Whenever a permanent injunction is issued against any person for maintaining a nuisance as above provided, or against any owner or agent of any building kept or used for such purpose, there shall be imposed upon such building and the ground upon which the same is located and against the person or persons maintaining such nuisance and the owner or agent of such premises a penalty of not more than three hundred dollars. The clerk of the court shall make a return of the imposition of any penalty forthwith to the tax collector of the city or town in which such nuisance is located, who shall enter the same as a tax upon the property and against the persons upon which or whom the lien was imposed, and the provisions of the statutes relating to tax liens and the continuance thereof shall be applicable thereto. The payment of such penalty shall not relieve any person or property from any other penalties provided by law. The provisions of the statutes relating to the collection of taxes, nonpayment thereof and sale of property for taxes shall govern in the collection of the penalty herein prescribed so far as the same are applicable, and the penalty collected shall be applied in payment of any deficiency in the costs of the action and the abatement of such nuisance to the extent of any deficiency after the application thereto of the proceeds of the sale of personal property as above provided, and the remainder of such penalty, with the unexpended portion of the proceeds of the sale of personal property, shall be disposed of in the same manner as fines collected for the keeping of houses of ill-fame, except that ten per cent of the amount of the penalty collected and of the proceeds of the sale of such personal property shall be paid by the Treasurer to the attorney representing the state in the injunction proceedings, at the time of final judgment.

(1949 Rev., S. 4212.)

History: Sec. 19-322 transferred to Sec. 19a-351 in 1983.