Conn. Gen. Stat. § 3-55j

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Sec. 3-55j. Payments from fund.

Official statutory text

(b) No municipality shall receive a grant pursuant to subsection (a) of this section which, when added to the amount of the grant payable to such municipality pursuant to subsection (b) of section 12-18b , would exceed one hundred per cent of the property taxes which would have been paid with respect to all state-owned real property, except for the exemption applicable to such property, on the assessment list in such municipality for the assessment date two years prior to the commencement of the state fiscal year in which such grants are payable, except that, notwithstanding the provisions of said subsection (a), no municipality shall receive a grant pursuant to said subsection which is less than one thousand six hundred sixty-seven dollars.

(c) Twenty million one hundred twenty-three thousand nine hundred sixteen dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established pursuant to section 3-55i shall be paid to municipalities eligible for a state grant in lieu of taxes pursuant to subsection (b) of section 12-18b , in addition to the grants payable to such municipalities pursuant to section 12-18b , subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section. Such grant shall be equal to that paid to the municipality pursuant to this subsection for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015. Any eligible special services district shall receive a portion of the grant payable under this subsection to the town in which such district is located. The portion payable to any such district under this subsection shall be the amount of the grant to the town under this subsection which results from application of the district mill rate to exempt property in the district.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, no municipality shall receive a grant pursuant to said subsection which, when added to the amount of the grant payable to such municipality pursuant to subsection (b) of section 12-18b , would exceed one hundred per cent of the property taxes which, except for any exemption applicable to any private nonprofit institution of higher education, nonprofit general hospital facility or freestanding chronic disease hospital under the provisions of section 12-81 , would have been paid with respect to such exempt real property on the assessment list in such municipality for the assessment date two years prior to the commencement of the state fiscal year in which such grants are payable.

(e) Thirty-five million dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established pursuant to section 3-55i shall be paid to municipalities in accordance with the provisions of section 7-528 , except that for the purposes of section 7-528 , “adjusted equalized net grand list per capita” means the equalized net grand list divided by the total population of a town, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 10-261 , multiplied by the ratio of the per capita income of the town to the per capita income of the town at the one hundredth percentile among all towns in the state ranked from lowest to highest in per capita income, and “equalized net grand list” means the net grand list of such town upon which taxes were levied for the general expenses of such town two years prior to the fiscal year in which a grant is to be paid, equalized in accordance with section 10-261a .
to the per capita income of the town at the one hundredth percentile among all towns in the state ranked from lowest to highest in per capita income, and “equalized net grand list” means the net grand list of such town upon which taxes were levied for the general expenses of such town two years prior to the fiscal year in which a grant is to be paid, equalized in accordance with section 10-261a .

(f) Five million four hundred seventy-five thousand dollars of the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established pursuant to section 3-55i shall be paid to the following municipalities in accordance with the provisions of section 7-528 , except that for the purposes of said section 7-528 , “adjusted equalized net grand list per capita” means the equalized net grand list divided by the total population of a town, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 10-261 , multiplied by the ratio of the per capita income of the town to the per capita income of the town at the one hundredth percentile among all towns in the state ranked from lowest to highest in per capita income, and “equalized net grand list” means the net grand list of such town upon which taxes were levied for the general expenses of such town two years prior to the fiscal year in which a grant is to be paid, equalized in accordance with section 10-261a : Bridgeport, Hamden, Hartford, Meriden, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Waterbury and Windham.

(g) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) to (f), inclusive, of this section, the total grants paid to the following municipalities from the moneys available in the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund established pursuant to section 3-55i shall be as follows:

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