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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-277. - Action for breach of warranty. Statute of limitations.

(a) Unless a period of limitation is tolled under section 47-253, a judicial proceeding for breach of any obligation arising under section 47-274 or 47-275 shall be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrues.
(b) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a cause of action for breach of warranty of quality, regardless of the purchaser's or association's lack of knowledge of the breach, accrues: (1) As to a unit, at the time the purchaser to whom the warranty is first made enters into possession if a possessory interest was conveyed or at the time of acceptance of the instrument of conveyance if a nonpossessory interest was conveyed; and (2) as to each common element, at the time the common element is completed and first used by a bona fide purchaser.
(c) If a warranty of quality explicitly extends to future performance or duration of any improvement or component of the common interest community, the cause of action accrues at the time the breach is discovered or at the end of the period for which the warranty explicitly extends, whichever is earlier.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 78, 96; P.A. 95-187, S. 25.)
History: P.A. 95-187 amended Subsec. (a) to add “Unless a period of limitation is tolled under section 47-253”.
Subsec. (b):
Definition of “purchaser” in Sec. 47-202(25) applies to accrual provision in Subdiv. (2). 245 C. 1.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-279. - Labeling of promotional material.

No promotional material may be displayed or delivered to prospective purchasers which describes or portrays an improvement that is not in existence unless the description or portrayal of the improvement in the promotional material is conspicuously labeled or identified either as “MUST BE BUILT” or as “NEED NOT BE BUILT”.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 80, 96.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-280. - Declarant's obligation to complete and restore.

(a) Except for improvements labeled “NEED NOT BE BUILT”, the declarant shall complete all improvements depicted on any site plan or other graphic representation, including any surveys or plans prepared pursuant to section 47-228, whether or not that site plan or other graphic representation is contained in the public offering statement or in any promotional material distributed by or for the declarant.
(b) The declarant is subject to liability for the prompt repair and restoration, to a condition compatible with the remainder of the common interest community, of any portion of the common interest community affected by the exercise of rights reserved pursuant to or created by section 47-229, 47-230, 47-231, 47-232, 47-234 or 47-235.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 81, 96.)
Subsec. (a):
Re site plan and improvements depicted therein, where a declarant reserves right to withdraw land from condominium development, Subsec. limits that right by holding declarant responsible for building any improvements depicted in site plan that are not labeled “NEED NOT BE BUILT”. 294 C. 311.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-281. - Substantial completion of units required.

In the case of a sale of a unit in which delivery of a public offering statement is required, a contract of sale may be executed, but no interest in that unit may be conveyed, until the declaration is recorded and the unit is substantially completed, as evidenced by a recorded certificate of substantial completion executed by a registered architect, surveyor or engineer, or by issuance of a certificate of occupancy authorized by law.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 82, 96.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-282. - Statement of policy.

It is declared that (1) a severe rental housing shortage exists in this state, (2) the current rate at which dwelling units are being converted into common interest communities has created a state-wide housing emergency, (3) it is in the public interest to preserve a number of leased dwelling units as rentals for those persons who, because of increasing age, infirmity or other functional limitations, are least likely to be able to afford to purchase housing and are most susceptible to mental and physical health problems that may result from the trauma of being forced to search for housing in a market where the vacancy rate for leased dwelling units is approaching zero in many localities, (4) because towns, cities and boroughs may not regulate the conversion of residential rental property to dwelling units in common interest communities, except as provided in this section, there is a need for state-wide action, and (5) current economic conditions, including fluctuating interest rates, may stabilize thereby easing the housing crisis which now exists.
(P.A. 83-474, S 83, 96.)
Cited. 207 C. 441.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-283. - Definitions.

