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CT Gen Stat § 20-675 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-675 - Disciplinary actions against homemaker-companion agency. Grounds. Notice and hearing.

 (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may revoke, suspend or refuse to issue or renew any certificate of registration as a homemaker-companion agency or place an agency on probation or issue a letter of reprimand for: (1) Conduct by the agency, or by an employee of the agency while in the course of employment, of a character likely to mislead, deceive or defraud the public or the commissioner; (2) engaging in any untruthful or misleading advertising; (3) failure of such agency that acts as a registry to comply with the notice requirements of section 20-679a; or (4) failing to perform a comprehensive background check of a prospective employee or maintain a copy of materials obtained during a comprehensive background check, as required by section 20-678.(b) The commissioner shall not revoke or suspend any certificate of registration except upon notice and hearing in accordance with chapter 54.(P.A. 06-187, S. 58; P.A. 11-230, S. 2; 11-242, S. 93.)History: P.A. 11-230 amended Subsec. (a) by adding Subdiv. (3) re failure of agency that acts as registry to comply with notice requirements of Sec. 20-679a, effective January 1, 2012; P.A. 11-242 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision, codified by the Revisors as Subdiv. (4), re failure to conduct or maintain copy of comprehensive background check, effective January 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 20-676 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-676 - Inspection of records and investigations. Powers of commissioner. Injunctions.

 (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, at all reasonable hours, may inspect, copy or audit all records maintained by such agency. The commissioner may conduct investigations and hold hearings on any matter under the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-680, inclusive. The commissioner may issue subpoenas, administer oaths, compel testimony and order the production of books, records and documents. If any person refuses to appear, to testify or to produce any book, record, paper or document when so ordered, upon application of the commissioner, a judge of the Superior Court may make such order as may be appropriate to aid in the enforcement of this section.(b) The Attorney General, at the request of the commissioner, is authorized to apply in the name of the state of Connecticut to the Superior Court for an order temporarily or permanently restraining and enjoining any person from violating any provision of sections 20-670 to 20-680, inclusive.(P.A. 06-187, S. 57.)
CT Gen Stat § 20-677 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-677 - Display and advertisement of certificate of registration. Prohibitions. Penalties. Expiration. Renewal.

 (a) Each person obtaining a homemaker-companion agency certificate of registration shall: (1) Exhibit the agency's certificate of registration upon request by any interested party, (2) state in any advertisement the fact that the agency is registered, and (3) include the agency's registration number in any advertisement.(b) No person shall: (1) Present or attempt to present, as such person's own, the certificate of another, (2) knowingly give false evidence of a material nature to the Commissioner of Consumer Protection for the purpose of procuring a certificate, (3) represent himself or herself falsely as, or impersonate, a registered homemaker-companion agency, (4) use or attempt to use a certificate which has expired or which has been suspended or revoked, (5) offer or provide homemaker or companion services without having a current certificate of registration under the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-680, inclusive, or (6) represent in any manner that such person's registration constitutes an endorsement by the commissioner of the quality of services provided by such person.(c) In addition to any other remedy provided for in sections 20-670 to 20-676, inclusive, any person who violates any provision of subsection (b) of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.(d) Certificates issued to a homemaker-companion agency shall not be transferable or assignable.(e) All certificates issued under the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-680, inclusive, shall expire annually. The fee for renewal of a certificate shall be the same as the fee charged for an original application pursuant to section 20-672. Fees collected pursuant to the issuance of a certificate or renewal of a certificate shall be deposited in the General Fund.(f) Failure to receive a notice of expiration of registration or a renewal application shall not exempt a homemaker-companion agency from the obligation to renew.(P.A. 06-187, S. 59; P.A. 08-17, S. 1; P.A. 10-32, S. 78.)History: P.A. 08-17 amended Subsec. (b)(5) by replacing “to” with “or” to prohibit any person from offering or providing homemaker or companion services without a certificate of registration; P.A. 10-32 made a technical change in Subsec. (c), effective May 10, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 20-678 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-678 - Prospective employees required to submit to comprehensive background check. Written statements re prior criminal convictions or disciplinary action. Maintenance and inspection of records.

