Bill Text: CT SB00328 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Municipal Applications For Land Use Permits And Tax Abatements.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-04 - Bill Passed Temporarily [SB00328 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2016-SB00328-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2016 |
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AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL APPLICATIONS FOR LAND USE PERMITS AND TAX ABATEMENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2016) (a) In addition to any powers it has under the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, each municipality shall require each applicant for a land use permit filed with such municipality's zoning commission, planning commission, combined planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals or inland wetlands commission or for a tax abatement to disclose the following in writing: (1) The name, address, Internet web site address, if any, and telephone number of the developers of any property subject to the application, (2) a statement describing the specific purpose of the application, (3) the relationship of the person signing the application to the property owner and developer, if such person is not the property owner or developer, together with the nature of the authority upon which the person signing the application has relied in signing the application, and (4) any contractual relationship of the applicant to any property developer that the applicant has contracted with, in writing, prior to the date of the application, regarding the property that is the subject of the application.
(b) Each applicant required to make disclosures pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall update any change in the information disclosed pursuant to said subsection not later than ten business days after such change.
(c) Any person who files an application described in subsection (a) of this section shall include a brief statement in any public notice made pursuant to such application that identifies the specific purpose of such application.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2016 |
New section |
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 1(a)(4), the language was rearranged for clarity, in Section 1(b), "specified in" was changed to "disclosed pursuant to", for clarity and consistency, and in Section 1(c), "An applicant filing" was changed to "Any person who files" for clarity.
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Joint Favorable Subst. |