Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-42

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Sec. 8-42. Commissioners and executive or managerial employees to have no interest in project. Limitation on employment of former commissioners.

Official statutory text

(b) No person who has served as a commissioner of an authority shall be employed by such authority for a period of two years after leaving office. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a commissioner who has served for more than twenty years for a housing authority which does not have an executive director.

Tenant may not serve as commissioner of the housing project in which he lives. 164 C. 247.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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