CT HB06567

Requires the Commissioner of Transportation to conduct full appraisals and hold public bids or auctions for all excess highway properties that are legal lots of record, effective October 1, 2011.

Mandates a second appraisal for properties valued over $250,000 unless being sold to abutting landowners or transferred to other state agencies without public bid.

Offers state agencies and abutting landowners priority to purchase excess property before public auction, with special provisions allowing sales to abutters without public bid if the transaction would otherwise create a nonconforming zoning use.

Extends the right of first refusal period for former owners of residential properties with single-family dwellings to 25 years after acquisition, requiring the state to offer the property at appraised value with a 60-day acceptance window.

Makes technical revisions throughout General Statutes sections 13a-73 and 13a-80 to standardize terminology from "land" to "real property" and clarify procedures for property acquisition, condemnation, and disposition.