If a tenant's lease is expiring and they will be entering into a NEW (signed) lease allowing them to go month to month is it legal to request 60 days notice to vacate in CT?

Yes. In one word - yes.

You can put anything into a lease that isn't contrary to law.

This is not contrary to law.

I have been looking through the laws and cannot find anything prohibiting or allowing this notice term, can you provide a reference within CT law that addresses this?

My reading indicates that the law is silent - it is the landlord's option.

I can't wrap my brain around this concept.
The whole idea of month to month is that either tenant or landlord can get out of the lease with 30 days notice. How can it still be called a month to month if 60 days enters in, and how is that fair to the tenant, whose lease can be terminated with 30 days notice?

If you want creative terms, do what I did: certain dead winter months required 60 days from either party, all others 30.

I can't wrap my brain around this concept.
The whole idea of month to month is that either tenant or landlord can get out of the lease with 30 days notice. How can it still be called a month to month if 60 days enters in, and how is that fair to the tenant, whose lease can be terminated with 30 days notice?


I absolutely agree - but this is one of those cases where the question should have been "would a tenant in his/her right mind sign ..."

But the law is silent so I suppose you can put anything in a lease if a tenant is willing to sign it. I would suspect the "60 days" is better covered by lease but that's just me.