# Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-54a: Sec. 47a-54a. (Formerly Sec. 19-346). Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_CT_T47a_C833a_S47a-54a

## Section

- **Citation:** Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-54a
- **Heading:** Sec. 47a-54a. (Formerly Sec. 19-346). Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses
- **Jurisdiction:** Connecticut
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Connecticut Code / Title 47a / Chapter 833a / Section 47a-54a

## Text

See Sec. 19a-359 re required number of bathrooms and water closets in tenement houses.

Annotations to former section 19-346:

Applies to hallway in three-family dwelling house; liability of landlord for failure to light hall. 108 C. 404. Meaning of term “at night”. Id., 405. Statute imposes upon landlord the duty to use reasonable care and diligence to provide for lighting and to keep lights in operation during the night. 115 C. 233; 123 C. 337; 133 C. 357. Statute did not make it duty of landlord to light cellar at night; 111 C. 26; nor the steps outside the tenement house. 121 C. 261. Obligation to light public hall was a public obligation and could not be waived by tenant. 117 C. 356. Principle of assumption of risk held inapplicable. Id.; 133 C. 360. Local ordinance re lighting of hallways held inapplicable. 132 C. 418. Mere presence of lighting fixture not enough; landlord must also use reasonable care and diligence to keep lights in operation and use care, commensurate with particular circumstances, to guard against the lights being turned out. 153 C. 92. Cited. Id., 540.

Provisions of statute not applicable to the steps and lighting thereof furnishing an approach to a tenement house which are entirely outside the house itself. 5 CS 8. “Public halls” include exterior as well as interior passageways. 6 CS 368. Presence of unlighted fixture does not constitute compliance with statute nor exercise of reasonable care; mere presence of lighting fixture in each hallway, connected with wiring of adjoining apartment and controlled by tenant at his option and expense, not compliance. 22 CS 184.

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