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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-246b. - Adoption of ordinance. Prohibition on lien foreclosure.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, special act, municipal charter or ordinance to the contrary, each municipality with a population of not fewer than one hundred thousand that is served by a private water company that is regulated by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall adopt an ordinance, if applicable, to:
(1) Protect seniors, veterans and low-income families from water pollution control authority foreclosures by restricting accelerated foreclosure proceedings for past due sewer fees owed by any such person. For purposes of this section, “municipality” means any town, city, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough;
(2) Lower the interest rate charged by such municipality on delinquent sewer assessments; and
(3) Restrict assignees of water pollution control authorities from purchasing foreclosed properties and to establish financial guidelines that trigger foreclosure for nonpayment of fees.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, on and after July 1, 2018, no action to foreclose a lien shall be instituted for a period of one year after such action is filed by a water pollution control authority or a representative of such authority.
(P.A. 18-174, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 18-174 effective July 1, 2018.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-247a. - Public hearing on proposed acquisition or construction.

No municipal water pollution control authority shall acquire or construct all or any part of a sewerage system until after a public hearing at which the affected property owners of the municipality shall have an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed acquisition or construction. Notice of the time, place and purpose of such hearing shall be mailed not later than fifteen days before the date of the hearing by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the owner of any property to be taken for the proposed acquisition or construction at such owner's address as shown in the last-completed grand list of the municipality or at any later address of which the water pollution control authority may have knowledge, and shall be published at least ten days before the date thereof in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality.
(1971, P.A. 373; P.A. 78-154, S. 4; P.A. 83-513, S. 2; P.A. 89-14.)
History: P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; P.A. 83-513 provided that notice should be in a newspaper having a “general” circulation in the municipality; P.A. 89-14 required that notice of public hearings be given by certified mail to owners of property to be taken for the acquisition or construction of sewage systems.
Cited. 216 C. 436.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-247b. - Monitoring duties of the Department of Public Health.

Any oversight or monitoring duties created for the Department of Public Health by the provisions of section 7-245, subsection (b) of section 7-246 or section 7-247 shall be conducted within available appropriations.
(June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 144.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-248. - Determination of compensation for property.

Whenever the water pollution control authority is unable to agree with the owner of any property as to the compensation to be paid for the taking of such property, the water pollution control authority in the name of the municipality may, in the same manner specified for redevelopment agencies in accordance with sections 8-129 to 8-133, inclusive, determine such compensation and proceed in the acquisition and use of such property as provided therein.
(1949 Rev., S. 732; 1949, S. 315d; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 4; 1971, P.A. 870, S. 34; P.A. 76-436, S. 284, 681; P.A. 77-419; P.A. 78-154, S. 5.)
History: 1961 act removed obsolete reference to county treasurer, substituting state treasurer therefor; 1971 act substituted court of common pleas for superior court, effective September 1, 1971, except that courts with matters pending retain jurisdiction unless matters pending are transferable; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 77-419 deleted provisions concerning determination of compensation by common pleas court when property owner and authority disagree and replaced them with provision for determination as for redevelopment agencies; P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority.
Decision that committee to assess damages be appointed, as distinguished from actual appointment of members of such committee, is not a final judgment from which appeal may be taken. 159 C. 421. Cited. 189 C. 710; 215 C. 197.
Cited. 2 CA 355.
Cited. 39 CS 454.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-249a. - Assessment of benefits upon industrial users of federally financed sewage systems.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-249, any municipal water pollution control authority which constructs any sewerage system or portion thereof, with federal financial assistance under the provisions of the federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, P.L. 92-500, as from time to time amended, may, in lieu of or in addition to, levying benefit assessments in accordance with the provisions of said section 7-249, assess industrial users of the portion of the sewerage system constructed with federal financial assistance for the cost of construction of such portion to the extent such cost is attributable to the treatment of such industrial users' wastes. In determining such assessments, the municipal water pollution control authority may establish such classifications as may be approved by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection.
(P.A. 75-600, S. 1; P.A. 78-154, S. 7; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Commissioner of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
Cited. 192 C. 638.
Cited. 4 CA 24.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-251. - New and supplementary assessments.

