Connecticut General Statutes 8-271 – Relocation assistance advisory program
(a) Whenever a program or project undertaken by a state agency or under the supervision of a state agency will result in the displacement of any person on or after July 6, 1971, such agency shall provide a relocation assistance advisory program for displaced persons which shall offer the services described herein. If the state agency determines that any person occupying property immediately adjacent to any real property acquired is caused substantial economic injury because of such acquisition, it may offer such person relocation advisory services under such program.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 8-271
- Business: means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily (A) for the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing or marketing of products, commodities or any other personal property. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-267
- Displaced person: means (A) any person who, on or after July 6, 1971, moves from real property, or moves his or her personal property from real property, as a result of the acquisition of such real property, in whole or in part, or as the result of the written order of the acquiring agency to vacate real property, for a program or project undertaken by or supervised by a state agency or unit of local government and solely for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of §. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-267
- Farm operation: means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-267
- Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-267
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- State agency: means any department, agency or instrumentality of the state or of a political subdivision of the state, or local housing authorities, or any department, agency or instrumentality of two or more political subdivisions of the state, but shall not include community housing development corporations authorized under §. See Connecticut General Statutes 8-267
(b) Each relocation advisory assistance program required by subsection (a) of this section shall include such measures, facilities, or services as may be necessary or appropriate in order (1) to determine the needs, if any, of displaced persons for relocation assistance; (2) to provide current and continuing information on the availability, prices and rentals, of comparable decent, safe and sanitary sales and rental housing, and of comparable commercial properties and locations for displaced businesses; (3) to assure that, within a reasonable period of time, prior to displacement there will be available in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced, decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, as defined by the Commissioner of Transportation for transportation projects and by the Commissioner of Housing for all other state agency programs and projects, equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced persons who require such dwellings and reasonably accessible to their places of employment, except that the Commissioner of Transportation for transportation projects and the Commissioner of Housing for all other state agency programs and projects may prescribe by regulation situations when such assurances may be waived; (4) to assist a displaced person displaced from the person’s business or farm operation in obtaining and becoming established in a suitable replacement location; (5) to supply information concerning federal and state housing programs, disaster loan programs and other federal and state programs offering assistance to displaced persons; (6) to provide other advisory assistance services to displaced persons in order to minimize hardship to such persons in adjusting to relocation.
(c) The heads of state agencies shall coordinate relocation activities with project work, and other planned or proposed governmental actions in the community or nearby areas which may affect the carrying out of the relocation assistance programs.