Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-333. Metropolitan districts. Definitions. Whenever used in sections 7-334 to 7-339, inclusive, “metropolitan area” means any area in which there is a city having a population according to the last-completed federal census of twenty-five thousand or more, designated hereaft…

Sec. 7-334. Formation of metropolitan district. Jurisdiction. The central city and any one or more towns, cities or boroughs within a metropolitan area may join to form a metropolitan district for the performance of any one or more functions, services or works which any of such t…

Sec. 7-334a. Metropolitan District of Hartford County. Independent Consumer Advocate. Duties. Qualifications. Reports. (a) There is established an Independent Consumer Advocate to act as an independent advocate for consumer interests in all matters which may affect Metropolitan D…

Sec. 7-335. Powers of districts. The central city and any one or more towns, cities or boroughs, in addition to such powers as each has under any provision of the general statutes or any special act, may adopt and amend a charter for the metropolitan district, which charter shall…

Sec. 7-336. Petition to establish district. Any action to establish a metropolitan district shall be initiated by a two-thirds vote of the legislative body of the central city and of any one or more towns, cities or boroughs in the metropolitan area, or by petition filed with the…

Sec. 7-337. Charter commission. Within sixty days after action to establish a metropolitan district has been initiated by vote of the legislative bodies or by petition, the legislative bodies of the central city and any towns, cities or boroughs which have indicated an intention …

Sec. 7-338. Preparation of charter. Such charter commission shall prepare a district charter providing for the administration of the property and affairs of the metropolitan district. The functions, services or works to be performed by such district shall be determined after an i…

Sec. 7-339. Vote on charter. Not less than ninety days nor more than one year after the first meeting of the metropolitan charter commission, a proposed district charter shall be submitted to the electors of each town, city or borough to be included in such metropolitan district …

Sec. 7-339a. Interlocal agreements. Definitions. As used in sections 7-339a to 7-339l, inclusive, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: “Public agency” means any municipality, as defined in section 7-148cc, of the state of Connecticut, and any local governm…

Sec. 7-339b. Subjects of interlocal agreements. (a) Any public agency of this state may participate in developing and implementing interlocal agreements with any public agency or agencies of this state or any other state or states providing for any of the following: (1) The joint…

Sec. 7-339c. Procedure for entering agreements. (a) Interlocal agreements shall be negotiated and shall contain all provisions on which there is mutual agreement between the participating public agencies. Such agreements shall establish a process for amendment, termination and wi…

Sec. 7-339cc. Definitions. As used in sections 7-339cc to 7-339kk, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Captured assessed value” means the amount, as a percentage or stated sum, of increased assessed value that is utilized from year to year to finance project co…

Sec. 7-339d. Advisory board. Each participating public agency of this state shall be represented on any interlocal advisory board established by an interlocal agreement to which it is a party. Its representatives shall be appointed by the legislative body of the participating pub…

Sec. 7-339dd. Establishment. Powers. Dissolution. (a) A municipal legislative body may establish a tax increment district located wholly within the boundaries of such municipality in accordance with the requirements of sections 7-339cc to 7-339kk, inclusive. If the municipality h…

Sec. 7-339e. Reimbursement of expenses of advisory board. In addition to paying such compensation as may be prescribed pursuant to section 7-339d, a participating public agency of this state may reimburse its representatives on an interlocal advisory board for expenses for travel…

Sec. 7-339ee. Criteria for establishment. Prior to the establishment of a tax increment district and approval of a district master plan for such tax increment district, the municipal legislative body or the board of selectmen in the case of a municipality in which the legislative…

Sec. 7-339f. Provisions required in agreements. Section 7-339f is repealed, effective July 8, 2011. (1961, P.A. 429, S. 6; P.A. 95-308, S. 6; P.A. 11-99, S. 6.)

Sec. 7-339ff. Adoption and amendment of district master plan. (a) In connection with the establishment of a tax increment district, the legislative body of a municipality shall adopt a district master plan for each tax increment district and a statement of the percentage or state…

Sec. 7-339g. Financing of activities. All costs and expenses which a participating public agency of this state incurs in connection with the receiving, obtaining, providing or furnishing of services, personnel, facilities, equipment, other property or resources, or the engaging i…

Sec. 7-339gg. Tax increment revenues. Assessment. District master plan fund. (a) In the district master plan, the municipality may designate all or part of the tax increment revenues generated from the increased assessed value of a tax increment district for the purpose of financ…

Sec. 7-339h. State and federal aid. (a) If the function or activity to be performed under an interlocal agreement is by the law of this state entitled to state aid, the participating public agency of this state may claim state aid. Such state aid shall be computed, apportioned an…

Sec. 7-339hh. Costs authorized for payment from a district master plan fund. Costs authorized for payment from a district master plan fund, established pursuant to section 7-339gg are limited to: (1) Costs of improvements made within the tax increment district, including, but not…

Secs. 7-339i and 7-339j. Conditions precedent to effecting agreement. Powers of Attorney General. Sections 7-339i and 7-339j are repealed. (1961, P.A. 429, S. 9, 10; 1967, P.A. 516, S. 4.)

