Bill Text: CT SB01068 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Regional Blight.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-22 - Referred by Senate to Committee on Judiciary [SB01068 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-SB01068-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 1068
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 4311
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)

AN ACT CONCERNING REGIONAL BLIGHT.

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

Section 1. Section 7-148cc of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

(a) Two or more municipalities may jointly perform any function that each municipality may perform separately under any provisions of the general statutes or of any special act, charter or home rule ordinance by entering into an interlocal agreement pursuant to sections 7-339a to 7-339l, inclusive.

(b) Each municipality seeking to enter into an interlocal agreement to jointly perform blight enforcement shall each have adopted an ordinance pursuant to subparagraph (H)(xv) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 having the same language for regulating blight as any other municipality entering into such interlocal agreement.

(c) As used in this section, "municipality" means any municipality, as defined in section 7-187, any district, as defined in section 7-324, any metropolitan district or any municipal district created under section 7-330 and located within the state of Connecticut.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2015	7-148cc

Statement of Purpose:

To require municipalities seeking to regionalize blight enforcement to each adopt the same blight regulating ordinance.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]