Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 368m · 20 active provisions
If any person places anything, or permits anything to remain, in a highway, or digs up the ground therein, by which the passage of travelers is obstructed or endangered or the highway encumbered, the same shall be a common nuisance, and such person shall be fined not more than fifty dollars; and the court, before which…
If any person unlawfully dams or obstructs a watercourse to the special damage of another, such diversion or obstruction shall be a common nuisance and may be abated as such. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than seven dollars, and each week that such nuisance continues shal…
Any person who wilfully deposits material in any watercourse where it will naturally be carried to the land of another to his injury shall pay to the party injured thereby double damages and costs, unless, within a reasonable time after notice of the injury, he removes such material from such land.
Any person who places any material which tends to obstruct navigation in navigable waters shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and such person shall be ordered by the court before which the conviction is had to remove such material within thirty days, and, on his failure to do so, any person may remove suc…
Any person who unlawfully sinks any material in the Connecticut River for the purpose of obstructing the water or turning it from its natural course, or for making or enlarging any island, shall pay the expense of removing such material and be fined not more than five hundred dollars.
Any person who places, collects or allows to remain upon the surface of land owned or occupied by him, or discharges or allows to be discharged from his premises upon the land of another or upon any public land, any filthy water, garbage or other filthy or noxious matter, whereby the owner or occupant of land in the vi…
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute or municipal ordinance or regulation pertaining to nuisances to the contrary, no agricultural or farming operation, place, establishment or facility, or any of its appurtenances, or the operation thereof, shall be deemed to constitute a nuisance, either public o…
Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or the regulations of Connecticut state agencies, a swine gestation and farrowing barn maintained on property which has been in continuous use as a farm for not less than fifty years may continue to be maintained provided such barn is no closer than two hundred feet…
(a) As used in this section: (1) “Smoke” or “smoking” means the burning of a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe or any other similar device, whether containing, wholly or in part, tobacco, cannabis, or hemp; (2) “Any area” means the interior of the facility, building or establishment and the outside area within twenty-five…
(a) As used in this section: (1) “Any area” means the interior of the facility, building or establishment and the outside area within twenty-five feet of any doorway, operable window or air intake vent of the facility, building or establishment; (2) “Child care facility” means a provider of child care services as defin…
(a) For the purposes of this section and sections 19a-343a to 19a-343h, inclusive, a person creates or maintains a public nuisance if such person erects, establishes, maintains, uses, owns or leases any real property or portion of such property for (1) any of the purposes enumerated in subdivisions (1) to (6), inclusiv…
(a) The Chief State's Attorney or a deputy chief state's attorney, state's attorney or assistant or deputy assistant state's attorney desiring to commence an action to abate a public nuisance shall attach his proposed unsigned writ, summons and complaint to the following documents: (1) An application directed to the Su…
In any proceeding to abate a public nuisance, the state may request such remedies or relief as are reasonably necessary to abate the nuisance including, but not limited to, orders for repair or alteration to the real property or any portion thereof, temporary orders to cease and desist, orders to cease and desist or ap…
Any person who intentionally violates a temporary order issued pursuant to sections 19a-343 to 19a-343h, inclusive, may be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, in addition to any other remedy provided by law.
(a) The court may, upon application of the state, appoint a receiver to operate and manage the property or any portion thereof in accordance with the provisions of this section during the pendency of the public nuisance proceeding and shall include such powers and duties as the court may direct. (b) The receiver shall…
(a) If the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that a public nuisance exists, the court may enter such orders as justice requires to abate the public nuisance, including but not limited to, an order to close the real property or any portion thereof. The court shall retain jurisdiction over the case until it ap…
(a) In any case where dispossession or dislocation of tenants or residents who have been factually uninvolved with the conduct contributing to such public nuisance is necessary to abate the public nuisance, the court may impose the reasonable costs of relocating such tenants or residents upon any defendant determined b…
(a) The state may use an inspector of the Division of Criminal Justice or a state or municipal police officer to assist in the enforcement of any court order in a public nuisance proceeding. Where a municipal police officer acts at the direction of a prosecutor, the state shall first obtain the permission of the munici…
Availability to the state of other remedies at law or equity shall not prevent the granting of relief under sections 19a-343 to 19a-343h, inclusive.
Reserved for future use.