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CT Gen Stat § 36b-70. (Formerly Sec. 36-513) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-70. (Formerly Sec. 36-513) - Banking Commissioner to administer.

 Sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, shall be administered by the commissioner.(P.A. 79-458, S. 11, 19; P.A. 97-22, S. 15.)History: Sec. 36-513 transferred to Sec. 36b-70 in 1995; P.A. 97-22 made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 36b-73. (Formerly Sec. 36-516) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-73. (Formerly Sec. 36-516) - Penalties.

 (a) Any person who wilfully violates any provision of subdivision (6) of section 36b-67 shall be fined for each violation a maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both.(b) Any person who wilfully violates any other provision of sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, shall be fined for each violation a maximum of three thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.(c) No information may be returned under sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, more than five years after the alleged violation.(P.A. 79-458, S. 14, 19; P.A. 97-22, S. 18; P.A. 13-258, S. 17.)History: Sec. 36-516 transferred to Sec. 36b-73 in 1995; P.A. 97-22 made technical changes in Subsecs. (b) and (c); P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (b) to change maximum fine from $2,000 to $3,500 and made technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 36b-75. (Formerly Sec. 36-517a) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-75. (Formerly Sec. 36-517a) - Application of certain provisions of chapter. When offer to sell or buy made in this state.

 (a) Sections 36b-62, 36b-65, 36b-67, 36b-69 and 36b-74 apply to persons who sell or offer to sell a business opportunity when an offer to sell is made or accepted in this state, or when an offer to buy is made and accepted in this state.(b) For the purposes of this section, an offer to sell or to buy is made in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state, when the offer originates from this state or is directed by the offeror to this state and received at the place to which it is directed or at any post office in this state in the case of a mailed offer.(c) For the purposes of this section, an offer to sell or to buy is accepted in this state when acceptance is communicated to the offeror in this state and has not previously been communicated to the offeror, orally or in writing, outside this state; and acceptance is communicated to the offeror in this state, whether or not either party is then present in this state, when the offeree directs it to the offeror in this state reasonably believing the offeror to be in this state and it is received at the place to which it is directed or at any post office in this state in the case of a mailed acceptance.(d) An offer to sell or to buy is not made in this state when the publisher circulates or there is circulated on his behalf in this state any bona fide newspaper or other publication of general, regular and paid circulation which is not published in this state, or which is published in this state but which has had more than two-thirds of its circulation outside this state during the past twelve months, or a radio or television program originating outside this state is received in this state.(P.A. 82-52, S. 6.)History: Sec. 36-517a transferred to Sec. 36b-75 in 1995.
CT Gen Stat § 36b-76. (Formerly Sec. 36-518) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-76. (Formerly Sec. 36-518) - Appeals.

 Any person aggrieved by a final decision of the commissioner may appeal to the superior court for the judicial district of New Britain in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183.(P.A. 79-458, S. 16, 19; P.A. 88-230, S. 1, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4–6; P.A. 99-215, S. 24, 29.)History: P.A. 88-230 replaced “judicial district of Hartford-New Britain” with “judicial district of Hartford”, effective September 1, 1991; P.A. 90-98 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1991, to September 1, 1993; P.A. 93-142 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1993, to September 1, 1996, effective June 14, 1993; Sec. 36-518 transferred to Sec. 36b-76 in 1995; P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 99-215 replaced “judicial district of Hartford” with “judicial district of New Britain”, effective June 29, 1999.
CT Gen Stat § 36b-78. (Formerly Sec. 36-520) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-78. (Formerly Sec. 36-520) - Commissioner to keep register of applications.

