The interpretation offered by the defendants would not fulfill the purpose of the statutes, namely, to curb the evils resulting from lead-based paint. In many cases, a landlord would not be notified of the danger until a child has already ingested the paint, become ill, and undergone medical tests, the results of which indicate an abnormal presence of lead in the body. There is no indication that the legislature intended that §§ 47a-8 and 47a-54f be construed in a manner that would allow the potential harms caused by the presence of lead-based paint to proliferate. Similarly, there is no suggestion that the legislature intended that the violation of the statutes be excused for lack of notice to the landlord, or for any other reason presented in § 288A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts. Because we con*136strue the statute as meeting the threshold dual criteria for imposition of statutory civil liability pursuant to negligence per se, but lacking any provision for an excuse for the violation, we conclude that the legislature intended that the statute provide for strict liability upon proof of a violation of the statute and proximate causation.