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+	CHAPTER 830* RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF LANDLORD AND TENANT	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-1. Definitions.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	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.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-2a.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-3. Rental agreement: Permissible terms.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-3a. Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-3b. Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-3c. Payment in absence of rental agreement.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-3d. (Formerly Sec. 47-22). Holding over not evidence of new lease. Determination of monthly lease.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-3e. Notice to potential tenant when dwelling unit located in common interest community.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-4. Terms prohibited in rental agreement.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-4a. Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-4b. (Formerly Sec. 53-303g). Commercial leases. Certain provisions void.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-5. (Formerly Sec. 47-24a). Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate of occupancy.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-6. Identification of landlord.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-6a. Filing in designated municipal office of residential address of nonresident landlord.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-6b. Civil penalties for failure to file residential address of nonresident landlord.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-7. Landlord's responsibilities.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-8. (Formerly Sec. 47-24c). Paint not conforming to standards renders property unfit.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-9. Landlord rules and regulations.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-10. Termination of responsibility.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-11. Tenant's responsibilities.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-11a. Abandonment of unit by tenant.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-11b. Abandonment of unit by occupants. Landlord's remedies.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-11c. Breach of rental agreement by tenant. Measure of damages.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-11d. Death of tenant. Landlord's remedies.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-11e. Termination of rental agreement because of family violence.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-12. Breach of agreement by landlord. Tenant's remedies.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-13. Failure of landlord to supply essential services. Tenant's remedies.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-13a. Implementation of energy conservation measures by tenant.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14. Damage or destruction of unit. Tenant's remedies.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347k). Action for private receivership of tenement house. Complaint. Notice of action.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14b. (Formerly Sec. 19-347l). Tenement receivership: Hearing by referee; judgment; no right to jury trial.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14c. (Formerly Sec. 19-347m). Tenement receivership: Defense.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347n). Tenement receivership: Judgment.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347o). Tenement receivership: Owner's right to collect rent moneys.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347p). Tenement receivership: Order to remove or remedy conditions in lieu of judgment; application for hearing for judgment.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347q). Tenement receivership: Judgment and appointment of receiver after failure to comply with order.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-14h. Action by individual tenant to enforce landlord's responsibilities. Payment of rent into court.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-15. Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-15a. Nonpayment of rent by tenant: Landlord's remedy.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-16. When landlord may enter rented unit.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-16a. Notification by tenant of extended absence. When landlord may enter.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-17. Tenant to occupy only as dwelling unit.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-18. Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-18a. Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-19. Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-20. (Formerly Sec. 19-375a). Retaliatory action by landlord prohibited.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-20a. Actions deemed not retaliatory.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Secs. 47a-20b to 47a-20d.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-20e. Protection of tenant in foreclosed property.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-20f. Offer of incentive to tenant in foreclosed property to vacate.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	CHAPTER 831* ADVANCE RENTAL PAYMENT. SECURITY DEPOSITS	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-21. Security deposits.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-22. (Formerly Sec. 47-23a). Advance rental payments or security deposits for residential units; escrow deposit, interest payable.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-22a. Security deposits of senior citizens and disabled persons in public housing, interest payable.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	CHAPTER 832* SUMMARY PROCESS	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-23. (Formerly Sec. 52-532). Notice to quit possession or occupancy of premises. Form. Delivery. Federal termination notice.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-23a. Complaint.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-23b. Service of notice to quit or summons if lessee a nonresident or if whereabouts unknown.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-23c. Prohibition on eviction of certain tenants except for good cause.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-23d. Report to General Assembly.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-24. (Formerly Sec. 52-532a). Action by cooperative housing corporation.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-24a. Action by receiver of rents.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-25. (Formerly Sec. 52-533). Waiver of notice to quit.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26. (Formerly Sec. 52-534). Failure to appear. Judgment.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26a. Failure to plead. Judgment.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26b. Motion and order for payments for use and occupancy.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26c. Advancement of pleadings. Failure to plead.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26d. Trial. Finding. Judgment.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26e. Order of payments on appeal.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26f. Hearing to distribute payments.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26g. Appeal.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26h. Persons bound by judgment. Notice. Exemption.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-26i. Motion to open or set aside judgment or to extend final stay of execution.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-27. (Formerly Sec. 52-535). Summary process by assignee and mortgagee.