2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 128 - Department of Economic and Community Development: Municipal Housing Projects

PART I*
CREATION AND POWERS OF AUTHORITY.GENERAL PROVISIONS.LOW AND MODERATE INCOME RENTAL HOUSING

• Section 8-38 - Finding and declaration of necessity.
• Section 8-39 - Definitions.
• Section 8-39a - “Affordable housing” defined.
• Section 8-40 - Creation of housing authorities.
• Section 8-41 - Appointment. Qualifications and tenure of commissioners. Selection of tenant commissioners. Commissioners authorized to serve as justice of the peace or registrar of voters.
• Section 8-41a - Liability of authority for actions of commissioners and employees.
• Section 8-42 - Commissioners and executive or managerial employees to have no interest in project. Limitation on employment of former commissioners.
• Section 8-43 - Removal of commissioners; subpoenas.
• Section 8-44 - Powers of authority.
• Section 8-44a - Housing authority programs for social and supplementary services, project rehabilitation and improvement and energy conservation. State grants-in-aid, loans and deferred loans. Rental Rehabilitation Fund. Operation or management plan for housing projects.
• Section 8-44b - Housing authority police force.
• Section 8-45 - Rental rates and tenant selection for low rental projects.
• Section 8-45a - Consideration of criminal record, alcohol abuse and status as registered sexual offender of applicant or proposed occupant.
• Section 8-45b - Waiver of regulations.
• Section 8-46 - Penalty for false statement.
• Section 8-47 - Considerations in fixing income limits.
• Section 8-48 - Rentals for persons receiving welfare aid.
• Section 8-49 - Cooperation of housing authorities.
• Section 8-50 - Eminent domain.
• Section 8-51 - Zoning and building laws.
• Section 8-52 - Bonds.
• Section 8-53 - Provisions of bonds, trust indentures and mortgages.
• Section 8-54 - Remedies of an obligee of authority.
• Section 8-55 - Additional remedies conferrable by authority.
• Section 8-56 - Aid from federal and state governments.
• Section 8-56a - Public hearing prior to construction by authority or developer of HUD-assisted projects.
• Section 8-57 - Agreements to secure federal assistance.
• Section 8-58 - Exemption from taxes and Uniform Securities Act. Payments in lieu of taxes.
• Section 8-59 - Contracts for payments to state public body.
• Section 8-60 - Cooperation in undertaking housing projects.
• Section 8-61 - Advances to housing authority; bonds and notes issued to finance housing projects.
• Section 8-62 - Procedure for state public body.
• Section 8-63 - Reports.
• Section 8-64 - Disposal of property by a housing authority.
• Section 8-64a - Disposal of housing project by housing authority.
• Section 8-64b - Nondisclosure of tenant Social Security and bank account numbers.
• Section 8-64c - Resident participation plan for major physical transformation and disposition activities.
• Section 8-65 - Exemption of property from execution sale.
• Section 8-66 - Administration of projects established for housing war workers.
• Section 8-67 - Injury on housing authority property.
• Section 8-68 - Housing research and studies.
• Section 8-68a - State grants for community centers.
• Section 8-68b - Bond issue.
• Section 8-68c - Notice of certain actions concerning federally assisted multifamily rental housing for low and moderate income persons and families.
• Section 8-68d - Housing authority annual report.
• Section 8-68e - Financial assistance to housing authorities for rehabilitation of uninhabitable dwelling units.
• Section 8-68f - Tenants’ rights and grievance procedures. Regulations.
• Section 8-68g - Developer’s fees charged by eligible developers.
• Section 8-68h - Tenant escrow accounts.
• Section 8-68i - Emergency housing in projects.
• Section 8-68j - Financially distressed development. Transfer to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.
• Section 8-68k - Compliance with requirements for operation and disposition of housing projects by successor.

PART II*
MODERATE RENTAL HOUSING

• Section 8-69 - Moderate rental housing projects and moderate cost housing; declaration of policy.
• Section 8-70 - State assistance.
• Section 8-70a - Pilot program for rehabilitation and private management of moderate rental housing projects.
• Section 8-71 - Payments in lieu of taxes, assessments and use charges.
• Section 8-72 - Operation of projects. Rentals. Tenant eligibility. Inspections. Semiannual statements. Penalty for false statement.
• Section 8-72a - Maximum income limits. Exceptions: Factors to be considered.
• Section 8-73 - Eviction of families having income over maximum limits. Waiver of eviction requirement.
• Section 8-74 - Hearing on and approval of proposed projects. Use of modern materials. Regulations. Wage rates.
• Section 8-75 - Veterans’ preference.
• Section 8-76 - Sale of projects. Regulations to establish priority order of purchasers. Payment and disposition of purchase price.
• Section 8-76a - Commissioner’s authority to service notes and mortgages.
• Section 8-77 - Preference among municipalities.
• Section 8-78 - Aggregate of bonds and notes state may issue for moderate rental housing projects.
• Section 8-79 - Preliminary expenses.
• Section 8-79a - Regulations.
• Section 8-80 - Issuance of bonds and notes.
• Section 8-81 - Repayment of loans.
• Section 8-81a - Housing project adaptable for use and occupancy by disabled persons. Pilot program. Regulations. Report.

