Bill Text: CT HB05492 | 2012 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Providing Municipal Stormwater Authorities With Certain Corporate Powers.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-17 - Referred by House to Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding [HB05492 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05492-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 5492
February Session, 2012		*_____HB05492PD____032612____*

AN ACT PROVIDING MUNICIPAL STORMWATER AUTHORITIES WITH CERTAIN CORPORATE POWERS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) A municipal stormwater authority created pursuant to section 22a-498 of the general statutes shall constitute a body politic and corporate and the ordinance establishing such authority shall confer upon such authority the following powers as are provided in the ordinance: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) to acquire, hold and convey any estate, real or personal; (3) to contract; (4) to borrow money, including by the issuance of bonds; (5) to recommend to the legislative body of the municipality in which such authority district is located the imposition of a levy upon the taxable interests in real property within such authority district, the revenues from which may be used in carrying out any of the powers of such authority; (6) to construct, own, operate and maintain public or common improvements; (7) to provide, within such authority district, some or all of the other services which such municipality is authorized to provide therein, except that no such ordinance may confer upon any such authority the power to provide elementary or secondary public education services, and provided further no such ordinance may confer upon any such authority the power to provide services which are then being provided within any portion of the area included in such authority district by any multitown body or authority; (8) to deposit and expend funds; and (9) to enter property to make surveys, soundings, borings and examinations to accomplish the purposes of section 22a-498 of the general statutes.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) Any charge due to a municipal stormwater authority and not paid within thirty days of the due date shall thereupon be delinquent and shall bear interest from the due date at the rate and in the manner provided by the general statutes for delinquent property taxes. Any such unpaid charge shall constitute a lien upon the real estate against which such charge was levied from the date it became delinquent. Each such lien may be continued, recorded and released in the manner provided by the general statutes for continuing, recording and releasing property tax liens.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2012	New section
Sec. 2	October 1, 2012	New section

Statement of Legislative Commissioners:

In Subdiv. (5), the first reference to "authority" was changed to "authority district" for accuracy, and in Subdiv. (7), the second and third references to "authority district" were changed to "authority" for accuracy.

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Joint Favorable Subst.-LCO