If any assessment is not valid or enforceable for any reason, a new assessment may be made. If any assessment is made which is not sufficient to cover the entire cost of the work to be paid for by such assessment, a supplementary assessment may be made by the water pollution control authority against those properties previously assessed to the end that a sum sufficient to pay the cost of such work may be obtained, provided no such supplementary assessment, together with the original assessment, shall exceed the value of the special benefit to accrue to the property against which the benefit is assessed.
(1949, S. 318d; P.A. 78-154, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority.
Cited. 179 C. 229.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-252. - Due date of assessment.

Assessments shall be due and payable at such time as is fixed by the water pollution control authority, provided no assessment shall become due until the work or particular portion thereof for which such assessment was levied has been completed, except that when the work or particular portion thereof for which such assessment was levied is being performed by the water pollution control authority pursuant to an order of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, the entire assessment may be made due and payable, provided the portion of the total work bonded by the water pollution control authority, which directly benefits the particular property has been completed. The water pollution control authority shall give notice of the date when assessments are due and payable by publication at least twice within a period of fifteen days in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality and shall mail a copy of such notice to the owners of the property assessed at their last-known addresses. Such notice shall list the streets and describe the area within which are located any properties against which such assessments are due. No assessment shall be due and payable earlier than thirty days after the first publication of such notice.
(1949 Rev., S. 745; 1949, S. 319d; P.A. 73-523, S. 2, 3; P.A. 78-154, S. 10; P.A. 83-513, S. 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-523 added exception to provision that assessments become due only after work for which they are levied is completed re work ordered by environmental control department; P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; P.A. 83-513 provided that notice should be in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality and provided for notice by mail; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Environmental Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
Cited. 153 C. 457.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-253a. - Adjustments in sewer assessment payments for elderly or disabled property owners.

Any municipality may, by ordinance, permit any property owner who is eligible for tax relief for (1) elderly taxpayers under the provisions of section 12-129b, section 12-170aa, or a plan of tax relief for elderly taxpayers provided by such municipality in accordance with subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 12-129n or (2) any property owner under age sixty-five who is eligible under the provisions of a plan for tax relief provided by such municipality in accordance with subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 12-129n to apply to the water pollution control authority in such municipality for approval of a plan of payment of such property owner's sewer assessment in a manner other than as provided under section 7-253. Such ordinance may allow optional methods of payment of any sewer assessment by an eligible property owner, subject to approval of the authority, including an option to pay only the annual interest charge, as provided in said section 7-253, on any deferred payments or outstanding balance of principal, provided in any such optional method of payment, the outstanding balance of principal deferred under such optional method of payment shall become due upon any transfer of title to the property subject to such assessment or upon the death of such property owner. Any such optional method of payment shall be subject to annual review by the authority.
(P.A. 78-301, S. 1, 2; P.A. 80-77, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-442, S. 1, 3; P.A. 91-98, S. 1, 3.)
History: P.A. 80-77 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; P.A. 85-442 applied provisions to property owners eligible for tax relief in accordance with Sec. 12-129n; P.A. 91-98 applied provisions to disabled property owners under Sec. 12-129n and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1991, and applicable to assessment years commencing on and after October 1, 1991.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-256. - Revision of rates for payment of bonds.

Whenever a municipality has pledged revenue to be derived from charges for connection with or for the use of a sewerage system to the payment of the principal or the interest of any bonds or notes, the water pollution control authority shall establish and, when necessary, revise such charges at rates which shall produce sufficient revenue for the punctual payment of the annual interest and amortization requirements of such bonds or notes and, together with any moneys available from other sources, for the fulfillment of any covenant or agreement which has been made by the municipality with the holders of any bonds or notes with respect to the operation of such sewerage system.
(1949, S. 323d; P.A. 78-154, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-257. - Order to connect. Appeal.

