Housing Authority v. Cyr, 234 Conn. App. 527 (2025)

Citation: Housing Authority v. Cyr, 234 Conn. App. 527 (2025)
Parent Document: Housing Authority v. Cyr, 234 Conn. App. 527 (2025)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 2025-08-26
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10659980/housing-authority-v-cyr/ ↗

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serious nuisance pursuant to General Statutes § 47a-
       15,5 nuisance pursuant to General Statutes § 47a-32,6
       violations of a tenant’s statutory obligations pursuant
       to General Statutes § 47a-11,7 violations of the lease
       and/or the plaintiff’s rules and regulations, and/or a
       the tenant adequately remedies the breach within such fifteen-day period,
       the rental agreement shall not terminate . . . .’’ See Kapa Associates v.
       Flores, 35 Conn. Supp. 274, 277–79, 408 A.2d 22 (1979).
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            General Statutes § 47a-15 provides in relevant part: ‘‘For the purposes
       of this section, ‘serious nuisance’ means (A) inflicting bodily harm upon
       another tenant or the landlord or threatening to inflict such harm with the
       present ability to effect the harm and under circumstances which would
       lead a reasonable person to believe that such threat will be carried out, (B)
       substantial and wilful destruction of part of the dwelling unit or premises,
       (C) conduct which presents an immediate and serious danger to the safety
       of other tenants or the landlord, or (D) using the premises or allowing the
       premises to be used for prostitution or the illegal sale of drugs or, in the
       case of a housing authority, using any area within fifteen hundred feet of
       any housing authority property in which the tenant resides for the illegal
       sale of drugs. . . .’’ See also Suburban Greater Hartford Realty Manage-
       ment Corp. v. Edwards, 123 Conn. App. 295, 300, 1 A.3d 1138 (2010) (serious
       nuisance may be committed in one of four ways).
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            General Statutes § 47a-32 provides: ‘‘In any action of summary process
       based upon nuisance, that term shall be taken to include, but shall not be
       limited to, any conduct which interferes substantially with the comfort or
       safety of other tenants or occupants of the same or adjacent buildings or
       structures.’’
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            General Statutes § 47a-11 provides: ‘‘A tenant shall: (a) Comply with all
       obligations primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions of any
       building, housing or fire code materially affecting health and safety; (b)
       keep such part of the premises that he occupies and uses as clean and safe
       as the condition of the premises permit; (c) remove from his dwelling unit
       all ashes, garbage, rubbish and other waste in a clean and safe manner to
       the place provided by the landlord pursuant to subdivision (5) of subsection
       (a) of section 47a-7; (d) keep all plumbing fixtures and appliances in the
       dwelling unit or used by the tenant as clean as the condition of each such
       fixture or appliance permits; (e) use all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heat-
       ing, ventilating, air conditioning and other facilities and appliances, including
       elevators, in the premises in a reasonable manner; (f) not wilfully or negli-
       gently destroy, deface, damage, impair or remove any part of the premises
       or permit any other person to do so; (g) conduct himself and require other
       persons on the premises with his consent to conduct themselves in a manner
       that will not disturb his neighbors’ peaceful enjoyment of the premises or
       constitute a nuisance, as defined in section 47a-32, or a serious nuisance,
       as defined in section 47a-15; and (h) if judgment has entered against a
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