Chapter 830. Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant  


Sec. 47a-1. Definitions.
Sec. 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.
Sec. 47a-2a. [Transferred]
Sec. 47a-3. Rental agreement: Permissible terms.
Sec. 47a-3a. Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment.
Sec. 47a-3b. Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement.
Sec. 47a-3c. Payment in absence of rental agreement.
Sec. 47a-3d. (Formerly Sec. 47-22). Holding over not evidence of new lease. Determination of monthly lease.
Sec. 47a-3e. Notice to potential tenant when dwelling unit located in common interest community.
Sec. 47a-3f. Rental agreement: Notice re operative fire sprinkler system.
Sec. 47a-4. Terms prohibited in rental agreement.
Sec. 47a-4a. Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7.
Sec. 47a-4b. (Formerly Sec. 53-303g). Commercial leases. Certain provisions void.
Sec. 47a-4c. Landlord prohibited from requiring electronic funds transfer as exclusive form of payment.
Sec. 47a-5. (Formerly Sec. 47-24a). Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate of occupancy.
Sec. 47a-6. Identification of landlord.
Sec. 47a-6a. Filing in designated municipal office of residential address of nonresident landlord.
Sec. 47a-6b. Civil penalties for failure to file residential address of nonresident landlord.
Sec. 47a-7. Landlord's responsibilities.
Sec. 47a-7a. Landlord and tenant responsibilities re bed bug infestations. Definitions. Notification to landlord. Inspection. Treatment. Liability of landlord. Injunction against tenant.
Sec. 47a-8. (Formerly Sec. 47-24c). Paint not conforming to standards renders property unfit.
Sec. 47a-9. Landlord rules and regulations.
Sec. 47a-10. Termination of responsibility.
Sec. 47a-11. Tenant's responsibilities.
Sec. 47a-11a. Abandonment of unit by tenant.
Sec. 47a-11b. Abandonment of unit by occupants. Landlord's remedies.
Sec. 47a-11c. Breach of rental agreement by tenant. Measure of damages.
Sec. 47a-11d. Death of tenant. Landlord's remedies.
Sec. 47a-11e. Termination of rental agreement by tenant who is a victim of family violence or sexual assault.
Sec. 47a-12. Breach of agreement by landlord. Tenant's remedies.
Sec. 47a-13. Failure of landlord to supply essential services. Tenant's remedies.
Sec. 47a-13a. Implementation of energy conservation measures by tenant.
Sec. 47a-14. Damage or destruction of unit. Tenant's remedies.
Sec. 47a-14a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347k). Action for private receivership of tenement house. Complaint. Notice of action.
Sec. 47a-14b. (Formerly Sec. 19-347l). Tenement receivership: Hearing by referee; judgment; no right to jury trial.
Sec. 47a-14c. (Formerly Sec. 19-347m). Tenement receivership: Defense.
Sec. 47a-14d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347n). Tenement receivership: Judgment.
Sec. 47a-14e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347o). Tenement receivership: Owner's right to collect rent moneys.
Sec. 47a-14f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347p). Tenement receivership: Order to remove or remedy conditions in lieu of judgment; application for hearing for judgment.
Sec. 47a-14g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347q). Tenement receivership: Judgment and appointment of receiver after failure to comply with order.
Sec. 47a-14h. Action by individual tenant to enforce landlord's responsibilities. Payment of rent into court.
Sec. 47a-15. Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies.
Sec. 47a-15a. Nonpayment of rent by tenant: Landlord's remedy.
Sec. 47a-16. When landlord may enter rented unit.
Sec. 47a-16a. Notification by tenant of extended absence. When landlord may enter.
Sec. 47a-17. Tenant to occupy only as dwelling unit.
Sec. 47a-18. Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry.
Sec. 47a-18a. Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters.
Sec. 47a-19. Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue.
Sec. 47a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-375a). Retaliatory action by landlord prohibited.
Sec. 47a-20a. Actions deemed not retaliatory.
Secs. 47a-20bto47a-20d. [Reserved]
Sec. 47a-20e. Protection of tenant in foreclosed property.
Sec. 47a-20f. Offer of incentive to tenant in foreclosed property to vacate.

Notations

*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.