2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 32 - Commerce and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 583 - Defense Contracts
Section 32-58 - Department to advise local governments. Commissioner to report annually on defense dependency.

The Department of Economic and Community Development shall advise and cooperate with any municipal or regional agency, commission or authority responsible for economic planning in order to formulate and implement plans to reduce the dependency of a municipal or regional economy on prime defense contracts and to alleviate the effects of a possible prime defense contract cutback. The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall submit on or before September first of each year to the Governor and the General Assembly a report which evaluates the extent to which the economy of the state is dependent on prime defense contracts, designates the municipalities or regions whose economies are particularly dependent on prime defense contracts, describes the adequacy of the steps being taken to meet potential problems resulting from such dependency and shall include recommendations as to the need for further legislative and administrative action to reduce such dependency and to aid areas which have been or may be impacted by prime defense contract cutbacks.

(P.A. 80-267, S. 10; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6.)

History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development.