Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47 - Land and Land Titles

Section 47-5. - Requirements re conveyances of land. Conveyance pursuant to power of attorney. - (a) All conveyances of land shall be: (1) In writing;...

Section 47-5a. - Persons before whom acknowledgment may be made. - If the acknowledgment in a conveyance of real estate is...

Section 47-6. - Witnessing and acknowledgment of deeds of corporations and voluntary associations. - Conveyances of real estate made to or by any corporation,...

Section 47-6a. - Foreign business trust authorized to purchase, hold, transmit, make mortgages on, acquire and convey interests in real estate; filing of trust declaration. - A trust with transferable shares organized under the laws of...

Section 47-6b. - Conveyances to nonprofit land-holding organizations. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Nonprofit land-holding organization”...

Section 47-7. - Conveyances and releases executed outside this state. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1-36, any conveyance of...

Section 47-7a. (Formerly Sec. 47-58a). - Rights of aliens re real estate. Validation of real estate transfers to aliens. - (a) Any alien, whether or not resident in the United...

Section 47-7b. - Representation of interests of state when marketability of land titles threatened by claim of Indian tribe. - The General Assembly finds that the state has a significant...

Section 47-8. - Release of mortgage or lien in favor of state. - Any mortgage to, or lien in favor of, the state...

Section 47-9. - Deeds of railroad companies. - Whenever any railroad company makes and executes a deed in...

Section 47-10. - Conveyance to be recorded. Recorded conveyance not invalid or unenforceable if original documentation converted into digital or electronic form, lost or destroyed. - (a) No conveyance shall be effectual to hold any land...

Section 47-11. - County clerk's certificates; recording in full not required. - When any instrument affecting the title to real estate, executed...

Section 47-12. - Change in name or status of owner of real estate. - Any person, corporation, limited liability company or limited liability partnership...

Section 47-12a. - Affidavit of facts relating to title or interest in real estate. - (a) An affidavit, which states facts relating to the matters...

Section 47-12b. - Unlawful restrictive covenants void. Affidavit or form re unlawful restrictive covenants. - (a) For purposes of this section, “unlawful restrictive covenant” means...

Section 47-13. - Conveyance of property acquired prior to change of name. - Any person or corporation who conveys property acquired prior to...

Section 47-14. - Joint tenancy; release or conveyance to other joint tenants. - Section 47-14 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7095; 1959, P.A....

Section 47-14a. - Joint tenancy in fee simple with survivorship. - A conveyance of real estate or any interest therein by...

Section 47-14b. - Conveyance or encumbrance by joint tenants. - Subject to the provisions of section 47-14e, joint tenants may,...

Section 47-14c. - Conveyance by less than all joint tenants. - Except as otherwise provided in sections 47-14a to 47-14k, inclusive,...

Section 47-14d. - Conveyance to one joint tenant by others. - A release or other conveyance by all but one joint...

Section 47-14e. - Mortgage or lease by joint tenants. - A mortgage or lease executed by all of the joint...

Section 47-14f. - Attachment of or lien on tenant's interest. - During the life of any joint tenant his interest may...

Section 47-14g. - Divorce or marriage dissolution of husband and wife joint tenants. - Whenever a husband and wife are joint tenants in the...

Section 47-14h. - Provisions applicable to joint tenancies with survivorship. - All provisions of existing statutes applicable to joint tenancies are...

Section 47-14i. - Effect of death on contract by tenant to convey interest. - When any joint tenant enters into an enforceable contract to...

Section 47-14j. - Conveyance to effect change in interests among tenants. - Any change in the nature of the interests held by...

Section 47-14k. - Applicability of statutes. - The provisions of sections 47-14a to 47-14j, inclusive, apply to...

Section 47-15. - Certificate of taking land by appraisal to be recorded. - When any land or interest therein, incorporeal hereditament or right...

Section 47-16. - Lost deed of land in two or more towns, copy recorded. - When any conveyance of land, situated in two or more...

Section 47-16a. - Recording of certified copy of deed or other instrument recorded in land records of another town. - The town clerk of any town shall accept for recording...

Section 47-17. - Records of documents as notice of equitable rights. - An unacknowledged deed, and any instrument intended as a conveyance...

Section 47-17a. - Private transfer fees. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Person” means an...

Section 47-18. - Ownership of historic memorials. - The title and ownership of all memorials, tablets and markers,...

Section 47-18a. - Notice of listing of historic structure on National Register of Historic Places. - The record owner of any historic structure or landmark in...

Section 47-19. - Leases for more than one year. - No lease of any building, land or tenement, for life...

Section 47-20. - Use of word “trustee” or “agent” in an instrument affecting real estate. - The word “trustee” or “agent”, or the words “as trustee”,...

Section 47-21. - Deeds of land by persons ousted of possession, void. - Any conveyance or lease, for any term, of any building,...

Section 47-23. - Termination of parol leases for nonpayment of rent. - Section 47-23 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7107; P.A. 76-95,...

