Sec. 20-325h. Prohibitions on use or disclosure of confidential information.
Sec. 20-325h. Prohibitions on use or disclosure of confidential information.
(a) No real estate licensee shall: (1) Reveal confidential information concerning a person
whom the real estate licensee represented either as an agent, designated buyer agent or
a designated seller agent; (2) use confidential information concerning that person to the
person's disadvantage; or (3) use confidential information concerning that person for
the real estate broker's or real estate salesperson's advantage or the advantage of a third
party, except as required by legal process, as necessary to defend the real estate broker
or real estate salesperson from allegations of wrongful or negligent conduct, or as necessary to prevent the commission of a crime.
(b) As used in this section, "confidential information" means facts concerning a
person's assets, liabilities, income, expenses, motivations to purchase, rent or sell real
property and previous offers received or made to purchase or lease real property which
are not authorized by the client, a matter of general knowledge, part of a public record
or file to which access is authorized pursuant to section 1-210 or otherwise subject to
disclosure under any other provision of the general statutes or any regulation of Connecticut state agencies.
(P.A. 96-159, S. 3, 4; P.A. 98-10, S. 36; 98-27, S. 2; P.A. 99-229, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 96-159 effective June 1, 1997, and applicable to all listing and buyer representation agreements executed
on or after that date (Revisor's note: References to "salesman" were replaced editorially by the Revisors with references
to "salesperson" to conform section with changes enacted in public act 96-200); P.A. 98-10 made technical changes in
Subsec. (b); P.A. 98-27 amended subsection (a) to substitute "whom" for "for whom"; P.A. 99-229 amended Subsec. (a)
to delete reference to time after termination of an agency relationship, and to amend Subdiv. (1) to add "whom the real
estate licensee represented either as an agent, designated buyer agent or designated seller agent" re a person whom the
confidential information concerns, and amended Subsec. (b) to make "confidential information" mean facts which are not
"authorized by the client" or a "matter of general knowledge".