2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 8-270. Additional payment for persons displaced from dwelling. Landlord\'s responsibility in certain cases.
Sec. 8-270. Additional payment for persons displaced from dwelling. Landlord's responsibility in certain cases. In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by
this chapter, a state agency shall make a payment to or for any displaced person displaced
from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under section 8-269 which dwelling
was actually and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than ninety
days prior to the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of such dwelling under the
program or project which results in such person being displaced. Such payment shall
be either (1) the amount necessary to enable such displaced person to lease or rent for
a period not to exceed four years, a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of standards
adequate to accommodate such person in areas not generally less desirable in regard to
public utilities and public and commercial facilities, and reasonably accessible to his
place of employment, but not to exceed four thousand dollars, or (2) the amount necessary to enable such person to make a downpayment, including reasonable expenses
incurred by such displaced person for evidence of title, recording fees, and other closing
costs incident to the purchase of a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of standards adequate to accommodate such person in areas not generally less desirable in regard to
public utilities and public and commercial facilities, but not to exceed four thousand
dollars, except that if such amount exceeds two thousand dollars, such person must
equally match any such amount in excess of two thousand dollars in making the downpayment, and provided, whenever any tenant in any dwelling unit is displaced as the
result of the enforcement of any code to which this section is applicable by any town,
city or borough or agency thereof, the landlord of such dwelling unit shall be liable for
any payments made by such town, city or borough pursuant to this section or by the
state pursuant to subsection (b) of section 8-280, and the town, city or borough or the
state may place a lien on any real property owned by such landlord to secure repayment
to the town, city or borough or the state of such payments, which lien shall have the
same priority as and shall be filed, enforced and discharged in the same manner as a
lien for municipal taxes under chapter 205.
History: P.A. 79-518 specified that ninety-day occupation period pertains to time prior to initiation of negotiations for acquisition "under the program or project which results in such person being displaced"; P.A. 80-483 made technical changes; P.A. 82-399 provided for the liability of the landlord in certain code enforcement cases; P.A. 86-307 made landlord liable for any payments made "by the state pursuant to subsection (b) of section 8-280" and allowed state to place lien on real property owned by landlord to secure repayment.
Cited. 192 C. 207, 216, 221, 224, 226.
Cited. 13 CA 205, 207.
