Sec. 8-27. Building on unaccepted streets.
Sec. 8-27. Building on unaccepted streets. Any municipality having a planning
commission may, by ordinance, prohibit or regulate the issuance of building permits
for the erection of buildings or structures on lots abutting unaccepted highways or streets.
No such ordinance shall prevent the issuance of a building permit for the construction
of farm or accessory buildings which are not in violation of any lawful zoning or building
regulations of the municipality. Any building erected in violation of any such ordinance
shall be deemed an unlawful structure, and the municipality through the appropriate
officer may bring action to enjoin the erection of such structure or cause it to be vacated
or removed. Any person, firm or corporation erecting a building or structure in violation
of any such ordinance may be fined not more than two hundred dollars for each building
or structure so erected in addition to the relief herein otherwise granted to the municipality.
(1949 Rev., S. 860; 1951, 1953, S. 388d; 1959, P.A. 679, S. 7.)
History: 1959 act removed phrase "in unapproved subdivisions" in authorization to prohibit or regulate building permits,
thus broadening power to include all buildings and structures not just those in unapproved subdivisions.
Cited. 151 C. 323. This section held not to authorize town to adopt a subdivision regulation imposing a charge against
a real estate developer as a condition for granting permission to proceed with an approved subdivision plan when such
charge was purportedly to cover reasonable costs incurred by the town for engineering services to inspect work done on
public improvements in the subdivision. 153 C. 236.