(a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract or agreement with a state agency to provide state financial assistance to such state agency in the form of a grant-in-aid equal to two-thirds of the net cost of carrying out a program of relocation assistance pursuant to a relocation plan as provided under section 8-281 and approved by the commissioner. Such grant-in-aid shall: (1) Provide actual administration costs not to exceed one hundred dollars for each dwelling unit and two hundred fifty dollars for each farm or business relocated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; (2) provide advance grants for relocation assistance paid pursuant to the provisions of said section to persons, families, businesses and farm operations and nonprofit organizations not otherwise entitled to relocation assistance from any program of any other state agency or any program of the federal government and who have not been reimbursed for moving costs in a condemnation proceeding; (3) include the cost of the preparation of the relocation plan.

(b) The Commissioner of Housing shall not provide a grant-in-aid pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to any town, city or borough for the cost of carrying out a program of relocation assistance for persons displaced as the direct result of code enforcement activities undertaken by a town, city or borough, unless such town, city or borough (1) places, pursuant to section 8-270, a lien on all real property in such town, city or borough, which is owned by the landlord of the persons who are displaced by such code enforcement activities, and (2) assigns to the state the claim of the town, city or borough against such landlord for the costs of carrying out such program of relocation assistance. The Attorney General shall be responsible for collecting such claim and may carry out such responsibility by (A) enforcing any such lien assigned to the state by the town, city or borough, (B) placing and enforcing a lien on any other real property owned by the landlord in the state, or (C) instituting civil proceedings in the Superior Court against such landlord. Two-thirds of all funds collected by the Attorney General from a landlord pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the General Fund and the remaining one-third of such funds shall be remitted to the town, city or borough which brought code enforcement activities against such landlord.

(1971, P.A. 838, S. 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. 86-307, S. 7, 12; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)

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. 86-307 designated existing section as Subsec. (a) and added new Subsec. (b) re conditions for grants-in-aid pursuant to Subsec. (a); 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, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.