§ 54-h. State aid to local governments for housing maintenance code enforcement. 1. The commissioner of housing and community renewal shall grant state aid to cities in the amount of fifty per centum of the amount of money expended from funds raised by taxes imposed by such city during the city fiscal year, up to a maximum amount of eight million dollars in any one year, by a city of over one million population by the department of housing preservation and development for enforcement of the multiple dwelling law and any other provision of law, rule or regulation in relation to the maintenance, use, occupancy, safety, sanitary condition and inspection of any building or portion thereof which is occupied or arranged or intended to be occupied as the home, residence of one or more human beings, not, however, including one or two-family houses, as determined by the commissioner of housing and community renewal.

2. The mayor of each city desiring to make application for state aid under this section shall annually on such dates as may be fixed by the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal, submit to him the request of such city for such state aid and shall support such request with such information as the commissioner may require. The commissioner shall prescribe the form in which such information shall be submitted.