For purposes of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive:
(1) “Conversion notice” means the conversion notice specified by section 47-284;
(2) “Converted unit” means a dwelling unit or a space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park that (A) was not in a common interest community when originally leased to its current tenant and (B) is now in a common interest community or is located in a building in which a unit is being offered for sale, or in a mobile manufactured home park in which a space or lot is being offered for sale, as part of a common interest community;
(3) “Tenant” means a tenant, as defined in section 47a-1, or a resident, as defined in section 21-64, including a resident who owns his own mobile manufactured home;
(4) “Conversion tenant” means a tenant who occupies a dwelling unit or a space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park both before and after it becomes a converted unit; and
(5) “Transition period” means, with respect to a conversion tenant, the period of time beginning on the date when that tenant's dwelling unit or space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park becomes a converted unit, and ending nine months after that tenant receives a conversion notice or when his existing lease ends, whichever is later.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 84, 96; P.A. 87-358, S. 1 P.A. 91-383, S. 24.)
History: P.A. 87-358 amended the definition of “transition period” to increase the period from 180 days to 9 months; P.A. 91-383 amended the definition of “converted unit” to include a space or lot located in a mobile manufactured home park, added the definition of “tenant”, amended the definition of “conversion tenant” to include a tenant who occupies a space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park, and amended the definition of “transition period” to replace “apartment” with “dwelling unit” and include a tenant's space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park.
Cited. 207 C. 441.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-284. - Conversion tenant's right to conversion notice and public offering statement.

(a) At least nine months before a conversion tenant will be required to vacate a converted unit, other than for reasons permitted by subsection (b) of section 47a-23c, and, if a tenant has a purchase right pursuant to section 47-285, at least ninety days prior to the sale of the converted unit by the declarant to a person other than a conversion tenant, a declarant shall give that tenant a conversion notice and provide that tenant with a public offering statement when otherwise required by section 47-263 or 47-267.
(b) The conversion notice shall inform a tenant of: (1) The date the declarant converted, or intends to convert, the building to a common interest form of ownership; (2) the right of the tenant during the transition period to protection from eviction; (3) the exclusive right of the tenant, as described in section 47-285, to purchase his converted unit during the first ninety days after receipt of the conversion notice; (4) the right of the tenant, as described in section 47-286, to terminate his tenancy and abandon his converted unit on thirty days notice, and the right of each qualified tenant, as described in section 47-287, to a relocation payment; (5) the availability from the Department of Housing of information concerning governmental assistance to (A) purchase the converted unit or alternative housing, or (B) find, and relocate to, alternative housing; and (6) the address and phone number for information concerning the availability of relocation payments and for information from the Department of Housing concerning governmental assistance.
(c) The conversion notice and public offering statement shall be hand-delivered or sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the address of the dwelling unit and to any other mailing address provided by a tenant.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 85, 96; P.A. 84-472, S. 20, 23; P.A. 87-358, S. 2; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 84-472 amended Subsec. (a) to increase from 60 to 90 days the time period prior to the sale of a converted unit when a declarant must give a conversion notice to certain tenants and amended Subsec. (b) to require the conversion notice to inform the tenant that he has the exclusive right to purchase his unit during the first 90 days, rather than the first 60 days, after receipt of the notice; P.A. 87-358 amended Subsec. (a) to increase from 180 days to 9 months the time period prior to the date a conversion tenant is required to vacate his unit that the declarant must give a conversion notice; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Department of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Department of Housing in Subsec. (b), effective June 19, 2013.
Cited. 207 C. 441.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-285. - Conversion tenant's right to purchase converted unit.

(a) For the first ninety days after giving a conversion notice to a tenant, a declarant shall offer to convey the converted unit occupied by that tenant to that tenant. If a tenant fails to purchase the converted unit during that ninety-day period, the declarant may not offer to dispose of an interest in that converted unit during the following nine months at a price or on terms more favorable to the offeree than the price or terms offered to the tenant. This provision does not apply to any unit which will be restricted exclusively to nonresidential use or the boundaries of which do not substantially conform to the dimensions of the unit before conversion.
(b) If a declarant, in violation of subsection (a) of this section conveys a converted unit to a purchaser for value who has no knowledge of the violation, the recordation of the deed conveying that converted unit, or, in a cooperative, the conveyance, extinguishes any right a tenant may have under subsection (a) of this section to purchase if the deed or conveyance states that the declarant has complied with said subsection (a), but does not affect the right of a tenant to recover damages under section 47-292 from the declarant for a violation of said subsection (a).
(c) If a tenant fails to purchase the converted unit during that ninety-day period, and the declarant thereafter enters into a contract to sell that unit to a third person, the declarant shall, within one month of executing that contract, notify the tenant of the name and address of the contract purchaser. The declarant's failure to comply with this subsection shall not constitute a defect in the title which he conveys to a third person, or otherwise affect the marketability of title to that unit.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 86, 96; P.A. 84-472, S. 21, 23; P.A. 87-358, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 84-472 increased from 60 to 90 days the period during which a conversion tenant has an exclusive right to purchase his converted unit; P.A. 87-358 amended Subsec. (a) to increase from 180 days to 9 months the period during which the declarant is prohibited from offering a more favorable price or terms.
Cited. 207 C. 441; 209 C. 15.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-286. - Conversion tenant's right to terminate lease and abandon unit.