The water pollution control authority may order the owner of any building to which a sewerage system is available to connect such building with the system or order the owner to construct and connect the building to an alternative sewage treatment system. No such order shall be issued until after a public hearing with respect thereto is conducted in person or by means of electronic equipment after due notice in writing to such property owner. Any owner aggrieved by such an order may, within twenty-one days, appeal to the superior court for the judicial district wherein the municipality is located. Such appeal shall be brought to a return day of said court not less than twelve or more than thirty days after service thereof. The judgment of the court shall be final. If any owner fails to comply with an order to connect, the water pollution control authority shall cause the connection to be made and shall assess the expense thereof against such owner.
(1949 Rev., S. 737; 1949, S. 324d; 1971, P.A. 179, S. 3; P.A. 76-436, S. 287, 681; P.A. 78-154, S. 14; 78-280, S. 1, 127; P.A. 82-472, S. 17, 183; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 143; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 165.)
History: 1971 act required that appeal be made within 21 days of order and that return day be not less than 12 or more than 30 days after service rather than the “next” or “next but one” return day within the 21-day period after the order; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-154 substituted water pollution control authority for sewer authority; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to “county”; P.A. 82-472 deleted obsolete reference to county as venue for superior court; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 authorized a water pollution control authority to order the owner to construct and connect the building to an alternative sewage treatment system; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 added provision specifying that a public hearing shall be conducted in person or by means of electronic equipment.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-261. - Full faith and credit.

Bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, except those which are secured only by sewerage system use charges, shall be obligatory upon the municipality and the inhabitants and property thereof according to the tenor and purport of the same and the full faith and credit of the municipality shall be pledged to the payment thereof, whether or not such pledge is stated in the bonds or notes or in the vote authorizing their issuance, and thereafter the municipality shall appropriate in each year during which any such bonds or notes are outstanding, and there shall be available on or before the date when the same are payable, an amount of money which, together with other revenue available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to pay the principal and interest on such bonds or notes payable in that year, and there shall be included in the tax levy for each such year an amount which, together with other revenues available for such purpose, shall be sufficient to meet such appropriation.
(1949, S. 328d; P.A. 07-51, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 07-51 added reference to Sec. 7-263a, included in existing reference to “this chapter”, effective May 22, 2007.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-262. - Signatures of officers on date of execution binding.

Any bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, if properly executed and signed by officers of a municipality in office on the date of execution, shall be valid and binding according to their terms notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor such officers have ceased to be officers of the municipality.
(1949, S. 329d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-264. - Temporary notes.

Any municipality which has authorized the acquisition or construction of all or of any part of a sewerage system and which has made an appropriation therefor may borrow temporarily upon the credit of the municipality such sum or sums as may be necessary for such acquisition or construction and may issue temporary notes for any such loan, including temporary notes issued in anticipation of the sale of bonds to be secured by the full faith and credit of the municipality, by the pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges or by both the full faith and credit of the municipality and the pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges. That portion of the proceeds of the issue of any such temporary notes being issued as part of a common sale, which portion is not used to refund outstanding temporary notes shall be deemed a separate loan and be considered to have a separate original issue date. Each such portion of any such temporary notes may be renewed for a period of not more than two years, from the date of original issue of such temporary notes, except that any temporary notes issued in anticipation of the sale of bonds to be secured solely by the pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges may be for a period of not more than four years from the date of original issue of such temporary notes. Such temporary note or notes may be renewed from time to time by the issue of other temporary notes, provided the period from the date of original issue of such temporary note or notes to the date of maturity of the last renewal notes shall not be more than two or four years, as the case may be. The interest or discount on such temporary notes, including renewals thereof, and the expense of preparing, issuing and marketing the same, may be included as a cost of the acquisition or construction of a sewerage system and may either be borrowed temporarily under the provisions of this section or funded by the issue of serial bonds or notes under the provisions of this chapter. Temporary notes may be issued under the authority of this section in anticipation of proceeds to be derived from the sale of bonds notwithstanding that, at the time of issuing such temporary notes, the municipality has not actually authorized the issue of such bonds.
(1949, S. 331d; P.A. 86-350, S. 16, 28.)
History: P.A. 86-350 clarified the determination of the date of issuance of notes.
Cited. 216 C. 436.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-265. - Revenue or guaranteed bonds not included in debt limitation.

