Sec. 7-510. State grants to municipalities based on housing units. Distribution formula.
Sec. 7-510. State grants to municipalities based on housing units. Distribution
formula. (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Federal housing units" means public housing units assisted by the United States
under the United States Housing Act, as amended, that are owned by a local housing
authority and listed in the 1994 Catalogue of Public Assisted Housing prepared by the
Connecticut Department of Housing;
(2) "State housing units" means governmentally assisted housing units as reported
on the 1996 Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure List, not including federal units; and
(3) "Municipality" means any town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or
consolidated town and borough.
(b) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall establish a grant
program to municipalities, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1999, based on the
number of federal and state housing units in each municipality. The amount of each grant
shall be determined as follows: (1) Seventy-five per cent of the amount appropriated for
the purposes of this section shall be distributed pro rata on the basis of the number of
federal housing units in each municipality; and (2) twenty-five per cent of such amount
shall be distributed on the basis of the number of state housing units in each municipality.
(c) On or before September 1, 1999, the secretary shall calculate the amount due
each municipality in accordance with the formula prescribed in subsection (b) of this
section and shall certify to the State Comptroller the amount due to each municipality.
(P.A. 98-263, S. 15, 21.)
History: P.A. 98-263 effective July 1, 1998 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (b) the Revisors editorially inserted a semicolon
before the phrase "and (2) twenty-five per cent", and in Subsec. (c) changed an incorrect reference to "subsection (a) of
this section" to "subsection (b) of this section").