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Home » US Law » 2022 Connecticut General Statutes » VOLUME 2 » Title 7 - Municipalities » Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities

Section 7-202. – Definitions.

When used in this chapter, “parking facilities” means lots, garages, parking terminals or other structures and accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the street or highway and open to public use with or without charge; “parking authority” means a body corporate and politic created by the legislative body of any municipality as hereinafter […]

Section 7-203. – Creation of parking authorities.

Any municipality may provide parking facilities and may, by ordinance, create a parking authority or designate a parking division for the purposes of creating and establishing off-street parking facilities. A parking authority created under the provisions of this section shall consist of five members, appointed by the chief executive officer of the municipality, not more […]

Section 7-204. – Powers of parking authority.

Such parking authority or parking division shall have the power, in the name of the municipality, to (1) create, establish, and expand wherever built by such municipality, off-street parking facilities; (2) acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease or condemnation, subject to the provisions of section 48-6, real property or any interest therein necessary for or […]

Section 7-204a. – Enforcement of municipal parking regulations.

Any consolidated town and city which (1) was consolidated in 1896, (2) has a mayor and a court of common council, and (3) has a population of more than one hundred thousand, may, by ordinance adopted by the court of common council, authorize the parking authority of such consolidated town and city to (A) enforce […]

Section 7-205. – Financing.

Such parking authority or parking division, subject to the specific authorization and approval of the legislative body, may finance the creation and establishment of parking facilities by any one, or any combination, of the following methods: (a) General obligation bonds, including such general obligation bonds as shall mature at such time on a maturity schedule […]

Section 7-206. – Revenue bonds.

(a) The legislative body of any municipality is authorized to provide, by ordinance, for the issuance of revenue bonds of the municipality to finance parking facilities. The bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest at such rate or rates, shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty-five years from their […]

Section 7-207. – Rates and charges.

The legislative body shall, in the ordinance providing for the issuance of revenue bonds, fix the initial schedule of minimum rates, rentals, fees and other charges for the use of, and for the service and facilities furnished or to be furnished by, each parking facility. After any parking facility has been in operation the legislative […]

Section 7-207a. – Use of parking meter revenues.

Any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize its parking authority or parking division to collect and receive all revenue from parking meters located on public streets in the municipality or to establish metered on-street parking zones. Any municipality that has adopted an ordinance under section 7-204a may authorize its parking authority to receive the amount remitted […]

Section 7-208. – Rights of bondholders.

Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent that the rights herein given may be restricted by the authorizing ordinance, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce all rights […]

Section 7-209. – Bonds to be tax-exempt.

Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state. (1953, S. 287d.)

Section 7-210. – Receipts to be trust funds.

All moneys received under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied as provided in this chapter. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds shall provide that any officer to whom, or bank, trust company or other fiscal agent to which, such moneys are paid […]

Section 7-212. – Parking authorities; tax exemption; investment of funds.

The property of any parking authority created under the authority of any general or special act shall be exempt from taxation, unless otherwise specifically provided in such general or special act or in the ordinance or resolution creating such parking authority. Any such parking authority may invest temporarily in direct obligations of the United States […]

Section 7-212a. – Public parking garages.

Any town, city or borough shall have the power to enter into agreements or contracts with any person or corporation for the erection and construction of public parking garages by such town, city or borough, or by such person or corporation or by the cooperative efforts of such town, city or borough and such person […]