Bonds and notes issued pursuant to this chapter and (a) secured solely by a pledge of revenues to be derived from sewerage system use charges or (b) guaranteed, in whole or in part, by state, federal or private grants of money shall not be subject to any statutory limitation, to the extent of such security or guarantee, on the indebtedness of the municipality and such bonds and notes 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. Any provision of any special act inconsistent with the provisions of this section is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 740; 1949, November, 1949, 1953, S. 332d; 1953, S. 364d; 1969, P.A. 162.)
History: 1969 act excluded bonds and notes guaranteed by state, federal or private grants from statutory limitation on indebtedness to the extent guaranteed.
Issuance of revenue bonds alternative to method of financing provided for in Secs. 7-259 to 7-261. 5 CS 256.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-266. - Agreement with bondholders.

In connection with any bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, the municipality may, by resolution of the body having power to make appropriations for such municipality, covenant and agree with the holders thereof as to (1) the rates or charges to be imposed upon the users of such sewerage system, including the municipality, for connection with or the use of such system, (2) the use and disposition of the revenue from such rates or charges, (3) the creation and maintenance of special funds and reserves derived from any revenue source, and the management, use and disposition thereof, (4) the purposes for which the proceeds of the sale of such bonds or notes may be used, (5) the acts or conduct which shall constitute a default and the rights and liabilities of the holders arising upon such default, (6) the terms and conditions upon which bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter shall become or may be declared due before maturity and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived, (7) the conditions upon which other or additional bonds or notes may be issued and secured by revenue from sewerage system use charges or benefit assessments or both, and the refunding of outstanding bonds, (8) the insurance to be carried upon the sewerage system, or parts thereof, and the use and disposition of any insurance moneys, (9) the maintenance of books of account and the inspection and audit thereof, (10) the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders may be amended or abrogated, including the number or percentage of bondholders that must consent to such amendment or abrogation, the manner in which such consent may be given and any restrictions on the rights of individual bondholders, and (11) provisions for the execution of reimbursement agreements or similar agreements in connection with credit facilities, including, but not limited to, letters of credit, policies of bond insurance, remarketing agreements and agreements for the purpose of moderating interest rate fluctuations. Such covenant and agreement may take the form of a trust indenture between the municipality and a corporate trustee approved by the municipality.
(1949, S. 333d; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 133.)
History: June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 redesignated existing Subdivs. (a) to (i) as Subdivs. (1) to (9), added “and reserves derived from any revenue source” in Subdiv. (3), added “and the refunding of outstanding bonds” in Subdiv. (7), added Subdivs. (10) re procedure for amendment or abrogation and (11) re execution of reimbursement agreements and added language re covenant and agreement taking form of trust indenture between municipality and corporate trustee.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-267. - Use of funds.

All benefit assessments and charges for connection with or use of the sewerage system, whether pledged for payment of bonds or notes or otherwise, shall be kept separate from other funds of the municipality and shall be used for the sewerage system, including the payment of debt incurred for the sewerage system and interest thereon, and for no other purpose.
(1949, S. 334d.)
Cited. 171 C. 74.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-268. - Special fund.

Any municipality which has issued bonds or notes in accordance with this chapter may by ordinance establish a special fund for payment of all or any part of such bonds or notes or interest thereon, may make and revise necessary rules and regulations not contrary to this chapter for the management of such special fund and may provide for payments into such special fund of all or any part of any charges for connection with or use of the sewerage system or from any other source. The municipality shall not withdraw any moneys from the fund except for such purpose and shall not alter any vote or agreement in respect to revenues to be paid into the fund until such bonds or notes have been paid in full or the special fund is sufficient to do so.
(1949 Rev., S. 742; 1949, S. 335d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-269a. - Anticipation notes.

