Connecticut § 7-148o - Wilful violation of ordinances concerning prevention and remediation of blight. Penalties.
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§ 7-148o. Wilful violation of ordinances concerning prevention and remediation of blight. Penalties.
Sec. 7-148o. Wilful violation of ordinances concerning prevention and remediation of blight. Penalties. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, any person who, after written notice and a reasonable opportunity to remediate blighted conditions, wilfully violates any regulation adopted pursuant to subparagraph (H)(xv) of subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of section 7-148 concerning the prevention and remediation of blight shall be fined by the state not more than two hundred fifty dollars for each day for which it can be shown, based on actual inspection of the property on each such day, that the blighted conditions continued to exist after written notice to the owner or occupant as provided in this section, and the expiration of a reasonable opportunity to remediate.
(b) Any person who is a new owner or new occupant shall, upon request, be granted a thirty-day extension of the notice and opportunity to remediate provided pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. For the purposes of this section, “new owner” means any person or entity who has taken title to a property within thirty days of the notice, and “new occupant” means any person who has taken occupancy of a property within thirty days of the notice.
(P.A. 12-146, S. 3; P.A. 23-33, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 23-33 made a conforming change in Subsec. (a).
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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