Section 47-23b to 47-23f, 47-24. - Security deposit refunds. Tenant not liable for rent while premises are untenantable. - Sections 47-23b to 47-23f, inclusive, and 47-24 are repealed. (1949,...

Section 47-24b. - Covenant that leased property is fit for habitation. - Section 47-24b is repealed. (1969, P.A. 390; P.A. 76-95, S....

Section 47-24d. - Tenant's waiver of rights, when valid. - Section 47-24d is repealed. (P.A. 73-238; P.A. 76-95, S. 26,...

Section 47-25. - Right to light not gained by adverse possession. - No occupant of real estate may acquire, by adverse occupation,...

Section 47-26. - No right to railroad, railway or canal land by adverse possession. - If the owner or occupant of any land adjoining any...

Section 47-27. - Title by adverse possession by or against railroad or street railway corporation, against nonprofit land-holding organization or against investor-owned water company. - (a) No length of possession, use or occupancy of land...

Section 47-28. - Admissibility of award of arbitrators as evidence. - No award of arbitrators, made since May 20, 1841, purporting...

Section 47-29. - Right of entry on land by assignee of reversion. - When, after an estate in real estate has been created...

Section 47-30. - Ejectment. Set-off of defendant's improvements. - Final judgment shall not be rendered, in any action to...

Section 47-31. - Action to settle title or claim interest in real or personal property. - (a) An action may be brought by any person claiming...

Section 47-31a. - Petition to invalidate land record that was falsely filed or amended. - (a) A person, as defined in section 42a-1-201, who has...

Section 47-32. - Several defendants may be joined. - In any action to quiet title to real estate or...

Section 47-33. - Action to settle title to land belonging to estate of deceased person. - (a) In any action brought to quiet the title to...

Section 47-33a. - Action on agreement to sell real estate. - (a) No interest in real property existing under an executory...

Section 47-33b. - Marketable record title. Definitions. - As used in sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive: (a) “Marketable...

Section 47-33c. - Chain of title for not less than forty years creates marketable record title. - Any person having the legal capacity to own land in...

Section 47-33d. - Interests to which title is subject. - Such marketable record title is subject to: (1) All interests...

Section 47-33e. - Prior interests void. - Subject to the matters stated in section 47-33d, such marketable...

Section 47-33f. - Notice of claim filed within forty-year period. - (a) Any person claiming an interest of any kind in...

Section 47-33g. - Contents of notice. Recording. Indexing. - (a) To be effective and to be entitled to recordation,...

Section 47-33h. - Excepted interests. - Sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall not be applied to...

Section 47-33i. - Other statutes not affected. - Nothing contained in sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall be...

Section 47-33j. - Notice not to be recorded to slander title. Damages. - No person may use the privilege of recording notices under...

Section 47-33k. - Construction. - Sections 47-33b to 47-33l, inclusive, shall be liberally construed to...

Section 47-33l. - Forty-year period extended, when. - If the forty-year period specified in sections 47-33b to 47-33k,...

Section 47-33m. - Short title: Dormant Mineral Interests Act. - Sections 47-33m to 47-33t, inclusive, may be cited as the...

Section 47-33n. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Statement of policy. - (a) The public policy of this state is to enable...

Section 47-33o. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Definitions. - As used in sections 47-33m to 47-33t, inclusive: (1) “Mineral...

Section 47-33p. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Exclusions. - (a) Sections 47-33m to 47-33t, inclusive, do not apply to:...

Section 47-33q. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Termination of dormant mineral interest. - (a) The owner of the fee simple title to any...

Section 47-33r. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Preservation of mineral interest by notice. - (a) Any person claiming any kind of mineral interest may...

Section 47-33s. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Effect of termination of mineral interest. - A court order or decree terminating a mineral interest, when...

Section 47-33t. - Dormant Mineral Interests Act: Savings and transitional provisions. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in sections 47-33m to 47-33t,...

Section 47-34. - Bounds between proprietors reestablished by Superior Court. - When the boundaries of lands between adjoining proprietors have been...

Section 47-34a. - Unlawful destruction, disturbance or removal of surveyor's marker or monument. - (a) Any person who knowingly injures, destroys, disturbs or removes...

Section 47-35. - Tobacco poles deemed to be part of tobacco-curing structure. - Tobacco poles used in any structure utilized for the curing...

Section 47-36. - Federal claim or judgment to be recorded. - If the United States of America, or any official or...

Chapter 821a - Forms of Deeds and Mortgages

Section 47-36a. - Definitions. - (a) As used in this chapter and section 47-5, (1)...

Section 47-36b. - Effect of conveyances made in accordance with chapter. - Any conveyance made pursuant to this chapter, duly signed by...

Section 47-36c. - Statutory forms for deeds. - The forms set forth in this section may be used...

Section 47-36d. - Force and effect of “Warranty Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Warranty Deed”, when duly...

Section 47-36e. - Force and effect of words “with warranty covenants”. - In any conveyance of real property the words “with warranty...

