Any person who erects, establishes, maintains, uses, owns or leases any building or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or prostitution shall be guilty of maintaining a nuisance, and the building, the place and the ground upon which such lewdness, assignation or prostitution is conducted, permitted or carried on, including the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments and movable property used in conducting or maintaining any such place, are also declared to be nuisances.
(1949 Rev., S. 4206.)
History: Sec. 19-316 transferred to Sec. 19a-345 in 1983.
See Sec. 53a-82 et seq. re penalties for offenses involving prostitution.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368n - Houses of Assignation
Section 19a-346. (Formerly Sec. 19-317). - Injunction.
Section 19a-347. (Formerly Sec. 19-318). - Disobeying injunction; penalty.
Section 19a-348. (Formerly Sec. 19-319). - Judgment and abatement; fees.
Section 19a-349. (Formerly Sec. 19-320). - Action by state's attorney. Fines.
Section 19a-350. (Formerly Sec. 19-321). - Owner may give bond.
Section 19a-351. (Formerly Sec. 19-322). - Penalty upon issuance of permanent injunction.
Section 19a-352. (Formerly Sec. 19-323). - Nuisance. Penalty.