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Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant
Section 47a-1. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter and sections 47a-21, 47a-23 to...
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. - (a) Unless created to avoid the application of this chapter...
Section 47a-3. - Rental agreement: Permissible terms. - A landlord and a tenant may include in a rental...
Section 47a-3a. - Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment. - (a) Rent is payable without demand or notice at the...
Section 47a-3b. - Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement. - Unless the rental agreement fixes a definite term, the tenancy...
Section 47a-3c. - Payment in absence of rental agreement. - In the absence of agreement, the tenant shall pay the...
Section 47a-3d. (Formerly Sec. 47-22). - Holding over not evidence of new lease. Determination of monthly lease. - Holding over by any lessee, after the expiration of the...
Section 47a-3e. - Notice to potential tenant when dwelling unit located in common interest community. - Whenever a dwelling unit in a common interest community is...
Section 47a-3f. - Rental agreement: Notice re operative fire sprinkler system. - (a) As used in this section, “fire sprinkler system” means...
Section 47a-4. - Terms prohibited in rental agreement. - (a) A rental agreement shall not provide that the tenant:...
Section 47a-4a. - Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7. - A rental agreement shall not permit the receipt of rent...
Section 47a-4b. (Formerly Sec. 53-303g). - Commercial leases. Certain provisions void. - No lease of commercial space in a shopping center or...
Section 47a-4c. - Landlord prohibited from requiring electronic funds transfer as exclusive form of payment. - For any lease or rental agreement executed on or after...
Section 47a-5. (Formerly Sec. 47-24a). - Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate of occupancy. - In any borough, city or town which requires a certificate...
Section 47a-6. - Identification of landlord. - (a) It is the duty of the landlord or an...
Section 47a-6a. - Filing in designated municipal office of residential address of nonresident landlord. - (a) As used in this section, “address” means a location...
Section 47a-6b. - Civil penalties for failure to file residential address of nonresident landlord. - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 51-164p, any municipality may by...
Section 47a-7. - Landlord's responsibilities. - (a) A landlord shall: (1) Comply with the requirements of...
Section 47a-7a. - Landlord and tenant responsibilities re bed bug infestations. Definitions. Notification to landlord. Inspection. Treatment. Liability of landlord. Injunction against tenant. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Certified applicator” means...
Section 47a-7b. - Request to change dwelling unit locks when tenant is named as a protected person in a protective or restraining order. - (a) Upon the request of a tenant, a landlord shall...
Section 47a-8. (Formerly Sec. 47-24c). - Paint not conforming to standards renders property unfit. - Section 47a-8 is repealed, effective July 1, 1994. (1971, P.A....
Section 47a-9. - Landlord rules and regulations. - (a) A landlord, from time to time, may adopt a...
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. - (a) As used in this section, “tenant”, “landlord” and “dwelling...
Section 47a-10. - Termination of responsibility. - (a) Unless otherwise agreed, a landlord who conveys premises, which...
Section 47a-11. - Tenant's responsibilities. - A tenant shall: (a) Comply with all obligations primarily imposed...
Section 47a-11a. - Abandonment of unit by tenant. - (a) If the tenant abandons the dwelling unit, the landlord...
Section 47a-11b. - Abandonment of unit by occupants. Landlord's remedies. - (a) For the purposes of this section, “abandonment” means the...
Section 47a-11c. - Breach of rental agreement by tenant. Measure of damages. - If a landlord terminates a residential or commercial tenancy on...
Section 47a-11d. - Death of tenant. Landlord's remedies. - (a) If the sole occupant of a dwelling unit subject...
Section 47a-11e. - Termination of rental agreement by tenant who is a victim of family violence or sexual assault. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter and chapter 831,...
Section 47a-12. - Breach of agreement by landlord. Tenant's remedies. - (a) If there is a material noncompliance by the landlord...
Section 47a-13. - Failure of landlord to supply essential services. Tenant's remedies. - (a) If the landlord is required to supply heat, running...
Section 47a-13a. - Implementation of energy conservation measures by tenant. - (a) A tenant of any dwelling unit may, in accordance...
Section 47a-13b. - Installation of electric vehicle charging station by tenant. - (a) As used in this section (1) “dedicated parking space”...
Section 47a-14. - Damage or destruction of unit. Tenant's remedies. - (a) If the dwelling unit or premises are damaged or...
Section 47a-14a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347k). - Action for private receivership of tenement house. Complaint. Notice of action. - (a) A majority or more of the tenants occupying a...
Section 47a-14b. (Formerly Sec. 19-347l). - Tenement receivership: Hearing by referee; judgment; no right to jury trial. - (a) The Superior Court may refer the complaint to a...