A conversion tenant may, without penalty, terminate an existing lease before it expires at any time during a transition period after he receives a conversion notice, if he notifies the declarant of his intention to abandon thirty days in advance. A conversion tenant may abandon his unit at any time during a transition period on termination or expiration of his lease.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 87, 96.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-287. - Conversion tenant's right to relocation payment.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a conversion tenant is entitled to a relocation payment from the declarant if the tenant's household income qualifies under subsection (c) of this section and he moves from his converted unit either during or after the transition period. The relocation payment shall be in the amount of two months rent or one thousand dollars, whichever is greater.
(b) If a conversion tenant executes a written lease for a term of at least one year at any time after the tenant receives a conversion notice, the lease may provide that, after the transition period ends, the tenant waives his right to a relocation payment pursuant to this section.
(c) A tenant's household income qualifies, for purposes of subsection (a) of this section, if his household has an adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes of less than twenty-one thousand dollars if the tenant is unmarried, or twenty-five thousand dollars if he is married.
(d) The relocation payment shall be made within ten days after the tenant vacates and shall not be considered as income or resources to the extent so provided for payment to a displaced person pursuant to section 8-277.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 88, 96.)
Cited. 207 C. 441.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-289. - Rent increases of conversion tenants.

(a) During a transition period, a conversion tenant's rent may not be increased for any reason.
(b) After a transition period ends, the rent of any conversion tenant, including tenants protected under section 47a-23c, may be increased only to the extent such increase is fair and equitable, based on the criteria set forth in section 7-148c. At least sixty days notice of any proposed increase shall be given to a conversion tenant. A rent increase may include the amount of assessment on that dwelling unit for the payment of current common expenses under section 47-257, to the extent not already included in the tenant's rent.
(c) Any converted tenant aggrieved by a rent increase or proposed rent increase may seek the relief available under subdivision (2) of subsection (c) of section 47a-23c.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 90, 96.)
Cited. 207 C. 441.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-291. - Unenforceable lease provisions.

Except pursuant to a purchase agreement with the tenant for the purchase of his dwelling unit or the space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park on which his dwelling unit sits, any provision in a tenant's lease that allows a landlord or declarant at his option, on conversion of a building or mobile manufactured home park to a common interest community, to cancel and terminate such contract or lease without conforming to the requirements of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive, is unenforceable and contrary to public policy.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 92, 96; P.A. 91-383, S. 27.)
History: P.A. 91-383 made provisions of Sec. applicable when a mobile manufactured home park is converted to a common interest community.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-292. - Tenant's cause of action.

A tenant who claims to be aggrieved by a violation of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive, or of section 47a-23c or who claims that a landlord, declarant or unit owner has harassed him or engaged in conduct with the purpose of improperly inducing him to vacate his dwelling unit or the space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park on which his dwelling unit sits may bring an action in the superior court for the judicial district in which such person resides. The court may, in addition to damages, or in lieu of damages, order injunctive or other equitable relief and award the plaintiff costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 93, 96; P.A. 91-383, S. 28.)
History: P.A. 91-383 made provisions of Sec. applicable to a tenant improperly induced to vacate the space or lot in a mobile manufactured home park on which his dwelling unit sits.
Cited. 209 C. 15.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-293. - Applicability of protection afforded conversion tenants.