In addition to its other powers under this chapter, any municipality operating a sewerage system may issue temporary notes to be paid from anticipated income from sewer assessments and may renew such notes annually for not more than fifteen years.
(1959, P.A. 583; 1963, P.A. 342; 1967, P.A. 413; P.A. 76-375, S. 1, 2.)
History: 1963 act increased number of years notes may be renewed from 3 to 5; 1967 act specified anticipated income from sewer assessments for payments of temporary notes and increased number of annual renewals from 5 to 12; P.A. 76-375 increased number of renewals to 15.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-269b. - Special municipal taxing districts for sewerage system purposes.

Any town may, by ordinance, establish a special taxing district for the purpose of defraying, by taxes levied solely upon properties within such district, any of the costs of acquisition or construction of a sewerage system in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such special taxes shall be based upon annual budget appropriations and estimates of receipts from special benefit assessments and use charges levied with respect to such system approved by such town for the special taxing district in the manner required for the adopting of the annual budgets of such town and shall be included but shown separately in the annual tax levies of such town. Such town may, from time to time, by ordinance, alter the boundaries of such special taxing district. To meet any costs of acquisition or construction, including planning, of any such sewerage system the town may issue its general or special obligation bonds in accordance with the laws applicable thereto, the principal and interest on which shall be paid from the budgets of such special taxing district. For the purposes of this section “town” means town, consolidated town and city and consolidated town and borough.
(1967, P.A. 57, S. 26.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-270. - Application to existing systems.

Any municipality, for all or any part of any existing sewerage system, may exercise any authority of this chapter pertaining to the operation of a sewerage system and may establish sewerage use charges, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to pay the cost of operation of such sewerage system or for the payment of all or any part of bonds or notes issued for the acquisition or construction of such sewerage system, including interest thereon.
(1949, S. 338d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-271. - Power to be additional.

Any power granted by this chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any power granted to any municipality under the provisions of any special act or of any general statute.
(1949, S. 339d.)
Any powers granted under statute are in addition to and not in derogation of powers already granted to municipalities. 160 C. 446.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-272. - Joint operation of sewerage system.

Any two or more municipalities may enter into and revise from time to time, and may fulfill, contracts jointly to acquire, construct or operate all or any part of a sewerage system. Any such agreement shall particularize (a) the portion or portions of the sewerage system to be jointly acquired, constructed or operated, (b) the acts relating to acquiring, constructing or operating such portion or portions of the sewerage system to be performed jointly by the municipalities and (c) the method of apportioning the cost thereof. Whenever any two or more municipalities have entered into such an agreement, the sewer authorities of such municipalities jointly shall have, for the portion or portions of the sewerage system and for the acts relating to acquisition, construction or operation of the sewerage system covered by the agreement, all of the authority conferred by this chapter on a municipality and each such municipality shall continue to have all other authority conferred by this chapter.
(1949, S. 337d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103 - Municipal Sewerage Systems › Section 7-273a. - Charges when no assessment made.

In all cases in which any municipality or any sewer commission or authority established in accordance with law has constructed or caused to be constructed a public sanitary sewer or sewers through any public highway or highways within the territorial limits of its jurisdiction, for which no assessment of benefits and damages has been made, such municipality, commission or authority may establish service charges payable in equal annual installments for a period of not more than five years for the payment for the use of such sewer, until such time as the fair and proportionate cost of installing such sewer has been paid by the property owner or owners whose property has been benefited by the construction and use of such sewer. This section shall apply only to public sewers constructed otherwise than in accordance with this chapter and after October 1, 1950.
(1959, P.A. 532.)
Cited. 216 C. 436.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273f. - District budget. Audit of accounts.

