Under Connecticut law, an owner should pay its general contractor within 30 days of having received the general contractor’s application for payment; the general contractor, in turn, is required to pay its subcontractors and suppliers within 30 days of having received payment from the owner; and the subcontractors should then pay their sub-contractors and suppliers within 30 days of having received payment from the general contractor and so on down the line. See Gen. Stat. § 49-41a and Conn. Gen. Stat. § 42-158j.
The provisions in § 49-41a and § 42-158j are substantially similar except that:
1.) Only private owners are required to make payment to their general contractors within a specified number of days after receiving an application for payment; and
2.) The statute only applies to public projects for which a payment bond is required, which is any public works project whose contract amount exceeds $100,000.
Both statutes also have similar enforcement procedures. Either a subcontractor on a public project to which the statute applies or general contractors and subcontractors on a private project can make demand for payment by way of registered or certified mail and, within 10 days,