Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-54a

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.
Section 47a-54a - (Formerly Sec. 19-346). Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses

If a room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house is overcrowded, the board of health or other enforcing agency may order the number of persons sleeping or living in such room to be so reduced that there shall not be less than five hundred cubic feet of air to each person over twelve years of age who occupies such room, and three hundred cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age who occupies such room.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-54a

(1949 Rev., S. 4053; 1963, P.A. 71; 1971, P.A. 194, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 178, S. 3; P.A. 79-571, S. 75.)

Annotations to former section 19-346: Applies to hallway in three-family dwelling house; liability of landlord for failure to light hall. 108 C. 404. Meaning of term "at night". Id., 405. Statute imposes upon landlord the duty to use reasonable care and diligence to provide for lighting and to keep lights in operation during the night. 115 C. 233; 123 C. 337; 133 C. 357. Statute did not make it duty of landlord to light cellar at night; 111 C. 26; nor the steps outside the tenement house. 121 C. 261. Obligation to light public hall was a public obligation and could not be waived by tenant. 117 C. 356. Principle of assumption of risk held inapplicable. Id.; 133 C. 360. Local ordinance re lighting of hallways held inapplicable. 132 C. 418. Mere presence of lighting fixture not enough; landlord must also use reasonable care and diligence to keep lights in operation and use care, commensurate with particular circumstances, to guard against the lights being turned out. 153 C. 92. Cited. Id., 540. Provisions of statute not applicable to the steps and lighting thereof furnishing an approach to a tenement house which are entirely outside the house itself. 5 CS 8. "Public halls" include exterior as well as interior passageways. 6 CS 368. Presence of unlighted fixture does not constitute compliance with statute nor exercise of reasonable care; mere presence of lighting fixture in each hallway, connected with wiring of adjoining apartment and controlled by tenant at his option and expense, not compliance. 22 CS 184.

See Sec. 19a-359 re required number of bathrooms and water closets in tenement houses.