Section 1: Overview — How records inspection works in Connecticut

Connecticut spells out an owner's right to inspect association records in unusual detail. The duty lives in the Common Interest Ownership Act (CIOA), at Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-260, titled "Association records. Copies. Fees." It reaches well beyond the bare "reasonably available for examination" language of the 1982 Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, because Connecticut adopted most of the 2008 UCIOA amendments. Section 47-278 supplies the enforcement.

CIOA is one unified statute, so that same § 47-260 right covers condominiums, planned communities, and cooperatives through a single provision. Connecticut put UCIOA into effect on January 1, 1984, then rewrote the records provision in 2009 through Public Act 09-225, which deleted the prior subsections and inserted new subsections (a) to (h), effective July 1, 2010.

The rewrite tracked the 2008 UCIOA and produced four things: an enumerated list of records the association must keep, a defined request procedure, copy-fee authority, and a two-tier list of records the association need not disclose. That puts Connecticut closer to prescriptive states such as Florida and California than to UCIOA-1982 states such as Alaska, which lean on a thin reasonableness standard and corporate-law inspection rights.

On the question that matters most — how fast the association must respond — Connecticut uses a hybrid rather than a single fixed deadline. Inspection happens during reasonable business hours or at a mutually convenient time, but once an owner gives 30 days' notice, the association has five business days to offer two dates for inspection or copying. The table and the sections that follow lay out the enumerated records, the request sequence, the withholding categories, and the remedies.

1. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-260, Association Records; Copies; Fees (CIOA, Title 47, ch. 828), Connecticut General Assembly ↩
2. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-216, Applicability to Preexisting Common Interest Communities (Title 47, ch. 828), Connecticut General Assembly ↩
3. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-278, Cause of Action to Enforce Chapter, Declaration or Bylaws; Attorney's Fees and Costs; Alternative Dispute Resolution (Title 47, ch. 828), Connecticut General Assembly ↩
4. Connecticut Office of Legislative Research, Condominium Dispute Resolution, Report 2022-R-0153 (no agency oversight of records disputes; the Department of Consumer Protection registers community association managers) ↩
5. Connecticut Public Act 25-111 (SB 1357, 2025), §§ 11–12, Connecticut General Assembly (amending Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 20-452(c) and 20-457; manager disclosure duties effective Oct. 1, 2025) ↩
6. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47-217, Exception for Certain Preexisting Common Interest Communities (Title 47, ch. 828), Connecticut General Assembly ↩
7. Connecticut General Assembly, H.B. 7068 (2025), An Act Concerning Court-Ordered Accountings of Common Interest Community Financial Records and Revising the Disclosure Requirements Relating to Common Interest Communities, bill status ↩
8. Connecticut Office of Legislative Research, Bill Analysis, sHB 7068 (2025) ↩
9. Connecticut Public Act 26-31 (sHB 5265, 2026), § 1, Connecticut General Assembly (court-ordered audit on petition of owners holding 20% of votes; approved May 27, 2026; effective Oct. 1, 2026) ↩
10. Canner v. Governors Ridge Assn., 348 Conn. 726, 311 A.3d 173 (2024); Connecticut Judicial Branch, Connecticut Law About Condominiums (statutes, court structure, and OLR reports) ↩
11. Connecticut Office of Legislative Research, Bill Analysis, sHB 5265 (2026) ↩
12. Community Associations Institute, Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (1982 versus 2008 adopting states) ↩