 On or after January 1, 2012, each homemaker-companion agency, prior to extending an offer of employment or entering into a contract with a prospective employee, shall require such prospective employee to submit to a comprehensive background check. In addition, each homemaker-companion agency shall require that such prospective employee complete and sign a form which contains questions as to whether the prospective employee was convicted of a crime involving violence or dishonesty in a state court or federal court in any state; or was subject to any decision imposing disciplinary action by a licensing agency in any state, the District of Columbia, a United States possession or territory or a foreign jurisdiction. Any prospective employee who makes a false written statement regarding such prior criminal convictions or disciplinary action shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Each homemaker-companion agency shall maintain a paper or electronic copy of any materials obtained during the comprehensive background check and shall make such records available for inspection upon request of the Department of Consumer Protection.(P.A. 06-187, S. 60; P.A. 11-242, S. 94; P.A. 13-88, S. 1.)History: P.A. 11-242 added provisions requiring prospective employees to submit to a comprehensive background check and sign a form re past criminal convictions and disciplinary action by licensing agencies, deleted provisions re employees hired on or after October 1, 2006, and added provision requiring homemaker-companion agencies to maintain background check records and make such records available for inspection by Department of Consumer Protection, effective January 1, 2012; P.A. 13-88 made no changes, effective January 1, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 20-679a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-679a - Written notice requirements for registries.

 (a) A registry that supplies, refers or places an individual with a consumer shall provide the consumer with a written notice, to be signed by the consumer, specifying the legal liabilities of such registry to the individual supplied or referred to or placed with the consumer. Such notice shall be given to the consumer before the commencement of services and such services shall not commence until the registry receives a signed copy of the notice from the consumer, unless a bona fide emergency exists and such registry details the specific nature of the emergency on a form approved by the department and signed by the consumer or an authorized representative of the consumer. If a bona fide emergency exists, the registry shall provide such notice not later than four calendar days after the date on which it supplies, refers or places an individual with a consumer. If the registry maintains an Internet web site, a sample of the notice shall be posted on such Internet web site.(b) Each notice provided to a consumer pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be written in boldface type and plain language and shall comply with the plain language standard detailed in section 42-152. Such notice shall include a statement identifying the registry as an employer, joint employer, leasing employer or nonemployer, as applicable, along with a statement advising the consumer he or she may be considered an employer under law and, if that is the case, the consumer may be held responsible for the payment of federal and state taxes, Social Security, overtime and minimum wage, unemployment, workers' compensation insurance payments and any other applicable payment required under state or federal law. The notice shall also include a statement that the consumer should consult a tax professional if he or she is uncertain about his or her responsibility for the payment of such taxes or payments.(c) For purposes of this section, a homemaker-companion agency that supplies, refers or places an independent contractor with a consumer for the provision of companion or homemaker services shall be considered a registry, as defined in section 20-670, and shall be required to provide the consumer with a notice pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 11-230, S. 3; P.A. 15-230, S. 2; P.A. 17-53, S. 1.)History: P.A. 11-230 effective January 1, 2012; P.A. 15-230 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “seven” with “four” re calendar days; P.A. 17-53 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to 4 calendar days, add provision re notice to consumer before commencement of services unless bona fide emergency exists, and make technical changes, and amended Subsec. (b) to add reference to boldface type.
CT Gen Stat § 20-679b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-679b - Client cancellation of contract or service plan.

 A client may cancel a contract or service plan entered into with a homemaker-companion agency, pursuant to this chapter, at any time if such contract or service plan does not state a specific period of duration. A client shall only be obligated to pay for actual services rendered pursuant to such contract or service plan. A client shall not be billed by or on behalf of a homemaker-companion agency for excess fees or costs when such agency provides the services of a higher-skilled individual than needed by the client.(P.A. 13-88, S. 3.)History: P.A. 13-88 effective January 1, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 20-680 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-680 - Regulations. Report.

 (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-679, inclusive. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may implement policies and procedures necessary to administer the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-679, inclusive, while in the process of adopting such policies and procedures as regulations, provided the commissioner prints notice of the intent to adopt the regulations in the Connecticut Law Journal not later than twenty days after the date of implementation. Such policies and procedures shall be valid until the time final regulations are adopted.(b) Not later than January 1, 2008, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, on the implementation of the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-679, inclusive, to the select committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to aging and to the office of the Governor. Such report may include recommended revisions to the general statutes or other changes that the commissioner deems necessary or advisable to enhance the implementation of the provisions of sections 20-670 to 20-679, inclusive.(P.A. 06-187, S. 62.)
CT Gen Stat § 20-681 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards|Chapter 400o - Homemaker-Companion Agencies|Section 20-681 - Covenants not to compete, homemaker, companion, home health services. Prohibition established.

