Connecticut § 8-209 State grants-in-aid for demolition of unsafe structures; for urban beautification.

Connecticut Statutes

§ 8-209 — State grants-in-aid for demolition of unsafe structures; for urban beautification.

Connecticut § 8-209

Title 8Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Ch. 133Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-209 (2026).

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(a)The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance for the demolition of unsafe structures which under state or local law have been determined to be structurally unsound or unfit for human habitation and which such municipality has authority to demolish. Such contract shall provide state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to (1) two-thirds of the net cost of the demolition as approved by the commissioner, or (2) where the demolition is financed under the federal Housing Act of 1949, as amended, one-half of the amount by which the net cost of the demolition, as approved by the commissioner, exceeds the federal grant-in-aid thereof.

(b)The state, acting by and

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(a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance for the demolition of unsafe structures which under state or local law have been determined to be structurally unsound or unfit for human habitation and which such municipality has authority to demolish. Such contract shall provide state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to (1) two-thirds of the net cost of the demolition as approved by the commissioner, or (2) where the demolition is financed under the federal Housing Act of 1949, as amended, one-half of the amount by which the net cost of the demolition, as approved by the commissioner, exceeds the federal grant-in-aid thereof. (b) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance for programs of urban beautification; provided such program shall have been approved by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development under the federal Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, as amended. Such contract shall provide for state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to one-half of the amount by which the net cost of the program as approved by the commissioner exceeds the federal grant-in-aid thereof. See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.

Legislative History

(1967, P.A. 522, S. 12; P.A. 77-614, S. 292, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 13; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.) History: P.A. 77-614 specified that commissioner of economic development has contracting authority, previously “commissioner” had meant commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.