2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 3 - State Elective Officers
Chapter 32 - Treasurer
Section 3-55j - Payments from fund.

(a) Twenty million dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i shall be paid to municipalities eligible for a state grant in lieu of taxes pursuant to section 12-19a in addition to the grants payable to such municipalities pursuant to section 12-19a, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. Such grant shall be calculated under the provisions of section 12-19a and shall equal one-third of the additional amount which such municipalities would be eligible to receive if the total amount available for distribution were eighty-five million two hundred five thousand eighty-five dollars and the percentage of reimbursement set forth in section 12-19a were increased to reflect such amount. Any eligible special services district shall receive a portion of the grant payable under this subsection to the town in which such district is located. The portion payable to any such district under this subsection shall be the amount of the grant to the town under this subsection which results from application of the district mill rate to exempt property in the district. As used in this subsection and subsection (c) of this section, “eligible special services district” means any special services district created by a town charter, having its own governing body and for the assessment year commencing October 1, 1996, containing fifty per cent or more of the value of total taxable property within the town in which such district is located.

(b) No municipality shall receive a grant pursuant to subsection (a) of this section which, when added to the amount of the grant payable to such municipality pursuant to section 12-19a, would exceed one hundred per cent of the property taxes which would have been paid with respect to all state-owned real property, except for the exemption applicable to such property, on the assessment list in such municipality for the assessment date two years prior to the commencement of the state fiscal year in which such grants are payable, except that, notwithstanding the provisions of said subsection (a), no municipality shall receive a grant pursuant to said subsection which is less than one thousand six hundred sixty-seven dollars.

(c) Twenty million one hundred twenty-three thousand nine hundred sixteen dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i shall be paid to municipalities eligible for a state grant in lieu of taxes pursuant to section 12-20a, in addition to and in the same proportion as the grants payable to such municipalities pursuant to section 12-20a, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section. Any eligible special services district shall receive a portion of the grant payable under this subsection to the town in which such district is located. The portion payable to any such district under this subsection shall be the amount of the grant to the town under this subsection which results from application of the district mill rate to exempt property in the district.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, no municipality shall receive a grant pursuant to said subsection which, when added to the amount of the grant payable to such municipality pursuant to section 12-20a, would exceed one hundred per cent of the property taxes which, except for any exemption applicable to any private nonprofit institution of higher education, nonprofit general hospital facility or free standing chronic disease hospital under the provisions of section 12-81, would have been paid with respect to such exempt real property on the assessment list in such municipality for the assessment date two years prior to the commencement of the state fiscal year in which such grants are payable.

(e) Thirty-five million dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i shall be paid to municipalities in accordance with the provisions of section 7-528, except that for the purposes of section 7-528, “adjusted equalized net grand list per capita” means the equalized net grand list divided by the total population of a town, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 10-261, multiplied by the ratio of the per capita income of the town to the per capita income of the town at the one hundredth percentile among all towns in the state ranked from lowest to highest in per capita income, and “equalized net grand list” means the net grand list of such town upon which taxes were levied for the general expenses of such town two years prior to the fiscal year in which a grant is to be paid, equalized in accordance with section 10-261a.

(f) Five million four hundred seventy-five thousand dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i shall be paid to the following municipalities in accordance with the provisions of section 7-528, except that for the purposes of said section 7-528, “adjusted equalized net grand list per capita” means the equalized net grand list divided by the total population of a town, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 10-261, multiplied by the ratio of the per capita income of the town to the per capita income of the town at the one hundredth percentile among all towns in the state ranked from lowest to highest in per capita income, and “equalized net grand list” means the net grand list of such town upon which taxes were levied for the general expenses of such town two years prior to the fiscal year in which a grant is to be paid, equalized in accordance with section 10-261a: Bridgeport, Hamden, Hartford, Meriden, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Waterbury and Windham.

