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Rights and Responsibilities of Landlord and Tenant

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Definitions.

Arrangements exempted from application of title. Applicability of title to mobile manufactured homes and home parks. Transient occupancy in hotel, motel or similar lodging.

Transferred to Chapter 814c, Sec. 46a-64a.

Rental agreement: Permissible terms.

Rental agreement: Payment of rent. Written receipt for cash payment.

Rental agreement: Term of tenancy in absence of agreement.

Payment in absence of rental agreement.

(Formerly Sec. 47-22) - Holding over not evidence of new lease. Determination of monthly lease.

Notice to potential tenant when dwelling unit located in common interest community.

Rental agreement: Notice re operative fire sprinkler system.

Terms prohibited in rental agreement.

Effect of failure to comply with section 47a-7.

(Formerly Sec. 53-303g) - Commercial leases. Certain provisions void.

Landlord prohibited from requiring electronic funds transfer as exclusive form of payment.

(Formerly Sec. 47-24a) - Penalty for allowing occupancy without certificate of occupancy.

Identification of landlord.

Filing in designated municipal office of residential address of nonresident landlord.

Civil penalties for failure to file residential address of nonresident landlord.

Landlord's responsibilities.

Landlord and tenant responsibilities re bed bug infestations. Definitions. Notification to landlord. Inspection. Treatment. Liability of landlord. Injunction against tenant.

(Formerly Sec. 47-24c) - Paint not conforming to standards renders property unfit.

Landlord rules and regulations.

Termination of responsibility.

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.

Breach of agreement by landlord. Tenant's remedies.

Failure of landlord to supply essential services. Tenant's remedies.

Section
47a-13a

Implementation of energy conservation measures by tenant.

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.

Noncompliance by tenant. Remedy of breach by tenant. Landlord's remedies.

Section
47a-15a

Nonpayment of rent by tenant: Landlord's remedy.

When landlord may enter rented unit.

Section
47a-16a

Notification by tenant of extended absence. When landlord may enter.

Tenant to occupy only as dwelling unit.

Judicial relief if tenant refuses entry.

Section
47a-18a

Judicial relief if landlord unlawfully enters.

Rental agreement: Acceptance of rent when overdue.

(Formerly Sec. 19-375a) - Retaliatory action by landlord prohibited.

Section
47a-20a

Actions deemed not retaliatory.

Sections
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.