Section 47a-14c. (Formerly Sec. 19-347m). - Tenement receivership: Defense. - It shall be sufficient defense to a proceeding under sections...
Section 47a-14d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347n). - Tenement receivership: Judgment. - (a) If the court finds that the plaintiffs have failed...
Section 47a-14e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347o). - Tenement receivership: Owner's right to collect rent moneys. - The right of the owner of such property to collect...
Section 47a-14f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347p). - Tenement receivership: Order to remove or remedy conditions in lieu of judgment; application for hearing for judgment. - (a) If the court finds that the facts alleged in...
Section 47a-14g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347q). - Tenement receivership: Judgment and appointment of receiver after failure to comply with order. - If, upon a hearing authorized under section 47a-14f, the court...
Section 47a-14h. - Action by individual tenant to enforce landlord's responsibilities. Payment of rent into court. - (a) Any tenant who claims that the landlord has failed...
Section 47a-15. - Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies. - Prior to the commencement of a summary process action, except...
Section 47a-15a. - Nonpayment of rent by tenant: Landlord's remedy. - If rent is unpaid when due and the tenant fails...
Section 47a-16. - When landlord may enter rented unit. - (a) A tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to the...
Section 47a-16a. - Notification by tenant of extended absence. When landlord may enter. - Unless otherwise agreed, the tenant shall be required to notify...
Section 47a-17. - Tenant to occupy only as dwelling unit. - Unless otherwise agreed, a tenant shall occupy his dwelling unit...
Section 47a-18. - Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry. - If the tenant refuses to allow entry pursuant to section...
Section 47a-18a. - Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters. - If the landlord makes an entry prohibited by section 47a-16...
Section 47a-19. - Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue. - Acceptance of rent with the knowledge that such rent is...
Section 47a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-375a). - Retaliatory action by landlord prohibited. - A landlord shall not maintain an action or proceeding against...
Section 47a-20a. - Actions deemed not retaliatory. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 47a-20, the landlord may...
Section 47a-20e. - Protection of tenant in foreclosed property. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Bona fide tenant”...
Section 47a-20f. - Offer of incentive to tenant in foreclosed property to vacate. - Upon the foreclosure of a mortgage or lien of residential...
Chapter 831 - Security Deposits
Section 47a-21. - Security deposits. - (a) Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Accrued interest”...
Section 47a-22. (Formerly Sec. 47-23a). - Advance rental payments or security deposits for residential units; escrow deposit, interest payable. - Section 47a-22 is repealed. (P.A. 73-607, S. 2, 3; P.A....
Section 47a-22a. - Interest payable on security deposits of senior citizens and disabled persons in public housing. Payment of security deposit in installments. - (a) Any housing authority, community housing development corporation, or other...
Chapter 832 - Summary Process
Section 47a-23. (Formerly Sec. 52-532). - Notice to quit possession or occupancy of premises. Form. Delivery. Federal termination notice. - (a) When the owner or lessor, or the owner's or...
Section 47a-23a. - Complaint. - (a) If, at the expiration of the three days prescribed...
Section 47a-23b. - Service of notice to quit or summons if lessee a nonresident or if whereabouts unknown. - (a) If the lessee or occupant of such land, building,...
Section 47a-23c. - Prohibition on eviction of certain tenants except for good cause. - (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection,...
Section 47a-23d. - Report to General Assembly. - Obsolete. (P.A. 80-370, S. 7, 9.)
Section 47a-24. (Formerly Sec. 52-532a). - Action by cooperative housing corporation. - As used in this chapter, (1) “lessee or occupant” includes...
Section 47a-24a. - Action by receiver of rents. - As used in this chapter, “owner or lessor” includes any...
Section 47a-25. (Formerly Sec. 52-533). - Waiver of notice to quit. - When, in any written lease of any land, building, apartment...
Section 47a-26. (Formerly Sec. 52-534). - Failure to appear. Judgment. - If the defendant does not appear within two days after...
Section 47a-26a. - Failure to plead. Judgment. - If the defendant appears but does not plead within two...
Section 47a-26b. - Motion and order for payments for use and occupancy. - (a) If the defendant appears, the court shall, upon motion...
Section 47a-26c. - Advancement of pleadings. Failure to plead. - All pleadings, including motions, shall advance at least one step...
Section 47a-26d. - Trial. Finding. Judgment. - If, on the trial of a summary process complaint it...
Section 47a-26e. - Order of payments on appeal. - If an order of payments is in effect on the...
Section 47a-26f. - Hearing to distribute payments. - After entry of final judgment, the court shall hold a...
Section 47a-26g. - Appeal. - Appeal shall be allowed from any judgment rendered in any...