Annually the board of directors shall hold a public meeting at which itemized estimates of the expenditures of the district for the ensuing fiscal year shall be presented and at which all persons within the district shall be heard in regard to any appropriation which they are desirous that the board should recommend or reject. The board shall, after such public hearing, prepare and cause to be published in a newspaper or newspapers having a substantial circulation in such district a report in a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Revenue Services containing: (1) An itemized statement of all actual receipts from all sources of such district during its last fiscal year; (2) an itemized statement of classification of all actual expenditures during the same year; (3) an itemized estimate of anticipated revenues during the ensuing fiscal year from each source; (4) an itemized estimate of expenditures for such ensuing fiscal year; and (5) the amount of revenue surplus or deficit of the district at the beginning of the fiscal year for which estimates are being prepared. Not less than two nor more than four weeks after such publication the board shall make such specific appropriations as appear advisable, but no appropriation for any purpose shall be made exceeding the amount published for that purpose and no appropriation shall be made for any purpose not published. If it becomes necessary during any fiscal year for the board to appropriate additional sums, the provisions of this section governing annual appropriations shall govern so far as they are applicable. The accounts of the district shall be audited in the manner provided by section 7-392.
(1961, P.A. 507, S. 5; 1972, P.A. 261, S. 5; P.A. 73-2, S. 10, 11; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610; P.A. 13-277, S. 24.)
History: 1972 act permitted assessments against member municipalities and required inclusion of assessments in municipal budgets; P.A. 73-2 deleted provisions concerning assessments against municipalities; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 13-277 deleted references to executive sessions, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273h. - Liability of district. Joint assumption of liability imposed upon district officer, agent or employee.

(a) Any district operating a transit service pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be responsible for any injury or damage to persons or property, happening or arising by reason of the maintenance or operation of the same, in the same manner and to the same extent as though the same were owned and operated by individuals or by a private corporation. Members of the board shall not be personally liable to suits in such cases except for malfeasance in office. Any member of the board shall be an agent of the district for service of process.
(b) Each town, city or borough which has joined with other towns, cities or boroughs to form a district pursuant to this chapter shall jointly assume the liability imposed upon any officer, agent or employee of such district, acting in the performance of his duties and in the scope of his employment, under, and in the manner and in accordance with the procedures set forth in, subsection (a) of section 7-465. Such joint assumption of liability shall be proportionately shared by the towns, cities and boroughs in such district on the same basis that the expenses of such district are shared.
(1961, P.A. 507, S. 7; 1972, P.A. 261, S. 7; P.A. 83-464, S. 2, 5.)
History: 1972 act substituted “transit service” for “public passenger transportation service”; P.A. 83-464 added Subsec. (b), requiring the members of the district to jointly assume the liability imposed on any officer, agent or employee of the district while performing his duties.
Cited. 235 C. 1.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273i. - Transfer of employees when company acquired by district.

Whenever a transit district acquires the property and franchises of any company or companies operating a transit service within its district all employees of such company or companies who are necessary for the operation of such district, except executive and administrative officers, shall become employees of such district and shall be credited by the district with all seniority rights, sick leave and vacation, insurance and pension benefits in accordance with the records or labor agreements of the acquired company or companies. Such district shall assume and observe all pension obligations of such acquired company or companies, and members and beneficiaries of any pension or retirement system or other benefits established by the acquired company or companies shall continue to have rights, privileges, benefits, obligations and status with respect to such established systems. Such district shall assume and observe all labor contracts of such company or companies in existence at the time of transfer and all obligations incurred by such contracts in regard to wages, salaries, hours, sick leave, working conditions, collective bargaining, and pension or retirement provisions. Such district, through its board, may enter into agreements with representatives of its employees relative to the transfer or establishment of pension trust funds to or under the joint control of such district and representatives of its employees, and shall have all powers necessary to maintain and administer such trust funds jointly with representatives of its employees. No employee of any such acquired company who is transferred to a position with a district shall, by reason of such transfer, be placed in any worse position with respect to workers' compensation, pension, seniority, wages, sick leave, vacation, health and welfare insurance or any other benefit than he enjoyed as an employee of such company.
(1961, P.A. 507, S. 8; 1972, P.A. 261, S. 8; P.A. 79-376, S. 8.)
History: 1972 act substituted “transit district” for “board of transit authority” and “transit service” for “public passenger transportation service”; P.A. 79-376 substituted “workers' compensation” for “workmen's compensation”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273j. - Collective bargaining.

