Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant
Section 47a-3c. - Payment in absence of rental agreement.

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant

Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant

Section 47a-1. - Definitions.

Section 47a-2. - Arrangements exempted from application of title. Applicability of title to mobile manufactured homes and home parks. Transient occupancy in hotel, motel or similar lodging.

Section 47a-3. - Rental agreement: Permissible terms.

Section 47a-3a. - Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment.

Section 47a-3b. - Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement.

Section 47a-3c. - Payment in absence of rental agreement.

Section 47a-3d. (Formerly Sec. 47-22). - Holding over not evidence of new lease. Determination of monthly lease.

Section 47a-3e. - Notice to potential tenant when dwelling unit located in common interest community.

Section 47a-3f. - Rental agreement: Notice re operative fire sprinkler system.

Section 47a-4. - Terms prohibited in rental agreement.

Section 47a-4a. - Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7.

Section 47a-4b. (Formerly Sec. 53-303g). - Commercial leases. Certain provisions void.

Section 47a-4c. - Landlord prohibited from requiring electronic funds transfer as exclusive form of payment.

Section 47a-5. (Formerly Sec. 47-24a). - Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate of occupancy.

Section 47a-6. - Identification of landlord.

Section 47a-6a. - Filing in designated municipal office of residential address of nonresident landlord.

Section 47a-6b. - Civil penalties for failure to file residential address of nonresident landlord.

Section 47a-7. - Landlord's responsibilities.

Section 47a-7a. - Landlord and tenant responsibilities re bed bug infestations. Definitions. Notification to landlord. Inspection. Treatment. Liability of landlord. Injunction against tenant.

Section 47a-7b. - Request to change dwelling unit locks when tenant is named as a protected person in a protective or restraining order.

Section 47a-8. (Formerly Sec. 47-24c). - Paint not conforming to standards renders property unfit.

Section 47a-9. - Landlord rules and regulations.

Section 47a-9a. - (Note: This section is effective July 1, 2022.) Prohibitions re discrimination against prospective or existing tenant for conviction related to cannabis possession; possession or consumption of cannabis; drug tests. Exceptions.

Section 47a-10. - Termination of responsibility.

Section 47a-11. - Tenant's responsibilities.

Section 47a-11a. - Abandonment of unit by tenant.

Section 47a-11b. - Abandonment of unit by occupants. Landlord's remedies.

Section 47a-11c. - Breach of rental agreement by tenant. Measure of damages.

Section 47a-11d. - Death of tenant. Landlord's remedies.

Section 47a-11e. - Termination of rental agreement by tenant who is a victim of family violence or sexual assault.

Section 47a-12. - Breach of agreement by landlord. Tenant's remedies.

Section 47a-13. - Failure of landlord to supply essential services. Tenant's remedies.

Section 47a-13a. - Implementation of energy conservation measures by tenant.

Section 47a-13b. - Installation of electric vehicle charging station by tenant.

Section 47a-14. - Damage or destruction of unit. Tenant's remedies.

Section 47a-14a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347k). - Action for private receivership of tenement house. Complaint. Notice of action.

Section 47a-14b. (Formerly Sec. 19-347l). - Tenement receivership: Hearing by referee; judgment; no right to jury trial.

Section 47a-14c. (Formerly Sec. 19-347m). - Tenement receivership: Defense.

Section 47a-14d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347n). - Tenement receivership: Judgment.

Section 47a-14e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347o). - Tenement receivership: Owner's right to collect rent moneys.

Section 47a-14f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347p). - Tenement receivership: Order to remove or remedy conditions in lieu of judgment; application for hearing for judgment.

Section 47a-14g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347q). - Tenement receivership: Judgment and appointment of receiver after failure to comply with order.

Section 47a-14h. - Action by individual tenant to enforce landlord's responsibilities. Payment of rent into court.

Section 47a-15. - Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies.

Section 47a-15a. - Nonpayment of rent by tenant: Landlord's remedy.

Section 47a-16. - When landlord may enter rented unit.

Section 47a-16a. - Notification by tenant of extended absence. When landlord may enter.

Section 47a-17. - Tenant to occupy only as dwelling unit.

Section 47a-18. - Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry.

Section 47a-18a. - Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters.

Section 47a-19. - Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue.

Section 47a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-375a). - Retaliatory action by landlord prohibited.

Section 47a-20a. - Actions deemed not retaliatory.

Section 47a-20e. - Protection of tenant in foreclosed property.

Section 47a-20f. - Offer of incentive to tenant in foreclosed property to vacate.