Title 8 — Title 8: Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Sec. 8-119j. Conversion to a “housing project”. In the event that sufficient appropriations for the operation of this program are no longer available, a congregate housing program assisted pursuant to section 8-119h may, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, be conver…

Sec. 8-119jj. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to: (1) Provide for the development, operation and management of such project or projects by housing authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit cor…

Sec. 8-119k. Payment in lieu of taxes. In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments and sewerage system use charges otherwise payable to a municipality, an eligible developer approved by the Commissioner of Housing for state financial assistance for a congregate ho…

Sec. 8-119kk. Rental assistance for elderly persons residing in state-assisted rental housing for the elderly. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall implement and administer a program of rental assistance for elderly persons who reside in state-assisted rental housin…

Sec. 8-119l. Operating subsidies for congregate housing projects. The state, acting by and through the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract or contracts with an authority, a municipal developer, a nonprofit corporation or a housing partnership for state financial as…

Sec. 8-119ll. Comprehensive assessment of rental assistance for elderly persons and persons with disabilities. Annually, the Department of Housing in consultation with the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority shall conduct a comprehensive assessment of current and future needs f…

Sec. 8-119m. Congregate housing and congregate housing project joint pilot program. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Housing and the Commissioner of Social Services shall establish a joint pilot program to provide for the development and operation of congregate housing and co…

Secs. 8-119mm to 8-119yy. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 8-119n. Congregate housing project pilot program offering assisted living services. Regulations. Report. (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall maintain a pilot program in the congregate housing facility existing in the town of Norwich to provide assisted living services for …

Secs. 8-119o to 8-119s. Reserved for future use. PART VIII INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR HANDICAPPEDAND DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS

Sec. 8-119t. Grants-in-aid for expanding independent living opportunities. Definition. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Housing shall encourage the development of independent living opportunities for low and moderate income handicapped and developmentally disabled persons by …

Secs. 8-119u to 8-119w. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 8-119x. Database of dwelling units suitable for persons with disabilities. The Commissioner of Housing shall, in consultation with the Department of Social Services, the State Building Inspector, the Department of Administrative Services and the Office of Policy and Manageme…

Secs. 8-119y and 8-119z. Reserved for future use. PART IX CONVERSION CONDOMINIUMS

Sec. 8-38. Finding and declaration of necessity. It is declared: (a) That there exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that families of low and moderate income are forced to reside in such insanitary or unsafe accommodations; that within the state the…

Sec. 8-39. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this chapter, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (a) “Area of operation” includes the municipality in which a housing authority is …

Sec. 8-39a. “Affordable housing” defined. As used in this title, “affordable housing” means housing for which persons and families pay thirty per cent or less of their annual income, where such income is less than or equal to the area median income for the municipality in which s…

Sec. 8-40. Creation of housing authorities. In each municipality of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “housing authority” of the municipality; provided such authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers hereunder …

Sec. 8-41. Appointment. Qualifications and tenure of commissioners. Selection of tenant commissioners. Commissioners authorized to serve as justice of the peace or registrar of voters. (a) For purposes of this section, a “tenant of the authority” means a tenant who lives in housi…

Sec. 8-41a. Liability of authority for actions of commissioners and employees. Each housing authority shall protect and save harmless any commissioner or any full-time or part-time employee of such authority from financial loss and expense, including legal fees and costs, if any,…

Sec. 8-42. Commissioners and executive or managerial employees to have no interest in project. Limitation on employment of former commissioners. (a) No commissioner or an executive or managerial employee of an authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any housi…

Sec. 8-43. Removal of commissioners; subpoenas. A commissioner of an authority may be removed by the appointing power for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but a commissioner shall be removed only after opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel before t…

Sec. 8-44. Powers of authority. (a) An authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising public powers and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the following enumerated powers in…

Sec. 8-44a. Housing authority programs for social and supplementary services, project rehabilitation and improvement and energy conservation. State grants-in-aid, loans and deferred loans. Rental Rehabilitation Fund. Operation or management plan for housing projects. (a) Any hous…

Sec. 8-44b. Housing authority police force. (a) Any housing authority created by section 8-40 shall have the power to establish a housing authority police force, the members of which shall be employees of such housing authority and shall be known as housing authority police offic…

Sec. 8-45. Rental rates and tenant selection for low rental projects. (a) Each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with pro…

Sec. 8-45a. Consideration of criminal record, alcohol abuse and status as registered sexual offender of applicant or proposed occupant. A housing authority, as defined in subsection (b) of section 8-39, in determining eligibility for the rental of public housing units may establi…

Sec. 8-45b. Waiver of regulations. Section 8-45b is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 96; P.A. 13-234, S. 155.)