Section 47-36f. - Force and effect of “Quitclaim Deed” form. - A deed entitled “Quitclaim Deed”, when duly executed, has the...

Section 47-36g. - Force and effect of words “with quitclaim covenants”. - In any conveyance of real property the words “with quitclaim...

Section 47-36h. - Force and effect of “Mortgage Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Mortgage Deed”, when duly...

Section 47-36i. - Force and effect of the words “with mortgage covenants”. - In any conveyance of real property the words “with mortgage...

Section 47-36j. - Conditions included in the words “upon statutory condition”. - In any mortgage deed of real property, the words “upon...

Section 47-36k. - Technical words of inheritance not necessary. - In any conveyance or reservation of real property or of...

Section 47-36l. - Type of estate deemed to be included in conveyance. - In any conveyance of real property all rights, privileges and...

Section 47-36m and 47-36n. - Fees for recording statutory forms. Other legal forms of deeds and mortgages not precluded. - Sections 47-36m and 47-36n are repealed. (P.A. 75-309, S. 16,...

Section 47-36o. - Force and effect of “Conservator's Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Conservator's Deed”, when duly...

Section 47-36p. - Force and effect of “Testamentary Trustee's Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Testamentary Trustee's Deed”, when...

Section 47-36q. - Force and effect of “Administrator's Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Administrator's Deed”, when duly...

Section 47-36r. - Force and effect of “Executor's Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Executor's Deed”, when duly...

Section 47-36s. - Force and effect of “Trustee's Deed” form. - A deed following the form entitled “Trustee's Deed”, when duly...

Chapter 821b - Validation of Conveyance Defects

Section 47-36aa. - Validations re conveyancing defects of instrument recorded after January 1, 1997, insubstantial defects, defects re power of attorney, defects re conveyance by fiduciary. - (a) Conveyancing defects. Any deed, mortgage, lease, power of attorney,...

Section 47-36bb. - Validation re transfer of interest in real property to trust rather than trustee. Treatment of subsequent transfers. Indexing by town clerk. Presumptions re certain instruments recorded in the land records. - (a) Any transfer of an interest in real property to...

Chapter 822 - Easements and Restrictions

Section 47-37. - When acquired by adverse use. - No person may acquire a right-of-way or any other easement...

Section 47-38. - Mode of preventing acquisition. - The owner of land over which a right-of-way or other...

Section 47-39. - Service of notice upon the party claiming the easement. - The notice referred to in section 47-38 shall be served...

Section 47-40. - Giving of notice when party unknown. - When the owner of the estate to which such way...

Section 47-41. - Notice considered a disturbance of the right. - The notice under sections 47-38 and 47-39 shall be considered...

Section 47-42. - Easements for public utility or railway purposes. - Any right-of-way over or easement in or to any land...

Section 47-42a. - Definitions. - For the purposes of sections 47-42b, 47-42c and 47-42d, the...

Section 47-42b. - Enforcement of conservation and preservation restrictions held by governmental body or charitable corporation. - No conservation restriction held by any governmental body or by...

Section 47-42c. - Acquisition of restrictions. Enforcement by Attorney General. - Such conservation and preservation restrictions are interests in land and...

Section 47-42d. - Permit applications filed with state or local land use agency, local building official or director of health. Appeals by party or state agency holding restriction. Civil penalty. - (a) For purposes of this section, “state or local land...

Section 47-42e. - Municipal property acquired with intent to place restriction or dedicated as park or open space land. Recording in land records. Enforcement. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Conservation restriction” has...

Section 47-42f. - Maintenance of private easement or right-of-way. Costs. Action for specific performance or contribution. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Residential real property”...

Chapter 823 - Fences

Section 47-43. - Proprietors to maintain. - The proprietors of lands shall make and maintain sufficient fences...

Section 47-44. - Compensation of selectmen for services as fence viewers. - Selectmen shall receive two dollars for each day's service as...

Section 47-45. - Appointees to perform duties of selectmen as to fences. - In any town, city or borough which conducts its government...

Section 47-46. - Payment for fence between agricultural property and state highway. - When there is no fence between property used for agricultural...

Section 47-46a. - Payment for fence between agricultural property and property in control of Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. - Where there is no fence between property used for agricultural...

Section 47-47. - Barbed wire between adjoining premises or enclosing grounds of public buildings. - No person shall use barbed wire in the construction of...

Section 47-48. - Barbed wire along sidewalks. - No barbed wire shall be installed along any sidewalk unless...

Section 47-49. - Purchase of division fence. - If one proprietor or his predecessor in title makes the...

Section 47-50. - Division of fence by selectmen. - When a fence between adjoining proprietors has never been divided...

Section 47-51. - Repair of division fence. - If any person neglects to keep his division fence in...

Section 47-52. - When dividing line is a stream. - When the dividing line is a stream or pond, which...

Section 47-53. - Apportionment of division fence. Penalty. - When there is no fence between adjoining proprietors or when...

Section 47-54. - Proceedings to obtain new division fence. - When a particular enclosure has been divided and the parties...

