Title 25 — Title 25: Water Resources. Flood and Erosion Control

Sec. 25-100. Commissioners; appointment; terms; vacancy. There shall be three members of the Connecticut River Valley Flood Control Commission appointed from this state. On or before May first in the odd-numbered years the Governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shal…

Sec. 25-101. Thames River Valley Flood Control Compact. The Governor on behalf of this state is authorized to enter into a compact, substantially in the following form, with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: ARTICLE I The principal purposes of this compact are: (a) To promote in…

Sec. 25-102. Commissioners; appointment; terms; vacancy. There shall be three members of the Thames River Valley Flood Control Commission appointed from Connecticut who shall act as commissioners for the state of Connecticut to execute, with representatives of the commonwealth of…

Sec. 25-69. Declaration of policy. It is hereby found and declared that, because of the occurrence of severe storms accompanied by winds up to hurricane force, abnormal high tides and tide flooding, the lives and property of residents and other persons within areas exposed to suc…

Sec. 25-70. Exposed areas defined. Land areas fronting on the ocean, or on bays, inlets and coves, or bordering on rivers in which tides occur, that are subject to the full force of storms; or land areas in direct contact with storm waves, including banks, bluffs, cliffs, promont…

Sec. 25-71. Payment by state for flood or erosion control systems. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to provide for the payment by the state of the total cost of any flood or erosion control system when such system is for the benefit of state p…

Sec. 25-72. Payment of costs. (a) The cost, or part thereof, of construction of any such system or the local cash contribution required by the federal government for construction of such system may be paid in the first instance by the state from the proceeds of the issuance of bo…

Sec. 25-73. State bond issue authorized. The State Treasurer shall issue bonds and notes of the state, in accordance with the provisions of section 3-20, in the sum of five million dollars to be denominated on the face thereof “Beach Erosion and Flood Control Bonds of the State o…

Sec. 25-74. Commissioner to use federal or municipal facilities. Federal funds. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to make arrangements for the use of the facilities and services of the federal government, the municipalities or agencies of the s…

Sec. 25-75. Payment of expenses. Subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, any expense incurred in connection with entering upon necessary contracts, the rehabilitation of projects constructed under section 25-72 which have been subjected to unusual and unanticipated …

Sec. 25-76. Small flood control, tidal and hurricane protection and navigation projects; state cooperation with federal and municipal governments. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to negotiate, cooperate and enter into agreements with the fede…

Sec. 25-77. Reimbursement of state by municipalities. Section 25-77 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 669, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 592, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 14, S. 4.)

Sec. 25-78. Local contributions. The cost of all local contributions or part thereof for the construction of any projects under the provisions of section 25-76 may be paid in the first instance by the state from the proceeds of the issuance of the bonds or notes as may be authori…

Sec. 25-79. State bond issue authorized for small flood control projects. The State Treasurer shall issue bonds and notes of the state, in accordance with the provisions of section 3-20, in the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars, to be denominated on the face t…

Sec. 25-80. State participation in large flood control reservoir construction. Disposal of property interests. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army as provided in Section 701c, Chapter 1…

Sec. 25-81. State bond issue authorized for flood control projects. The State Treasurer shall issue bonds and notes of the state, in accordance with the provisions of section 3-20, in the sum of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to be denominated on the face thereo…

Sec. 25-82. Payment of expenses. Subject to the approval of the Finance Advisory Committee, any expense incurred in connection with entering upon necessary contracts, and similar expenses, shall be paid from the accrued interest and premiums or from the proceeds of the sale of th…

Sec. 25-83. Agreements to indemnify the United States. The Governor, with the approval of the Finance Advisory Committee, is authorized to give assurances that the state will hold and save the United States free from claims or damages resulting from any project or system for the …

Sec. 25-83a. Reimbursement of public service companies for relocation of facilities in connection with flood control projects. Whenever the construction of any flood control project, including its reservoirs, for which the state has agreed to provide the necessary lands, easement…

Sec. 25-84. Municipal flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boards. Joint flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boards. Appointment of alternate members. Biannual report. (a) (1) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, adopt th…

Sec. 25-85. Establishment of flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system. Requirements of flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boards. (a) Such board shall have authority, within the limits of appropriations from time to time made by the mu…

Sec. 25-86. Taking of property. Such board is authorized to enter upon and to take and hold, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, any real property or interest therein which it determines is necessary for use in connection with the flood prevention, climate resilience and eros…

Sec. 25-87. Bond issue authorized. Assessments. At any time after voting to acquire, construct, reconstruct, operate or maintain any flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system or portion thereof, the board in its discretion may elect to defray the cost thereo…

Sec. 25-88. Method of assessment. Whenever any assessment is made as herein provided, the amount to be raised thereby shall be apportioned among the properties benefited according to such rule as the board may adopt, based upon area, street frontage, assessed valuation of the lan…

Sec. 25-89. New and supplementary assessments. If any assessment is not valid or enforceable for any reason, a new assessment may be made in the manner hereinbefore provided for the determination of the original assessment. If any assessment is made which is not sufficient to cov…

Sec. 25-90. Assessment due date. Notice. Assessments shall be due and payable at such time as may be fixed by the board, provided no assessment shall become due until the work, or particular portion thereof for which such assessment was levied, has been completed. The board shall…

Sec. 25-91. Installment payment of assessments. The board may provide for the payment of such assessments in such number of substantially equal annual installments, not exceeding twenty, as it determines, and may provide for interest charges on any deferred payments. Any person w…

Sec. 25-92. Segregation and use of assessment funds. The proceeds of such assessments, whether or not pledged for the payment of securities, shall be segregated from other funds of the municipality and shall be used only to pay for the construction, reconstruction, repair, mainte…

Sec. 25-93. Delinquent payments. Any assessment against benefited property not paid within thirty days of the due date shall thereupon be delinquent and shall be subject to interest from the due date at the same interest rate and in the same manner as provided by the general stat…

Sec. 25-94. Agreements concerning navigation and flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control systems. Any flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control board established under section 25-84, any such board or commission established by special act or any di…

Sec. 25-95. Agreements of state and local authorities. The state, acting through the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, may enter into agreements with such local authority authorized to contract under section 25-94 for the purpose of constructing projects or sys…

Sec. 25-96. Attorney General to approve agreements. Assistance furnished at local expense. All contracts and agreements which the state may enter into shall be approved as to form by the Attorney General. The commissioner is authorized to furnish, at the request and expense of su…

Sec. 25-97. Joint projects of two or more municipalities. When any such improvement or protection project or system is located within two or more municipalities, such municipalities, acting by their individual or joint flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control boar…

Sec. 25-98. Acceptance of gifts. In carrying out the purposes for which it was established, any local authority authorized to contract under section 25-94 may (1) accept, receive and expend gifts, devises or bequests of money, lands or other properties to be applied and expended …

Sec. 25-98a. Taking or acquisition of certain municipal property by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for flood control and protection. Requirements. Removal or relocation of public service facility. Order. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general stat…

Sec. 25-99. Connecticut River Flood Control Compact. Approval is hereby given to a compact in the following form: CONNECTICUT RIVER FLOOD CONTROL COMPACT Whereas, the federal government exercises jurisdiction over the nation's navigable rivers and their tributaries through passag…