Bill Text: CT HB05203 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Threshold To Prove Existence Of A Public Nuisance Upon Real Property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-09 - Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary [HB05203 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB05203-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 5203
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 305
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. FERRARO, 117th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE THRESHOLD TO PROVE EXISTENCE OF A PUBLIC NUISANCE UPON REAL PROPERTY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That subsection (i) of section 19-343a of the general statutes be amended to provide that the threshold of evidence to create a rebuttable presumption of a public nuisance upon real property be lowered from three arrests or issuance of three arrest warrants to two arrests or issuance of two arrest warrants during the three-year period prior to the commencement of the action, rather than during the three hundred sixty-five-day period prior to such commencement.

Statement of Purpose:

To lower the threshold for the state to prove the existence of a public nuisance upon real property.