 (a) A document is filed when it is received by the commissioner.(b) The commissioner shall keep a register of all applications for registration which are or have ever been effective under sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, and all denial, suspension or revocation orders which have ever been entered under said sections. Such register shall be open for public inspection.(c) The information contained in or filed with any registration, application or report may be made available to the public under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200.(d) Upon request and at such charges as provided for in the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200, the commissioner shall furnish to any person photostatic or other copies, certified under his seal of office if requested, of any entry in the register or any document which is a matter of public record. In any proceeding or prosecution under sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, any copy so certified shall be prima facie evidence of the contents of the entry or document certified.(P.A. 79-458, S. 18, 19; P.A. 80-262, S. 8, 10; P.A. 97-22, S. 21; 97-47, S. 39.)History: P.A. 80-262 required that information be made public as prescribed by provisions of chapter 3 rather than “under such regulations as the commissioner prescribes” in Subsec. (c) and substituted charges provided for in chapter 3 for “reasonable” charges prescribed by commissioner in Subsec. (d); Sec. 36-520 transferred to Sec. 36b-78 in 1995; P.A. 97-22 made technical changes in Subsecs. (b) and (d); P.A. 97-47 substituted “the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-18a” for “chapter 3” in Subsecs. (c) and (d).
CT Gen Stat § 36b-79. (Formerly Sec. 36-521) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-79. (Formerly Sec. 36-521) - Renewal of registration. Amended disclosure document.

 Not later than one hundred twenty days after the end of the seller's most recent fiscal year and each year thereafter, each seller whose business opportunity has been registered under sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, shall renew the registration by submitting to the commissioner: (1) An annual renewal registration fee of one hundred dollars, which shall be nonrefundable; (2) a filing in accordance with the requirements of subsection (b) of section 36b-62, reflecting all amendments as of the date of filing; (3) a disclosure document filed in accordance with the requirements of sections 36b-62 and 36b-63, reflecting all amendments, clearly marked, since the date of the most recent disclosure document that was filed with the commissioner, or, if no such amendments have been made, an affidavit so stating; and (4) financial statements in accordance with the requirements of subsection (b) of section 36b-62. If the seller fails to submit the fee and information within the time period and in accordance with requirements of this section, the registration of such seller's business opportunity shall terminate.(P.A. 80-262, S. 9, 10; P.A. 88-150, S. 7; 88-339, S. 3; P.A. 96-73, S. 3; P.A. 97-22, S. 22; P.A. 06-75, S. 2; P.A. 09-160, S. 8; P.A. 10-32, S. 115.)History: P.A. 88-150 increased the annual renewal registration fee to $100; P.A. 88-339 amended Subsec. (2) to require the seller to file annually an application reflecting all amendments and amended Subsec. (3) to require the seller to annually file a disclosure document reflecting all amendments; Sec. 36-521 transferred to Sec. 36b-79 in 1995; P.A. 96-73 amended Subdiv. (3) to clarify requirements for disclosure statements and made technical changes; P.A. 97-22 made a technical change; P.A. 06-75 amended Subdiv. (1) to provide that annual renewal registration fee of $100 is nonrefundable; P.A. 09-160 made technical changes; P.A. 10-32 made technical changes, effective May 10, 2010.
CT Gen Stat § 36b-80 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 36b - Connecticut Securities Law and Business Opportunity Investment Act|Chapter 672c - Business Opportunity Investment Act|Section 36b-80 - False or misleading statements prohibited.

 No person shall make or cause to be made orally or in any document filed with the commissioner or in any proceeding, investigation or examination under sections 36b-60 to 36b-80, inclusive, any statement which is, at the time and in the light of the circumstances under which it is made, false or misleading in any material respect or, in connection with the statement, omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statement made, in the light of the circumstances under which it was made, not false or misleading.(P.A. 96-73, S. 4; P.A. 97-22, S. 23; P.A. 99-38, S. 9; P.A. 00-61, S. 6, 9; P.A. 09-160, S. 9.)History: P.A. 97-22 made a technical change; P.A. 99-38 added “investigation or examination”; P.A. 00-61 prohibited false or misleading oral statements, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 09-160 added provision re omission of material fact necessary to make statement made not false or misleading.
CT Gen Stat § 37-1 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-1 - Legal rate. Accrual as addition to debt.

