Sec. 8-169u. Financial assistance. Abatement of real property taxes.
Sec. 8-169u. Financial assistance. Abatement of real property taxes. (a) An
urban homesteading agency may provide financial assistance to urban homesteaders
for the purchase and rehabilitation of, or construction on, urban homestead program
property. Such financial assistance may be in the form of grants, loans or deferred loans
for the community housing development corporation chartered under section 8-218f
and in the form of loans for other urban homesteaders. All such loans or deferred loans,
if made by the urban homesteading agency, shall be secured by a mortgage naming the
municipality as the mortgagee, provided if any such loans are made from funds provided
by the state or federal government or any other public or private entity, the state or
federal government or the public or private agency may be the mortgagee, and provided
further that a municipality may assign any such mortgage to another entity. In the case
of a deferred loan, the contract shall require that payments on interest are due immediately but that payments on principal may be made at a later time.
(b) An urban homesteading agency may utilize federal, state or other public or
private financial assistance, provided that any such assistance requiring local financial
participation shall be first approved by the legislative body of the municipality.
(c) An urban homesteading agency may recommend to the legislative body the
abatement in whole or in part of real property taxes due on urban homestead program
property conveyed to an urban homesteader pursuant to sections 8-169s and 8-169t, or
the deferral of such taxes for a period not to exceed ten years. Such legislative body
may, by resolution, authorize such abatement. All urban homestead program property
conveyed to an urban homesteader may be designated by the legislative body of a municipality as property eligible for deferral of increased assessment under the provisions of
sections 12-65c to 12-65f, inclusive.
(P.A. 75-452, S. 7, 8; P.A. 76-57, S. 1, 3; P.A. 86-405, S. 8, 12; P.A. 87-417, S. 3, 10; P.A. 92-166, S. 8, 31.)
History: P.A. 76-57 substituted "resolution" for "ordinance"; P.A. 86-405 authorized urban homesteading agency to
provide financial assistance for construction on urban homestead program property and allowed financial assistance to be
in form of grants or loans for limited equity cooperatives and community housing development corporation chartered under
Sec. 8-218e and in form of loans for other urban homesteaders; P.A. 87-417 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provisions
re assistance to limited equity cooperatives, effective July 1, 1988; P.A. 92-166 amended Subsec. (a) by making deferred
loans a form of financial assistance available under the section and providing that payments on interest are due immediately
but that payments on principal may be made at a later time.