Connecticut General Statutes 8-188 – Designation of development agency
Any municipality which has a planning commission is authorized, by vote of its legislative body, to designate the economic development commission or the redevelopment agency of such municipality or a nonprofit development corporation as its development agency and exercise through such agency the powers granted under this chapter, except that the Quinnipiac Valley Development Corporation, organized and existing by virtue of the provisions of number 625 of the special acts of 1957, may be designated as a development agency, for the purposes of this chapter, to act as such within the geographical area specified in section 2 of said special act. Any municipality may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a separate economic development commission, redevelopment agency or nonprofit development corporation as its development agency for each development project undertaken by the municipality pursuant to this chapter.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 8-188
- commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-187
- 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.
- development agency: means the agency designated by a municipality under section 8-188 through which the municipality may exercise the powers granted under this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-187
- development project: means a project conducted by a municipality for the assembly, improvement and disposition of land or buildings or both to be used principally for industrial or business purposes and includes vacated commercial plants. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-187
- legislative body: means (A) the board of selectmen in a town that does not have a charter, special act or home rule ordinance relating to its government or (B) the council, board of aldermen, representative town meeting, board of selectmen or other elected legislative body described in a charter, special act or home rule ordinance relating to government in a city, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough or a town having a charter, special act, consolidation ordinance or home rule ordinance relating to its government. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-187
- municipality: means a town, city, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-187
- planning commission: means the planning and zoning commission designated pursuant to section 8-4a or the planning commission created pursuant to section 8-19. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-187