§ 20-140. Rent receivership.

(a)

The provisions of C.G.S. §§ 47a-56a through 47a-56i are hereby adopted, and the Director of Health hereby appointed for the enforcement of said provisions in accordance with the provisions of C.G.S. § 47a-56.

(b)

Whenever a nuisance which constitutes a serious fire hazard or is a serious threat to life, health, or safety has been found to exist in a tenement house and an order for the abatement of such nuisance has been properly made and served and has not been complied with, or not so far complied with as the Director of Health finds reasonable, within the time allowed, then the Director of Health may apply to the court of competent jurisdiction, pursuant to C.G.S. § 47a-56a, for a rule requiring the owners or any mortgagees or lienors of record to show cause why a receiver of the rents, issues, and profits should not be appointed, and why said receiver should not remove or remedy such nuisance and obtain a lien in favor of the municipality having priority over all liens recorded in the office of the Town Clerk after the recording of a notice of the pendency of the application to secure payment of all costs of the receiver in removing or remedying such condition.

(c)

A fund, to be known as the "Tenement House Operating Fund," is hereby created and established. Into such fund shall be deposited such monies as shall be appropriated by the City Council or be realized from the sale of bonds issued pursuant to C.G.S. ch. 109 (C.G.S. § 7-369 et seq.), for that purpose, or as shall be otherwise made available to the fund. From such fund shall be withdrawn all amounts expended by the receiver to meet any costs of removing or remedying nuisances pursuant to the provisions of this article and C.G.S. §§ 47a-56 through 47a-56h. The receiver shall seek an order of the court authorizing the repayment to such fund of the amounts so expended from the rents, issues and profits of the property in which a nuisance exists or from any amount recovered pursuant to C.G.S. §§ 47a-56 through 47a-56h. Such fund shall be in the custody of the Treasurer of the City, and the books and accounts of such funds shall be kept by the Director of Finance of the City.

(Code 1961, § 10-20; Ord. No. 241, 3-6-1979; Ord. No. 413, 3-5-1991)