2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 8-220. State grants-in-aid for developing and updating municipal plans of development; contracts for may be entered into by Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management. Advances of funds and contracts by Commissioner of Economic and Community Development for surveys, planning and research.
Sec. 8-220. State grants-in-aid for developing and updating municipal plans
of development; contracts for may be entered into by Secretary of the Office of
Policy and Management. Advances of funds and contracts by Commissioner of
Economic and Community Development for surveys, planning and research. (a)
The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and
Management, may enter into a contract with a municipality with a population of fifty
thousand or less as shown in the most recent federal decennial census, for state financial
assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to two-thirds of the cost of developing
or updating municipal plans of development. The secretary shall assure that any planning
performed by any municipality with state financial assistance under this section shall
be adequate to meet the standards and criteria of the federal Urban Planning Assistance
Program administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and such other federal planning criteria for such other federal programs as may
be appropriate. No state financial assistance shall be made under this section unless
federal funds for the purposes described herein are not available, as determined by the
secretary, at the time of application for such state financial assistance; provided, if federal
funds subsequently become available for the same purpose for which state financial
assistance had been granted, the municipality shall repay the secretary from such federal
funds an amount equal to such state financial assistance, if, under federal law, such
federal funds may be so used, or the secretary may apply to the United States for and
accept such funds as reimbursement for such state financial assistance.
(c) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, may enter into a contract with a housing authority or two or more housing authorities acting jointly for technical assistance and financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid not to exceed two-thirds of the cost of conducting housing surveys and research as approved by the commissioner and as authorized in chapter 128.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 25; 1969, P.A. 415; P.A. 77-614, S. 298, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 19; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6.)
History: 1969 act amended Subsec. (b) to require approval of community development action plan agency before advancement of funds made, allowed advances to housing authorities and human resource development agencies as well as municipalities; P.A. 77-614 specified commissioner of economic development, previously "commissioner" referred to commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-598 substituted secretary of the office of policy and management for commissioner of economic development in Subsec. (a) and commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development in Subsec. (b); P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development.
See chapter 50 (Sec. 4-65a et seq.) re Office of Policy and Management.
See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.
