History: 1972 acts included filing complaint with fair rent commission as remedy in Subsec. (a)(1) and added reference to violations of Ch. 412 and other statutes and regulations; P.A. 76-95 added Subsec. (a)(4) forbidding landlord's action to recover dwelling unit, increase rent or decrease services within six months after tenant organizes or becomes a member of a tenant's union; P.A. 76-435 revised effective date section of P.A. 76-95; Sec. 19-375a transferred to Sec. 47a-20 in 1977; P.A. 79-571 rephrased provisions and deleted former Subsecs. (b) to (d), reincorporated in statutes as Sec. 47a-20a by the same act; P.A. 83-510 inserted new Subsec. (a)(4) to include an action brought in good faith by a tenant under Sec. 47a-14h(a) to (i).
See Sec. 7-148f re penalty for violation of order of rent reduction or rent suspension.
See Sec. 47a-33 re defense that action is retaliatory.
Annotation to former section 19-375a:
Defense of retaliatory eviction not available in summary process action for nonpayment of rent. 34 CS 594.
Annotations to present section:
Cited. 217 C. 313.
Cited. 4 CA 608. Subdiv. (3): Protection of statute not invoked unless repair requested is necessary to maintain premises in a fit and habitable state. 16 CA 444. Cited. 32 CA 133; 45 CA 46. Sec. 47a-20a contains four exclusive grounds by which a landlord may rebut a presumption of retaliation under this section and because landlord did not prove at least one of those four grounds, he did not rebut the presumption of retaliation under this section. 91 CA 142. Language does not confer a private cause of action. 98 CA 147.