhood revitalization zones. On or before January 1, 1996, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may develop guidelines for state departments, agencies and institutions to provide technical assistance to neighborhood revitalization zones. Such guidelines may provide for multiagency collaboration as well as a process to make funds, technical support and training available to neighborhoods and may recommend models for community outreach, job training and education, conflict resolution, environmental and health performance standards, new technologies and public safety strategies.
(P.A. 95-340, S. 9.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones › Section 7-620. - Enterprise zone facility bonds authorized.

Any municipality in the state which meets the requirements for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds complying with the provisions of Sections 1391 to 1397C of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, through its designation as an urban empowerment zone by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the Code, may issue such bonds, provided such bonds comply with the requirements imposed by the Code, U.S. Treasury Regulations and other federal law related to the issuance of tax-exempt bond financing to provide funding for an enterprise zone business with qualified zone property as defined in such law.
(P.A. 00-122, S. 1, 7.)
History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones › Section 7-620a. - Enterprise zone facility bonds to be special obligation of municipality.

For the purpose of carrying out a financing authorized under sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, a municipality may issue bonds which are payable solely from and secured by a pledge of and lien upon any or all of the income, proceeds, revenues and property provided as security for the repayment of loans by borrowers financing enterprise zone facilities or by lenders relending bond proceeds in a “loans to lenders” program or any combination thereof as provided in the Internal Revenue Code. Bonds issued pursuant to sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, shall be special obligations of the municipality and shall not be payable from or charged upon any funds other than the revenues pledged to the payment thereof, nor shall the municipality issuing the same be subject to any liability thereon except to the extent of such pledged revenues. No holder or holders of any bonds shall have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the municipality to pay any bonds or the interest thereon, or to enforce payment thereon against any property of the municipality and the bonds shall not constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the municipality. The substance of such limitation shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond. Bonds issued pursuant to sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, shall not be subject to any statutory limitation on the indebtedness of the municipality and such bonds 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.
(P.A. 00-122, S. 2, 7.)
History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones › Section 7-620c. - Public purpose.

It is hereby determined that the powers conferred in sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, are in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort and security and that the purposes of sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, are public purposes and that a municipality will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive.
(P.A. 00-122, S. 4, 7.)
History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones › Section 7-620d. - Interest income from bonds.

A municipality may issue bonds the interest on which may be includable under the Internal Revenue Code, as from time to time amended, in the gross income of the holders of such bonds to the same extent and in the same manner that interest on bills, bonds, notes or other obligations of the United States is includable in the gross income of the holders thereof under said Code, for the purpose of financing certain costs of issuance or other costs related to providing tax-exempt bond financing for funding an enterprise zone business with qualified zone property as set forth in section 7-620, based upon a finding by the board, officers or agency delegated the authority to issue and sell the bonds that the issuance of such bonds on a taxable basis is in the best interest of the municipality and in furtherance of the purposes of sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive.
(P.A. 00-122, S. 5, 7.)
History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones › Section 7-620e. - Bonds made securities.

The bonds of a municipality issued under sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or in other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them. The bonds are also hereby made securities which may be deposited with and may be received by all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized. Whether or not the bonds are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the terms of the Uniform Commercial Code, the bonds are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code, subject only to the provisions of the bonds for registration.
(P.A. 00-122, S. 6, 7.)
History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 124 - Zoning › Section 8-1a. - “Municipality” and “town” to include district; “selectmen” to include district officers. Definitions.

(a) “Municipality” as used in this chapter shall include a district establishing a zoning commission under section 7-326. Wherever the words “town” and “selectmen” appear in this chapter, they shall be deemed to include “district” and “officers of such district”, respectively.
(b) As used in this chapter:
(1) “Accessory apartment” means a separate dwelling unit that (A) is located on the same lot as a principal dwelling unit of greater square footage, (B) has cooking facilities, and (C) complies with or is otherwise exempt from any applicable building code, fire code and health and safety regulations;
(2) “Affordable accessory apartment” means an accessory apartment that is subject to binding recorded deeds which contain covenants or restrictions that require such accessory apartment be sold or rented at, or below, prices that will preserve the unit as housing for which, for a period of not less than ten years, persons and families pay thirty per cent or less of income, where such income is less than or equal to eighty per cent of the median income;
(3) “As of right” means able to be approved in accordance with the terms of a zoning regulation or regulations and without requiring that a public hearing be held, a variance, special permit or special exception be granted or some other discretionary zoning action be taken, other than a determination that a site plan is in conformance with applicable zoning regulations;
(4) “Cottage cluster” means a grouping of at least four detached housing units, or live work units, per acre that are located around a common open area;
(5) “Middle housing” means duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, cottage clusters and townhouses;
(6) “Mixed-use development” means a development containing both residential and nonresidential uses in any single building; and
(7) “Townhouse” means a residential building constructed in a grouping of three or more attached units, each of which shares at least one common wall with an adjacent unit and has exterior walls on at least two sides.
(1959, P.A. 577, S. 1; P.A. 21-29, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 21-29 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) to define “accessory apartment”, “affordable accessory apartment”, “as of right”, “cottage cluster”, “middle housing”, “mixed-use development” and “townhouse”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 124 - Zoning › Section 8-1aa. - Ridgeline protection: Definitions.