Section 47a-26h. - Persons bound by judgment. Notice. Exemption. - (a) A summary process judgment shall bind (1) the named...
Section 47a-26i. - Motion to open or set aside judgment or to extend final stay of execution. - If a motion to open or set aside, or to...
Section 47a-27. (Formerly Sec. 52-535). - Summary process by assignee and mortgagee. - The remedy provided by this chapter in favor of lessors...
Section 47a-28. (Formerly Sec. 52-536). - Action by selectmen. - An action of summary process may be maintained by the...
Section 47a-29. (Formerly Sec. 52-537). - Action by reversion or remainderman. - When any lessee occupies any land, building, apartment or dwelling...
Section 47a-30. (Formerly Sec. 52-538). - Eviction of former farm employee, domestic servant, caretaker, manager or other employee. - (a) When any farm employee or any domestic servant, caretaker,...
Section 47a-31. (Formerly Sec. 52-539). - Illegal use of premises voids lease. - When the lessee or tenant of any house, room, tenement...
Section 47a-32. (Formerly Sec. 52-540). - Nuisance defined. - In any action of summary process based upon nuisance, that...
Section 47a-33. (Formerly Sec. 52-540a). - Defense that action is retaliatory. - In any action for summary process under this chapter or...
Section 47a-33a. - Presentation of affirmative defenses. - In any action of summary process under this chapter, the...
Section 47a-34. (Formerly Sec. 52-541). - Other legal remedies not affected. - All persons claiming title to premises concerning which any proceedings...
Section 47a-35. (Formerly Sec. 52-542). - Stay of execution. Appeal. - (a) Execution shall be stayed for five days from the...
Section 47a-35a. - Bond on appeal. Rent to be paid into court. - (a) When any appeal is taken by the defendant occupying...
Section 47a-35b. - Distribution of payments after appeal. - Upon final disposition of the appeal, the trial court shall...
Section 47a-36. (Formerly Sec. 52-543). - Occupancies to which stay of execution provisions are inapplicable. - Sections 47a-37 to 47a-41, inclusive, shall not apply to (1)...
Section 47a-37. (Formerly Sec. 52-544). - Application for stay of execution. - (a) Within a period of five days after a judgment...
Section 47a-38. (Formerly Sec. 52-545). - Hearing on application for stay of execution. - Upon the receipt of any application for stay of execution,...
Section 47a-39. (Formerly Sec. 52-546). - Court may grant stay of execution. - Upon the hearing on such application in the Superior Court...
Section 47a-40. (Formerly Sec. 52-547). - No entry fee, judgment fee or costs on application or hearing. - No entry fee and no judgment fee shall be required...
Section 47a-41. (Formerly Sec. 52-548). - Waiver of tenant's rights to be void. - Any provision of a lease or rental agreement whereby a...
Section 47a-41a. - Execution void after six months. - An execution to enforce a summary process judgment shall not...
Section 47a-42. (Formerly Sec. 52-549). - Eviction of tenant and occupants from residential property. Removal and sale of unclaimed possessions and personal effects. - (a) Whenever a judgment is entered against a defendant pursuant...
Section 47a-42a. - Eviction of tenant and occupants from commercial property. Disposition of unclaimed possessions and personal effects. - (a) Whenever a judgment is entered against a defendant pursuant...
Chapter 833 - Entry and Detainer
Section 47a-43. (Formerly Sec. 52-462). - Complaint and procedure: Forcible entry and detainer; entry and detainer. - (a) When any person (1) makes forcible entry into any...
Section 47a-44. (Formerly Sec. 52-463). - Judge to try issue unless jury moved for and bond posted. - The issue joined on a complaint brought under section 47a-43...
Section 47a-45. (Formerly Sec. 52-464). - Summoning of jury. - If motion is made for a jury, the names of...
Section 47a-45a. - Finding. Judgment. Costs. Title to land not affected. - (a) If it is found (1) that a forcible entry...
Section 47a-46. (Formerly Sec. 52-465). - When double damages allowable. - The party aggrieved may recover in a civil action double...
Chapter 833a - Public Enforcement of Health and Safety Standards in Tenement and Boarding Houses, and in Rented Dwellings
Section 47a-50. - Definitions. - The following terms, when used in this chapter, are defined...
Section 47a-51. (Formerly Sec. 19-343). - Sanitary regulations. - (a) Each tenement, lodging or boarding house, and each part...
Section 47a-52. (Formerly Sec. 19-88). - Abatement of conditions in rented dwelling other than tenement house constituting danger to life or health. - (a) As used in this section, “rented dwelling” means any...
Section 47a-53. (Formerly Sec. 19-344). - Orders of enforcement agency. Municipal lien for expenses in executing order. - (a) Whenever any tenement, lodging or boarding house or any...
