(a) The expenses incurred by a receiver in removing or remedying a condition pursuant to the provisions of sections 47a-14a to 47a-14g, inclusive, and sections 47a-56 to 47a-56i, inclusive, shall be met by the rents collected by the receiver, the municipality in which the property is located or, with court approval, from a fund to be known as the Housing Receivership Revolving Fund, which shall be maintained by the Commissioner of Housing. The court may also approve resort to such fund to meet expenses incurred by a receiver of rents for residential premises pursuant to the provisions of section 16-262f or 47a-14h or chapter 735a or pursuant to any other action involving the making of repairs to residential rental property under court supervision. A court may authorize resort to such fund if (1) sufficient sources of money are not otherwise immediately available, (2) the property which is the subject of the receivership is a building which contains not more than twenty dwelling units or is a mobile manufactured home park or a space or lot in such park and (3) the anticipated average expense from the fund per dwelling unit or per space or lot in such park is not in excess of five thousand dollars.
(b) The receiver shall repay the amounts so expended to such fund from the proceeds of any amounts recovered pursuant to the provisions of said sections.
(c) The owner of the property shall be liable for repayment to the fund of all amounts expended from the fund upon or in connection with such property and to the municipality for all amounts expended by it upon or in connection with such property. Any such funds expended from the fund shall be secured by a lien on such property for the benefit of the state, which shall have priority over all mortgages or other liens on such property. Any such funds expended by the municipality shall be secured by a lien on such property which shall have the same priority as a lien for municipal taxes.
(February, 1965, P.A. 554, S. 8; 1967, P.A. 362, S. 4; P.A. 79-571, S. 91; P.A. 81-370, S. 11, 13; P.A. 89-254, S. 13; P.A. 91-383, S. 22; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: 1967 act added to fund grants and advances-in-aid under state programs; P.A. 79-571 divided section into Subsecs. and added reference to new sections which became Secs. 47a-56b and 47a-56c; Sec. 19-347h transferred to Sec. 47a-56i in 1981 and reference to other sections within provisions revised as necessary to reflect their transfer; P.A. 81-370 established the housing receivership revolving fund to be used with court approval as a source of funds to remedy certain hazardous conditions in tenement housing as successor to tenement house operating fund; P.A. 89-254 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision authorizing court to also approve resort to fund to meet expenses incurred by a receiver pursuant to Sec. 16-262f or 47a-14h, chapter 735a or any other action involving the making of repairs to residential rental property under court supervision; P.A. 91-383 amended Subsec. (a)(2) and (3) to authorize resort to such fund for property which is a mobile manufactured home park or a space or lot in such park; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing in Subsec. (a), effective June 19, 2013.