(a) The protection provided by sections 47-282 to 47-292, inclusive, to conversion tenants shall not apply to (1) conversion tenants of condominiums created before May 7, 1980, or (2) conversion tenants of all other common interest communities created before January 1, 1983.
(b) Sections 47-282 to 47-292, inclusive, shall not be construed to change the rights of any tenant protected by public act 80-370.
(P.A. 83-474, S. 94, 96.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-294. - Complaints of violations. Investigations. Enforcement action by Attorney General.

(a) The Commissioner of Housing may receive complaints of any violations of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive, section 47a-23c as it applies to the conversion of dwelling units or mobile manufactured home parks into common interest communities, and any other law concerning the conversion of dwelling units or mobile manufactured home parks into common interest communities. The commissioner shall cause investigations of such violations to be made and shall make every effort to ensure compliance with such laws. If the commissioner believes that any such laws are being violated, he shall refer the matter to the Attorney General for further enforcement.
(b) The Attorney General, acting on behalf of the Commissioner of Housing or the people of the state of Connecticut, may bring an action in the superior court for the judicial district in which the property is located to enforce the provisions of sections 47-282 to 47-293, inclusive, section 47a-23c as it applies to the conversion of dwelling units or mobile manufactured home parks into common interest communities, and any other law concerning the conversion of dwelling units or mobile manufactured home parks into common interest communities. In any such action, the Attorney General may obtain, for the benefit of persons adversely affected by the violations of such laws, any relief to which such persons may be entitled. The Attorney General may combine such action with any other action within his power to maintain, including an action under chapter 735a. Nothing in this section shall limit the right of a person adversely affected by violations of the law from bringing a private cause of action under sections 47-292 and 42-110g or any other law which may entitle such person to relief.
(P.A. 87-439, S. 2, 6; P.A. 91-383, S. 29; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 91-383 made provisions of Sec. applicable to violations of laws re the conversion of mobile manufactured home parks into common interest communities; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828 - Common Interest Ownership Act › Section 47-295. - Regulations.

The Commissioner of Housing shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the purposes of sections 47-288 and 47-294. Such regulations shall provide for the form of registration to be required pursuant to section 47-288 and the information to be provided therein.
(P.A. 87-439, S. 3, 6; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828a - Community Land Trusts › Section 47-300. - Definitions.

As used in sections 47-300 to 47-304, inclusive:
(1) “Eligible housing” means any building, structure or portion thereof which is used or occupied, or intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons or families of very low income, low income or moderate income.
(2) “Very low income” means persons and families having an aggregate family income at or below twenty-five per cent of the area median income, as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(3) “Low income” means persons and families having an aggregate family income between twenty-six and fifty per cent of the area median income, as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(4) “Moderate income” means persons and families having an aggregate family income between fifty-one and eighty per cent of the area median income, as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(5) “Lessee” means a person, association or organization with whom a community land trust enters into a ground lease for the purpose of providing eligible housing.
(6) “Community land trust” means a nonprofit organization incorporated pursuant to chapter 602 or any predecessor statutes thereto that meets the requirements of section 47-301.
(7) “Leasehold interest” means the real property interest of a lessee in a ground lease with a community land trust.
(8) “First option to purchase” means a right in favor of a community land trust to purchase the improvements and leasehold interest of a lessee, or any portion or portions thereof owned by or subleased to any resident of eligible housing therein, prior to the rights of any other party, at a limited equity price.
(9) “Limited equity price” means a price for the sale of any building or improvement located on land owned by a community land trust that is determined by means of a formula or similar calculation designed to maintain such building or improvement as eligible housing for the longest term possible, but not less than the term of the applicable ground lease.
(10) “Predominantly” means at least fifty per cent.
(P.A. 90-203, S. 1; P.A. 91-358, S. 1; P.A. 96-256, S. 205, 209.)
History: P.A. 91-358 amended Subdiv. (3) to redefine “predominantly” as 50% rather than 70%; P.A. 96-256 amended definition of “community land trust” to replace reference to “chapter 600” with “chapter 602 or any predecessor statutes thereto”, effective January 1, 1997.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828a - Community Land Trusts › Section 47-301. - Community land trust. Purposes. Powers.