Section 47-55. - Damage by animals. - All damage done within enclosures by cattle, horses, asses, mules,...

Section 47-56. - Fences around home lots. - When adjoining proprietors are unable to agree about erecting a...

Chapter 824 - Indians

Section 47-57 and 47-58. - Resident aliens and French citizens, rights re real estate. When nonresident aliens may hold real estate. - Sections 47-57 and 47-58 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7166,...

Section 47-59. - Overseer of Indians. - Section 47-59 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7168; 1961, P.A....

Section 47-59a. - Connecticut Indians; citizenship, civil rights, land rights. - (a) It is hereby declared the policy of the state...

Section 47-59b. - Indian Affairs Council; composition, duties, executive director, regulations, report. - (a) There shall continue to be an Indian Affairs Council,...

Section 47-60. - Reservation land held in trust by state. Conveyances by Indians void. - (a) Any reservation land held in trust by the state...

Section 47-61. - No title by possession against an Indian. - In any action brought by an Indian or Indians for...

Section 47-61a. - Records of traditional cultural knowledge submitted to public agency for cultural affiliation determination exempt from disclosure. - (a) As used in this section, (1) “records of traditional...

Section 47-62. - Taking wood from land of Indian. - Section 47-62 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7171; 1961, P.A....

Section 47-63. - Definitions. - The following terms as used in this chapter, shall have...

Section 47-64. - Use of reservations. Restriction of leases. Escheats. - (a) Each tribe shall determine who may live on reservation...

Section 47-65. - Management of reservations and residents thereon. Adoption of regulations. Governor designated administrative agent. - (a) The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection with the...

Section 47-65a. - Hunting and fishing on reservations. - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 26-27, any Indian may take,...

Section 47-65b. - State assumption of criminal and civil jurisdiction on reservation of the Mohegan Tribe of Indians. - The state of Connecticut assumes criminal jurisdiction and civil regulatory...

Section 47-65c. - Memoranda of agreement establishing authority of Indian tribal police departments and officers. - (a) Notwithstanding the requirements of section 3-6c, the Commissioner of...

Section 47-66. - Tribal funds. - Tribal funds shall be under the care and control of...

Section 47-66a. - Indian housing authorities. Creation and powers. - There is created, with respect to each Indian tribe named...

Section 47-66b. - Commissioners. - The chief or other governing head shall appoint five commissioners...

Section 47-66c. - Area of operation. - The area of operation of a tribal housing authority shall...

Section 47-66d. - Lease of tribal property to housing authority. - Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 47-64, any...

Section 47-66e and 47-66f. - Indian burial sites; inventory of state land. Excavation of Indian burial sites; notice, removal and reinterment of remains. - Sections 47-66e and 47-66f are repealed. (P.A. 81-242, S. 1–3;...

Section 47-66g. - Management of Indian affairs. - The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection with the advice...

Section 47-66h. - Trust agreements between Governor and willing indigenous tribes. - (a) Effective October 1, 1990, the Governor shall enter into...

Section 47-66i. - Method of selecting tribal leaders. Disputes. - (a) Each tribal leader shall file with the Governor his...

Section 47-66j. - Rules for tribal membership. - (a) On or before March 15, 1990, and annually thereafter,...

Chapter 825 - Condominium Act

Section 47-67 and 47-68. - Title. Definitions. - Sections 47-67 and 47-68 are repealed. (1963, P.A. 605, S....

Section 47-68a. - Short title: Condominium Act of 1976. Definitions. - This chapter shall be known as the “Condominium Act of...

Section 47-69. - Applicability of chapter. - Section 47-69 is repealed. (1963, P.A. 605, S. 3; 1971,...

Section 47-70. - Declaration. Covenants, easements and liens on conveyances limited. - (a) The declaration shall contain the following information: (1) The...

Section 47-70a. - Amendment of declaration or bylaws. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section,...

Section 47-71. - Recording of declaration and other instruments. - (a) The owner or owners of any property in the...

Section 47-71a. - Expansion of condominiums. - No condominium shall be expanded except in accordance with the...

Section 47-71b. - Public offering statement. - A public offering statement, issued pursuant to section 47-74f, shall...

Section 47-72. - Deeds of units. Leases. - Conveyance of title from declarant to any unit or leasehold...

Section 47-73. - Unit as real property. - Each unit, together with its undivided interest in the common...

Section 47-73a. - Boundaries, encroachments and easements. - (a) The existing physical boundaries, as defined in the condominium...

Section 47-74. - Rights of unit owners. - (a) Each unit owner shall be entitled to the exclusive...

Section 47-74a. - Board of directors of unit owners association. Election by unit owners other than declarant; when. Declarant to relinquish control; when. - (a) When unit owners other than the declarant own more...

Section 47-74b. - Limitation on grants, reservations and contracts made by declarant or declarant-controlled association. - (a) Except for covenants, liens and easements permitted by subsection...

Section 47-74c. - Declarant not to retain ownership interest in recreational facilities. - The declarant shall not retain ownership of, and lease or...

