Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 835 · 33 active provisions
(a) The consent of the state of Connecticut is given, in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, of any land in this state required for customhouses, courthouse…
Section 48-2 is repealed.
Any town may take land which has been fixed upon as a site, or addition to a site, of a town house or a town hall, and which is necessary or convenient for such purposes and for necessary outbuildings and convenient accommodations for the same, and for light and air for the same, upon paying to the owner just compensat…
Section 48-4 is repealed.
Towns shall have the same powers and be subject to the same regulations as school districts, in taking land for schoolhouses and other school purposes.
(a) Any municipal corporation having the right to purchase real property for its municipal purposes which has, in accordance with its charter or the general statutes, voted to purchase the same shall have power to take or acquire such real property, within the corporate limits of such municipal corporation, and if such…
When any town, borough or fire district votes to acquire any tract of land within its limits for the purpose of a public square, common or park, and cannot obtain such land by agreement with the owner thereof, it may take the same for such purpose in the manner provided by sections 48-3 and 48-12, provided no land occu…
Whenever any town in lawful meeting has authorized the erection of a building for the protection of its records against fire, and the selectmen, or a committee appointed for the purpose, fail to agree upon a site for such building, or, having fixed upon a site, are unable to agree with the owner upon the amount of comp…
Subject to the provisions of section 4b-23, the state may take land, or any interest or estate therein, for the site, or for any addition to the site, of any state institution or courthouse, or for any addition to the site of any institution within the Connecticut State University System, Technical Education and Career…
The determination of the amount of damages in any case brought by the state to condemn land or any interest therein shall be referred to a state referee.
Whenever the state takes property under any provision of the general statutes or any special act, and the state and the owner or owners of such property or of any interest therein are unable to agree on the amount to be paid as just compensation for such property, the taking authority shall file, with the clerk of the…
The procedure for condemning land or other property for any of the purposes specified in sections 48-3, 48-6, 48-8 and 48-9, if those desiring to take such property cannot agree with the owner upon the amount to be paid him for any property thus taken, shall be as follows: The Comptroller in the name of the state, any…
Upon filing a notice of condemnation of a condemning authority, either before or after the institution of a condemnation proceeding and after reasonable notice to the property owner or owners affected, the Superior Court or any judge thereof may authorize such condemning authority to enter upon and into land and buildi…
When any land is taken in eminent domain proceedings authorized under any provision of the general statutes or any special act, the value of any crops upon the land subject to condemnation shall be taken into account in computing the damage.
When land is taken by eminent domain under the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, and local real estate taxes are apportioned by the condemnor as of the date of condemnation in a manner differing from the common custom, method or practice in the town where the land is located, and the condemnor's ma…
Whenever any state department or agency had, prior to August 19, 1955, determined upon private property to be condemned for purposes of such department or agency and had filed with any officer of the municipality within which such property was located maps or planning map sheets indicating such property, which property…
Section 48-16 is repealed.
Any amount found due from the state for property taken by condemnation proceedings, as provided in section 48-12, shall be paid upon order of the Comptroller from the General Fund of the state.
The state court having jurisdiction of a proceeding instituted by a state agency to acquire real property by condemnation shall award the owner of any right, or title to, or interest in, such real property such sum as will in the opinion of the court reimburse such owner for his reasonable costs, disbursements and expe…
The state court rendering a judgment for the plaintiff in an inverse condemnation proceeding brought against the state by the owner of real property, or the Attorney General effecting a settlement of any such proceeding, shall determine and award or allow to such plaintiff, as a part of such judgment or settlement, suc…
Any award made pursuant to section 48-17a or 48-17b shall be paid by the head of the state agency for whose benefit the condemnation proceedings was instituted.
In all condemnation proceedings, environmental remediation costs shall be considered in assessing fair market value.
The owner of any cemetery who wishes to enlarge its limits by adding land, the title to which he cannot otherwise acquire, may prefer a complaint for the right to take the same to the superior court for the judicial district in which such land is situated; and said court may appoint a committee of three disinterested p…
When land is taken for railroad purposes or for any other use public in its character and the amount found due by the court as damages for taking such land is deposited with the State Treasurer for the use of the owner of the land so taken, the State Treasurer shall keep such deposit for the persons owning the same, th…
Whenever any public or private corporation, authorized by law to condemn land for a public use, proceeds to condemn the lands of any infant, cestui que trust or person non compos mentis, such lands may be taken on giving notice to the trustee of any such cestui que trust, the guardian, legally appointed, of such infant…