(a) A community land trust shall have as one of its purposes the holding of land and the leasing of such land for the purpose of preserving the long-term eligibility and accessibility of housing predominantly for very low income, low income and moderate income persons and families. Aggregate family income shall be determined at the time the lessee enters into a ground lease with the lessor. A community land trust shall have, in addition to all powers granted to it under chapter 602, the power to buy and sell land, to mortgage and otherwise encumber land and to enter into renewable or self-extending ground leases with an initial term of up to ninety-nine years.
(b) The bylaws of a community land trust shall provide that: (1) The trust is an organization open to members of the general public who support the organization's goals and purposes; (2) no more than thirty per cent of the members of the organization may be persons who reside outside of the municipality or municipalities in which the community land trust operates; (3) the membership shall elect at least fifty-one per cent of the governing board of the community land trust; (4) at least twenty-five per cent but no more than forty per cent of the governing board shall be lessees, representatives elected by lessees or residents of eligible housing located on land owned by the community land trust, provided prior to the organization having at least five units of housing, the governing board shall appoint persons to represent the lessees; and (5) the remaining members of the governing board, if any, may be appointed by elected public officials to the extent set forth in the bylaws.
(c) A community land trust shall hold title to land and lease such land to very low income, low income and moderate income persons and families, limited equity cooperatives or other corporations, provided the terms of any such ground lease shall give the community land trust the first option to purchase any building or improvement on such land, or any condominium or cooperative unit therein, at a limited equity price set forth in the ground lease.
(d) A community land trust may charge a lease fee to the lessee. Such fee shall be determined by the community land trust and may include property taxes and any other assessments made on the land, an administrative fee and a land use fee. The method of determining the lease fee shall be set forth in the ground lease. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a state, local or other funding agency or a lender from placing in escrow all or part of the lease fee.
(P.A. 90-203, S. 2; P.A. 96-256, S. 206, 209.)
History: P.A. 96-256 amended Subsec. (a) to replace reference to Ch. 600 with Ch. 602, effective January 1, 1997.
See Sec. 8-214d re state financial assistance for establishing a community land trust.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828a - Community Land Trusts › Section 47-302. - Ground lease interest constitutes an interest in real property.

A lessee's interest in a ground lease with a community land trust shall constitute an interest in real property. Any loan made to the lessee may be secured by the lessee's leasehold interest in the same manner as any other loan secured by real property.
(P.A. 90-203, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828a - Community Land Trusts › Section 47-303. - Required ground lease provisions.

A ground lease between a community land trust and a lessee shall include provisions designed to preserve long-term eligible housing on the land. Such provisions may include, but shall not be limited to, a first option to purchase and restrictions on the resale, subletting or assignment of improvements or portions thereof. Such provisions shall not be subject to any general statute or rule of law limiting the duration, degree or nature of restraints on real property, including, but not limited to, the common law rule against perpetuities, the uniform statutory rule against perpetuities and the rule against unreasonable restraints on alienation.
(P.A. 90-203, S. 4.)
See chapter 802c, part II, Secs. 45a-490 to 45a-496, inclusive, re uniform statutory rule against perpetuities.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47 - Land and Land Titles › Chapter 828a - Community Land Trusts › Section 47-304. - Lease restrictions.

If any notice of lease states that the lease includes restrictions pursuant to sections 47-300 to 47-304, inclusive, the lease will be deemed to include, at a minimum, all of the restrictions contained in section 47-303.
(P.A. 90-203, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-3. - Rental agreement: Permissible terms.

A landlord and a tenant may include in a rental agreement terms and conditions not prohibited by law, including rent, term of the agreement and other provisions governing the rights and obligations of the parties.
(P.A. 76-95, S. 3, 27; 76-435, S. 75, 82; P.A. 79-571, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 76-435 revised effective date section of P.A. 76-95; P.A. 79-571 deleted former Subsecs. (b) to (d) which had required tenant to pay fair rental value in absence of an agreement, which had specified when rent is payable and which had specified tenancy as month-to-month or week-to-week unless rental agreement fixes a definite term.
Cited. 38 CS 1; Id., 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-3a. - Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment.