Section 47-74d. - Architect's or engineer's certificate required. Declarant's certificate. Escrow account. - (a) With respect to buildings for which building permits have...

Section 47-74e. - Implied warranties. - (a) An implied warranty of fitness and merchantability shall attach...

Section 47-74f. - Nonbinding reservation agreements. Cancellation. - (a) No declarant may dispose of any interest in a...

Section 47-75. - Obligations of unit owners. Limit on liability of unit owner. - (a) Each unit owner, and the association of unit owners,...

Section 47-75a. - Resale of unit by person other than declarant. - (a) In the event of any resale of a condominium...

Section 47-76. - Allocation of profits and expenses. - (a) The common profits of the condominium shall be distributed...

Section 47-77. - Assessment of common expenses. Liens and foreclosure. - (a) All sums assessed by the association of unit owners,...

Section 47-78. - Owner may not exempt himself from liability. - (a) No unit owner may exempt himself from liability for...

Section 47-79. - Collection of taxes and assessments. - (a) Taxes, assessments, including special assessments, and other charges of...

Section 47-80. - Bylaws. - (a) The administration of every condominium shall be governed by...

Section 47-80a. - Powers of unit owners' association. Opportunity for unit owners to express views re proposed budget. - (a) Except to the extent prohibited by the condominium instruments,...

Section 47-81. - Accounting records. Availability of records. Loan disclosure and comments. Audit. - (a) The declarant and the association shall maintain accounting records...

Section 47-82. - Liens against units. - (a) Subsequent to recording the declaration as provided in this...

Section 47-83. - Insurance. - The declarant and the association of unit owners, by its...

Section 47-84. - Repairs. - (a) Except as hereinafter provided, damage to or destruction of...

Section 47-85. - Actions between unit owners. - Section 47-85 is repealed. (1963, P.A. 605, S. 26; P.A....

Section 47-86. - Owners, tenants and employees bound by chapter. - (a) All unit owners, tenants of such owners, employees of...

Section 47-87. - Liability for mortgages, liens and assessments on conveyance of unit. - (a) At the time of the first conveyance of each...

Section 47-88. - Removal of property from application of chapter. Resubmission of property. - (a) The unit owners may remove a property from the...

Section 47-88a. - Consolidation of condominiums. - (a) Two or more condominiums established pursuant to chapter 825...

Section 47-88b. - Conversion condominiums: Requirements for conversion. - (a) Public offering statement requirements. Any declarant of a conversion...

Section 47-88c. - Separate heating plants required, when. - (a) In addition to the requirements of section 47-88b for...

Section 47-88d. - Reimbursement for moving and relocation expenses. - Any declarant of a conversion condominium shall pay moving and...

Section 47-88e. - Reserves for capital expenditures. - Any declarant of a conversion condominium shall provide in the...

Section 47-88f. - Applicability of tenants' rights and protections. - The provisions of this chapter affording certain rights and protections...

Section 47-88g. - Right of action for aggrieved tenant of conversion condominium. Remedies. - (a) Any person residing in a dwelling unit which has...

Section 47-89 and 47-90. - Incorporation; appeal from board of tax review. Effect of rule against perpetuities and rule restricting unreasonable restraints on alienation. - Sections 47-89 and 47-90 are repealed. (1969, P.A. 716, S....

Section 47-90a. - Misrepresentations in public offering statements; remedies. - (a) Any declarant who, in disposing of a condominium unit,...

Section 47-90b. - Public offering statement not required, when. - Unless the method of offer or disposition is adopted for...

Section 47-90c. - Effective date and applicability of chapter. - (a) Sections 47-68a to 47-81, inclusive, 47-83, 47-84 and 47-87...

Section 47-90g. - Member of board of directors or officer not subject to criminal liability re special assessment for code compliance repairs. - No member of a board of directors, as defined in...

Section 47-90h. - Electric vehicle charging station in unit parking space or limited common element parking space. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Association of unit...

Chapter 826 - Real Estate Syndicates

Section 47-91. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:...

Section 47-92. - Qualification of real estate syndicate securities; issuance of permit. - (a) All real estate syndicate securities shall be qualified under...

Section 47-93. - Expert opinion. - The commission may accept and act upon the opinions, appraisals...

Section 47-94. - Grounds for refusal of permit. Appeal, hearing. - (a) The commission may refuse, suspend or revoke any permit...

Section 47-95. - Amendment to offering; commission approval; effective date. - (a) After the permit has been issued authorizing the sale...

Section 47-96. - Permit fees. Determination of value of securities. - (a) The fee for filing an application for a permit...

Section 47-97. - No endorsement by commission to be implied by filing of application, qualification of securities or exemption. Inconsistent representations to purchasers prohibited. Permit to indicate permissive nature. - (a) Neither the fact that an application for qualification under...

Section 47-98. - Sale of unqualified real estate syndicate securities prohibited. - No issuer shall offer or sell to the public in...

