As used in this part:

(a) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing.

(b) “Community development activity” means any activity authorized under section 8-169f.

(c) “Community development agency” means any authority, commission, department or agency of a municipality, including an economic development agency, harbor improvement agency, housing site development agency, human resource development agency, or redevelopment agency, required by state law or designated by the legislative body of such municipality to carry out one or more community development activities.

(d) “Community development plan” means a plan prepared and adopted pursuant to sections 8-169c and 8-169d.

(e) “Community development program” means a program which is developed by a municipality to give maximum feasible priority to activities which will benefit low or moderate income families or aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight and also means activities which are designed to meet other community development needs having a particular urgency.

(f) “Harbor improvement”, “harbor improvement agency”, “harbor improvement plan” and “harbor improvement project” have the same meanings as in section 13b-56.

(g) “Housing site development agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 8-216b.

(h) “Housing for low and moderate income families and persons” means housing, the construction, rehabilitation, occupancy, rental and purchase of which is assisted in any way by the state or federal government which housing is subject to regulation or supervision of rents, charges or sales prices and methods of operation by a governmental agency under a regulatory agreement or other instrument which restricts occupancy of such housing to persons or families whose income do not exceed prescribed limits.

(i) “Human resource development agency” and “human resource development program” have the same meanings as in section 17b-852.

(j) “Municipality” means any city, town or borough.

(k) “Nonentitlement municipality” means a municipality which is not entitled to receive a basic grant or a hold harmless grant under Section 106 of said Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as from time to time amended.

(l) “Program period” means the period covering the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 1975 and each year commencing on July first thereafter or such other period of time as may be defined by the state, acting by and through the commissioner. Any program period approved by the United States government, acting by and through the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, for a municipality undertaking a community development activity shall also be deemed a program period.

(m) “Redevelopment”, “redevelopment agency”, “redevelopment area”, “redevelopment plan” and “redevelopment project” have the same meanings as in section 8-125.

(n) “Urban renewal”, “urban renewal area”, “urban renewal plan” and “urban renewal project” have the same meanings as in section 8-141.

(P.A. 75-443, S. 2, 15; P.A. 77-614, S. 284, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 81, 136; P.A. 79-598, S. 3, 4, 10; P.A. 88-280, S. 2; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2; P.A. 14-122, S. 78, 79.)

History: P.A. 77-614 substituted department of economic development for commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner for department; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 88-280 made technical changes to Subdiv. (g); P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing in Subdiv. (a), effective June 19, 2013; P.A. 14-122 made technical changes in Subdivs. (e) and (g).