Section 46a-64c

Citation: Section 46a-64c
Parent Document: Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Sullivan Associates, 250 Conn. 763 (1999)
Jurisdiction: Connecticut (state)
Effective Date: 1999-10-12
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7898215/commission-on-human-rights-oppo... ↗

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The legislative history of § 46a-64c demonstrates that the legislature intended to prohibit landlords from denying rental opportunities to people whose source of income included federal or state housing assistance. Interpreting § 46a-64c as the trial court has, to allow an exception to its antidiscrimination provisions for those landlords who refuse to use the required section 8 lease, would eviscerate the basic protection envisioned by the statute. It would lead to the unreasonable result that while the legislature mandated that landlords may not reject tenants because their income included section 8 assistance, the legislature at the same time also intended that landlords might avoid the statutory mandate by refusing to accede to a condition essential to its fulfillment. Such a result is untenable. “Statutes are to be construed in a manner that will not thwart [their] intended purpose or lead to absurd results. . . . Coley v. Camden Associates, Inc., 243 Conn. 311, 319, 702 A.2d 1180 (1997).” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Shawmut Mortgage Co. v. Wheat, 245 Conn. 744, 749, 717 A.2d 664 (1998). “It is ... a rule of statutory *779construction that those who promulgate statutes or rules do not intend to promulgate statutes or mies that lead to absurd consequences or bizarre results. . . . Ferrigno v. Cromwell Development Associates, 244 Conn. 189, 201, 708 A.2d 1371 (1998); State v. DeFrancesco, 235 Conn. 426, 437, 668 A.2d 348 (1995).” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) Ensign-Bickford Realty Corp. v. Zoning Commission, 245 Conn. 257, 270, 715 A.2d 701 (1998). “The unreasonableness of the result produced by one among alternative possible interpretations of a statute is reason for rejecting that interpretation in favor of another which would produce a reasonable result.” State v. Campbell, 180 Conn. 557, 563, 429 A.2d 960 (1980).25

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