Section 47-99. - Advertisement of securities; prior filing; hearings; media responsibility. - (a) No person shall publish any advertisement in this state...

Section 47-100. - Sale does not require licensure as real estate salesperson or broker. - The sale of real estate syndicate securities shall not be...

Section 47-101. - Exceptions. - (a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to...

Section 47-102. - Waiver of chapter void. Exception. - Any condition, stipulation or provision purporting to bind any person...

Section 47-103. - Real Estate Commission to establish regulations. Hearings. - (a) The commission may establish such regulations as are reasonably...

Section 47-104. - Required form of sales contracts. - The commission may by regulation require as a condition of...

Section 47-105. - Required records and reports. Examination of records; examination costs. - (a) Every issuer qualifying real estate syndicate securities for sale...

Section 47-106. - Penalty for false statement. - No person shall wilfully make any untrue statement of a...

Section 47-107. - Investigations by commission; powers. - (a) The commission in its discretion may make such public...

Section 47-108. - Appointment of attorney for service. - Every applicant for qualification of real estate syndicate securities under...

Section 47-109. - Actions, limitation of time, prerequisite. - (a) No action shall be maintained to enforce any liability...

Section 47-110. - Remedy of buyers. - Any person who violates section 47-98 or 47-106 shall be...

Section 47-111. - Order to cease and desist. Hearing. - Whenever the commission finds that any issuer or other person...

Section 47-112. - Injunctive and other relief. - Whenever any person shall engage in acts prohibited by this...

Section 47-113. - Violations punished by fine or imprisonment. - Any person who wilfully violates any provision of this chapter...

Section 47-114. - Reservation of other punishments. - Nothing in this chapter limits the power of the state...

Section 47-115. - Burden of proof of exemptions or exceptions. - In any proceeding under this chapter, the burden of proving...

Chapter 827 - New Home Warranties

Section 47-116. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

Section 47-117. - Express warranties. - (a) Express warranties by a vendor are created as follows:...

Section 47-118. - Implied warranties. - (a) In every sale of an improvement by a vendor...

Section 47-119. - Vendor not to evade by intermediate transfer. - Any vendor who conveys an improvement to an intermediate purchaser...

Section 47-120. - Warranties created by chapter additional to any other warranties. - The warranties created in this chapter shall be in addition...

Section 47-121. (Formerly Sec. 52-563a). - Implied warranty with certificate of occupancy. - Subject to the provisions of section 29-265, the issuance by...

Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act

Section 47-200. - Short title: Common Interest Ownership Act. - This chapter may be cited as the “Common Interest Ownership...

Section 47-201. - Applicability of chapter. - Applicability of this chapter is governed by sections 47-214 to...

Section 47-202. - Definitions. - In the declaration and bylaws, unless specifically provided otherwise or...

Section 47-203. - Variation by agreement and waiver of rights prohibited. Exceptions. - Except as expressly provided in this chapter, its provisions may...

Section 47-204. - Separate titles and taxation. Recording of certificate by cooperative. Conveyance of interest in cooperative. - (a) In a cooperative, a unit owner's interest in a...

Section 47-205. - Applicability of real property use laws to conversion of buildings to common interest ownership. - No zoning, building code, subdivision or other real property use...

Section 47-206. - Eminent domain. - (a) If a unit is acquired by eminent domain or...

Section 47-207. - Supplemental general principles of law applicable. - The principles of law and equity, including the law of...

Section 47-208. - Construction against implicit repeal. - This chapter being a general act intended as a unified...

Section 47-209. - Severability. - If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof...

Section 47-210. - Unconscionable contracts or contract clauses. Leases involving land or facilities in residential common interest communities that are presumed to be unconscionable. - (a) The General Assembly expressly finds that many leases involving...

Section 47-211. - Obligation of good faith. - Every contract or duty governed by this chapter imposes an...

Section 47-212. - Remedies to be liberally administered. - (a) The remedies provided by this chapter shall be liberally...

Section 47-213. - Adjustment of dollar amount. - (a) From time to time the dollar amount specified in...

Section 47-213a. - Relationship of chapter to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. - This chapter modifies, limits and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures...

Section 47-214. - Applicability of chapter and amendments thereto to common interest communities. - Except as provided in section 47-216, the provisions of this...

Section 47-215. - Applicability to nonresidential, mixed use and small common interest communities, limited expense liability planned communities and common interest communities with a conversion building. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section...

Section 47-216. - Applicability to preexisting common interest communities. - (a) Except as provided in section 47-217, sections 47-202, 47-204,...

Section 47-217. - Exception for certain preexisting common interest communities. - (a) If a common interest community created within this state...

Section 47-218. - Applicability to amendments to governing instruments. - (a) The declaration, bylaws or surveys and plans of any...

Section 47-219. - Applicability to out-of-state common interest communities. - This chapter does not apply to common interest communities or...

Section 47-219a. - Arrangements re real property costs. Separate common interest community not created thereby. - (a) An arrangement between the associations for two or more...

