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Statutes > Connecticut > Title10 > Chap173 > Sec10-284Sec. 10-284. Approval or disapproval of applications by Commissioner of Education. (a) The Commissioner of Education shall have authority to receive, review and approve applications for state grants under this chapter, or to disapprove any such application if (1) it does not comply with the requirements of the State Fire Marshal or the Department of Public Health, (2) it is not accompanied by a life-cycle cost analysis approved by the Commissioner of Public Works pursuant to section 16a-38, (3) it does not comply with the provisions of sections 10-290d and 10-291 or (4) it does not meet the standards or school building priorities established by the State Board of Education.
(b) (1) The Commissioner of Education may also disapprove such a grant application: (A) For a project for which the General Assembly authorized a grant commitment prior to June 14, 1984, if the town or regional school district has not begun construction, as defined in section 10-282, by July 1, 1987; or (B) for any other project if the town or regional school district has not begun construction, as defined in section 10-282, within two years after the effective date of the act of the General Assembly authorizing the Commissioner of Education to enter into grant commitments for such projects as provided in sections 10-283 and 10-283a.
(2) Prior to disapproval of an application under the provisions of subparagraph (A) of subdivision (1) of this subsection, the commissioner shall give written notice of the pending disapproval by mail to (A) the school building committee formed in connection with the application, (B) the local or regional board of education, and (C) if the applicant is a local board, to the chief executive officer of the town or if the applicant is a regional board, to the chief executive officer of each of the district's member towns. The notice shall be given twice. The first such notice shall be mailed not later than September 1, 1986, and the second notice shall be mailed not later than March 1, 1987.
(c) When any such application is approved, said commissioner shall certify to the Comptroller the amount of the grant for which the town or regional school district is eligible under this chapter and the amount and time of the payment thereunder. Upon receipt of such certification, the Comptroller is authorized and directed to draw his order on the Treasurer in such amount and at such time as certified by said commissioner.
(November, 1949, 1953, S. 981d; 1957, P.A. 593, S. 3; 1959, P.A. 321, S. 2; 611, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 638, S. 3; P.A. 73-165; P.A. 76-418, S. 4, 18; P.A. 77-597, S. 2; 77-614, S. 73, 323, 587, 610; P.A. 78-331, S. 6, 58; P.A. 79-56; P.A. 82-22, S. 1, 4; P.A. 84-460, S. 8, 16; P.A. 85-377, S. 9, 13; P.A. 86-75, S. 1, 2; P.A. 87-496, S. 48, 110; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)
History: 1959 acts limited approval of applications for vocational agriculture centers to two in one year and to an amount totaling not more than $300,000, unless approved by governor and allowed disapproval of applications not in compliance re filing of plans and specifications; 1967 act increased amount of grants which require governor's approval to $400,000 and made technical changes re amount and time of payments; P.A. 73-165 revised provisions re vocational agriculture centers, deleting limitation on number of centers to be approved and reducing amount of grants allowed without governor's approval to $300,000, allowed grants for occupational training centers not exceeding $100,000 total, specified "fiscal" year and substituted "commitments" for "applications"; P.A. 76-418 allowed disapproval of applications which do not meet standards or priorities set by state board, deleted phrase which would allow exceptions to limits imposed by provisions with governor's approval and limited approval of grants for cooperative regional special education facilities to amounts totaling $2,000,000; P.A. 77-597 allowed disapproval of applications not accompanied by life-cycle cost analysis; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for public works commissioner and, effective January 1, 1979, substituted department of health services for state department of health; P.A. 78-331 made technical changes; P.A. 79-56 prohibited approval of grants for more than $600,000, rather than $300,000, for vocational agriculture centers; P.A. 82-22 deleted provision prohibiting approval of commitments exceeding $100,000 for regional or local centers for occupational training serving programs under Sec. 10-266f, that section having been previously repealed; P.A. 84-460 amended Subdiv. (4) deleting provision re limitation on total amount of grants to be approved for vocational agriculture centers and regional special education facilities and added new Subdiv. (5) re town having failed to begin construction on the project; P.A. 85-377 substituted references to commissioner of education for references to state board of education; P.A. 86-75 reorganized the section and added provisions for disapproval where grant commitment authorized prior to June 14, 1984, and construction not begun by July 1, 1987; P.A. 87-496 replaced administrative services commissioner with public works commissioner in Subsec. (a); P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.