(a) Rent is payable without demand or notice at the time and place agreed upon by the parties.
(b) Unless otherwise agreed: (1) Rent is payable at the dwelling unit; (2) periodic rent is payable at the beginning of any term of one month or less and for terms of more than one month in equal monthly installments at the beginning of each month.
(c) Upon receipt of a payment in cash from or on behalf of an occupant, a landlord shall provide the person making the payment with a receipt stating the date of the payment, the amount received and the purpose for which the payment was made.
(P.A. 79-571, S. 5; P.A. 93-159; P.A. 01-44.)
History: P.A. 93-159 added Subsec. (c) requiring a landlord to provide a receipt for a cash payment; P.A. 01-44 amended Subsec. (c) by deleting provision re request of receipt by person making cash payment.
Cited. 38 CS 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-3b. - Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement.

Unless the rental agreement fixes a definite term, the tenancy is month to month, except in the case of a tenant who pays weekly rent, then the tenancy is week to week.
(P.A. 79-571, S. 11.)
Cited. 7 CA 301; 16 CA 574.
Cited. 38 CS 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-3c. - Payment in absence of rental agreement.

In the absence of agreement, the tenant shall pay the fair rental value for the use and occupancy of the dwelling unit.
(P.A. 79-571, S. 7.)
Cited. 4 CA 608; 13 CA 150; 16 CA 574; 17 CA 92. Illegal lease contrasted with situation contemplated by statute where recovery for use and occupancy is premised on absence of lease or termination of valid lease agreement by notice to quit. 24 CA 385. Cited. 27 CA 706.
Cited. 38 CS 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › 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 rented from a declarant, successor declarant or person acting on the declarant's or successor declarant's behalf, such declarant, successor declarant or person shall, prior to entering into a rental agreement, provide the tenant with a written notice that the dwelling unit is located in a common interest community.
(P.A. 88-322, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-3f. - Rental agreement: Notice re operative fire sprinkler system.

(a) As used in this section, “fire sprinkler system” means a system of piping and appurtenances designed and installed in accordance with generally accepted standards so that heat from a fire will automatically cause water to be discharged over the fire area to extinguish or prevent its further spread.
(b) When renting a dwelling unit in a building required to be equipped with a fire sprinkler system pursuant to section 29-315, the State Fire Safety Code, the State Fire Prevention Code or any other statute or regulation, the landlord of such dwelling unit shall include notice in the rental agreement as to the existence or nonexistence of an operative fire sprinkler system in such building, and such notice shall be printed in not less than twelve-point boldface type of uniform font.
(c) If there is an operative fire sprinkler system in the building, the rental agreement shall provide further notice as to the last date of maintenance and inspection, and such notice shall be printed in not less than twelve-point boldface type of uniform font.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 57; P.A. 19-51, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 19-51 amended Subsec. (b) to add provision re building equipped with fire sprinkler system pursuant to Sec. 29-315, the State Fire Safety Code, the State Fire Prevention Code or other statute or regulation and replace “dwelling unit” with “building”, amended Subsec. (c) to replace “dwelling unit” with “building”, and made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-4a. - Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7.

A rental agreement shall not permit the receipt of rent for any period during which the landlord has failed to comply with subsection (a) of section 47a-7.
(P.A. 79-571, S. 10.)
Cited. 190 C. 552; 191 C. 484; 208 C. 620; 209 C. 243; 217 C. 313; 235 C. 360, see also 40 CA 219.
Cited. 4 CA 209; 16 CA 444; 31 CA 359; 32 CA 133; 35 CA 126; judgment reversed, see 235 C. 360; 45 CA 46.
Failure to install smoke detectors constitutes a material safety hazard and tenants are relieved of obligation to pay rent during period detectors not installed. 38 CS 67. Cited. Id., 683. Landlord's failure to comply with regulation re day care operation did not implicate landlord-tenant relationship with respect to rent due where tenant's status as a day care provider was distinct and separable from her status as a tenant. 51 CS 133.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-4b. (Formerly Sec. 53-303g). - Commercial leases. Certain provisions void.