(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) to (f), inclusive, of this section, the total grants paid to the following municipalities from the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i shall be as follows:

Bloomfield	$  267,489
Bridgeport	10,506,506
Bristol	1,004,050
Chaplin	141,725
Danbury	1,612,564
Derby	432,162
East Hartford	522,421
East Lyme	488,160
Groton	2,037,088
Hamden	1,592,270
Manchester	1,014,244
Meriden	1,537,900
Middletown	2,124,960
Milford	676,535
New Britain	3,897,434
New London	2,649,363
North Haven	268,582
Norwalk	1,451,367
Norwich	1,662,147
Preston	461,939
Rocky Hill	477,950
Stamford	1,570,767
Union	38,101
Voluntown	156,902
Waterbury	5,179,655
Wethersfield	371,629
Windham	1,307,974
Windsor Locks	754,833

(h) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, if the amount of grant payable to a municipality in accordance with this section is increased as the result of an appropriation to the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund for such fiscal year which exceeds eighty-five million dollars, the portion of the grant payable to each eligible service district, in accordance with subsections (a) and (c) of this section shall be increased by the same proportion as the grant payable to such municipality under this section as a result of said increased appropriation.

(i) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, inclusive, the municipalities of Ledyard, Montville, Norwich, North Stonington and Preston shall each receive a grant of five hundred thousand dollars which shall be paid from the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i and which shall be in addition to the grants paid to said municipalities pursuant to subsections (a) to (g), inclusive, of this section.

(j) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, June 30, 2001, and June 30, 2002, the sum of forty-nine million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be paid to municipalities, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of forty-seven million five hundred thousand dollars shall be paid to municipalities, in accordance with this subsection, from the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established by section 3-55i. The grants payable under this subsection shall be used to proportionately increase the amount of the grants payable to each municipality in accordance with subsections (a) to (i), inclusive, of this section and shall be in addition to the grants payable under subsections (a) to (g), inclusive, of this section.

(k) The amount of the grant payable to each municipality in accordance with subsection (j) of this section shall be reduced proportionately in the event that the total of the grants payable to each municipality pursuant to this section exceeds the amount appropriated for such grants with respect to such year.

(P.A. 93-388, S. 2–7, 12; 93-435, S. 91, 95; P.A. 97-274, S. 2, 7; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-11, S. 2, 65; P.A. 98-244, S. 34, 35; 98-263, S. 14, 21; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 4, 51; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 75; P.A. 03-278, S. 7; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 43.)

History: P.A. 93-388 effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-435 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision that additional grant shall be in the same proportion as grant payable pursuant to Sec. 12-19a and to substitute provision that grant shall be calculated under Sec. 12-19a and shall equal one-third of additional amount which municipality would be eligible to receive if total amount available for distribution were $85,205,085 and the percentage of reimbursement set forth in Sec. 12-19a were increased to reflect such amount, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 97-274 added “Mohegan” to fund name, removed outdated fiscal year references and added payment requirement for eligible special service districts, effective June 26, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. 97-11 amended Subsec. (h) to increase grant to Ledyard, North Stonington and Preston from $25,000 to $175,000 and to provide a grant of $150,000 to Montville, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-244, effective June 8, 1998, and P.A. 98-263, effective July 1, 1998, both added identical provisions as Subsec. (i) re payments to eligible service districts; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1 added Subsec. (i), codified by the Revisors as (j), re grant to Ledyard and Subsec. (j), codified by the Revisors as (k), re payment of $49,750,000 to municipalities, effective July 1, 1999 (Revisor’s note: Since this section, revised to January 1, 1999, already includes Subsecs.(a) to (i), inclusive, the Revisors editorially designated the two new Subsecs. added by this act as Subsecs. (j) and (k) respectively, and editorially changed a reference in Subsec. (k) from “... in accordance with subsections (a) to (i), inclusive, of this section ...” to “... in accordance with subsections (a) to (j), inclusive, of this section ...” to reflect the relettering of the new Subsecs.); May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 deleted former Subsec. (h) re additional grant to Ledyard, North Stonington, Preston and Montville, redesignated existing Subsec. (i) as Subsec. (h), deleted former Subsec. (j) re additional grant to Ledyard, added new Subsec. (i) re additional grant to Ledyard, Montville, Norwich, North Stonington and Preston, redesignated existing Subsec. (k) as Subsec. (j) and amended said Subsec. (j) to limit provisions re payment amount to three fiscal years, add new provision re payment amount for succeeding fiscal years and make technical changes, and added new Subsec. (k) re proportionate reduction, effective August 15, 2002; P.A. 03-278 made a technical change in Subsec. (j), effective July 9, 2003; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (i) to limit its provisions to three fiscal years, effective July 1, 2005.