Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 477 · 36 active provisions
It is hereby found and declared that, because of the occurrence of severe storms accompanied by winds up to hurricane force, abnormal high tides and tide flooding, the lives and property of residents and other persons within areas exposed to such hazards are endangered, and that, in the interest of public health, safet…
Land areas fronting on the ocean, or on bays, inlets and coves, or bordering on rivers in which tides occur, that are subject to the full force of storms; or land areas in direct contact with storm waves, including banks, bluffs, cliffs, promontories and headlands or similar topographical or geological formations, that…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to provide for the payment by the state of the total cost of any flood or erosion control system when such system is for the benefit of state parks or state-owned land. When such system is for the benefit of municipally owned littoral or riparian pro…
(a) The cost, or part thereof, of construction of any such system or the local cash contribution required by the federal government for construction of such system may be paid in the first instance by the state from the proceeds of the issuance of bonds or notes as may be authorized from time to time, or from direct ap…
The State Treasurer shall issue bonds and notes of the state, in accordance with the provisions of section 3-20, in the sum of five million dollars to be denominated on the face thereof “Beach Erosion and Flood Control Bonds of the State of Connecticut”, or “Beach Erosion and Flood Control Notes of the State of Connect…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to make arrangements for the use of the facilities and services of the federal government, the municipalities or agencies of the state for the design and construction of such systems. Any funds now available or which may hereafter be appropriated by…
Subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission, any expense incurred in connection with entering upon necessary contracts, the rehabilitation of projects constructed under section 25-72 which have been subjected to unusual and unanticipated hurricane and storm damages, and similar expenses, shall be paid from the…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to negotiate, cooperate and enter into agreements with the federal government and with any municipality through its flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control board for the purpose of constructing small flood control systems or tidal an…
Section 25-77 is repealed.
The cost of all local contributions or part thereof for the construction of any projects under the provisions of section 25-76 may be paid in the first instance by the state from the proceeds of the issuance of the bonds or notes as may be authorized from time to time, or from direct appropriation.
The State Treasurer shall issue bonds and notes of the state, in accordance with the provisions of section 3-20, in the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars, to be denominated on the face thereof “Small Flood Control Project Bonds of the State of Connecticut”, or “Small Flood Control Project Notes of t…
The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized to give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army as provided in Section 701c, Chapter 15, Title 33 of the United States Code Annotated that the state will (1) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements and rights-of-wa…
The State Treasurer shall issue bonds and notes of the state, in accordance with the provisions of section 3-20, in the sum of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars to be denominated on the face thereof “Flood Control Project Bonds of the State of Connecticut” or “Flood Control Project Notes of the State of…
Subject to the approval of the Finance Advisory Committee, any expense incurred in connection with entering upon necessary contracts, and similar expenses, shall be paid from the accrued interest and premiums or from the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and notes authorized by section 25-81, and in the same manner as…
The Governor, with the approval of the Finance Advisory Committee, is authorized to give assurances that the state will hold and save the United States free from claims or damages resulting from any project or system for the improvement of navigation of any harbor or river or for the protection of life and property aga…
Whenever the construction of any flood control project, including its reservoirs, for which the state has agreed to provide the necessary lands, easements and rights-of-way, requires the readjustment, relocation or removal of any public service facility, as defined in section 13a-126, located within, on, along, over or…
(a) (1) Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, adopt the provisions of this section and sections 25-85 to 25-94, inclusive, and exercise through a flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control board the powers granted thereunder. In each town, except as otherwise provided by special act, the…
(a) Such board shall have authority, within the limits of appropriations from time to time made by the municipality or municipalities, as applicable, to plan, lay out, acquire, construct, reconstruct, repair, maintain, supervise, operate and manage a flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system. As u…
Such board is authorized to enter upon and to take and hold, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, any real property or interest therein which it determines is necessary for use in connection with the flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system. Whenever the board is unable to agree with the owner…
At any time after voting to acquire, construct, reconstruct, operate or maintain any flood prevention, climate resilience and erosion control system or portion thereof, the board in its discretion may elect to defray the cost thereof by issuing bonds or other evidences of debt, from general taxation, special assessment…
Whenever any assessment is made as herein provided, the amount to be raised thereby shall be apportioned among the properties benefited according to such rule as the board may adopt, based upon area, street frontage, assessed valuation of the land in the last-completed grand list of the municipality, the present or per…
If any assessment is not valid or enforceable for any reason, a new assessment may be made in the manner hereinbefore provided for the determination of the original assessment. If any assessment is made which is not sufficient to cover the entire cost of the work to be paid for by such assessment, a supplementary asses…
Assessments shall be due and payable at such time as may be fixed by the board, provided no assessment shall become due until the work, or particular portion thereof for which such assessment was levied, has been completed. The board shall give notice of the date when such assessments are due and payable by publication…
The board may provide for the payment of such assessments in such number of substantially equal annual installments, not exceeding twenty, as it determines, and may provide for interest charges on any deferred payments. Any person who has elected to pay his assessment in more than one installment may make payment at an…
The proceeds of such assessments, whether or not pledged for the payment of securities, shall be segregated from other funds of the municipality and shall be used only to pay for the construction, reconstruction, repair, maintenance, supervision, operation or management of the flood prevention, climate resilience and e…