No lease of commercial space in a shopping center or in a building occupied by two or more businesses entered into on or after October 1, 1979, shall require a lessee to be open for business seven days a week or on any specified day of the week. Any provision in a lease which violates this section shall be void.
(P.A. 79-415, S. 1.)
History: Sec. 53-303g transferred to Sec. 47a-4b in 1997.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › 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 October 1, 2013, no landlord of residential real property shall require electronic funds transfer as the exclusive form of payment of rent or a security deposit. For purposes of this section, “electronic funds transfer” means any transfer of funds that is initiated through an electronic terminal, telephone or computer or magnetic tape so as to order, instruct or authorize a financial institution to debit or credit an account but shall not include any transfer originated by check, draft or similar paper instrument.
(P.A. 13-35, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › 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 of occupancy prior to human habitation of any building located therein, if any building is occupied in whole or in part without such occupancy permit, the owner or lessor of the premises shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than twenty dollars per day, per apartment or dwelling unit, for not more than two hundred days for such period of unlawful occupation.
(1959, P.A. 415, S. 1; P.A. 79-571, S. 8; P.A. 97-231, S. 4; P.A. 98-107, S. 4, 6.)
History: Sec. 47-24a transferred to Sec. 47a-5 in 1977; P.A. 79-571 rephrased provisions but made no substantive changes; P.A. 97-231 revised the sanction for an owner or lessor who allows occupancy of premises without a certificate of occupancy by replacing the prohibition on the recovery of rent for such period of unlawful occupation with a civil penalty of not more than $20 per day for such period; P.A. 98-107 specified that the daily civil penalty is “per apartment or dwelling unit, for not more than two hundred days”, effective July 1, 1998.
See Sec. 47a-57 re certificate of occupancy requirement with respect to apartments or dwelling units containing three or more housing units.
Annotation to former section 47-24a:
Statute does not authorize action by tenant for recovery of rent voluntarily paid during period of violation. 150 C. 702.
Annotations to present section:
Cited. 191 C. 484.
Cited. 10 CA 527; 32 CA 133.
Cited. 37 CS 688; 38 CS 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-6. - Identification of landlord.

(a) It is the duty of the landlord or an agent authorized by him, or any successor landlord or such successor's agent to notify the tenant in writing, on or before the commencement of the tenancy, or in the case of a successor at the time of such succession, of the name and address of (1) the person authorized to manage the premises and (2) the person who is authorized to receive all notices, demands and service of process. Such name and address shall be kept current.
(b) If the landlord fails to comply with subsection (a) of this section, the person authorized by the landlord to enter into the rental agreement with the tenant shall be deemed the agent of the landlord for (1) service of process and receipt of any such notices or demands, and (2) for performing the obligations of the landlord under sections 47a-7 and 47a-13 and the rental agreement, and (3) expending funds from the rent collected from the premises to perform such obligations.
(P.A. 76-95, S. 6, 27; 76-435, S. 75, 82; P.A. 79-571, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 76-435 revised effective date section of P.A. 76-95; P.A. 79-571 made minor changes, substituting “is” for “shall be” in Subsec. (a) and replacing alphabetic Subdiv. indicators with numeric indicators in Subsec. (b).
Cited. 32 CA 133.
Cited. 38 CS 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › 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 ordinance adopted by its legislative body establish a civil penalty for a violation of section 47a-6a, provided the amount of such civil penalty shall be not more than five hundred dollars for the first violation and not more than one thousand dollars for any subsequent violation. Any person who is assessed a civil penalty pursuant to this section may appeal therefrom to the Superior Court. An appeal shall be instituted not later than thirty days after the mailing of notice of such assessment by filing a petition to reopen assessment, together with an entry fee in an amount equal to the entry fee for a small claims case pursuant to section 52-259, at the Superior Court facility designated by the Chief Court Administrator, which shall entitle such person to a hearing in accordance with the rules of the judges of the Superior Court.
(P.A. 05-223, S. 2; P.A. 19-168, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 05-223 effective July 6, 2005; P.A. 19-168 replaced amount of civil penalty for first violation from maximum of $250 to maximum of $500.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › 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. 194, S. 4; P.A. 75-392, S. 1; P.A. 76-95, S. 20, 27; 76-435, S. 75, 82; P.A. 79-571, S. 15; P.A. 94-220, S. 11, 12.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-9. - Landlord rules and regulations.

