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

A room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house shall not be used as a sleeping room unless it has an outside window or is provided with a sash window of at least eight square feet opening into an adjoining room, in the same apartment, having an outside window, which sash window shall be a vertically sliding, pulley-hung sash, both halves of which shall be so constructed as to open readily, and the lower half shall be glazed with translucent glass.

(P.A. 79-571, S. 79.)

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.