Sec. 8-119k. Payment in lieu of taxes.

      Sec. 8-119k. Payment in lieu of taxes. In lieu of real property taxes, special benefit assessments and sewerage system use charges otherwise payable to a municipality, an eligible developer approved by the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development for state financial assistance for a congregate housing project, shall pay each year, to the municipality in which any of its congregate housing projects for the elderly or congregate housing portions of housing developments receiving financial assistance pursuant to subsection (a) or (e) of section 8-37qq, section 8-71, 8-118a, 8-119h, 8-119k, 8-119l, or 8-119gg, subsection (e) of section 8-214f, subsection (b) of section 8-216, subsection (f) of section 8-218, or section 8-218a or 8-356, is located, a sum to be determined by the municipality with the approval of the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development not in excess of ten per cent of the shelter rent per annum for each occupied dwelling unit in any such housing project; except that the amount of such payment shall not be so limited in any case where funds are made available for such payment by an agency or department of the United States government, but no payment shall exceed the amount of taxes which would be paid on the property were the property not exempt from taxation.

      (P.A. 79-394; P.A. 80-483, S. 27, 186; P.A. 93-309, S. 18, 29; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 06-93, S. 10.)

      History: P.A. 80-483 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 93-309 added provision requiring that payments be made for any congregate housing portion of a housing development receiving financial assistance under Secs. 8-430 to 8-438, inclusive, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 06-93 removed references to repealed sections and subsections.

      See Sec. 8-118a re payments in lieu of taxes on housing projects for the elderly.

      Cited. 206 C. 711.