Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-163a

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Sec. 12-163a. Receivership of rents for the collection of delinquent taxes.

Official statutory text

(b) Any receivership established pursuant to subsection (a) shall be terminated by the court upon its finding that the tax delinquency which was the subject of the original petition has been satisfied.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the petitioner from pursuing any other action or remedy at law or equity that it may have against the owner, agent, lessor or manager.

(d) Any owner, agent, lessor or manager who collects or attempts to collect any rent or payment for use and occupancy from any occupant of a building subject to an order appointing a receiver shall be found, after due notice and hearing, to be in contempt of court.

(e) If a proceeding is initiated pursuant to sections 47a-14a to 47a-14h , inclusive, or sections 47a-56 to 47a-56i , inclusive, or if a receiver of rents is appointed pursuant to chapter 735a or pursuant to any other action involving the making of repairs to real property under court supervision, rent or use and occupancy payments shall be made pursuant to such proceeding or action without regard to whether such proceeding or action is initiated before or after a receivership is established under this section, and such proceeding or action shall take priority over a receivership established under this section in regard to expenditure of such rent or use and occupancy payments.

(f) If a receiver of rents or payments for use and occupancy is appointed pursuant to section 16-262f prior to the date a receivership is established under this section, rent or use and occupancy payments shall be made pursuant to said section 16-262f and the receivership established pursuant to said section 16-262f shall take priority over a receivership established under this section in regard to expenditure of such rent or use and occupancy payments provided the receiver appointed under said section 16-262f gives notice of such appointment to the chief executive official of the municipality where the residential dwelling is located.

Section authorizes a receiver to use legal processes to collect rent due prior to the date of the receiver's appointment, but does not authorize a receiver to evict a tenant or enter into a lease with a new tenant; the term “all rents” suggests multiple kinds of sources, type or temporal, of rent, thus authorizing a receiver to collect past and presently due rent in place of the owner. 316 C. 851. A receiver appointed under section is not statutorily authorized to impose or collect rent or use and occupancy payments when the property has been abandoned by the owner prior to the appointment of the receiver and there is no existing obligation for the receiver to enforce. 340 C. 115.

The court had authority to appoint a receiver but did not have authority to broaden the scope of the receiver's duties under section; the receiver may collect only those rents that are forthcoming on or after the date of the receiver's appointment, not rents allegedly overdue. 145 CA 438; judgment reversed in part, see 316 C. 851. The receiver is mandated to pay only utility bills that are the obligation of the owner, not those incurred by tenants of the subject property. 188 CA 36.

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