Bridgeport, CT Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Enforcing agency
- Director of Health, City of Bridgeport
- Cure period
- 10 days after written warning
- Fine authority
- CGS § 7-148(c)(7)(H)(xv)
- Unpaid fines
- Become a lien under CGS § 7-148aa
- Repeat violations
- City may correct after 3rd offense/12 mo.
Summary
Bridgeport property owners must keep buildings and lots free of blight, missing windows, collapsing walls, fire damage, or unmaintained exteriors, under the city's Anti-Blight Program, enforced by the health director with escalating fines and liens.
Any owner of real property in the city shall maintain their property so that the premises are not blighted and shall not cause or allow blighted premises to be created, nor shall any owner allow the continued existence of blighted premises.
Full Breakdown
Bridgeport Municipal Code Chapter 8.76 bars owners from creating or allowing blighted premises: buildings with missing or boarded windows, collapsing walls or roofs, fire damage, faulty foundations, rodent infestation, abandoned vehicles, or unmaintained exteriors and yards. The director of health, as enforcement officer, inspects properties, issues a written warning with a ten-day cure period, and may then impose a per-day fine under Connecticut General Statutes § 7-148(c)(7)(H)(xv). Unpaid fines become liens on the property under CGS § 7-148aa. After a third violation within twelve months, the city may enter and correct the conditions itself.
Violations & Fines
First violation draws a written warning and a ten-day cure window; failure to fix brings a daily fine under state statute, a lien on the property, and possible city-ordered correction after a third offense within twelve months.
Frequently Asked Questions
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