PART III*
MODERATE COST HOUSING

• Section 8-82 - Purchase and sale of units by state. Insurance of mortgage loans. Mortgage loans.
• Section 8-83 - Preference in granting mortgage loans.
• Section 8-84 - Regulations.
• Section 8-85 - Foreclosure; conveyance of title and assignment of claims to state.
• Section 8-86 - Housing bonds or notes.
• Section 8-87 - Housing Mortgage Fund.
• Section 8-88 - Investment.
• Section 8-89 - Commissioner to be agent for mortgages and loans.
• Section 8-90 - Applicability of provisions.
• Section 8-91 - Payment of administrative expenses.
• Section 8-92 - Inspection by commissioner.
• Section 8-93 - Tax exemption.
• Section 8-94 - Wage rates.

PART IV
FLOOD RELIEF HOUSING

• Section 8-95 to 8-104 - Flood relief housing, generally.

PART V
HOUSING FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL AND DEFENSE WORKERS

• Section 8-105 - Declaration of public necessity.
• Section 8-106 - Definitions.
• Section 8-107 - Development of projects.
• Section 8-108 - Cooperation with housing authorities or federal government.
• Section 8-109 - Bonds to be legal investments.
• Section 8-110 - Federal aid.
• Section 8-111 - Powers to be additional.

PART VI*
HOUSING FOR ELDERLY PERSONS

• Section 8-112 - Declaration of policy.
• Section 8-112a - Declaration of policy.
• Section 8-113 - Definitions. Powers of housing authorities.
• Section 8-113a - Definitions.
• Section 8-114 - Contracts for state assistance.
• Section 8-114a - State assistance to authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit corporations and housing partnerships.
• Section 8-114b - Municipal authorities.
• Section 8-114c - Mobile manufactured homes. Transfer to municipal housing authorities.
• Section 8-114d - Resident services coordinators.
• Section 8-115 - Commission to approve plans, financing and rental.
• Section 8-115a - Authority of Commissioner of Economic and Community Development.
• Section 8-115b - Powers of authority.
• Section 8-116 - Occupants need not be family units; design of construction; housing restricted to elderly.
• Section 8-116a - Occupants need not be family units; design of construction; maximum income and asset limit; waiting list; false statement.
• Section 8-116b - Possession of pets.
• Section 8-116c - Eligibility for occupancy. Eviction.
• Section 8-116d - Termination of lease or rental agreement upon acceptance for admission to housing project.
• Section 8-117 - Establishment of rentals. Penalty for false statement concerning income.
• Section 8-117a - Applicability of other statutes.
• Section 8-117b - Disposal of projects. Conversion to a congregate housing project.
• Section 8-118 - Payments in lieu of taxes and assessments.
• Section 8-118a - Payments in lieu of taxes and assessments.
• Section 8-118b - Contract to convey project to state on default.
• Section 8-118c - Bond issue for additional development cost of projects.
• Section 8-119 - Bond issue.
• Section 8-119a - Bond issues.
• Section 8-119b - Expenses payable from fund.
• Section 8-119c - Amendment of contracts for assistance.

PART VII*
CONGREGATE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

• Section 8-119d - Declaration of policy.
• Section 8-119e - Definitions.
• Section 8-119f - Program design and oversight.
• Section 8-119g - Implementation. Maximum income limits for admission. Deduction for congregate housing employment income.
• Section 8-119h - State assistance to authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit corporations and housing partnerships.
• Section 8-119i - Bond issues. Administrative costs.
• Section 8-119j - Conversion to a “housing project”.
• Section 8-119k - Payment in lieu of taxes.
• Section 8-119l - Operating subsidies for congregate housing projects.
• Section 8-119m - Congregate housing and congregate housing project joint pilot program. Regulations.
• Section 8-119n - Congregate housing project pilot program offering assisted living services. Regulations. Report.
• Section 8-119o to 8-119s - Reserved for future use.

PART VIII
INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR HANDICAPPEDAND DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS

• Section 8-119t - Grants-in-aid for expanding independent living opportunities. Definition. Regulations.
• Section 8-119u to 8-119w - Reserved for future use.
• Section 8-119x - Database of dwelling units suitable for persons with disabilities.
• Section 8-119y and 8-119z - Reserved for future use.

PART IX
CONVERSION CONDOMINIUMS

• Section 8-119aa - Purchase of conversion condominiums for state assisted housing.

PART X
HOUSING FOR LOW INCOME PERSONS

• Section 8-119bb - Declaration of policy.
• Section 8-119cc - Implementation.
• Section 8-119dd - State assistance to authorities, municipal developers, nonprofit corporations and housing partnerships.
• Section 8-119ee - Bond issue.
• Section 8-119ff - Preliminary expenses.
• Section 8-119gg - Payments in lieu of taxes and assessments.
• Section 8-119hh - Disposal of projects.
• Section 8-119ii - Expenses payable from fund.
• Section 8-119jj - Regulations.
• Section 8-119kk - Rental assistance for elderly persons residing in state-assisted rental housing for the elderly. Regulations.
• Section 8-119ll - Comprehensive assessment of rental assistance for the elderly and disabled.
• Section 8-119mm to 8-119yy - Reserved for future use.