(a) A landlord, from time to time, may adopt a rule or regulation, however described, concerning the tenant's use and occupancy of the premises. Such rule or regulation is enforceable against the tenant only if (1) the purpose of the rule or regulation is to promote the convenience, safety or welfare of the tenants in the premises, preserve the landlord's property from abusive use or make a fair distribution of services and facilities held out for all the tenants generally; (2) the rule or regulation is reasonably related to the purpose for which it is adopted; (3) the rule or regulation applies to all tenants in the premises in a fair manner; (4) the rule or regulation is sufficiently explicit in its prohibition, direction or limitation of the tenant's conduct to fairly inform him of what he shall or shall not do to comply; and (5) the tenant has notice of the rule or regulation at the time he enters into the rental agreement or when the rule or regulation is adopted.
(b) If a rule or regulation that would result in a substantial modification of the terms of the rental agreement is adopted after the tenant enters into the rental agreement, such rule or regulation is not valid unless the tenant consents to such rule or regulation in writing.
(P.A. 76-95, S. 10, 27; 76-435, S. 75, 82; P.A. 79-571, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 76-435 revised effective date section of P.A. 76-95; P.A. 79-571 rephrased provisions of Subsec. (b) and substituted “the” for “such” where appearing in Subsec. (a).
Cited. 32 CA 133; 45 CA 46.
Cited. 35 CS 274; 38 CS 683.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › 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 unit” have the same meanings as provided in section 47a-1. Except as provided in this section, a landlord or property manager may not refuse to rent to a prospective tenant or an existing tenant, or otherwise discriminate against a prospective tenant or an existing tenant, based on a past conviction for possession of a cannabis-type substance under section 21a-279a or for a past conviction for possession of four or fewer ounces of cannabis plant material, and any equivalencies and combinations thereof, pursuant to subsection (i) of section 21a-279a in any other jurisdiction.
(b) Except as provided in this section, in the case of the rental of a dwelling unit, a landlord or property manager may not prohibit the possession of cannabis or the consumption of cannabis, except a landlord or property manager may prohibit smoking of cannabis or use of an electronic cannabis device or cannabis vapor product, as such terms are defined in section 19a-342a.
(c) A landlord or property manager may not require a tenant to submit to a drug test.
(d) The provisions of this section do not apply if:
(1) The tenant is a roomer who is not leasing the entire residence;
(2) The residence is incidental to detention or the provision of medical, geriatric, educational, counseling, religious, or similar service;
(3) The residence is a transitional housing or sober living facility; or
(4) Failing to prohibit cannabis possession or consumption or failure to require a drug test would violate federal law or regulations or cause the landlord to lose a monetary or licensing-related benefit under federal law or regulations.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 90.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 effective July 1, 2022.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant › Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant › Section 47a-10. - Termination of responsibility.

(a) Unless otherwise agreed, a landlord who conveys premises, which include a dwelling unit subject to a rental agreement, to a bona fide purchaser, is relieved of liability under the rental agreement and the provisions of this chapter and sections 47a-21, 47a-23 to 47a-23b, inclusive, 47a-26 to 47a-26g, inclusive, 47a-35 to 47a-35b, inclusive, 47a-41a, 47a-43 and 47a-46, with respect to any events occurring after written notice to the tenant of the conveyance.
(b) Unless otherwise agreed, a manager of premises which include a dwelling unit is relieved of liability under the rental agreement and this chapter and section 47a-21 as to events occurring after termination of his management.
(P.A. 76-95, S. 8, 27; 76-435, S. 75, 82; P.A. 79-571, S. 19.)
History: P.A. 76-435 revised effective date section of P.A. 76-95; P.A. 79-571 updated list of applicable sections.
Cited. 32 CA 133.
Cited. 38 CS 683.