Connecticut General Statutes 47a-54a – Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses
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If a room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house is overcrowded, the board of health or other enforcing agency may order the number of persons sleeping or living in such room to be so reduced that there shall not be less than five hundred cubic feet of air to each person over twelve years of age who occupies such room, and three hundred cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age who occupies such room.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 47a-54a
- boarding house: means any house or building or portion thereof, in which six or more persons are harbored, received or lodged for hire, or any building or part thereof, which is used as a sleeping place or lodging for six or more persons not members of the family residing therein. See Connecticut General Statutes 47a-50
- Enforcing agency: means the board of health or other authority designated to enforce the provisions of this chapter or a local housing code. See Connecticut General Statutes 47a-50