Connecticut SB 272: AN ACT AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES TO ENFORCE CERTAIN BLIGHT REGULATIONS WITHOUT PROVIDING NOTICE OR AN OPPORTUNITY TO REMEDIATE.

Bill Text

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General Assembly  
Raised Bill No. 272  
February Session, 2026 
 
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND 
DEVELOPMENT  
 
 
Introduced by:  
(PD)  
 
 
 
AN ACT AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES TO ENFORCE CERTAIN 
BLIGHT REGULATIONS WITHOUT PROVIDING NOTICE OR AN 
OPPORTUNITY TO REMEDIATE.  
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly convened: 
 
Section  1.  Subparagraph  (H)  of  subdivision  (7)  of  subsection  (c)  of 1 
section  7-148  of  the  general  statutes  is  repealed  and  the  following  is 2 
substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2026): 3 
(H) (i) Secure  the  safety  of  persons  in  or  passing  through  the 4 
municipality by regulation of shows, processions, parades and music; 5 
(ii) Regulate and prohibit the carrying on within the municipality of 6 
any trade, manufacture, business or profession which is, or may be, so 7 
carried on as to become prejudicial to public health, conducive to fraud 8 
and   cheating,   or   dangerous   to,   or   constituting   an   unreasonable 9 
annoyance to, those living or owning property in the vicinity; 10 
(iii) Regulate auctions and garage and tag sales; 11 
(iv) Prohibit, restrain, license and regulate the business of peddlers, 12 

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auctioneers  and  junk  dealers  in  a  manner  not  inconsistent  with  the 13 
general statutes; 14 
(v) Regulate  and  prohibit  swimming  or  bathing  in  the  public  or 15 
exposed places within the municipality; 16 
(vi) Regulate  and  license  the  operation  of  amusement  parks  and 17 
amusement  arcades  including,  but  not  limited  to,  the  regulation  of 18 
mechanical rides and the establishment of the hours of operation; 19 
(vii) Prohibit,  restrain,  license  and  regulate  all  sports,  exhibitions, 20 
public amusements and performances and all places where games may 21 
be played; 22 
(viii) Preserve  the  public  peace  and  good  order,  prevent  and  quell 23 
riots and disorderly assemblages and prevent disturbing noises; 24 
(ix) Establish a system to obtain a more accurate registration of births, 25 
marriages and deaths than the system provided by the general statutes 26 
in a manner not inconsistent with the general statutes; 27 
(x) Control  insect  pests  or  plant  diseases  in  any  manner  deemed 28 
appropriate; 29 
(xi) Provide for the health of the inhabitants of the municipality and 30 
do  all  things  necessary  or  desirable  to  secure  and  promote  the  public 31 
health; 32 
(xii) Regulate  the  use  of  streets,  sidewalks,  highways,  public  places 33 
and grounds for public and private purposes; 34 
(xiii) Make  and  enforce  police,  sanitary  or  other  similar  regulations 35 
and protect or promote the peace, safety, good government and welfare 36 
of the municipality and its inhabitants; 37 
(xiv) Regulate, in addition to the requirements under section 7-282b, 38 
the installation, maintenance and operation of any device or equipment 39 
in  a  residence  or  place  of  business  which  is  capable  of  automatically 40 

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calling  and  relaying  recorded  emergency  messages  to  any  state  police 41 
or  municipal  police  or  fire  department  telephone  number  or  which  is 42 
capable  of  automatically  calling  and  relaying  recorded  emergency 43 
messages or other forms of emergency signals to an intermediate third 44 
party which shall thereafter call and relay such emergency messages to 45 
a state police or municipal police or fire department telephone number. 46 
Such  regulations  may provide  for  penalties  for the  transmittal  of  false 47 
alarms by such devices or equipment; 48 
(xv) Make   and   enforce   regulations   for   the   prevention   and 49 
remediation  of  housing  blight  or  blight  upon  any  commercial  real 50 
property, including regulations reducing assessments. [and 51 
authorizing] Any such regulations shall define blight, establish a duty 52 
to  maintain  property  and  specify  standards  to  determine  if  there  is 53 
neglect    of    such    property, authorize designated    agents    of    the 54 
municipality to enter property during reasonable hours for the purpose 55 
of remediating blighted conditions [, provided such regulations define 56 
blight  and  require  such] and require  the municipality  to  give  written 57 
notice of any violation to the owner of the property upon which blighted 58 
conditions exist and provide a reasonable opportunity for the owner to 59 
remediate the blighted conditions prior to any enforcement action being 60 
taken,  except  that  a  municipality  may  take  immediate  enforcement 61 
action without   providing   such   written   notice   or   opportunity   to 62 
remediate in  the  case  of  a  violation  at  a  property  that  is  the [third] 63 
second or [more] greater such blight violat