Sec. 19a-552. (Formerly Sec. 19-623b). Failure to comply with section 19a-551: Penalties.

(a) Any person who violates any provision of section 19a-551 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

(b) Any resident of a nursing home or residential care home or such resident's legally liable relative, guardian or conservator may bring an action in the Superior Court for any violation of section 19a-551. Any nursing home facility or residential care home determined by the court to be in violation of any provision of said section shall be liable to the injured party for treble damages.

(P.A. 80-437, S. 3; P.A. 81-236; P.A. 87-166, S. 5; P.A. 15-130, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 81-236 amended Subsec. (b) to increase the penalty from a class C to a class A misdemeanor; Sec. 19-623b transferred to Sec. 19a-552 in 1983; P.A. 87-166 deleted Subsec. (a) re nursing home's penalty for failure to comply with Sec. 19a-551 and relettered the remaining Subsecs. accordingly; P.A. 15-130 amended Subsec. (b) to add references to residential care home, replace reference to patient with reference to resident and make a technical change, effective July 1, 2015.

Notation

See Sec. 17b-601 re regulations concerning personal funds of recipients of state supplement program who are residential care home residents.