As used in section 8-2:
(1) “Traprock ridge” means Beacon Hill, Saltonstall Mountain, Totoket Mountain, Pistapaug Mountain, Fowler Mountain, Beseck Mountain, Higby Mountain, Chauncey Peak, Lamentation Mountain, Cathole Mountain, South Mountain, East Peak, West Peak, Short Mountain, Ragged Mountain, Bradley Mountain, Pinnacle Rock, Rattlesnake Mountain, Talcott Mountain, Hatchett Hill, Peak Mountain, West Suffield Mountain, Cedar Mountain, East Rock, Mount Sanford, Prospect Ridge, Peck Mountain, West Rock, Sleeping Giant, Pond Ledge Hill, Onion Mountain, The Sugarloaf, The Hedgehog, West Mountains, The Knolls, Barndoor Hills, Stony Hill, Manitook Mountain, Rattlesnake Hill, Durkee Hill, East Hill, Rag Land, Bear Hill, Orenaug Hills;
(2) “Amphibolite ridge” means Huckleberry Hill, East Hill, Ratlum Hill, Mount Hoar, Sweetheart Mountain;
(3) “Ridgeline” means the line on a traprock or amphibolite ridge created by all points at the top of a fifty per cent slope, which is maintained for a distance of fifty horizontal feet perpendicular to the slope and which consists of surficial basalt geology, identified on the map prepared by Stone et al., United States Geological Survey, entitled “Surficial Materials Map of Connecticut”;
(4) “Ridgeline setback area” means the area bounded by (A) a line that parallels the ridgeline at a distance of one hundred fifty feet on the more wooded side of the ridge, and (B) the contour line where a ridge of less than fifty per cent is maintained for fifty feet or more on the rockier side of the slope, mapped pursuant to section 8-2;
(5) “Development” means the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or expansion of a building; and
(6) “Building” means any structure other than (A) a facility as defined in section 16-50i or (B) structures of a relatively slender nature compared to the buildings to which they are associated, including but not limited to chimneys, flagpoles, antennas, utility poles and steeples.
(P.A. 95-239, S. 1; P.A. 98-105, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 83, 121.)
History: P.A. 98-105 added new Subdiv. (2) defining “amphibolite ridge”, renumbering existing Subdivs. accordingly, and made technical corrections; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made technical corrections, effective June 24, 1998.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 124 - Zoning › Section 8-1b. - Alternate members of zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission.

Any town, city or borough, in addition to such powers as it has under the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, shall have the power to provide by ordinance for the appointment or election of alternate members to its zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission. Such alternate members shall, when seated as herein provided, have all the powers and duties set forth in the general statutes or any special act relating to such municipality for such commission and its members. Such alternate members shall be electors and shall not be members of the zoning board of appeals or planning commission. Such ordinance shall provide for the manner of designating alternates to act.
(1963, P.A. 249; February, 1965, P.A. 280; 1971, P.A. 763, S. 1; P.A. 84-154, S. 1, 3; P.A. 85-284, S. 1, 5.)
History: 1965 act provided option of electing alternate members; 1971 act deleted provision concerning alternate members of planning commissions, forbade members of planning commission to serve as alternate members of zoning commission and deleted provisions concerning selection of alternate by member he is to substitute for, giving chairman sole power to make selection; P.A. 84-154 provided for mandatory appointment or election of alternates, effective January 1, 1986; P.A. 85-284 repealed provisions of P.A. 84-154 and provided that local ordinances shall provide for the manner of designating alternates to act.
See Sec. 8-19a re alternate members of planning commission.
Cited. 168 C. 20.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 124 - Zoning › Section 8-1c. - Fees for municipal land use applications.

(a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish a schedule of reasonable fees for the processing of applications by a municipal zoning commission, planning commission, combined planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals or inland wetlands commission. Such schedule shall supersede any specific fees set forth in the general statutes, or any special act or established by a planning commission under section 8-26.
(b) A municipality may, by regulation, require any person applying to a municipal zoning commission, planning commission, combined planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals or inland wetlands commission for approval of an application to pay the cost of reasonable fees associated with any necessary review by consultants with expertise in land use of any particular technical aspect of such application, such as regarding traffic or stormwater, for the benefit of such commission or board. Any such fees shall be accounted for separately from other funds of such commission or board and shall be used only for expenses associated with the technical review by consultants who are not salaried employees of the municipality or such commission or board. Any amount of the fee remaining after payment of all expenses for such technical review, including any interest accrued, shall be returned to the applicant not later than forty-five days after the completion of the technical review.
(c) No municipality may adopt a schedule of fees under subsection (a) of this section that results in higher fees for (1) development projects built using the provisions of section 8-30g, or (2) residential buildings containing four or more dwelling units, than for other residential dwellings, including, but not limited to, higher fees per dwelling unit, per square footage or per unit of construction cost.
(P.A. 82-282; P.A. 93-124, S. 2; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 9, 130; P.A. 21-29, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 93-124 added reference to planning commissions for consistency with 1993 changes to the general statutes; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 made technical change, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 21-29 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), added Subsec. (b) re fees associated with consultant review of applications and added Subsec. (c) re fee schedules resulting in higher fees for certain development projects and residential buildings.