2023 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property
Section 8-169qq. - State's protection of authority's directors, officers and employees from financial loss arising from claim. State's assumption of liability on debt authority unable to pay.
(a) The state shall protect, save harmless and indemnify the directors, officers and employees of the Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority from financial loss and expenses, including legal fees and costs, if any, arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment based upon any alleged act or omission of any such director, officer or employee in connection with, or any other legal challenge to, authority development projects within a Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority development district, provided any such director, officer or employee is found to have been acting in the discharge of such director, officer or employee's duties or within the scope of such director, officer or employee's employment and any such act or omission is found not to have been wanton, reckless, wilful or malicious.
(b) In the event any bond, note or other obligation of the authority cannot be paid by the authority, the state shall assume the liability of and make payment on such debt.
(P.A. 19-117, S. 221.)
