Connecticut Law About Landlord/Tenant Law

Information from the Connecticut Judicial Branch:

Information from the Connecticut Network for Legal Aid:
Top Ten Housing Myths
Tenants' Rights: Repairs
Your Rights When Your Landlord Is In Foreclosure
Are You Having Problems With Your Housing Authority or Subsidized Housing?
Energy and Utility Problems with Landlords
Eviction
Foreclosure: Is Your Landlord Going through Foreclosure? A Tenant's Guide
Have You Been Ordered to Move Because Your Apartment Is Not Safe? A Renter's Right to
Relocation Assistance
Know Your Rights: Sexual Harassment and Housing
Renters Have Legal Rights
Tenants DON'T Have to Move Right Away in a Foreclosure
Tenant's Rights: Lockouts
Tenant's Rights: Security Deposits & Rent Increases
Tenant's Rights: Repairs: How to Use the Housing Code Enforcement Law

Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection:

Publication from the Citizens Advisory Council for Housing Matters:

Publication from the Office of the Chief State's Attorney:

Information from the State of Connecticut Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with

Disabilities:

OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research:

Eviction Process
- 2007-R-0381

State Funded Housing for the Elderly and Evictions - 2006-R-0186

Landlord and Tenant - 2005-R-0593

Evicting Service Members and State Marshal Liability - 2005-R-0095

Process for Evicting a Handicapped Tenant - 2004-R-0459

Fair Housing
Rent Collection - Past Due

Tenants' Property
Unhealthy Apartments
Uniform Relocation Assistance Act
Connecticut General Statutes

Selected Statutes:

Title 47a. Landlord & Tenant

Chapter 830 Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant

Chapter 831 Advance Rental Payment. Security Deposits

Chapter 832 Summary Process (Eviction)

Sec. 47a-23. Notice to quit possession or occupancy of premises. Form. Delivery. Federal
termination notice.
Sec. 47a-23a. Complaint.
Sec. 47a-23b. Service of notice to quit or summons if lessee a nonresident or if whereabouts
unknown.
Sec. 47a-23c. Prohibition on eviction of certain tenants except for good cause.
Sec. 47a-26. Failure to Appear. Judgment.
Sec. 47a-26a. Failure to Plead. Judgment.

Chapter 833 Entry and Detainer

Chapter 833a Public Enforcement of Health and Safety Standards in Tenement and Boarding
Houses, and in Rented Dwellings
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being

Title 8. Zoning, Planning, Housing, Economic and Community Development and Human Resources

Chapter 135 Uniform Relocation Assistance Act

The purpose of this chapter is to establish a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment of
persons displaced by the acquisition of real property by state and local land acquisition programs,
by building code enforcement activities, or by a program of voluntary rehabilitation of buildings or
other improvements conducted pursuant to governmental supervision.
Connecticut Practice Book

Selected rules:

Sec. 17-53. Summary Process Executions

Connecticut Landlord and Tenant Law with Forms, by Noble F. Allen (2008).

The Connecticut Summary Process Manual, by Paul J. Marzinotto (2002).

The above treatises are available at each of your local law libraries.

Title 42, Chapter 135: Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing.

Subchapter I Standards and Obligations of Residency in Federally Assisted Housing

Subchapter II Authority to Provide Preferences for Elderly Residents and Units for Disabled
Residents in Certain Section 8 Assisted Housing

Subchapter III Service Coordinators for Elderly and Disabled Residents of Federally Assisted
Housing

Subchapter IV General Provisions

Subchapter V Safety and Security in Public and Assisted Housing

Title 42, Chapter 8: Low Income Housing

Federal Regulations (CFR)

Title 24, Chapter II, Part 247: Eviction from Certain Subsidized and HUD-Owned Projects

Occupancy Requirements of Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs (4350.3)

Recent Landlord/Tenant Opinions

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