(a) The court may grant an application for the appointment of a receiver for a residential facility for persons with intellectual disability upon a finding of any of the following: (1) The facility is operating without a license issued pursuant to section 17a-227; (2) the facility intends to close and adequate arrangements for relocation of its residents have not been made not less than thirty days prior to the date of the intended closing; (3) there exists in the facility a condition in substantial violation of regulations established pursuant to section 17a-227; (4) there exists in the facility a practice of habitual violation of regulations established pursuant to section 17a-227.

(b) It shall be a sufficient defense to a receivership application if any owner of a residential facility for persons with intellectual disability establishes that: (1) Such owner did not have knowledge or could not reasonably have known that any conditions in violation of section 17a-227 existed, or (2) such owner did not have a reasonable time in which to correct such violations, or (3) the violations listed in the application do not, in fact, exist, or (4) in the event the grounds upon which the petition is based are those set forth in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section, the facility does not intend to close.

(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-39, S. 9; P.A. 11-16, S. 18; P.A. 18-32, S. 13.)

History: Sec. 19a-467c transferred to Sec. 17a-233 in 1991; P.A. 11-16 substituted “persons with intellectual disability” for “mentally retarded persons” and made technical changes, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 18-32 amended Subsec. (b)(1) and (2) by making technical changes, effective July 1, 2018.