The authority is authorized and empowered, directly or by and through a participating institution for higher education, a participating health care institution, a participating corporation or a participating nursing home or a participating qualified nonprofit organization, as its agent, to acquire by purchase or by gift or devise such lands, structures, property, real or personal, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and other interests in lands, including lands lying under water and riparian rights, which are located within or without the state as it may deem necessary or convenient for the construction or operation of a project, upon such terms and at such prices as may be considered by it to be reasonable and can be agreed upon between it and the owner thereof, and to take title thereto in the name of the authority or in the name of a participating institution for higher education, a participating health care institution, a participating corporation, or a participating nursing home or participating qualified nonprofit organization as its agent.

(February, 1965, P.A. 170, S. 7; 1967, P.A. 368, S. 6; P.A. 79-568, S. 5, 11; P.A. 82-16, S. 12, 19; P.A. 92-261, S. 4, 17.)

History: 1967 act included participating hospitals and removed restriction that purchases be “solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter”; P.A. 79-568 included participating corporations; P.A. 82-16 changed “hospital” to “health care institution”; Sec. 10-341 transferred to Sec. 10a-182 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 92-261 included the references to nursing homes and qualified nonprofit organizations.