Housing Receivership / Receiver of Rents

Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 47a-56 to 47a-56i

Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 47a-56 through 47a-56i let the legislative body of a city, town, or borough adopt the receivership provisions by ordinance and appoint an enforcement authority, which may then petition the Superior Court to appoint a receiver of rents when a tenement or rented property has a nuisance constituting a fire hazard or serious threat to life, health, or safety (or a landlord's substantial noncompliance with § 47a-7) that the owner failed to abate after an enforcement order. The court-appointed receiver collects the rents, issues, and profits and uses them to remove the fire hazards and threats to life, health, and safety and to repair and maintain the property; costs are paid from the rents collected, advanced by the municipality (securing a priority lien), or, with court approval, drawn from the state Housing Receivership Revolving Fund maintained by the Commissioner of Housing.