Sec. 8-46. Penalty for false statement. Any person who makes a false statement concerning any of the eligibility requirements for a public housing project, as defined in subsection (b) of section 21a-278a, in an application for admission to or continued occupancy of such public h…

Sec. 8-47. Considerations in fixing income limits. In fixing maximum income limits under section 8-45, the authority and the Commissioner of Housing shall take into consideration (1) the latest average wage as computed by the Labor Commissioner for the city or town served by the …

Sec. 8-48. Rentals for persons receiving welfare aid. In the cases of any tenants who are the recipients of one hundred per cent social services aid from the Department of Social Services of the state or any municipality and who have no income from any other source, rentals shall…

Sec. 8-49. Cooperation of housing authorities. Any authority or authorities may join or cooperate with one another or with the Commissioner of Housing in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any of their powers for the purpose of financing, including the issuance of bond…

Sec. 8-50. Eminent domain. An authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it deems necessary for its purposes under this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of such re…

Sec. 8-51. Zoning and building laws. Each housing project of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which such project is situated. (1949 Rev., S. 933.) Cited. 213 C. 354; 216 C. …

Sec. 8-52. Bonds. An authority shall have the power to issue bonds, from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. An authority may issue such types of bonds as it determines, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds on which th…

Sec. 8-53. Provisions of bonds, trust indentures and mortgages. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, an authority, in addition to its other powers, shall have power: …

Sec. 8-54. Remedies of an obligee of authority. An obligee of an authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights conferred on such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee: (a) By mandamus or other proceeding in the Superior …

Sec. 8-55. Additional remedies conferrable by authority. An authority shall have power, by its resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease or other contract, to confer upon any trustee or any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, or holding a lease, the ri…

Sec. 8-56. Aid from federal and state governments. In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by other provisions of this chapter, an authority is empowered to borrow money or accept grants or other financial assistance from the state or federal government for or in ai…

Sec. 8-56a. Public hearing prior to construction by authority or developer of HUD-assisted projects. Whenever a developer or a housing authority intends to construct a public housing project which is subject to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development site an…

Sec. 8-57. Agreements to secure federal assistance. In addition to the powers conferred by law upon any housing authority or the Commissioner of Housing, any such authority or said commissioner, in any contract with the federal government for annual contributions or other financi…

Sec. 8-58. Exemption from taxes and Uniform Securities Act. Payments in lieu of taxes. Bonds of any authority or of any agency or instrumentality designated or appointed by an authority are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be public in…

Sec. 8-59. Contracts for payments to state public body. In connection with any housing project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may contract with a housing authority or the federal government with respect to the sum or sums, if any, …

Sec. 8-60. Cooperation in undertaking housing projects. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may, upon such terms, with…

Sec. 8-61. Advances to housing authority; bonds and notes issued to finance housing projects. When any housing authority created for any municipality becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers therein, the governing body of such municipality shall immediately…

Sec. 8-62. Procedure for state public body. The exercise by a state public body of the powers herein granted may be authorized by resolution of the governing body of such state public body adopted by a majority of the members thereof present at a meeting of such governing body. E…

Sec. 8-63. Reports. At least once a year an authority shall file with the clerk a report of its activities for the preceding year, and shall make recommendations with reference to additional legislation or other action in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter. All such …

Sec. 8-64. Disposal of property by a housing authority. A housing authority shall have the power, in addition to its other powers, to sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign, pledge or otherwise dispose of any of its real or personal property or any interest therein. (1949 Rev., …

Sec. 8-64a. Disposal of housing project by housing authority. No housing authority that receives or has received any state financial assistance may sell, lease, transfer or destroy, or contract to sell, lease, transfer or destroy, any housing project or portion thereof in any cas…

Sec. 8-64b. Nondisclosure of tenant Social Security and bank account numbers. (a) No entity purchasing a housing project or a portion of a housing project from a housing authority shall disclose to the public the Social Security number or a bank account number of a tenant of said…