Section 47a-54. (Formerly Sec. 19-345). - Communicable diseases; unfit for habitation; order to vacate. - (a) Whenever it is certified by the board of health...
Section 47a-54a. (Formerly Sec. 19-346). - Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses. - If a room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house...
Section 47a-54b. - Water in tenement and lodging houses. - Water in sufficient quantity shall be provided on each floor,...
Section 47a-54c. - Toilets and bathrooms. - (a) Each building used as a tenement, lodging or boarding...
Section 47a-54d. - Public halls. - (a) Dark or poorly ventilated public halls in tenement, lodging...
Section 47a-54e. - Bedrooms. - A room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house shall...
Section 47a-54f. - Paint. - (a) In each tenement, lodging or boarding house the walls...
Section 47a-55. (Formerly Sec. 19-347). - Enforcement. Penalties. - (a) The board of health of each town, city or...
Section 47a-56. (Formerly Sec. 19-347a). - Passage of ordinance for abatement of nuisances. Appointment of authority. - The legislative body of any city, town or borough may...
Section 47a-56a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347b). - Appointment of receiver of rents: Application. - Whenever any order issued under the provisions of section 47a-53...
Section 47a-56b. - Appointment of receiver of rents: Service. - (a) Such rule to show cause shall be returnable not...
Section 47a-56c. - Appointment of receiver of rents: Determination by court. - (a) On the return of said rule to show cause,...
Section 47a-56d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347c). - Receiver: Bond required. Powers and duties. - (a) The receiver's appointment shall not be effective until the...
Section 47a-56e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347d). - Liability of owner. - Nothing in sections 47a-56 to 47a-56i, inclusive, shall be deemed...
Section 47a-56f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347e). - Payment of expenses. Liability of receiver. Assistance of municipal personnel. Costs and attorney's fees. - (a) The receiver shall be entitled to his necessary expenses...
Section 47a-56g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347f). - Discharge of receiver. - The receiver shall be discharged upon rendering a complete accounting...
Section 47a-56h. (Formerly Sec. 19-347g). - Rights of mortgagee or lienor remedying nuisance and paying expenses. - Any mortgagee or lienor who, at his expense, remedies or...
Section 47a-56i. (Formerly Sec. 19-347h). - Housing Receivership Revolving Fund. Source of funds for expenses of a receiver in remedying certain tenement conditions. - (a) The expenses incurred by a receiver in removing or...
Section 47a-56j. (Formerly Sec. 19-347i). - State financial assistance for rent receivership programs. - The state, acting by and in the discretion of the...
Section 47a-56k. - Authorization of state bonds for purposes of the Housing Receivership Revolving Fund. - (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, in accordance...
Section 47a-57. (Formerly Sec. 19-347r). - Certificate of occupancy required for lawful occupation. Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate. - (a) An apartment or dwelling unit in any structure containing...
Section 47a-58. (Formerly Sec. 19-347s). - Notice of violation. Penalty. Injunctive relief. Municipal lien for unpaid penalty. - (a) Any enforcing agency may issue a notice of violation...
Section 47a-59. (Formerly Sec. 19-347t). - Enforcement actions. Defenses. - (a) The enforcing agency may bring an action in the...
Section 47a-60. (Formerly Sec. 19-347u). - Stay of penalty. Violation contested by owner. - (a) In any action for penalties under sections 47a-53, 47a-55...
Section 47a-61. (Formerly Sec. 19-347v). - Precedence in trial order. - Any action for recovery of civil penalties under the provisions...
Chapter 834 - Court Proceedings on Housing Matters
Section 47a-68. - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, sections 51-51v and 51-165, subsection...
Section 47a-69. - Housing mediators. Appointment. Qualifications. Duties. - (a) The judges of the Superior Court or an authorized...
Section 47a-70. - Housing docket. Entry and transfer of cases on docket. - (a) All proceedings involving a housing matter in the judicial...
Section 47a-71. - Citizens advisory councils for housing matters. - Section 47a-71 is repealed. (P.A. 78-365, S. 7, 13; P.A....
Section 47a-71a. - Connecticut Advisory Council on Housing Matters. - There is hereby created the Connecticut Advisory Council on Housing...
Section 47a-72. - Duties of Citizens Advisory Council. Meetings. No compensation or reimbursement. - (a) The council shall from time to time view the...
Section 47a-73. - Judges and council to report to General Assembly. - The judges hearing housing matters and the Connecticut Advisory Council...
Section 47a-74. - Rules of practice to be adopted. - The judges of the Superior Court may adopt such rules...
Section 47a-75. - Right to counsel in eviction proceedings. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Covered individual” means...