TAX - CONNECTICUT

Boardwalk Realty Associates, LLC v. M & S Gateway Associates, LLC

Supreme Court of Connecticut - August 13, 2021 - A.3d - 2021 WL 3610351

Court-appointed receiver of rents brought action car dealership operators seeking to collect unpaid rent as well as use and occupancy payments as part of town’s effort to collect unpaid property taxes on parcel of commercial property that was abandoned by its owner.

The Superior Court entered summary judgment for operators. Receiver appealed.

The Supreme Court held that as a matter of first impression, receiver did not have statutory authority to impose or collect rent or use and occupancy payments where the property had been abandoned prior to his appointment.

Receiver who was appointed under statute that permitted appointment of a receiver of rents when real property taxes due to a municipality were delinquent was not statutorily authorized to impose or collect rent or use and occupancy payments where the property had been abandoned by the owner prior to the appointment of the receiver and there was no existing obligation for the receiver to enforce



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