Connecticut General Statutes 17a-233 – Imposition of receivership: Grounds; defenses
(a) The court may grant an application for the appointment of a receiver for a residential facility for persons with intellectual disability upon a finding of any of the following: (1) The facility is operating without a license issued pursuant to § 17a-227; (2) the facility intends to close and adequate arrangements for relocation of its residents have not been made not less than thirty days prior to the date of the intended closing; (3) there exists in the facility a condition in substantial violation of regulations established pursuant to § 17a-227; (4) there exists in the facility a practice of habitual violation of regulations established pursuant to § 17a-227.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 17a-233
- intellectual disability: means a significant limitation in intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior that originated during the developmental period before eighteen years of age. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1g
(b) It shall be a sufficient defense to a receivership application if any owner of a residential facility for persons with intellectual disability establishes that: (1) Such owner did not have knowledge or could not reasonably have known that any conditions in violation of § 17a-227 existed, or (2) such owner did not have a reasonable time in which to correct such violations, or (3) the violations listed in the application do not, in fact, exist, or (4) in the event the grounds upon which the petition is based are those set forth in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section, the facility does not intend to close.