 For purposes of this section “covenant not to compete” means any contract or agreement that restricts the right of an individual to provide homemaker, companion or home health services (1) in any geographic area of the state for any period of time, or (2) to a specific individual. Any covenant not to compete is against public policy and shall be void and unenforceable.(P.A. 19-117, S. 305.)History: P.A. 19-117 effective June 26, 2019.
CT Gen Stat § 21-1 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 403 - Auctioneers|Section 21-1 - Penalty for selling at auction without license.

 Each person who exposes for sale by auction any goods or articles, except provisions, charcoal, wood, the products of a farm and secondhand household furniture, in any town, city or borough of which he is not a resident, without a license therefor from a majority of the selectmen of such town or from the authorities of such city or borough authorized by the charter or ordinances of such city or borough to issue such license, shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars. This section shall not apply to any auction conducted by or contracted for the state in accordance with any court order under the provisions of section 54-36b or 54-36c.(1949 Rev., S. 4639; P.A. 75-530, S. 20, 35; P.A. 12-80, S. 14.)History: P.A. 75-530 exempted auctions conducted by or contracted for the state in accordance with court order; P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $50 or imprisonment of not more than 60 days or both with a fine of not more than $250 and made technical changes.See Sec. 21-30 re licensure of veterans without payment of fee.See Sec. 54-36d re inapplicability of this section to proceedings under chapters 214, 220 and 490.
CT Gen Stat § 21-2 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 403 - Auctioneers|Section 21-2 - Issue and revocation.

 The majority of the selectmen of each town may issue such licenses and, if the charter or ordinances of any city or borough do not authorize any person or persons to issue such licenses, the mayor of such city or the warden of such borough may issue the same; but no license shall be issued unless an application therefor in writing has been made and filed with one of the selectmen or with the authority authorized by law to issue such license, at least three days before the issue thereof. The authority issuing such license may revoke the same if, in the judgment of such authority, it is for the public interest to do so.(1949 Rev., S. 4640.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-5 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 403 - Auctioneers|Section 21-5 - Blind persons not to pay for license to sell their own work.

 No town, city or borough shall require any license fee from any blind person, resident of this state, for the privilege of selling within its limits goods, wares and merchandise, manufactured by him with his own hands.(1949 Rev., S. 4643.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-5a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 403 - Auctioneers|Section 21-5a - Auction by noncommercial educational broadcasting facilities exempt.

 The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to auctions conducted by a noncommercial educational broadcasting facility.(1972, P.A. 16, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-6 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 404 - Exhibitions|Section 21-6 - Licenses.

 The mayor, aldermen and common council of any city, the warden and burgesses of any borough and the selectmen of any town may license and regulate any exhibitions therein; but selectmen shall not license any such exhibition within the limits of any city or borough.(1949 Rev., S. 4644.)See Sec. 29-129 et seq. re licensure of amusement parks.
CT Gen Stat § 21-7 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 404 - Exhibitions|Section 21-7 - Exhibits relating to venereal diseases.

 Section 21-7 is repealed, effective October 1, 2018.(1949 Rev., S. 4645; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 18-168, S. 85.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-8 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 404 - Exhibitions|Section 21-8 - Witnesses for state not to be prosecuted.

 No person who testifies for the state in any prosecution for any unlawful exhibition or erection or construction therefor or forfeiture accruing therefrom shall thereafter be prosecuted for anything about which he has so testified.(1949 Rev., S. 4646.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-9 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 405 - Junk Dealers|Section 21-9 - Definitions.

