Connecticut General Statutes 46a-64b – Discriminatory housing practices: Definitions
As used in sections 46a-51 to 46a-99, inclusive:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 46a-64b
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- 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
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) “Discriminatory housing practice” means any discriminatory practice specified in § 46a-64c or § 46a-81e.
(2) “Dwelling” means any building, structure, mobile manufactured home park or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure, mobile manufactured home park or portion thereof.
(3) “Fair Housing Act” means Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, and known as the federal Fair Housing Act (42 USC 3600-3620).
(4) “Family” includes a single individual.
(5) “Familial status” means one or more individuals who have not attained the age of eighteen years being domiciled with a parent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or the designee of such parent or other person having such custody with the written permission of such parent or other person; or any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of eighteen years.
(6) “Housing for older persons” means housing: (A) Provided under any state or federal program that the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development determines is specifically designed and operated to assist elderly persons as defined in the state or federal program; or (B) intended for, and solely occupied by, persons sixty-two years of age or older; or (C) intended and operated for occupancy by at least one person fifty-five years of age or older per unit in accordance with the standards set forth in the Fair Housing Act and regulations developed pursuant thereto by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(7) “Mobile manufactured home park” means a plot of land upon which two or more mobile manufactured homes occupied for residential purposes are located.
(8) “Physical or mental disability” includes, but is not limited to, intellectual disability, as defined in § 1-1g, and physical disability, as defined in subdivision (15) of § 46a-51, and also includes, but is not limited to, persons who have a handicap as that term is defined in the Fair Housing Act.
(9) “Residential-real-estate-related transaction” means (A) the making or purchasing of loans or providing other financial assistance for purchasing, constructing, improving, repairing or maintaining a dwelling, or secured by residential real estate; or (B) the selling, brokering or appraising of residential real property.
(10) “To rent” includes to lease, to sublease, to let and to otherwise grant for a consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant.