Connecticut General Statutes 7-204 – Powers of parking authority
Such parking authority or parking division shall have the power, in the name of the municipality, to (1) create, establish, and expand wherever built by such municipality, off-street parking facilities; (2) acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease or condemnation, subject to the provisions of section 48-6, real property or any interest therein necessary for or incidental to the construction, maintenance, operation, or expansion of off-street parking facilities, provided such authority shall not be empowered to take by eminent domain any property from a corporation which has the right of eminent domain, and this chapter shall not affect the powers of eminent domain of any such corporation; prepare necessary plans and drawings; (3) construct or cause to be constructed parking facilities; (4) maintain and operate parking facilities; (5) establish and collect reasonable off-street parking fees; (6) give, grant or sell any real property owned by such parking authority to the municipality; dedicate any real property owned by such parking authority to the public purposes for a street or highway; (7) lease parking facilities or such expanded parking facilities as may be provided, and already subject to lease, to any public agency, individual, firm, corporation or hospital, as defined by subsection (b) of section 19a-490, upon such terms and conditions as the public interest may warrant; and (8) enforce parking regulations in a municipality that has adopted an ordinance under section 7-204a in accordance with the terms of such ordinance.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 7-204
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- municipality: means any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, and any fire district. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-202
- Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of section 7-157. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- parking authority: means a body corporate and politic created by the legislative body of any municipality as hereinafter provided. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-202
- parking division: means any existing municipal department, bureau, agency, commission or executive officer designated by any municipality as hereinafter provided. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-202
- parking facilities: means lots, garages, parking terminals or other structures and accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the street or highway and open to public use with or without charge. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-202
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.