Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-282. Definitions. As used in this chapter, section 10-65 and section 10-76e: (1) “Elementary school building” means any public school building designed to house any combination of grades below grade seven or children requiring special education who are described in subdiv…

Sec. 10-283. Applications for grants for school building projects. (a)(1) Each town or regional school district shall be eligible to apply for and accept grants for a school building project as provided in this chapter. Any town desiring a grant for a public school building proje…

Sec. 10-283a. Committee from General Assembly to review listing of eligible projects. The listing of eligible school building projects submitted pursuant to section 10-283 shall be reviewed by a committee consisting of the chairpersons and ranking members of the joint standing co…

Sec. 10-283b. School building projects for the Technical Education and Career System. (a) On and after July 1, 2011, the Commissioner of Administrative Services shall include school building projects for the Technical Education and Career System on the list developed pursuant to …

Sec. 10-283c. Consolidated school construction grant application for multiple projects in a distressed municipality. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or the regulations adopted under this chapter, a local board of education in a town that is a distressed municipality…

Sec. 10-283d. Federal funds as part of local share for school building projects. A town may use any federal funds received by such town to finance a school building project pursuant to this chapter, and such federal funds shall be deemed to be part or all of the town's local shar…

Sec. 10-284. Approval or disapproval of applications by Commissioner of Administrative Services. (a) The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall have authority to receive and review applications for state grants under this chapter, and to approve any such application, or to…

Sec. 10-285. Acceptance or rejection of allotment. Section 10-285 is repealed. (November, 1949, 1951, 1953, S. 982d; 1957, P.A. 593, S. 4; P.A. 73-77.)

Sec. 10-285a. Percentage determination for school building project grants. (a)(1) The percentage of school building project grant money a local board of education may be eligible to receive, under the provisions of section 10-286, shall be assigned by the Commissioner of Administ…

Sec. 10-285b. School building project grants to incorporated or endowed high schools and academies. (a)(1) Any incorporated or endowed high school or academy approved by the State Board of Education, pursuant to section 10-34, may apply and be eligible to subsequently be consider…

Sec. 10-285c. Title reversion to the state. For school building projects approved by the General Assembly after July 1, 1993, if state reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or any special act, for the acquisition, purchase or construction of a building was for …

Sec. 10-285d. Projects related to full-day kindergarten programs or reduction in class size. In order to be eligible for the percentage increase pursuant to subsection (h) of section 10-285a: (1) The project shall be (A) included in a plan developed pursuant to section 10-265f, a…

Sec. 10-285e. Reimbursement for lease costs. Renovation project requirements. (a) The Department of Administrative Services shall include reimbursement for reasonable lease costs that are determined by the Commissioner of Administrative Services to be required as part of a school…

Sec. 10-285f. Design-build projects: Pilot program. Section 10-285f is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-2, S. 12; P.A. 06-158, S. 11; P.A. 24-151, S. 210.)

Sec. 10-285g. Acoustical standards. Waiver. Section 10-285g is repealed, effective July 1, 2022. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-6, S. 20; P.A. 11-51, S. 90; P.A. 13-247, S. 200; P.A. 22-118, S. 514.)

Sec. 10-285h. Projects for charter schools: Pilot program. Section 10-285h is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-6, S. 39; P.A. 24-151, S. 210.)

Sec. 10-286. Computation of school building project grants. (a) The amount of the grant approved by the Commissioner of Administrative Services under the provisions of this chapter for any completed school building project shall be computed as follows: (1) For the fiscal year end…

Sec. 10-286a. Grants for occupational training facilities. Section 10-286a is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 361, S. 8; 1967, P.A. 588, S. 6; P.A. 82-22, S. 3, 4.)

Sec. 10-286b. Adjustment of grants approved prior to July 1, 1967. Formula for regional school districts. Section 10-286b is repealed, effective July 1, 1996. (1967, P.A. 588, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 617, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 194; P.A. 96-244, S. 62, 63.)

Sec. 10-286c. Establishment of criteria for building grants. Section 10-286c is repealed. (1967, P.A. 588, S. 5; 1969, P.A. 698, S. 27.)

Sec. 10-286d. Site-acquisition grant. (a) Any grant for a completed school building project approved by the Commissioner of Administrative Services under the provisions of sections 10-282 and 10-286 shall include an amount equal to the percentage determined in section 10-285a of …

Sec. 10-286e. Audits. (a) If the Department of Administrative Services does not complete an audit of a school building project during the two-year period from the date the department issues final payment for such project, the department shall conduct a limited scope audit of such…

Sec. 10-286f. Professional or consulting fees. No increase due to increased prices for construction materials. Any professional or consulting fee that is calculated as a proportion of total project costs for any school building project for which state assistance is provided in ac…

Sec. 10-286g. Waiver of audit deficiencies. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, the Commissioner of Administrative Services may waive any audit deficiencies found during an audit of a school building project conducted pursuant to this chapter if the Commissioner of Ad…

Sec. 10-286h. School building project grants for diversity schools. (a)(1) The Department of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Education, shall provide a school building project grant in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for a diversity …

Sec. 10-287. Installment payments of school building project grants. Construction contracts subject to bid. Construction management services. Withholding of state grant payments; conditions. Submission of final grant application and notice of project completion. (a) A grant for a…

Sec. 10-287a. Lump sum payments. Advance payment of grants. Overpayment. Section 10-287a is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (1969, P.A. 751, S. 2; 1971, P.A. 695, S. 2; P.A. 76-418, S. 8, 18; P.A. 88-360, S. 35, 63; P.A. 24-151, S. 210.)