Sec. 7-339ii. Benefit assessments. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, whenever the municipality constructs, improves, extends, equips, rehabilitates, repairs, acquires or provides a grant for any public improvements within a tax increment district or fi…

Sec. 7-339jj. Bonds. (a) For the purpose of carrying out or administering a district master plan or other functions authorized under sections 7-339cc to 7-339kk, inclusive, a municipality is authorized, subject to the limitations and procedures set forth in this section, to issue…

Sec. 7-339k. Agreement to have status of compact. Parties in event of controversy. An interlocal agreement shall have the status of an interstate compact. In any case of controversy involving the performance or interpretation of the interlocal agreement or liability thereunder, t…

Sec. 7-339kk. Advisory board. The legislative body of a municipality is encouraged to create an advisory board, whose members include owners or occupants of real property located in or adjacent to the tax increment district they serve. The advisory board may advise the legislativ…

Sec. 7-339l. Authority to be in addition to other powers. The authorization in sections 7-339a to 7-339l, inclusive, to receive, obtain, provide or furnish any services, facilities, personnel, equipment, property or other resources, or perform or engage in any functions or activi…

Sec. 7-339m. Purpose of special services districts. Any municipality may establish by ordinance of its legislative body as provided in this chapter, within its confines, a special services district or special services districts to promote the economic and general welfare of its c…

Sec. 7-339n. Powers of special services district. A special services district shall constitute a body politic and corporate and the ordinance establishing such a district shall confer upon such district such of the following powers as are provided in the ordinance: (1) To sue and…

Sec. 7-339o. Powers regarding motor vehicle parking. In addition to the powers enumerated in section 7-339n, an ordinance establishing a special services district may confer upon such district some or all of the following powers: (a) To construct, acquire, or obtain leasehold int…

Sec. 7-339p. Referendum on ordinance establishing special services district. (a) An ordinance establishing a special services district shall not take effect unless, within sixty days of the adoption of such ordinance: (1) If such district is not divided into subdistricts pursuant…

Sec. 7-339q. Board of commissioners of district. Contract awards. The ordinance establishing a special services district shall provide that the business of such district shall be conducted by a board of commissioners and by such agents as the ordinance may authorize them to desig…

Sec. 7-339r. Tax levy for benefit of special services district. (a) An ordinance establishing a special services district shall provide the time and manner for determining the levy on real property within such district which is recommended by the board of commissioners of such di…

Sec. 7-339s. Dissolution of special services district. (a) At any time after a special services district has been established pursuant to sections 7-339m and 7-339o, such district may be dissolved in any one of the following ways: (1) By the adoption of an ordinance repealing the…

Sec. 7-339t. Provisions of ordinance creating special services district. The provisions of any municipal charter or of any general statute or special act to the contrary notwithstanding, an ordinance establishing a special services district may provide: (a) That the municipality …

Sec. 7-339u. Statement re mill rate and tax levy in special services district. Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, each special services district established under this chapter shall submit a statement to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management on a…

Sec. 7-340. Towns may establish. Any town may, at any annual or special meeting, warned and held for that purpose, vote to establish a board of finance. If such vote is in the affirmative, a certificate of such approval shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of such town an…

Sec. 7-340a. Alternate members of boards of finance. Appointment or election provided for by ordinance. Any town, in addition to such powers as it has under the provisions of the general statutes, any special act or municipal charter, shall have the power to provide by ordinance …

Sec. 7-341. Oath. Expenses. The members of the board of finance shall be sworn to a faithful performance of their duties. No member shall receive compensation for his services as such, but the necessary expenses of the board, when approved, shall be paid by the town. (1949 Rev., …

Sec. 7-342. Officers. Meetings. Filing of minutes and records. Polling of members. Such board shall choose one of its members to be chairman thereof and shall choose a clerk. If such officers are not chosen within one month after the appointment or election of the board because o…

Sec. 7-343. Filling of vacancies. In case of a vacancy in the membership of the board of finance, unless otherwise provided by charter or special act, the remaining members of the board shall, at a special meeting called by the chairman for that purpose, by a majority vote, appoi…

Sec. 7-344. Appropriations. Laying of tax. Not less than two weeks before the annual town meeting, the board shall hold a public hearing, at which itemized estimates of the expenditures of the town for the ensuing fiscal year shall be presented and at which all persons shall be h…

Sec. 7-345. Information concerning town agencies. Each town agency which has expended any appropriation during the past year or is requesting any appropriation for the ensuing year shall report to the board of finance such information as said board requires for its purposes under…

Sec. 7-346. Tax may be apportioned over a period of years. Wherever used in this section, the phrase “recurring expenditure” means an expenditure for a purpose for which an appropriation was made in each of the three preceding fiscal years. If any expenditure, other than a recurr…

Sec. 7-347. May transfer unexpended balances. The board may transfer unexpended balances from one appropriation to another, but no amount appropriated for any purpose, whether general or special, shall be used or appropriated for any other purpose unless the same is recommended b…