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      Sec. 47a-54. (Formerly Sec. 19-345). Communicable diseases; unfit for habitation; order to vacate. (a) Whenever it is certified by the board of health or other enforcing agency, that a tenement, lodging or boarding house, or any part thereof, is infected with communicable disease, or that it is unfit for human habitation or dangerous to life or health by reason of want of repair or of defects in the drainage, plumbing, ventilation or construction of the same, or by reason of the existence on the premises of a nuisance liable to cause sickness among the occupants of such house, the board of health or other enforcing agency may issue an order requiring all persons therein to vacate such house, or part thereof, within not less than twenty-four hours nor more than ten days. The board of health or other enforcing agency shall state in the order the reason for the issuance of the order.

      (b) If such order is not complied with within the time so specified, the board of health or other enforcing agency may cause such house, or part thereof, to be vacated.

      (c) The board of health or other enforcing agency, whenever satisfied that the danger from such house, or part thereof, has ceased to exist, or that such house is fit for human habitation, may revoke such order or may extend the time within which the order may be complied with.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4052; 1972, P.A. 178, S. 2; P.A. 79-571, S. 74.)

      History: 1972 act added references to authorities other than board of health which are granted enforcement powers; P.A. 79-571 divided section into Subsecs., restated provisions and substituted "enforcing agency" for references to authorities other than board of health; Sec. 19-345 transferred to Sec. 19-345 in 1981.

      Annotation to former section 19-345:

      Cited. 117 C. 351.

      Annotation to present section:

      Cited. 35 CA 126; judgment reversed, see 235 C. 360.