Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 368o - Tenement and Lodging Houses

• Apartment: means a room or suite of rooms occupied or designed to be occupied as a family domicile. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
• Basement: means a story partly, but not more than one-half, below the level of the grade. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
• 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 19a-355
• Cellar: means a story more than one-half below the level of the grade. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
• Court: means an open, unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a tenement house. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
• Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of section 7-157. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Tenement house: means any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or is arranged or designed to be occupied, or is occupied, as the home or residence of three or more families, living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, and having a common right in the halls, stairways or yards. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355
• Yard: means an open, unoccupied space, on the same lot with a tenement, lodging or boarding house, between the rear line of such house and the rear line of the lot. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-355