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. - 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...