Connecticut Notice to Pay Rent or Quit
Connecticut's cited rule does not state a plain number of days, so nothing is filled in for you. Enter the period from your own source and the calculator counts it out on a calendar — both of the ways it can be counted — and uses the later.
CompliMaint provides document tools and general information, not legal advice. This is a template, not Connecticut’s approved form. Confirm requirements with a local attorney or your local housing authority before serving a notice.
- Notice before an eviction filing
- Evictions require a notice to quit served in accordance with state law before a case is filed.
- Counted by the tool as
- your figure — the cited rule states no plain number of days, so none is filled in
- Before a late fee
- Tenants have a statutory grace period - nine days for month-to-month or longer tenancies, four days for a one-week tenancy.
- Statute
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-15a(a), (b); § 47a-4(a), as amended by P.A. 23-207 § 8
Last checked July 2026. Laws change — verify before you rely on this.
When the period actually expires
A notice period served on a Monday expires on one of two dates, depending on whether the day of service counts as day one. We have not verified which reading Connecticut takes — and it is the difference between a filing that stands and one that is dismissed.
So the calculator does not pick. It works out both dates, acts on the later, prints the earlier one on the notice beside it, and says on the face of the document which reading produced the deadline. It also gives you the first weekday after the period runs out, — the date a filing question starts from, though whether one may be filed then turns on service being valid and on your court’s own rules, which this does not decide — and flags a federal holiday landing on either — as a note, never as an adjustment, because whether a period rolls off a holiday in Connecticut is exactly the sort of thing we have not researched.
What comes before this
A pay-or-quit notice is a formal step, and most unpaid rent never needs one. Before it sits the Connecticut late rent notice — an informal demand with no statutory timeline, which is the cheapest thing that works — and behind both sits the rent ledger, which is where the amount on this notice should come from rather than from arithmetic on paper.
Tenants have a statutory grace period - nine days for month-to-month or longer tenancies, four days for a one-week tenancy. (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-15a(a), (b); § 47a-4(a), as amended by P.A. 23-207 § 8, last checked July 2026.) A fee charged before that point is a fee a tenant can dispute, and a disputed fee riding along on a pay-or-quit notice is a reason to leave fees off the demand entirely.
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Connecticut notice period last checked July 2026 against Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-15a(a), (b); § 47a-4(a), as amended by P.A. 23-207 § 8. Informational, not legal advice, and not Connecticut’s approved form — confirm with a local attorney or your housing authority before acting.
Everything else we’ve researched about Connecticut
Same state, the problems either side of this one. Each carries its own statute and the date we last checked it.
- Connecticut rent late fees & grace periodWhat may be charged when rent is late, and the notice to send.
- Connecticut deposit return law & letterThe landlord's deadline to return a deposit, and the itemized letter.
- Connecticut deposit demand letterFor the tenant: whether the landlord is late, and by how many days.
- Connecticut deposit deduction rulesWhat may fairly come out of a deposit, prorated by useful life.
- Connecticut emergency plan rulesDrill frequency, filings, prescribed forms and retention, cited.
Questions people ask
- How many days' notice is required before an eviction filing in Connecticut?
- Evictions require a notice to quit served in accordance with state law before a case is filed. (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-15a(a), (b); § 47a-4(a), as amended by P.A. 23-207 § 8, as of July 2026.) The lease may set a longer period, and other grounds for eviction carry their own periods. Verify the current statute before acting.
- Does the day the notice is served count as day one in Connecticut?
- We have not verified how Connecticut counts the period, and the answer moves the deadline by a day. The calculator therefore works out both dates — the day of service counting as day one, and counting starting the next day — and uses the later, printing the earlier beside it so the reader can see the margin.
- Can a Connecticut pay-or-quit notice demand late fees as well as rent?
- We have not researched whether Connecticut restricts what a notice may demand. Some states hold a notice bad in its entirety when fees are folded in with rent, because the tenant cannot tell what sum cures the default. The tool demands rent only unless you choose otherwise, and prints anything else owed as expressly not demanded — the construction that survives either rule.
- Is this Connecticut's official eviction notice form?
- No. It is a template. We have verified Connecticut's notice period and cited it, and nothing else — not the required wording, not the manner of service, not whether a court in Connecticut publishes a form that must be used. Have a local attorney read one before you rely on it.