Sec. 10-287b. Loans for school building projects. Terms of bonds and notes evidencing such loans. Section 10-287b is repealed. (1969, P.A. 751, S. 3; 1971, P.A. 695, S. 9.)

Sec. 10-287c. Regulations. The Commissioner of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 in order to implement the provisions of this chapter. (1969, P.A. 751, S. 4; 1971, P…

Sec. 10-287d. Bond issue for school building project grants. For the purposes of funding (1) grants to projects that have received approval of the Department of Administrative Services pursuant to section 10-287, subsection (a) of section 10-65 and section 10-76e, (2) grants to a…

Sec. 10-287e. School Building Construction Fund. All moneys received by the state in payment of the principal of and the interest on bonds purchased and held by the state under the provisions of section 10-287b of the 1969 supplement to the general statutes, together with all net…

Sec. 10-287f. Renewal of temporary notes outstanding. Section 10-287f is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (June, 1969, P.A. 1, S. 65; 1971, P.A. 695, S. 6; P.A. 24-151, S. 210.)

Secs. 10-287g and 10-287h. Interest subsidy on bonds issued after July 1, 1971. Site acquisition, dates and amounts of project cost and interest grant payments. Sections 10-287g and 10-287h are repealed, effective July 1, 1997. (1971, P.A. 695, S. 8; P.A. 76-418, S. 9, 10, 18; P.…

Sec. 10-287i. Progress payments of state share of eligible project costs. Withholding of grant for failure to comply with minority business enterprise requirements. Withholding of grant pending completion of audit. A grant under this chapter for any school building project author…

Sec. 10-287j. Bond issue for funding interest subsidy grants. Section 10-287j is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (P.A. 98-259, S. 6, 17; P.A. 24-151, S. 210.)

Sec. 10-288. Grants and loans to towns unable to complete projects. Any town or regional school district having a school building project which it is unable to finance, after estimating any grant available to it under section 10-286, may, by vote of its legislative body or by vot…

Sec. 10-288a. Replacement or relocation of secondary school associated with center. When the secondary school with which an approved agricultural science and technology education center has been associated is to be replaced or relocated within a town or regional school district, …

Sec. 10-289. Issuance of bonds for school building project. As used in this section, “school building project” means (1) the construction, purchase, extension, furnishing, equipping or major alteration of a building to be used for public school purposes, including the acquisition…

Sec. 10-289a. Short-term financing for school building projects. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, in the case of any school building project for which the total cost is less than one million dollars, the state shall not require permanent local financin…

Secs. 10-289b and 10-289c. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 10-289d. Definitions. For purposes of this section and sections 10-289e to 10-289g, inclusive: (1) “Qualifying municipality” means a city, town or consolidated city and town which does not maintain a public high school and whose board of education has designated a private ac…

Sec. 10-289e. Private academy project proposal, public hearing, referendum vote. Any private academy may propose to undertake a school building project to be financed by a loan of the proceeds of bonds or notes of a qualifying municipality and to have such bonds or notes guarante…

Sec. 10-289f. Loans. Bond issues. Guaranties. (a) Any qualifying municipality which has a private academy within its boundaries may, in accordance with the provisions of sections 10-289d to 10-289g, inclusive, and if approved at a referendum in the manner provided in said section…

Sec. 10-289g. Defaults in payment. Withholding of state aid. The loan obligation of the private academy and the bonds or notes issued to finance such loan shall be secured by all school construction grants committed by the state to the private academy for the school building proj…

Sec. 10-289h. Central kitchen facility projects. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a local or regional board of education may design and construct a central kitchen facility to provide food services to its public schools and shall be eligible for a school constructio…

Sec. 10-290. Advisory school planning service. Section 10-290 is repealed. (1953, S. 989d; 1957, P.A. 593, S. 9; 1959, P.A. 611, S. 6.)

Sec. 10-290a. Advisory services re school plant planning. The Commissioner of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall provide advisory services to local officials and agencies on long range school plant planning and educational specifica…

Sec. 10-290b. Publication and distribution of information. The Commissioner of Administrative Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education, shall arrange for the collection, publication and distribution of information on procedures for school building committees, …

Sec. 10-290c. Advisory committee. Section 10-290c is repealed. (1959, P.A. 611, S. 3; P.A. 76-418, S. 13, 18; P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610.)

Sec. 10-290d. Conveyance of air space over schools. Any municipality, with the approval of the Commissioner of Administrative Services, may convey any type of interest in air space over land used for school purposes to a private developer for residential or commercial uses or to …