Sec. 18-31b. Gratuitous transfer of abandoned facilities to municipalities or municipal redevelopment agencies. Auction. Payment to state upon transfer. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 18-31b. Gratuitous transfer of abandoned facilities to municipalities or municipal redevelopment agencies. Auction. Payment to state upon transfer. (a) Whenever any community correctional center and the land used in connection therewith is no longer needed as a place for penal or correctional purposes, the Community Correctional Center Administrator shall certify to the State Treasurer, the Commissioner of Public Works and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, within six months thereafter, that such facility and land are not required for penal or correctional purposes. If at any time thereafter the Commissioner of Public Works and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the State Treasurer jointly certify that such property or any portion thereof is surplus and not needed for any other purpose of the state, the Treasurer shall forthwith and gratuitously transfer such property to (1) the municipality in which the facility and land are situated, provided the municipality by vote of its legislative body shall first accept such property and a resolution of such action verified by the clerk of the municipality shall be delivered to the Treasurer or (2) the redevelopment agency of the municipality if the land is situated or included in a redevelopment area of the municipality, upon request to the Treasurer by such agency, without restriction as to municipal use; if the transfer has been made, the municipal use restriction shall be removed by appropriate release from the Treasurer. If such property is not transferred to such municipality or the redevelopment agency thereof, such property shall be auctioned according to regular procedure by the state to the highest bidder. No separate residential dwelling unit or the land on which it is situated owned by the state and used or formerly used by community correctional center administration personnel of any abandoned community correctional center shall be included in the conveyance of community correctional center facilities to the municipality, but such residential property may be sold by the state to the highest bidder after certification to the Treasurer by the Community Correctional Center Administrator that the property is no longer needed for housing of community correctional center administration personnel.

      (b) If such land or any interest therein is transferred by the municipality or by the redevelopment agency of such municipality, one-half of the transfer price shall be remitted to the state.

      (1967, P.A. 646, S. 1, 2; 1969, P.A. 297; 801; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 73, 610; P.A. 87-496, S. 85, 110.)

      History: 1969 acts required gratuitous transfer in Subsec. (a), required notice of action to accept property to municipal redevelopment agency, rather than transfer to redevelopment agency and required that property not transferred be auctioned, deleted former Subsec. (b) re use as museum with new provision requiring that state receive half of transfer price if land transferred by municipality or redevelopment agency and replaced jails with community correctional centers; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of public works with commissioner of administrative services and commissioner of finance and control with secretary of the office of policy and management; P.A. 87-496 substituted public works for administrative services commissioner in Subsec. (a).