Section 47-219b. - Exemption re covenant to share costs or other obligations. - A covenant that requires the owners of twelve or fewer...

Section 47-220. - Creation of common interest community. - (a) A common interest community may be created pursuant to...

Section 47-221. - Unit boundaries. - Except as provided by the declaration: (1) If walls, floors...

Section 47-222. - Construction and validity of declaration, bylaws and rules. Marketability of title. Recording of surveys or plans. - (a) All provisions of the declaration and bylaws are severable....

Section 47-223. - Description of unit. - A description of a unit which sets forth the name...

Section 47-224. - Contents of declaration. - (a) The declaration shall contain: (1) The names of the...

Section 47-225. - Leasehold common interest communities. - (a) Any lease the expiration or termination of which may...

Section 47-226. - Allocation of interests. - (a) The declaration shall allocate to each unit: (1) In...

Section 47-227. - Limited common elements. - (a) Except for the limited common elements described in subdivisions...

Section 47-228. - Surveys and plans. - (a) Surveys and plans are required for condominiums and planned...

Section 47-229. - Exercise of development rights. - (a) To exercise any development right reserved under subdivision (8)...

Section 47-230. - Alterations of units. - Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions...

Section 47-230a. - Display of object on entry door or entry door frame which is motivated by observance of religious practice or belief. Restrictions. - (a) No person may prohibit or hinder the owner, lessee...

Section 47-231. - Relocation of unit boundaries. - (a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration and any...

Section 47-232. - Subdivision of units. - (a) If the declaration expressly so permits, a unit may...

Section 47-233. - Monuments as boundaries. - The existing physical boundaries of a unit or the physical...

Section 47-234. - Use for sales purposes. - A declarant may maintain sales offices, management offices and models...

Section 47-235. - Easement and use rights. - (a) Subject to the provisions of the declaration, a declarant...

Section 47-236. - Amendment of declaration or bylaws. - (a) Except in cases of amendments that may be executed...

Section 47-237. - Termination of common interest community. - (a) Except in the case of a taking of all...

Section 47-238. - Rights of secured lenders. - (a) The declaration may require that all or a specified...

Section 47-239. - Master associations. - (a) If the declaration provides that any of the powers...

Section 47-239a. - Termination and dissolution of master association. Establishment of nonstock corporation. - In the case of a master association: (1) That is...

Section 47-240. - Merger or consolidation of common interest communities. - (a) Any two or more common interest communities of the...

Section 47-241. - Addition of unspecified real property. - In a planned community, if the right is originally reserved...

Section 47-241a. - Master planned communities. - (a) The declaration for a common interest community may state...

Section 47-242. - Addition of land or units to limited equity cooperative. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “limited equity cooperative”...

Section 47-243. - Organization of unit owners' association. - A unit owners' association shall be organized no later than...

Section 47-244. - Powers and duties of unit owners' association. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 47-244a. - Unincorporated unit owners' association's statutory agent for service. - (a) Not later than January 1, 1992, each unit owners'...

Section 47-244b. - Service of process on statutory agent. - (a) Any process, notice or demand in connection with any...

Section 47-245. - Executive board members and officers. Duties. Period of declarant control: Delivery of property and documents by declarant; current financial statement. Prohibitions re elections of executive board members. - (a) Except as provided in the declaration, the bylaws, subsection...

Section 47-246. - Transfer of special declarant rights. Obligations and liabilities. - (a) A special declarant right, as defined in subsection (29)...

Section 47-247. - Termination of contracts and leases. - (a) Except in the case of nonresidential common interest communities...

Section 47-248. - Bylaws. - (a) The bylaws of the association shall: (1) Provide the...

Section 47-249. - Upkeep of common interest community. Liability for expenses. - (a) Except to the extent provided by the declaration, subsection...

Section 47-250. - Meetings. Rules. - (a) The following requirements apply to unit owner meetings: (1)...

Section 47-251. - Quorum. - (a) Unless the bylaws otherwise provide, a quorum is present...

Section 47-252. - Voting. Proxies. Ballots. - (a) Unless prohibited or limited by the declaration or bylaws,...

Section 47-253. - Liability. - (a) A unit owner is not liable, solely by reason...

Section 47-254. - Conveyance or encumbrance of common elements. - (a) In a condominium or planned community, portions of the...

Section 47-255. - Insurance. - (a) Commencing not later than the time of the first...

Section 47-256. - Surplus funds. - Unless otherwise provided in the declaration, any surplus funds of...

Section 47-257. - Assessments for common expenses. Assessments due to wilful misconduct, failure to comply with standards or gross negligence. - (a) Until the association makes a common expense assessment, the...

Section 47-258. - Lien for assessments and other sums due association. Enforcements. - (a) The association has a statutory lien on a unit...

Section 47-259. - Other liens. - (a) A judgment for money against the association may be...

Section 47-260. - Association records. Copies. Fees. - (a) An association shall retain the following: (1) Detailed records...

Section 47-261. - Association as trustee. - With respect to a third person dealing with the association...

