(a) An owner and a resident may include in a rental agreement terms and conditions not prohibited by law, including rent, term of the agreement and other provisions governing the rights and obligations of the parties. No rental agreement shall contain the following:

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 21-83

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Mobile manufactured home: means a detached residential unit having three-dimensional components which are intrinsically mobile with or without a wheeled chassis or a detached residential unit built on or after June 15, 1976, in accordance with federal manufactured home construction and safety standards, and, in either case, containing sleeping accommodations, a flush toilet, tub or shower bath, kitchen facilities and plumbing and electrical connections for attachment to outside systems, and designed for long-term occupancy and to be placed on rigid supports at the site where it is to be occupied as a residence, complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations and connection to utilities systems. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • Mobile manufactured home space or lot: means a plot of ground within a mobile manufactured home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile manufactured home. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of §. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Owner: means a licensee or permittee or any person who owns, operates or maintains a mobile manufactured home park. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • Premises: means a dwelling unit and facilities and appurtenances therein and grounds, areas and facilities held out for the use of residents generally or whose use is promised to the resident. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • Rent: means all periodic payments to be made to the owner under the rental agreement. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • Rental agreement: means all agreements, written or oral, and valid rules and regulations adopted under subsection (d) of §. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • Resident: means a person who owns, or rents and occupies, a mobile manufactured home in a mobile manufactured home park. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(1) Any provision by which the resident agrees to waive or forfeit rights or remedies under this chapter and sections 47a-21, 47a-23 to 47a-23b, inclusive, 47a-26 to 47a-26h, inclusive, 47a-35 to 47a-35b, inclusive, 47a-41a, 47a-43 and 47a-46, or under any section of the general statutes or any municipal ordinance, unless such section or ordinance expressly states that such rights may be waived;

(2) Any provision which permits the owner to terminate the rental agreement for failure to pay rent unless such rent is unpaid when due and the resident fails to pay rent within nine days thereafter;

(3) Any provision which permits the owner to collect a penalty fee for late payment of rent without allowing the resident a minimum of nine days beyond the due date in which to remit or which provides for the payment of rent in a reduced amount if such rent is paid prior to the expiration of such grace period;

(4) Any provision which permits the owner to charge a penalty for late payment of rent in excess of five per cent of the total rent due for the mobile manufactured home space or lot or four per cent of the total rent due for the mobile manufactured home and mobile manufactured home space or lot;

(5) Any provision which allows the owner to increase the total rent or change the payment arrangements during the term of the rental agreement;

(6) Any provision allowing the owner to charge an amount in excess of one month‘s rent for a security deposit or to retain the security deposit upon termination of the rental agreement if the resident has paid his rent in full as of the date of termination and has caused no damage to the property of the owner or to waive the resident’s right to the interest on the security deposit pursuant to § 47a-21;

(7) Any provision allowing the owner to charge an entrance fee to a resident assuming occupancy;

(8) Any provision authorizing the owner to confess judgment on a claim arising out of the rental agreement;

(9) Any provision which waives any cause of action against or indemnification from an owner, by a resident for any injury or harm caused to such resident, his family or his guests, or to his property, or the property of his family or his guests resulting from any negligence of the owner, his agents or his assigns in the maintenance of the premises or which otherwise agrees to the exculpation or limitation of any liability of the owner arising under law or to indemnify the owner for that liability or the costs connected therewith;

(10) Any provision permitting the owner to dispossess the resident without resort to court order;

(11) Any provision consenting to the distraint of the resident’s property for rent;

(12) Any provision agreeing to pay the owner’s attorney’s fees in excess of fifteen per cent of any judgment against the resident in any action in which money damages are awarded;

(13) Any provision which denies to the resident the right to treat as a breach of the agreement, a continuing violation by the owner, substantial in nature, of any provision set forth in the rental agreement or of any state statute unless the owner discontinues such violation within a reasonable time after written notice is given by the resident by registered or certified mail.

(b) A provision prohibited by this chapter included in a rental agreement is unenforceable.