Connecticut § 7-489 - Sale, lease, disposition and use of development property.
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§ 7-489. Sale, lease, disposition and use of development property.
Sec. 7-489. Sale, lease, disposition and use of development property. (a) A municipality shall have power to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or part of any development property to any governmental unit or sponsor and to make agreements of any kind with any governmental unit or sponsor for the use or operation thereof, for such consideration and for such period or periods of time and upon such other terms and conditions as the municipality may fix and agree upon. In the exercise of such power, the municipality may make any improved or unimproved development property available for use by a governmental unit or sponsor in accordance with the purposes of this chapter at its use value, being the value, whether expressed in terms of rental or capital price, at which the municipality determines such property should be made available in order that it may be developed or used for the purposes of this chapter.
(b) In order to assure that development property is developed or used in accordance with the purposes of this chapter, a municipality, upon the sale, lease or other disposition of such property, shall obligate purchasers, lessees or other users (1) to use such property for the purposes of this chapter, (2) to begin the building or installation of their improvements on any such property, and to complete the same, within such periods of time as the municipality may fix as reasonable, and (3) to comply with such other conditions as are necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Any such obligations imposed on a purchaser of real property shall be covenants and conditions running with the land for as long as any bonds issued in connection with such development property are outstanding.
(July Sp. Sess. P.A. 75-2, S. 10, 25; P.A. 06-196, S. 43.)
History: P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective June 7, 2006.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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