The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to make available technical assistance to any municipality for the purpose of preparing a capital improvement program for such municipality. The commissioner shall adopt rules of procedures and methods of providing such technical assistance. Such assistance shall be rendered upon contractual agreement between the commissioner and the contracting agency of the municipality. Within the limitations of the amounts appropriated, the commissioner may provide up to three thousand dollars for the state's share of any such contractual agreement to any one municipality but in no case shall the commissioner provide more than fifty per cent of the total cost of preparation of such capital improvement program.

(March, 1958, P.A. 18, 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 Connecticut development commission; 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.