2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 128 - Department of Housing: Municipal Housing Projects
Section 8-68j - Financially distressed development. Transfer to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing;
(2) “Connecticut Housing Finance Authority” means the authority created and operating pursuant to the provisions of chapter 134;
(3) “Financially distressed development” means a housing development owned by a housing authority and subject to an asset that was transferred from the Department of Housing to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority pursuant to section 8-37u or subdivision (3) of section 32-11; and
(4) “Housing authority” means a local housing authority owning a financially distressed development.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, a housing authority may, with the approval of the Commissioner of Housing, quit claim or otherwise transfer its interest in a financially distressed development to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. The commissioner may grant such approval upon an express finding that: (1) The housing authority is financially unable to maintain the development; (2) there is no reasonable prospect that the housing authority will be able to maintain the property in the future; (3) the housing authority has requested to transfer the development; and (4) the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority is prepared to accept the transfer.
(June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 51; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 92; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 effective August 20, 2003; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2 amended Subsec. (a)(3) by making technical changes, effective May 12, 2004; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing and Department of Housing, respectively, effective June 19, 2013.
