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2023 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 47a - Landlord and Tenant
Chapter 830 - Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant
*See Sec. 8-206e re housing assistance and counseling demonstration program.
See Sec. 53a-214 re criminal lockout.
Cited. 192 C. 207; 211 C. 690; 213 C. 354.
Cited. 13 CA 1; 19 CA 564; 32 CA 133. No indication in Landlord and Tenant Act that legislature intended to supplant any common-law claim for constructive eviction when it created a private cause of action under the act. 95 CA 658.
Cited. 35 CS 151. This chapter and Ch. 831 were passed to aid residential apartment dwellers and do not apply to commercial leases. 36 CS 611. Cited. 37 CS 579; 38 CS 341; Id., 683; 41 CS 283.
- Section 47a-1. - Definitions.
- 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.
- Section 47a-2a. - Transferred to Chapter 814c, Sec. 46a-64a.
- Section 47a-3. - Rental agreement: Permissible terms.
- Section 47a-3a. - Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment.
- Section 47a-3b. - Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement.
- Section 47a-3c. - Payment in absence of rental agreement.
- Section 47a-3d. (Formerly Sec. 47-22). - Holding over not evidence of new lease. Determination of monthly lease.
- Section 47a-3e. - Notice to potential tenant when dwelling unit located in common interest community.
- Section 47a-3f. - Rental agreement: Notice re operative fire sprinkler system.
- Section 47a-4. - Terms prohibited in rental agreement.
- Section 47a-4a. - Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7.
- Section 47a-4b. (Formerly Sec. 53-303g). - Commercial leases. Certain provisions void.
- Section 47a-4c. - Landlord prohibited from requiring electronic funds transfer as exclusive form of payment.
- Section 47a-5. (Formerly Sec. 47-24a). - Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate of occupancy.
- Section 47a-6. - Identification of landlord.
- Section 47a-6a. - Filing in designated municipal office of residential address of nonresident landlord.
- Section 47a-6b. - Civil penalties for failure to file residential address of nonresident landlord.
- Section 47a-7. - Landlord's responsibilities.
- Section 47a-7a. - Landlord and tenant responsibilities re bed bug infestations. Definitions. Notification to landlord. Inspection. Treatment. Liability of landlord. Injunction against tenant.
- Section 47a-7b. - Request to change dwelling unit locks when tenant is named as a protected person in a protective or restraining order.
- Section 47a-8. (Formerly Sec. 47-24c). - Paint not conforming to standards renders property unfit.
- Section 47a-9. - Landlord rules and regulations.
- 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.
- Section 47a-10. - Termination of responsibility.
- Section 47a-11. - Tenant's responsibilities.
- Section 47a-11a. - Abandonment of unit by tenant.
- Section 47a-11b. - Abandonment of unit by occupants. Landlord's remedies.
- Section 47a-11c. - Breach of rental agreement by tenant. Measure of damages.
- Section 47a-11d. - Death of tenant. Landlord's remedies.
- Section 47a-11e. - Termination of rental agreement by tenant who is a victim of family violence or sexual assault.
- Section 47a-12. - Breach of agreement by landlord. Tenant's remedies.
- Section 47a-13. - Failure of landlord to supply essential services. Tenant's remedies.
- Section 47a-13a. - Implementation of energy conservation measures by tenant.
- Section 47a-13b. - Installation of electric vehicle charging station by tenant.
- Section 47a-14. - Damage or destruction of unit. Tenant's remedies.
- Section 47a-14a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347k). - Action for private receivership of tenement house. Complaint. Notice of action.
- Section 47a-14b. (Formerly Sec. 19-347l). - Tenement receivership: Hearing by referee; judgment; no right to jury trial.
- Section 47a-14c. (Formerly Sec. 19-347m). - Tenement receivership: Defense.
- Section 47a-14d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347n). - Tenement receivership: Judgment.
- Section 47a-14e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347o). - Tenement receivership: Owner's right to collect rent moneys.
- Section 47a-14f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347p). - Tenement receivership: Order to remove or remedy conditions in lieu of judgment; application for hearing for judgment.
- Section 47a-14g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347q). - Tenement receivership: Judgment and appointment of receiver after failure to comply with order.
- Section 47a-14h. - Action by individual tenant to enforce landlord's responsibilities. Payment of rent into court.
- Section 47a-15. - Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies.
- Section 47a-15a. - Nonpayment of rent by tenant: Landlord's remedy.
- Section 47a-16. - When landlord may enter rented unit.
- Section 47a-16a. - Notification by tenant of extended absence. When landlord may enter.
- Section 47a-17. - Tenant to occupy only as dwelling unit.
- Section 47a-18. - Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry.
- Section 47a-18a. - Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters.
- Section 47a-19. - Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue.
- Section 47a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-375a). - Retaliatory action by landlord prohibited.
- Section 47a-20a. - Actions deemed not retaliatory.
- Section 47a-20b to 47a-20d. - Reserved for future use.
- Section 47a-20e. - Protection of tenant in foreclosed property.
- Section 47a-20f. - Offer of incentive to tenant in foreclosed property to vacate.
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