Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-480. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Connecticut City and Town Development Act”. (July Sp. Sess. P.A. 75-2, S. 1, 25.)

Sec. 7-481. Declaration of legislative policy. (a) It is hereby found and declared that there continues to exist in the state in many of its municipalities conditions of substantial and persistent unemployment; that many existing residential, industrial, commercial and manufactur…

Sec. 7-482. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (a) “Annual sinking fund payment” means the amount of money specified in the resolution authorizing term bonds secured by a capital reserve fund as payable into a sinking fund during a particular fiscal year for the retirement of …

Sec. 7-483. Powers granted to municipalities. In furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, which are hereby deemed to be municipal purposes, for which municipal funds may be expended, each municipality shall, in addition to those powers otherwise conferred by any general statu…

Sec. 7-484. Actions to be undertaken by means of separate resolutions. No action in the exercise of any powers granted under the provisions of this chapter shall be undertaken by a municipality or by any governmental unit or nonprofit corporation to which a municipality has deleg…

Sec. 7-485. Required municipal findings and determinations. Discretionary referendum. (a) No power granted to a municipality under this chapter may be exercised unless and until the municipality shall have found and determined by resolution that conditions substantially as descri…

Sec. 7-486. Delegation of powers. (a) A municipality shall have the power to delegate any power reserved to the municipality under the provisions of this chapter, except the powers provided for in sections 7-485, 7-491, 7-492 and 7-498, to any governmental unit created by or unde…

Sec. 7-487. Laws governing city and town development. (a) This chapter shall not supersede any other general statute, special act, municipal charter or ordinance, with regard to zoning regulations of the municipality adopted pursuant to section 8-2, or any special act, inland wet…

Sec. 7-488. Power of municipality to make loans. (a) A municipality shall have the power to make loans, which for the purposes of this section shall also include commitments to make loans, temporary loans and advances in anticipation of permanent loans, to any sponsor to provide …

Sec. 7-489. Sale, lease, disposition and use of development property. (a) A municipality shall have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or part of any development property to any governmental unit or sponsor and to make agreements of any kind with any governmental un…

Sec. 7-490. Imposition and collection of facility charges. (a) A municipality shall have the power to charge and collect facility charges. Such facility charges may be charged to and collected from any governmental unit or sponsor and such governmental unit or sponsor shall be li…

Sec. 7-491. Issuance of notes and bonds. (a) Subject to the provisions of section 7-492 and any general statute, special act or municipal charter or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, a municipality shall have the power and is hereby authorized to issue from time to time …

Sec. 7-492. Capital reserve fund established. Petition. Referendum. (a)(1) The municipality may create and establish a capital reserve fund and shall pay into such capital reserve fund (A) any moneys appropriated and made available by the state or municipality for the purpose of …

Sec. 7-493. Bonds and notes to be special obligation of municipality. Applicability of statutory debt limitation. Bonds and notes issued pursuant to this chapter shall be special obligations of the municipality and shall not be payable from nor charged upon any funds other than t…

Sec. 7-494. Municipal moneys to be deposited in separate accounts. Annual audits. (a) All moneys of a municipality derived in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, except as otherwise authorized or provided in this chapter, shall be deposited as soon as practicable in a se…

Sec. 7-495. Municipal default or noncompliance. Appointment of trustee. (a) In the event that a municipality shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of notes or bonds after the same shall become due, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, a…

Sec. 7-496. Notes and bonds made securities. The notes and bonds of municipalities 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 carryi…

Sec. 7-497. Income from notes and bonds tax-exempt; exception. It is hereby determined that the powers conferred upon municipalities by this chapter are in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort an…

Sec. 7-498. Development property may be tax-exempt. Any development property may be exempted from any property tax imposed by the municipality; provided any municipality may enter into an agreement, approved by resolution, providing for a payment or payments in lieu of taxes with…

Sec. 7-499. Agreement with bond holders. The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any notes or bonds that the state will not limit or alter the rights hereby vested in a municipality to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with said holders thereof, or in…

Sec. 7-500. Exclusive procedure for issuance of bonds. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general statute, special act, municipal charter or ordinance to the contrary, no proceedings, notice or approval shall be required for the issuance of any bonds or notes or any inst…

Sec. 7-501. Competitive or public bidding requirements. This chapter shall not supersede any provision of any general statute, special act, municipal charter or ordinance with regard to competitive or public bidding for the sale, lease or other disposition of property or for the …

Sec. 7-502. Applicability of payment bond, prevailing wage and other employee benefit laws. (a) The provisions of section 31-53 shall apply to contractual arrangements for the construction, reconstruction or rehabilitation of development property. (b) The provisions of sections 4…

Sec. 7-503. Chapter grants no authority for municipality to acquire, own, develop or improve real property outside its borders. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to give authority to a municipality to proceed under this chapter to acquire, own, develop or otherwise impro…