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

Sec. 8-267. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “State agency” means any department, agency or instrumentality of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, or local housing authorities, or any department, agency or instrumentality of two or more political subdiv…

Sec. 8-267a. Compliance with federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act. All state agencies, as defined in section 8-267, are authorized to comply with the applicable provisions of 42 USC Sections 4601–4655 and any subsequent amendments, for …

Sec. 8-268. Payment for displacement expenses and losses. Moving expenses and dislocation allowances. Fixed payments. Landlord's responsibility in certain cases. (a) Whenever a program or project undertaken by a state agency or under the supervision of a state agency will result …

Sec. 8-269. Additional payment to owner displaced from dwelling. (a) In addition to payments otherwise authorized by this chapter, the state agency shall make an additional payment not in excess of fifteen thousand dollars to any displaced person who is displaced from a dwelling …

Sec. 8-270. Additional payment for persons displaced from dwelling. Landlord's responsibility in certain cases. (a) In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this chapter, a state agency shall make a payment to or for any displaced person displaced from any dwelling not elig…

Sec. 8-270a. Actions against landlords by towns, cities and boroughs and the state. If any landlord fails to reimburse any town, city or borough for any payments which the town, city or borough has made to any displaced tenant and for which the landlord is liable pursuant to sect…

Sec. 8-271. Relocation assistance advisory program. (a) Whenever a program or project undertaken by a state agency or under the supervision of a state agency will result in the displacement of any person on or after July 6, 1971, such agency shall provide a relocation assistance …

Sec. 8-272. Necessity of provision of housing. (a) If a project or program cannot proceed to actual construction because comparable replacement sale or rental housing is not available, and the Commissioner of Transportation for transportation projects or the Commissioner of Housi…

Sec. 8-273. Establishment of regulations and procedures. (a) In order to promote uniform and effective administration of relocation assistance and land acquisition of state agencies, the Commissioner of Transportation and Commissioner of Housing shall consult together on the esta…

Sec. 8-273a. Relocation assistance by Commissioner of Transportation. Outdoor advertising structures. Appeals. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the general statutes to the contrary, whenever the Commissioner of Transportation undertakes the acquisition of real property…

Sec. 8-274. Contracts and agreements for services. In order to prevent unnecessary expenses and duplications of functions, and to promote uniform and effective administration of relocation assistance programs for displaced persons authorized under this chapter, the Commissioner o…

Sec. 8-275. Availability of funds. Funds appropriated or otherwise available to any state agency for a particular program or project, or for the acquisition of real property or any interest therein for a particular program or project, shall be available also for obligation and ex…

Sec. 8-276. Cost of payments and services included in project costs. If a state agency acquires real property, and state financial assistance is available to pay the cost, in whole or part, of the acquisition of such real property, or of the improvement for which such property is…

Sec. 8-277. Payments to displaced persons not considered income or resources. No payment received by a displaced person under this chapter shall be considered as income or resources for the purpose of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for assistan…

Sec. 8-278. Appeals to commissioners. Any person or business concern aggrieved by any agency action, concerning their eligibility for relocation payments authorized by this chapter may appeal such determination to the Commissioner of Transportation in the case of relocation made …

Sec. 8-279. Application of chapter. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceedings, brought under the power of eminent domain, any element of value or of damage not in existence immediately prior to July 6, 1971. (b) No payment provided…

Sec. 8-280. State grants-in-aid. Conditions. (a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract or agreement with a state agency to provide state financial assistance to such state agency in the form of a grant-in-aid equal to…

Sec. 8-281. Approval of relocation plan required for receipt of state grant-in-aid. To be eligible to receive financial assistance under section 8-280, a state agency shall cause to be prepared and file with the Department of Housing for the approval of the commissioner a relocat…

Sec. 8-282. Reimbursement for fees, penalty costs, taxes. In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by sections 8-266 to 8-281, inclusive, the state agency, as defined in section 8-267, shall reimburse the owner of real property acquired for a project for reasonable and necessa…

Sec. 8-283. Declaration of policy. It is hereby found and declared that many Connecticut residents lack sufficient financial resources to make down payments or regular mortgage payments on private housing; that it is in the public interest to provide state financial assistance to…

Sec. 8-284. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (a) “Eligible family or person” means a family or person who lacks the amount of income necessary, to purchase safe and adequate housing without special financial assistance; (b) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing; (…

Sec. 8-285. Creation of “Housing Purchase and Rehabilitation Fund”. There is established a “Housing Purchase and Rehabilitation Fund”. Such fund shall be used to make loans authorized by this chapter. (P.A. 77-612, S. 3; P.A. 95-250, S. 27, 42; 95-309, S. 11, 12.) History: P.A. 9…

Sec. 8-286. Homeownership loan program. Lending guidelines and terms of loans. Residential mortgage guarantee program. (a) The authority shall administer, within the resources allocated by the State Bond Commission to the Department of Housing for the purposes of sections 8-283 t…