 As used in this chapter, “junk dealer” means any person who engages in business as a dealer and trader in junk, old metals, scrap, rags, waste paper or other secondhand articles that are no longer serviceable for their original manufactured purpose, and “junk yard” means any place in or on which old metal, glass, paper, cordage or other waste or discarded or secondhand material, which has not been a part, or is not intended to be a part, of any motor vehicle, is stored or deposited.(1949 Rev., S. 4647; 1953, S. 2330d; P.A. 11-100, S. 13.)History: P.A. 11-100 redefined “junk dealer” by adding “that are no longer serviceable for their original manufactured purpose”.Cited. 171 C. 565.
CT Gen Stat § 21-10 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 405 - Junk Dealers|Section 21-10 - Town ordinances re licensing of junk dealers and regulation of junk yards.

 Any town may make reasonable ordinances with reference to the licensing of junk dealers engaged in business therein, including the imposition of a license fee in an amount to be fixed by the selectmen at a sum not less than two dollars or more than ten dollars a year, for each team or vehicle used in connection with such business, for the privilege of carrying on such business. Each such junk dealer shall make an application for a license in the town where such dealer is engaged in business. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a junk dealer or employee of such dealer from authorizing a person to enter a junk yard owned by such dealer for the purpose of salvaging or collecting parts or scraps for purchase from such dealer or employee. Except as otherwise provided by special act, and except where there exists a duly constituted local zoning or planning commission, any town, city or borough may, by ordinance, regulate the establishment, location or conduct of any junk yard within its territorial limits.(1949 Rev., S. 4648; 1953, S. 2331d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 89; P.A. 73-14, S. 1, 2; P.A. 11-213, S. 46.)History: P.A. 73-14 substituted motor vehicle department for state police department where appearing; (Revisor's note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes to “Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner” and “Motor Vehicle(s) Department” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “Commissioner of Motor Vehicles” or “Department of Motor Vehicles”, as the case may be, for consistency with customary statutory usage); P.A. 11-213 deleted provisions re registration with Department of Motor Vehicles, added provisions re making application for license in town where dealer is engaged in business and added provision re entry into junk yard by certain persons, effective July 1, 2011.Cited. 155 C. 284.
CT Gen Stat § 21-12 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 405 - Junk Dealers|Section 21-12 - Display of license.

 Each such dealer doing business in this state shall display, on each vehicle used by him in such business, the name of the person conducting such business, the number of the license under which such business is being conducted and the name of the municipality where such license was granted, which names and number shall be painted upon the outside of the body of such vehicle in letters not less than four inches in height and two inches in width.(1949 Rev., S. 4650.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-13 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 405 - Junk Dealers|Section 21-13 - Penalty.

 Any person who engages in the business of a junk dealer without complying with the provisions of this chapter relating to said business shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.(1949 Rev., S. 4651; P.A. 12-80, S. 72.)History: P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $50 or imprisonment of not more than 3 months or both with a class C misdemeanor.
CT Gen Stat § 21-14 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 405 - Junk Dealers|Section 21-14 - Exemptions.

 The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any dealer in motor vehicles, as defined in chapter 246, or any dealer in antique household furniture, china or glassware.(1949 Rev., S. 4652; 1967, P.A. 887, S. 1; P.A. 07-121, S. 1.)History: 1967 act exempted scrap metal processors; P.A. 07-121 deleted exemption for scrap metal processors and made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 21-22b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 406 - Motor Vehicle Junk Yards (See Chapter 246)|Section 21-22b - Regulations concerning storage of unregistered motor vehicles and parts.

 Section 21-22b is repealed.(1967, P.A. 854, S. 2, 4; 1969, P.A. 514, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 21-35a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 21 - Licenses|Chapter 407a - Closing-Out Sales|Section 21-35a - Definitions.

 For the purposes of this chapter, “closing-out sale” means all sales advertised, represented or held forth under the designation of “going out of business”, “selling out”, “liquidation”, “lost our lease”, “forced to vacate”, “moving to a new location”, or any other designation of like meaning; “person” means any individual, partnership, voluntary association, limited liability company or corporation; and “promoter” means a person who performs or offers to perform for a person holding a closing-out sale any service to facilitate or assist in such sale, including, but not limited to, advertising or sales.(P.A. 76-281, S. 1; P.A. 83-243, S. 1; P.A. 91-163, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 72, 189.)History: P.A. 83-243 amended section to include the designation “moving to a new location”; P.A. 91-163 added definition of “promoter”; P.A. 95-79 redefined “person” to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995.