This bill recently passed by the Connecticut Legislature authorizes municipalities to;

• establish a special assessment on blighted property
• increase fines for violations of municipal ordinances

In addition the bill;

• concerns municipal liens for accrued fines and code violations
• provides that any expense of executing an order, including any service charge and penalty imposed by the board of health shall constitute a lien, provided a notice of violation is recorded in the land records and indexed in the name of the property owner.
• requires a municipality to notify a lienholder of any notice or order to a property owner under local or state law to dispose of the real estate or make it safe and sanitary.
• requires municipalities to make reasonable efforts to send a copy of the notice by first class mail to lienholders of the property at their current or last-known address. 
• allows a municipality to recover its costs in making a property sanitary in the same way it can recover its costs in making it safe or secure, including making these costs a lien on the property. 
• adds the municipality's costs of making a property safe, secure, or sanitary to the taxes due on the property.
• increases fines that municipalities may impose for violations of local laws, but decreases the daily maximum fine that they may impose for housing code and tenement or lodging house safety and health code violations.
  

To view the entire bill, please click on the following.

 CT SB 389.doc