History: 1967 acts gave public works commissioner power to define family income to provide basis for eligibility determination, prohibited refusal to rent if occupant is child born out of wedlock and substituted commissioner of community affairs for public works commissioner; P.A. 77-614 substituted department of economic development for commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of economic development for department of economic development; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 82-130 provided for the issuance of a receipt and the maintenance of a list of applicants; P.A. 84-143 required the commissioner of housing to provide, by regulation, for the manner of creation, maintenance and revision of waiting lists; 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, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013; P.A. 23-207 designated existing provisions as Subsecs. (a),(b) and (e) to (g), added Subsec. (c) requiring housing authorities to post housing voucher payment standards on their Internet web sites, added Subsec. (d) requiring the Commissioner of Housing to create a common rental application, and made technical and conforming changes throughout.
See Sec. 8-45a re criteria and consideration of applicant's or proposed occupant's history of criminal activity.
See Sec. 8-72 re rentals and tenant eligibility in moderate income housing.
Duties of commissioners. 164 C. 247. Cited. 213 C. 354.