CGS § 8-3f. Establishment of community residences for persons with intellectual disability and child-care residential facilities.

No (1) community residence, except a community residence that (A) houses eight or fewer persons with intellectual disability and necessary staff persons and that is licensed under the provisions of section 17a-227, or (B) houses eight or fewer persons receiving mental health or addiction services and necessary staff persons paid for or provided by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services that has been issued a license by the Department of Public Health under the provisions of section 19a-491; or (2) child-care residential facility, except for a child-care residential facility that houses eight or fewer children with mental or physical disabilities and necessary staff persons and that is licensed under sections 17a-145 to 17a-151, inclusive, established pursuant to section 8-3e shall be established within one thousand feet of any other such community residence or child-care residential facility without the approval of the body exercising zoning powers within the municipality in which such residence is proposed to be established.

Short History

(P.A. 84-517, S. 2, 3; P.A. 01-161, S. 2, 4; P.A. 23-137, S. 66.)

Long History

History: P.A. 01-161 applied provisions to child-care residential facilities, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 23-137 exempted any community residence housing eight or fewer persons with intellectual disability, children with mental or physical disabilities and persons receiving mental health or addiction services from prohibition of establishing such residence within 1,000 feet of another such residence.