Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 833a - Public Enforcement of Health and Safety Standards in Tenement and Boarding Houses, and in Rented Dwellings
Section 47a-54c. - Toilets and bathrooms.

(a) Each building used as a tenement, lodging or boarding house shall be furnished with adequate and suitable privy vaults or water closets. There shall be at least one such water closet or vault for each two dwelling units or apartments of two rooms or less each, and one such water closet or vault for each dwelling unit or apartment of three or more rooms. Each tenement, boarding or lodging house located on premises abutting on any street or alley where running water is available and through which there is a sewer with which connection may be had shall be provided with water closets connected with such sewer, and each such water closet shall be located on the same floor as the dwelling unit or apartment which it serves.

(b) Each bathroom or water closet compartment in a tenement, lodging or boarding house shall be ventilated by a freely opening window of at least three square feet in area, opening to the outer air or upon a vent shaft having such openings at the bottom and top as meet the approval of the board of health, or by a separate ventilating flue of noncorroding material and at least thirty-six square inches in area, leading directly to the roof.
(c) Each such bathroom or water closet compartment, not otherwise sufficiently lighted, shall be provided with light from an adjoining room or rooms by means of translucent glass, of adequate size, in a fixed sash.
(P.A. 79-571, S. 77.)

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant

Chapter 833a - Public Enforcement of Health and Safety Standards in Tenement and Boarding Houses, and in Rented Dwellings

Section 47a-50. - Definitions.

Section 47a-51. (Formerly Sec. 19-343). - Sanitary regulations.

Section 47a-52. (Formerly Sec. 19-88). - Abatement of conditions in rented dwelling other than tenement house constituting danger to life or health.

Section 47a-53. (Formerly Sec. 19-344). - Orders of enforcement agency. Municipal lien for expenses in executing order.

Section 47a-54. (Formerly Sec. 19-345). - Communicable diseases; unfit for habitation; order to vacate.

Section 47a-54a. (Formerly Sec. 19-346). - Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses.

Section 47a-54b. - Water in tenement and lodging houses.

Section 47a-54c. - Toilets and bathrooms.

Section 47a-54d. - Public halls.

Section 47a-54e. - Bedrooms.

Section 47a-54f. - Paint.

Section 47a-55. (Formerly Sec. 19-347). - Enforcement. Penalties.

Section 47a-56. (Formerly Sec. 19-347a). - Passage of ordinance for abatement of nuisances. Appointment of authority.

Section 47a-56a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347b). - Appointment of receiver of rents: Application.

Section 47a-56b. - Appointment of receiver of rents: Service.

Section 47a-56c. - Appointment of receiver of rents: Determination by court.

Section 47a-56d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347c). - Receiver: Bond required. Powers and duties.

Section 47a-56e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347d). - Liability of owner.

Section 47a-56f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347e). - Payment of expenses. Liability of receiver. Assistance of municipal personnel. Costs and attorney's fees.

Section 47a-56g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347f). - Discharge of receiver.

Section 47a-56h. (Formerly Sec. 19-347g). - Rights of mortgagee or lienor remedying nuisance and paying expenses.

Section 47a-56i. (Formerly Sec. 19-347h). - Housing Receivership Revolving Fund. Source of funds for expenses of a receiver in remedying certain tenement conditions.

Section 47a-56j. (Formerly Sec. 19-347i). - State financial assistance for rent receivership programs.

Section 47a-56k. - Authorization of state bonds for purposes of the Housing Receivership Revolving Fund.

Section 47a-57. (Formerly Sec. 19-347r). - Certificate of occupancy required for lawful occupation. Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate.

Section 47a-58. (Formerly Sec. 19-347s). - Notice of violation. Penalty. Injunctive relief. Municipal lien for unpaid penalty.

Section 47a-59. (Formerly Sec. 19-347t). - Enforcement actions. Defenses.

Section 47a-60. (Formerly Sec. 19-347u). - Stay of penalty. Violation contested by owner.

Section 47a-61. (Formerly Sec. 19-347v). - Precedence in trial order.