Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-245. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: (1) “Acquire a sewerage system” means obtain title to all or any part of a sewerage system or any interest therein by purchase, condemnation, grant, gift, lease, rental or otherwise; (2) “alternative sewage treatment syst…

Sec. 7-246. Water pollution control authority; designation. Preparation of municipal plan. Successor to sewer authority; validation of sewer authority acts. (a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, designate its legislative body, except where the legislative body is the town meeti…

Sec. 7-246a. Applications. Time for decision. Appeal. (a) Whenever an application or request is made to a water pollution control authority or sewer district for (1) a determination of the adequacy of sewer capacity related to a proposed use of land, (2) approval to hook up to a …

Sec. 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 b…

Secs. 7-246c to 7-246e. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 7-246f. Community sewerage systems. (a) Any municipal water pollution control authority may ensure the effective management of a community sewerage system as defined in section 7-245 and not owned by a municipality by requiring that the system be owned and managed as provide…

Sec. 7-247. Powers and duties of water pollution control authority re sewerage systems. Obligation to consider feasibility of sewage as energy source. Establishment of decentralized wastewater management districts. (a) Any municipality by its water pollution control authority may…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 appropriation…

Sec. 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 mun…

Sec. 7-249. Assessment of benefits. At any time after a municipality, by its water pollution control authority, has acquired or constructed, a sewerage system or portion thereof, the water pollution control authority may levy benefit assessments upon the lands and buildings in th…

Sec. 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 assista…

Sec. 7-250. Public hearing. Appeal. (a) No assessment shall be made until after a public hearing before the water pollution control authority at which the owner of the property to be assessed shall have an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposed assessment. Notice of the …

Sec. 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 ass…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 7-253. Installment payment of assessment. In the case of an acquisition, construction or expansion of a sewerage system financed from the general reserves of the municipality or by bonds or notes issued by the municipality, the water pollution control authority may provide f…

Sec. 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 pl…

Sec. 7-254. Delinquent assessments. Liens. Assignment of liens. Powers and rights of assignee. Contract to memorialize assignment required. Notice of assignment. Notice prior to commencing an action to foreclose lien. (a) Any assessment of benefits or any installment thereof, not…

Sec. 7-254a. Waiver of interest. Section 7-254a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 97-215; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 7-255. Charges. Hearing. Appeal. Payment by municipalities of charges upon specified classification of property or users. Optional payment plans. (a) The water pollution control authority may establish and revise fair and reasonable charges for connection with and for the us…

Sec. 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 au…

Sec. 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 treat…

Sec. 7-258. Delinquent charge for connection or use. Lien. Assignment of liens. Powers and rights of assignee. Contract to memorialize assignment required. Notice of assignment. Notice prior to commencing an action to foreclose lien. (a) Any charge for connection with or for the …

Sec. 7-259. Bonds, notes or other obligations. Whenever a municipality has authorized the acquisition or construction of all or any part of a sewerage system, whether located within or without such municipality and whether constructed or acquired by such municipality acting alone…

Sec. 7-260. Sale of bonds, notes or other obligations. Use of proceeds. Bonds, notes or other obligations issued under authority of this chapter may be sold by the municipality at par, at a discount or at a premium, together with accrued interest. Notwithstanding the terms of any…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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 no…

Sec. 7-263. Form. Maturity. Bonds, notes or other obligations issued under the authority of this chapter (1) shall be in serial form (A) maturing in annual or semiannual installments of principal that shall substantially equalize the aggregate amount of principal and interest due…

Sec. 7-263a. Bonds to finance portion of sewage system project. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Bonds” means any bonds, notes or other obligations authorized to be issued by a municipality pursuant to this section; (2) “Legislative body” means (A) the board of selectmen in a to…

Sec. 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 necessa…

Sec. 7-264a. Temporary notes for financing capital projects. Methods of payment. (a) In addition to its other powers described under this chapter, any municipality operating a sewerage system may issue temporary notes for purposes of financing any capital project related to such …

Sec. 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 priv…

Sec. 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 (…

Sec. 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, incl…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 7-269. Tax exemption. Each bond or note issued in accordance with this chapter shall be exempt, both as to principal and interest, from taxation. (1949, S. 336d.)

Sec. 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.…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 provi…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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 por…

Sec. 7-273. Contract for use of sewerage system. Any town, city, borough or fire or sewer district, maintaining a sewerage system, may contract with any adjoining town or property owner therein for connection with and the use of such sewerage system. (1949 Rev., S. 635.)

Sec. 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…