Section 47-261a. - Basic education program for association members and management. - The executive board of each association of a common interest...

Section 47-261b. - Rules. - (a) At least ten days before adopting, amending or repealing...

Section 47-261c. - Notice to unit owners. - (a) An association shall deliver any notice required to be...

Section 47-261d. - Removal of officers and directors. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the declaration or bylaws to...

Section 47-261e. - Adoption of budgets. Special assessments. Loan agreements. - (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection,...

Section 47-261f. - Litigation involving declarant. - (a) The following requirements apply to an association's authority under...

Section 47-261g. - Electric vehicle charging station in unit parking space or limited common element parking space. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Association”, “bylaws”, “common...

Section 47-262. - Applicability of part. Exceptions to requirement of public offering statement or resale certificate. - (a) Sections 47-262 to 47-281, inclusive, apply to all units...

Section 47-263. - Public offering statement requirements. Liability. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 47-264. - Public offering statement. General provisions and requirements. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 47-265. - Requirements for public offering statement when community is subject to development rights. - If the declaration provides that a common interest community is...

Section 47-266. - Requirements for public offering statement when ownership or occupancy is by time shares. - (a) If the declaration provides that ownership or occupancy of...

Section 47-267. - Requirements for public offering statement when community contains conversion building. - (a) The public offering statement of a common interest community...

Section 47-268. - Requirements for public offering statement when interest in community is security. - If an interest in a common interest community is currently...

Section 47-269. - Purchaser's right to cancel. - (a) A person required to deliver a public offering statement...

Section 47-270. - Resales of units. - (a) Except in the case of a sale in which...

Section 47-271. - Escrow of deposits. Distribution of interest. - (a) Any deposit made in connection with the purchase or...

Section 47-272. - Release of liens. - (a) In the case of a sale of a unit...

Section 47-273. - Rights of tenants in conversion buildings. - The rights of residential tenants in conversion buildings are governed...

Section 47-274. - Express warranties of quality. - (a) Express warranties made by any seller to a purchaser...

Section 47-275. - Implied warranties of quality. - (a) A declarant warrants to a purchaser that a unit...

Section 47-276. - Exclusion or modification of implied warranties of quality. - (a) Except as limited by subsection (b) of this section...

Section 47-277. - Action for breach of warranty. Statute of limitations. - (a) Unless a period of limitation is tolled under section...

Section 47-278. - Cause of action to enforce chapter, declaration or bylaws. Attorney's fees and costs. Alternative dispute resolution. Hearings before executive board. - (a) A declarant, association, unit owner or any other person...

Section 47-279. - Labeling of promotional material. - No promotional material may be displayed or delivered to prospective...

Section 47-280. - Declarant's obligation to complete and restore. - (a) Except for improvements labeled “NEED NOT BE BUILT”, the...

Section 47-281. - Substantial completion of units required. - In the case of a sale of a unit in...

Section 47-282. - Statement of policy. - It is declared that (1) a severe rental housing shortage...

Section 47-283. - Definitions. - For purposes of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive: (1) “Conversion...

Section 47-284. - Conversion tenant's right to conversion notice and public offering statement. - (a) At least nine months before a conversion tenant will...

Section 47-285. - Conversion tenant's right to purchase converted unit. - (a) For the first ninety days after giving a conversion...

Section 47-286. - Conversion tenant's right to terminate lease and abandon unit. - A conversion tenant may, without penalty, terminate an existing lease...

Section 47-287. - Conversion tenant's right to relocation payment. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Section 47-288. - Registration of common interest community. Notice to Department of Housing. - (a) If a common interest community contains or will contain...

Section 47-289. - Rent increases of conversion tenants. - (a) During a transition period, a conversion tenant's rent may...

Section 47-290. - Eviction of conversion tenants. - (a) During a transition period, a conversion tenant may be...

Section 47-291. - Unenforceable lease provisions. - Except pursuant to a purchase agreement with the tenant for...

Section 47-292. - Tenant's cause of action. - A tenant who claims to be aggrieved by a violation...

Section 47-293. - Applicability of protection afforded conversion tenants. - (a) The protection provided by sections 47-282 to 47-292, inclusive,...

Section 47-294. - Complaints of violations. Investigations. Enforcement action by Attorney General. - (a) The Commissioner of Housing may receive complaints of any...

Section 47-295. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations, in accordance with...

Chapter 828a - Community Land Trusts

Section 47-300. - Definitions. - As used in sections 47-300 to 47-304, inclusive: (1) “Eligible...

Section 47-301. - Community land trust. Purposes. Powers. - (a) A community land trust shall have as one of...

Section 47-302. - Ground lease interest constitutes an interest in real property. - A lessee's interest in a ground lease with a community...

Section 47-303. - Required ground lease provisions. - A ground lease between a community land trust and a...

Section 47-304. - Lease restrictions. - If any notice of lease states that the lease includes...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 47 - Land and Land Titles

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Title 47 - Land and Land Titles