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-28. (Formerly Sec. 52-536). Action by selectmen.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-29. (Formerly Sec. 52-537). Action by reversion or remainderman.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-30. (Formerly Sec. 52-538). Eviction of former farm employee, domestic servant, caretaker, manager or other employee.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-31. (Formerly Sec. 52-539). Illegal use of premises voids lease.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-32. (Formerly Sec. 52-540). Nuisance defined.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-33. (Formerly Sec. 52-540a). Defense that action is retaliatory.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-33a. Presentation of affirmative defenses.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-34. (Formerly Sec. 52-541). Other legal remedies not affected.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-35. (Formerly Sec. 52-542). Stay of execution. Appeal.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-35a. Bond on appeal. Rent to be paid into court.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-35b. Distribution of payments after appeal.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-36. (Formerly Sec. 52-543). Occupancies to which stay of execution provisions are inapplicable.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-37. (Formerly Sec. 52-544). Application for stay of execution.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-38. (Formerly Sec. 52-545). Hearing on application for stay of execution.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-39. (Formerly Sec. 52-546). Court may grant stay of execution.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-40. (Formerly Sec. 52-547). No entry fee, judgment fee or costs on application or hearing.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-41. (Formerly Sec. 52-548). Waiver of tenant's rights to be void.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-41a. Execution void after six months.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-42. (Formerly Sec. 52-549). Eviction of tenant and occupants from residential property. Removal and sale of unclaimed possessions and personal effects.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-42a. Eviction of tenant and occupants from commercial property. Disposition of unclaimed possessions and personal effects.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	CHAPTER 833* ENTRY AND DETAINER	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-43. (Formerly Sec. 52-462). Complaint and procedure: Forcible entry and detainer; entry and detainer.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-44. (Formerly Sec. 52-463). Judge to try issue unless jury moved for and bond posted.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-45. (Formerly Sec. 52-464). Summoning of jury.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-45a. Finding. Judgment. Costs. Title to land not affected.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-46. (Formerly Sec. 52-465). When double damages allowable.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Secs. 47a-47 to 47a-49.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	CHAPTER 833a* PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS IN TENEMENT AND BOARDING HOUSES, AND IN RENTED DWELLINGS	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-50. Definitions.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-51. (Formerly Sec. 19-343). Sanitary regulations.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-52. (Formerly Sec. 19-88). Abatement of conditions in rented dwelling other than tenement house constituting danger to life or health.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-53. (Formerly Sec. 19-344). Orders of enforcement agency. Municipal lien for expenses in executing order.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54. (Formerly Sec. 19-345). Communicable diseases; unfit for habitation; order to vacate.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54a. (Formerly Sec. 19-346). Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54b. Water in tenement and lodging houses.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54c. Toilets and bathrooms.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54d. Public halls.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54e. Bedrooms.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-54f. Paint.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-55. (Formerly Sec. 19-347). Enforcement. Penalties.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56. (Formerly Sec. 19-347a). Passage of ordinance for abatement of nuisances. Appointment of authority.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56a. (Formerly Sec. 19-347b). Appointment of receiver of rents: Application.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56b. Appointment of receiver of rents: Service.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56c. Appointment of receiver of rents: Determination by court.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56d. (Formerly Sec. 19-347c). Receiver: Bond required. Powers and duties.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56e. (Formerly Sec. 19-347d). Liability of owner.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56f. (Formerly Sec. 19-347e). Payment of expenses. Liability of receiver. Assistance of municipal personnel. Costs and attorney's fees.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56g. (Formerly Sec. 19-347f). Discharge of receiver.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56h. (Formerly Sec. 19-347g). Rights of mortgagee or lienor remedying nuisance and paying expenses.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56i. (Formerly Sec. 19-347h). Housing Receivership Revolving Fund. Source of funds for expenses of a receiver in remedying certain tenement conditions.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56j. (Formerly Sec. 19-347i). State financial assistance for rent receivership programs.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-56k. Authorization of state bonds for purposes of the Housing Receivership Revolving Fund.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-57. (Formerly Sec. 19-347r). Certificate of occupancy required for lawful occupation. Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-58. (Formerly Sec. 19-347s). Notice of violation. Penalty. Injunctive relief. Municipal lien for unpaid penalty.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-59. (Formerly Sec. 19-347t). Enforcement actions. Defenses.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-60. (Formerly Sec. 19-347u). Stay of penalty. Violation contested by owner.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-61. (Formerly Sec. 19-347v). Precedence in trial order.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-62 to 47a-67.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	CHAPTER 834 COURT PROCEEDINGS ON HOUSING MATTERS	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-68. Definitions.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-69. Housing mediators. Appointment. Qualifications. Duties.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-70. Housing docket. Entry and transfer of cases on docket.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-71. Citizens advisory councils for housing matters.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-71a. Citizens Advisory Council for Housing Matters.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-72. Duties of Citizens Advisory Council. Meetings. No compensation or reimbursement.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-73. Judges and council to report to General Assembly.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)
+	Sec. 47a-74. Rules of practice to be adopted.	(Text)	(1-click HTML)

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