Bristol, CT Rental Property Rules: Rental Registration (2026)

Section 12-141 of the Housing and Property Maintenance Code requires the nonresident owner of any occupied or vacant rental real property in the City of Bristol to maintain a current residential address on file in the office of the tax assessor. If the nonresident owner is an individual, that is the owner's own residential address; if the owner is a corporation, partnership, trust or other legally recognized entity, it is instead the current residential address of the agent in charge of the building, defined as one who manages the real estate, including collecting rents and supervising the property.

Any change in that address must be reported to the tax assessor's office within twenty-one days of the change. If the nonresident owner or agent never files an address, or fails to update it, the code deems the address to which the tax collector mails the property tax bills to be the owner's or agent's current address for legal purposes. That address on file, or deemed on file, is sufficient for state law and local code orders directed to the nonresident owner or agent, and stands as sufficient proof of service of notice of such orders in any later criminal or civil action against the owner or agent for failing to comply. The section does not limit any other lawful means of giving notice available to the director of health or another city official.