Sec. 8-286a. State or authority to share in appreciation of dwelling. Any contract for a loan to purchase a dwelling under section 8-286 may require that the state or the authority shall receive, in exchange for any such loan, a share in the appreciation of the dwelling or any in…

Sec. 8-286b. Mortgagee participation. (a) Mortgage loan guarantees issued by the commissioner under subsection (e) of section 8-286 shall be in the form of a guarantee from the commissioner to an approved mortgagee. Mortgagees may participate in the program by entering into a mor…

Sec. 8-286c. Amount of guarantee. Record of payments to honor guarantees. (a) The maximum amount of any guarantee issued by the commissioner under the provisions of subsection (e) of section 8-286, section 8-289 and sections 8-286b to 8-286d, inclusive, shall be in an amount equa…

Sec. 8-286d. Termination of loan guarantee. The commissioner may terminate any loan guarantee if the mortgagee misrepresents any information pertaining to the guarantee or fails to comply with any term of the mortgage guarantee agreement in connection with the guarantee of the un…

Sec. 8-286e. Affordability incentive zones. The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority may establish affordability incentive zones under the homeownership loan program established pursuant to sections 8-283 to 8-289, inclusive, to incentivize the purchase of dwellings situated in …

Sec. 8-286f. Small multifamily lending program. Lending guidelines. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 134, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority shall, within the resources allocated by the State Bond Commission to the Department of Housing, establish a small multi…

Sec. 8-287. Loan repayment. (a) Any loan contracted for pursuant to this chapter shall be secured by a subordinate mortgage on the dwelling purchased by the recipient of such loan. If the recipient of such loan assigns, transfers or otherwise conveys his interest in such dwelling…

Sec. 8-288. Issuance of bonds. The State Bond Commission shall authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series in accordance with section 3-20 and in a principal amount necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, but not in excess of an aggregate amoun…

Sec. 8-289. Adoption of regulations or written procedures. The commissioner may adopt regulations providing for financial qualifications of eligible families or persons, requirements and limitations as to adjustments of terms and conditions of repayment, funding priorities, guara…

Sec. 8-290. Declaration of policy. It is hereby found and declared that there exists within the municipalities of this state a large number of real properties containing vacant and abandoned buildings that were once used for industrial or commercial purposes, that many of these v…

Sec. 8-291. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (a) “Abandoned property” means any real property and any vacant structure thereon used or previously used for industrial or commercial purposes, which the owner has declared, in writing, to the building official to be abandoned, o…

Sec. 8-292. Designation of urban rehabilitation agency. Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish an urban rehabilitation program and may authorize any existing board, commission, department or agency to be the urban rehabilitation agency or may, by ordinance, establish a new…

Sec. 8-293. Acquisition of abandoned property by urban rehabilitation agency. (a) In any municipality adopting an ordinance pursuant to section 8-292, the building official shall certify to the urban rehabilitation agency all industrial and commercial properties which are abandon…

Sec. 8-294. Disposition of property by urban rehabilitation agency. (a) Upon acquisition of real property by the urban rehabilitation agency under section 8-293, the urban rehabilitation agency shall publish at least twice a notice in a newspaper having general circulation in the…

Sec. 8-295. Selection of applicants. The urban rehabilitation agency shall select from among applicants for urban rehabilitation program property those applicants who in determination of the agency can acquire the necessary financial and technical resources to rehabilitate, own a…

Sec. 8-296. Financial assistance. Abatement of real property taxes. (a) An urban rehabilitation agency may provide financial assistance to urban rehabilitators in the form of grants or loans for the purchase and rehabilitation of urban rehabilitation program property. All such lo…

Sec. 8-300. Short title. This chapter may be known and cited as the “Municipal Housing Finance Assistance Act”. (P.A. 79-596, S. 1, 17.)

Sec. 8-301. Declaration of policy. (a) It is hereby found that as a result of the continuing increases in construction and rehabilitation costs, municipal taxes, heating and electricity expenses, maintenance and repair expenses and the cost of land, low and moderate income famili…

Sec. 8-302. Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates another meaning and intent: (a) “Bonds”, “notes” or “other obligations” means any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, respectively, issued by the munic…

Sec. 8-303. Municipal powers for purposes of this chapter. In furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, which are hereby deemed to be municipal purposes, for which municipal funds may be expended, a municipality shall, in addition to those powers otherwise conferred by any gen…

Sec. 8-304. Adoption of a housing finance assistance plan. Provisions. (a) The powers granted to municipalities under the provisions of this chapter may be exercised by the legislative body of the municipality, but such powers or any of them shall be exercised only upon the adopt…

Sec. 8-305. Municipal powers under housing finance assistance plan. (a) In order to provide for low interest mortgage loans to low and moderate income families and persons, the municipality may, pursuant to the housing finance assistance plan, (1) make commitments to purchase, an…

Sec. 8-306. Municipal power to issue bonds and notes for purposes of a housing finance assistance plan. (a) Subject to the provisions of section 8-307 and any general statute, special act or municipal charter or ordinance, a municipality shall have the power and is hereby authori…