Each transit district shall have power to engage in collective bargaining with duly appointed representatives of an employee labor organization and may enter into labor contracts concerning wages, salaries, hours, sick leave, working conditions, collective bargaining and pension or retirement provisions. In case of any labor dispute involving a district and its employees where collective bargaining does not result in agreement, the parties shall submit such dispute to arbitration pursuant to arbitration provisions in any labor contract assumed by the district or entered into by the district, or, in the absence of such provisions, to the Board of Mediation and Arbitration in accordance with the procedure set out in section 31-97, and shall abide by the decision rendered under the provisions of section 31-98. As used in this section, the term “labor dispute” includes, but shall not be restricted to, any controversy between a district and its employees or their representatives concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing or maintaining, or seeking to negotiate, fix, maintain or change, terms or conditions of employment; and the term “labor organization” means any organization which exists and is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining, or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection.
(1961, P.A. 507, S. 9; 1972, P.A. 261, S. 9.)
History: 1972 act deleted phrase requiring that transit district work through its board of transit authority.
Cited. 201 C. 685; 232 C. 57.
Cited. 43 CS 340.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273k. - Contracts for mass passenger transportation service. Grants. Borrowing powers.

Any transit district established under this chapter may contract with any person, group of persons or corporation, including but not limited to any common carrier or any agency of the state or of the United States, for the purpose of supporting, continuing, providing, establishing or improving systems or services for mass transportation of passengers. The district may, by itself or by agreement with others, support all or a portion of such systems or services, share in the costs or provide funds for such purpose. The district may apply for grants or financial assistance from any person, group of persons or corporation or from any agency of the state or of the United States and may make equipment or other facilities available to any common carrier under arrangements deemed suitable to support, continue, provide, establish or improve mass transportation systems or services. The district may purchase any rail or mass transit right-of-way and associated facilities or acquire the right of use of such right-of-way and associated facilities by lease or any other arrangements. A transit district may borrow on a temporary basis in anticipation of grants, contributions or other revenues, may issue notes in terms not to exceed one year to evidence such borrowing, may renew such notes, and may pledge all or any portion of such grants, contributions, or other revenues as security for such notes. Such notes shall be authorized by resolution of the district's board of directors and any notes so authorized may be issued and sold in the manner provided by such resolution. Such notes shall not be included in computing the aggregate indebtedness of the district or of any municipality which is a member of the district.
(1969, P.A. 47; P.A. 78-305, S. 4, 5.)
History: P.A. 78-305 added provisions concerning borrowing powers of transit districts.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273m. - Distribution formula exception.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Total system revenues” means passenger fares and other revenues incidental to a state-subsidized fixed-route bus system during a fiscal year ending June thirtieth, not including local, regional, state or federal payments to the operator of the system.
(2) “Total system expenses” means such a system's operating costs during such a fiscal year.
(3) “Deficit” means the difference between total system expenses and total system revenues during such a fiscal year.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7-273
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, the Commissioner of Transportation shall (1) pay, from the department's appropriation for public transportation, one hundred per cent of the deficit of any state-subsidized, fixed-route bus system for which the total system revenues exceed forty per cent of the total system expenses and (2) negotiate a cost-sharing arrangement with the operators of all other state-subsidized, fixed-route bus systems. The commissioner shall recover from the federal government any operating subsidy that the operator of a system under subdivision (1) of this subsection is eligible to receive for the operation of the system and deposit such subsidy in the General Fund.
(c) No fixed-route bus system operated by a transit district shall be eligible to receive funds from the state unless such transit district has developed a plan, approved by the Department of Transportation, to coordinate bus service with transit districts which provide bus service in adjacent towns. Such program shall be reviewed and approved or disapproved by the Department of Transportation annually.
(d) The Commissioner of Transportation shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing requirements and standards for programs required pursuant to subsection (c) of this section.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-19, S. 1, 5; P.A. 86-262, S. 3, 5.)
History: P.A. 86-262 added Subsecs. (c) and (d), prohibiting transit districts from receiving state funds unless they coordinate bus service with transit districts which provide bus service in adjacent towns and requiring the commissioner of transportation to adopt regulations for such programs.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273n. - State matching grants for elderly and handicapped demand responsive transportation programs.

