When the lessee or tenant of any house, room, tenement or dwelling unit is convicted of keeping a house of ill-fame therein, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, or of a violation therein of any law against gaming, the lease, contract or rental agreement for letting such house, room, tenement or dwelling unit shall thereupon be void; and the lessor may recover possession of the premises in the manner prescribed in this chapter, but notice to quit possession shall not be required.
(1949 Rev., S. 8281; P.A. 79-571, S. 50.)
History: Sec. 52-539 transferred to Sec. 47a-31 in 1977; P.A. 79-571 added references to dwelling units and rental agreements and rephrased provisions.
See Sec. 53a-89 re penalty for permitting prostitution on premises.
Annotations to former Sec. 52-539:
Duty of landlord in order to avoid penalty imposed by municipal ordinance. 33 C. 93. Lease for use as place for illegal sale of intoxicating liquors. 102 C. 346. Section is not applicable without a conviction. 135 C. 364. Conviction of officers of corporation is not a conviction of the corporation so as to sustain a summary process action. 136 C. 156.
Annotation to present section:
Cited. 38 CS 70.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant
Section 47a-23c. - Prohibition on eviction of certain tenants except for good cause.
Section 47a-23d. - Report to General Assembly.
Section 47a-24. (Formerly Sec. 52-532a). - Action by cooperative housing corporation.
Section 47a-24a. - Action by receiver of rents.
Section 47a-25. (Formerly Sec. 52-533). - Waiver of notice to quit.
Section 47a-26. (Formerly Sec. 52-534). - Failure to appear. Judgment.
Section 47a-26a. - Failure to plead. Judgment.
Section 47a-26b. - Motion and order for payments for use and occupancy.
Section 47a-26c. - Advancement of pleadings. Failure to plead.
Section 47a-26d. - Trial. Finding. Judgment.
Section 47a-26e. - Order of payments on appeal.
Section 47a-26f. - Hearing to distribute payments.
Section 47a-26h. - Persons bound by judgment. Notice. Exemption.
Section 47a-26i. - Motion to open or set aside judgment or to extend final stay of execution.
Section 47a-27. (Formerly Sec. 52-535). - Summary process by assignee and mortgagee.
Section 47a-28. (Formerly Sec. 52-536). - Action by selectmen.
Section 47a-29. (Formerly Sec. 52-537). - Action by reversion or remainderman.
Section 47a-31. (Formerly Sec. 52-539). - Illegal use of premises voids lease.
Section 47a-32. (Formerly Sec. 52-540). - Nuisance defined.
Section 47a-33. (Formerly Sec. 52-540a). - Defense that action is retaliatory.
Section 47a-33a. - Presentation of affirmative defenses.
Section 47a-34. (Formerly Sec. 52-541). - Other legal remedies not affected.
Section 47a-35. (Formerly Sec. 52-542). - Stay of execution. Appeal.
Section 47a-35a. - Bond on appeal. Rent to be paid into court.
Section 47a-35b. - Distribution of payments after appeal.
Section 47a-37. (Formerly Sec. 52-544). - Application for stay of execution.
Section 47a-38. (Formerly Sec. 52-545). - Hearing on application for stay of execution.
Section 47a-39. (Formerly Sec. 52-546). - Court may grant stay of execution.
Section 47a-41. (Formerly Sec. 52-548). - Waiver of tenant's rights to be void.