Any owner or lessee of any building which was not used as a tenement house prior to April 24, 1913, who allows such building to be occupied or used as a tenement house without making such building conform in all respects with the requirements of this part, and any owner or lessee of land, and any builder or architect who authorizes, makes or approves any construction or alteration of any building or any reduction in court or yard spaces, in violation of the provisions of this part, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both and, if any violation of any of said provisions remains uncorrected, the violator shall be subject to a renewal of the foregoing penalty every thirty days until the violation is corrected.
(1949 Rev., S. 4083; P.A. 79-346.)
History: P.A. 79-346 allowed imprisonment for violation or imposition of fine and imprisonment; Sec. 19-374 transferred to Sec. 19a-365 in 1983.
Annotation to former section 19-374:
Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 359.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368o - Tenement and Lodging Houses
Section 19a-355. (Formerly Sec. 19-342). - Definitions.
Section 19a-356. (Formerly Sec. 19-348). - Application of act.
Section 19a-357. (Formerly Sec. 19-351). - Location of building. Elevator.
Section 19a-358. (Formerly Sec. 19-362). - Size of rooms.
Section 19a-359. (Formerly Sec. 19-363). - Bathrooms and water closets.
Section 19a-360. (Formerly Sec. 19-364). - Arrangement of rooms.
Section 19a-361. (Formerly Sec. 19-365). - Basement living rooms.
Section 19a-363. (Formerly Sec. 19-372). - Powers of local authorities not abrogated.