Connecticut § 8-76a - Commissioner's authority to service notes and mortgages.

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§ 8-76a. Commissioner's authority to service notes and mortgages.

Sec. 8-76a. Commissioner's authority to service notes and mortgages. The Commissioner of Housing is authorized and directed on behalf of the state (a) to do any and all acts or things necessary or appropriate to service purchase money notes and mortgages originated pursuant to the provisions of section 8-76, including entering into agreements with banks, mortgage service agencies and other institutions to service such notes and mortgages for service fees payable from collections of principal and interest on such notes, (b) upon default in the repayment of any such purchase money note to acquire title to the premises mortgaged to secure the same in the name of the state by foreclosure or otherwise, and (c) upon acquisition by the state of title to any premises mortgaged to secure any such purchase money note, to dispose of the same for such price and upon such terms as he deems proper.

(February, 1965, P.A. 297, S. 2; 1967, P.A. 522, S. 8; P.A. 77-614, S. 284, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 81, 136; P.A. 79-598, S. 3, 4, 10; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)

History: 1967 act substituted commissioner of community affairs for public works commissioner; 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. 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, effective June 19, 2013.

Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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