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No enabling act

Construction fees in Connecticut

No general impact fee enabling act was identified for this state. That does not mean new construction pays nothing. Permit fees and utility connection charges rest on separate authority and are charged almost everywhere.

Your fee stack in Connecticut

Answer four things and get the list of every body that can bill this project, what each one is allowed to charge for, and the rights your state's law gives you before you pay.

What Connecticut says about your project

Connecticut law does not explicitly authorize development impact fees.

The state Supreme Court struck down a fee charged to recoup the town's cost of supervising subdivision infrastructure work, reasoning the statutes did not authorize it. Legislative research offices have read that as a signal that impact fees need an enabling act here.

Sewer and water connection charges rest on separate utility authority and are a different question.

What to do next in Connecticut

  1. Confirm whether your parcel is in a city or unincorporated, then pull the taxing district list from the assessor's record. Why that list is the real fee list.
  2. Request the current adopted fee schedule and a written fee estimate for the address. The six-step sequence.
  3. Call each utility separately. Tap fees usually sit outside the act, and are often the largest line.
  4. Pay under protest if you intend to dispute anything at all. What that preserves.

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Read this before you rely on anything here. Impact Fee Map describes who is legally allowed to charge new construction, for what, and what a fee payer's rights are under state law. It does not publish fee amounts for any city, county or district, and it never will, because no source keeps thirty-nine thousand local schedules current and a stale number is worse than none. This is not legal advice, not a fee quote and not a substitute for the adopted fee schedule of the bodies with jurisdiction over your parcel. Statutes change; verify against the current text and confirm every figure in writing with the agency that will bill you.