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If a room in a tenement, lodging or boarding house is overcrowded, the board of health or other enforcing agency may order the number of persons sleeping or living in such room to be so reduced that there shall not be less than five hundred cubic feet of air to each person over twelve years of age who occupies such room, and three hundred cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age who occupies such room.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Connecticut General Statutes Title 47A. Landlord and Tenant § 47a-54a. Overcrowding in tenement and lodging houses - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ct/title-47a-landlord-and-tenant/ct-gen-st-sect-47a-54a/
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