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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6418
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 3261
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING AB ANDONED AND BLIGHTED PROPERTY
RECEIVERSHIP.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 8-169aa of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 2
1, 2021): 3
(b) (1) [In any municipality with a population of thirty-five thousand 4
or more, a] A party in interest may file a petition for the appointment of 5
a receiver to take possession and undertake rehabilitation of a building 6
within such municipality, which petition shall be filed in the superior 7
court for the judicial district in which such building is located. The 8
proceeding on the petition shall constitute an action in rem. 9
(2) (A) The petition shall include a sworn statement of the petitioner 10
that, to the best of his or her knowledge, the building meets the 11
conditions described in subdivision (2) of subsection (c) of this section 12
on the date the petition is filed. The petition shall also include, to the 13
extent available to the petitioner after his or her reasonable efforts to 14
obtain the following information, (i) a copy of any citation or order 15 Raised Bill No. 6418
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charging the owner of the building with being in violation of municipal 16
code requirements or determining the building to be a public nuisance, 17
blighted or unfit for human occupancy or use, (ii) a recommendation for 18
appointment as receiver for the building, (iii) a preliminary plan 19
detailing (I) initial cost estimates of rehabilitation of the building for 20
purposes of compliance with the applicable municipal code and plan for 21
the area adopted by the municipality in which the building is located, 22
and (II) anticipated funding sources, and (iv) a schedule of each 23
mortgage, lien or other encumbrance on the building. 24
(B) The petition may include any other property adjacent to the 25
building, provided (i) such other property is owned by the same owner 26
as the building, and (ii) the building and each such property are used 27
for a single or interrelated purpose. 28
(3) A true copy of the petition shall be served on the owner of the 29
building and each lienholder of record, including any municipality, 30
unless such municipality is the petitioner, in the manner provided by 31
section 52-57. In addition, the petitioner shall record a notice of lis 32
pendens with the clerk of such municipality, in the manner provided by 33
section 52-325. 34
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 8-169aa(b)
Statement of Purpose:
To remove the municipal population threshold for certain parties to
petition the Superior Court for appointment of a receiver for a blighted
and abandoned property.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]