2022 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-51. (Formerly Sec. 19-343). - Sanitary regulations.

(a) Each tenement, lodging or boarding house, and each part thereof, shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage or other matter, in or on the house or part thereof, or in the yards, courts, passages, areas or alleys connected with or belonging to the same. The owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of each tenement, lodging or boarding house, or part of such house, shall cleanse thoroughly all rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, water closets, cesspools, drains, halls, cellars and roofs and all other parts of such house, or the part of such house of which he is owner, tenant, lessee or occupant, to the approval of the board of health or enforcing agency, and shall keep the same in a clean condition at all times.

(b) The owner of each tenement house shall provide, for such building, suitable receptacles for, or conveniences for the disposal of, garbage, ashes and rubbish.

(c) Each building used as a tenement, lodging or boarding house and all parts thereof shall be kept in good repair.

(d) The roof of each tenement, lodging or boarding house shall be so kept as not to leak, and all rain water shall be so drained and conveyed from the roof as to prevent its dripping onto the ground or causing dampness in the walls, ceilings, yards or areas.

(e) No horse, cow, calf, swine, poultry, sheep or goat shall be kept in or near any tenement, lodging or boarding house, unless stabled at least twenty feet distant from such tenement, lodging or boarding house, and then only when such stabling is not detrimental to health, in the opinion of the board of health or enforcing agency.

(f) A tenement, lodging or boarding house, or any part thereof, shall not be used for the handling, keeping or storing of combustible articles or rags, or any other articles, in a manner deemed by the board of health or enforcing agency to be dangerous or detrimental to health.

(1949 Rev., S. 4050; P.A. 79-571, S. 71.)

History: P.A. 79-571 divided section into Subsecs. and restated provisions but made no substantive changes; Sec. 19-343 transferred to Sec. 47a-51 in 1981.

Annotations to former section 19-343:

Cited. 117 C. 351. Obligation imposed on the landlord is to keep the building in repair as distinguished from the separate apartments in it. Id., 627. However, where other portions of the apartment are under his control, it is his duty to use reasonable care to inspect and keep them in repair. 118 C. 580. Statute does not make landlord liable for defects unless he knew of them or ought to have discovered them by reasonable inspection. 124 C. 328. Landlord is not an insurer for failure to inspect and repair; he fulfills his duty when he uses reasonable care. 137 C. 629.

Annotation to present section:

Cited. 211 C. 501.