Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-106
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Sec. 8-106. Definitions.
Official statutory text
(a) “Persons engaged in national defense activities” includes persons in the military service of the United States; employees of the United States Department of Defense; and workers engaged or to be engaged in activities connected with and essential to national defense; and includes the families of the aforesaid persons who are living with them.
(b) “National defense period” means the period, as determined by a housing authority, during which there exists or impends in the locality an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities.
(c) “Development” means all undertakings necessary for the planning, land acquisition, demolition, financing, construction or equipment in connection with a project, including the negotiation or award of contracts therefor, and includes the acquisition of any project, in whole or in part, from the federal government.
(d) “Administration” means all undertakings necessary for management, operation or maintenance, in connection with any project, and includes the leasing of any project, in whole or in part, from the federal government.
(e) The development of a project shall be deemed to be “initiated” if a housing authority has issued any bonds, notes or other obligations with respect to financing the development of such project of the housing authority, or has contracted with the federal government with respect to the exercise of powers hereunder in the development of such project of the federal government.
See Sec. 8-39 for definitions applicable to chapter as a whole.
(b) “National defense period” means the period, as determined by a housing authority, during which there exists or impends in the locality an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities.
(c) “Development” means all undertakings necessary for the planning, land acquisition, demolition, financing, construction or equipment in connection with a project, including the negotiation or award of contracts therefor, and includes the acquisition of any project, in whole or in part, from the federal government.
(d) “Administration” means all undertakings necessary for management, operation or maintenance, in connection with any project, and includes the leasing of any project, in whole or in part, from the federal government.
(e) The development of a project shall be deemed to be “initiated” if a housing authority has issued any bonds, notes or other obligations with respect to financing the development of such project of the housing authority, or has contracted with the federal government with respect to the exercise of powers hereunder in the development of such project of the federal government.
See Sec. 8-39 for definitions applicable to chapter as a whole.
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