Section 7-273n is repealed, effective October 1, 1999.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-28, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-428, S. 9, 10; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 99-265, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273o. - Political advertising at transit district and parking authority facilities.

(a) As used in this section, “political advertising” means any advertising for the purpose of influencing public opinion with respect to any legislative, administrative or electoral decision or with respect to any controversial issue of public importance.
(b) No transit district or parking authority that allows the placement of any advertising, whether placed directly by such transit district or parking authority or by any third party or independent contractor, on or within its facilities, including, but not limited to, advertising on or within any vehicle, or on any bus shelter operated by such transit district, parking authority, third party or independent contractor, shall prohibit the placement of political advertising on or within such facilities.
(P.A. 13-277, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 13-277 effective January 1, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103a - Transit Districts › Section 7-273p. - Mobile application concerning transit services provided by transit districts and trip planning services.

On and after October 1, 2023, the Commissioner of Transportation shall develop and maintain a mobile application for the purpose of (1) integrating real-time information concerning transit services provided by each transit district established under chapter 103a or any special act, and (2) providing trip planning services to the public. Each such transit district shall provide real-time information concerning the district's transit services, including, but not limited to, the schedule, routes, trips and location of such transit services, in the manner and form prescribed by the commissioner.
(P.A. 22-40, S. 27.)
History: P.A. 22-40 effective May 17, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273dd. - Sale of bonds or notes. Use of proceeds.

Bonds issued under authority of this chapter shall be sold by the municipality or the authority, at public or private sale at a price determined by the issuer thereof. The bonds may bear a single or variable rate of interest and may bear different rates of interest for different maturities. The proceeds arising from the sale of any bonds issued under the authority of this chapter by a municipality or authority shall be kept in accounts separate from other funds of the municipality or the authority. Said proceeds shall be expended only for the purposes and subject to the provisions of this chapter, provided the proceeds from the issuance and sale of any bonds shall first be applied to the payment of such bonds as have been issued in anticipation of such issue.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 6, 18; P.A. 83-519, S. 19, 23; P.A. 85-478, S. 5, 10.)
History: P.A. 83-519 eliminated requirements related to public sale of bonds or notes issued under chapter 103b to conform with more commonly adopted provisions authorizing municipalities to sell bonds, additionally such change is necessary if bonds issued under chapter 103b are to be consolidated with other types of bonds for sale as a single issue in accordance with Sec. 42b-15; P.A. 85-478 authorized public or private sale of bonds and a variable rate of interest and made technical changes.
See Sec. 42b-1 for definitions re registered public obligations.
See Sec. 42b-11 re effect of chapter 748 with respect to registered public obligations issued on or after July 7, 1983.
See Sec. 42b-12 for requirement that this section and chapter 748 be construed in conjunction with the Uniform Commercial Code.
See Sec. 42b-14 re severability of provisions relating to registered public obligations.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 103b - Municipal Resource Recovery Authorities › Section 7-273ff. - Signatures of officers on date of execution binding.

Any bonds or notes issued under the authority of this chapter, if properly executed and signed by officers of a municipality in office on the date of execution, shall be valid and binding according to their terms notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor such officers have ceased to be officers of the municipality.
(P.A. 81-213, S. 8, 18.)