Sec. 47a-70. Housing docket. Entry and transfer of cases on docket.

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(b) If two or more actions are pending between the same parties, including for the purposes hereof any other court proceedings arising out of or connected with the same housing accommodation, of which one or more of such actions is on the housing docket and one or more of such actions is on some other docket, the judge handling such other docket, upon motion of any party to any of such actions, may order that the action pending on such docket, with all papers relating thereto, be transferred to the housing docket; and such action or actions shall thereafter proceed as though originally entered there.

See Sec. 51-51v re appointment of clerks for housing matters.

See Sec. 51-165 re assignment of judges to hear housing matters.

See Sec. 51-278(b) re designation of assistant or deputy assistant state's attorneys to prosecute housing matters.

See Sec. 51-348 re separate docket for housing matters.

Cited. 214 C. 256; 217 C. 57.

Housing judge has the discretion to transfer to regular civil docket a summary process action which because of its complexity would formerly have been outside the ambit of summary process. 1 CA 439.

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