 (a) The compensation for forbearance of property loaned at a fixed valuation, or for money, shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be at the rate of eight per cent a year; and, in computing interest, three hundred sixty days may be considered to be a year.(b) Unless otherwise provided by agreement, interest at the legal rate from the date of maturity of a debt shall accrue as an addition to the debt.(1949 Rev., S. 6776; 1971, P.A. 783, S. 1; P.A. 79-364, S. 1; P.A. 15-14, S. 8.)History: 1971 act added new Subsec. (b) providing that interest shall accrue as an addition to the debt; P.A. 79-364 changed rate of interest from 6% to 8% in Subsec. (a); P.A. 15-14 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).Allowed because of contract express or implied or as damages. 22 C. 392; 72 C. 705. Note “with fifteen per cent after maturity”; the per cent held to be interest and not damages. 42 C. 524. Effect of validating act subsequently repealed on usurious contract for interest. Id., 574; 56 C. 214. A note on which the interest is payable quarterly at the legal rate is not usurious. 44 C. 494. The law takes note of the running of interest at the legal rate where the principal is due. 56 C. 114. The taking of interest in advance on a demand note constitutes an agreement to forbear for that time. 63 C. 87. Generally, any rate agreed on is lawful. 76 C. 388. Agreed rate governs till default, then legal rate; exceptions. 78 C. 323. Effect of insolvency of bank on its liability to pay interest. 88 C. 206. Cited. 126 C. 461; 147 C. 225. An agreed interest rate will prevail over the stated rate in statute. 160 C. 534. Cited. 177 C. 149; 186 C. 612; 188 C. 316. Postmaturity interest continues to accrue at the legal rate on the unpaid balance of the loan even after entry of judgment and until outstanding balance is paid in full, unless the parties agree otherwise. 315 C. 433.Cited. 13 CA 330; 15 CA 718; 44 CA 402. Statute not applicable where there is a wrongful detention of funds and no forbearance. 109 CA 691.Cited. 10 CS 240. Statutory rate of interest does not apply unless there is an expressed or implied agreement to pay interest. 29 CS 114. Cited. 38 CS 610; 41 CS 538.
CT Gen Stat § 37-1a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-1a - Payment of interest on commercial loans in excess of ten thousand dollars.

 On any loan in excess of ten thousand dollars made to any person, corporation, partnership or association engaged in commercial, manufacturing, industrial or nonconsumer pursuits the loan agreement may provide for the interest to be either paid currently or to accrue, and, if such interest is to accrue, such accrued interest may be added to the principal of the debt on which interest may be charged and collected.(P.A. 83-225.)
CT Gen Stat § 37-2 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-2 - No recovery after payment.

 No borrower of money shall be permitted to set off or recover back, by any proceeding in court, any sum of money paid by way of interest, discount or damages, for the detention of money, in excess of the rate of six per cent a year.(1949 Rev., S. 6777.)Cited. 193 C. 304.
CT Gen Stat § 37-3 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-3 - Rate recoverable as damages.

 Section 37-3 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 6778; 1961, P.A. 116, S. 19; 1971, P.A. 574; 783, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 37-3b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-3b - Rate of interest recoverable in negligence actions.

 (a) For a cause of action arising on or after May 27, 1997, interest at the rate of ten per cent a year, and no more, shall be recovered and allowed in any action to recover damages for injury to the person, or to real or personal property, caused by negligence, computed from the date that is twenty days after the date of judgment or the date that is ninety days after the date of verdict, whichever is earlier, upon the amount of the judgment.(b) If any plaintiff in such action files a postverdict or postjudgment motion or an appeal, the recovery of interest by such plaintiff shall be tolled and interest shall not be added to the judgment for the period that such postverdict or postjudgment motion or appeal is pending before the court. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply if the reason for the filing of a postverdict or postjudgment motion or appeal by the plaintiff is to reply to or answer a motion or appeal filed by a defendant.(P.A. 81-315, S. 2; P.A. 97-58, S. 2, 5.)History: P.A. 97-58 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended said Subsec. to make the recovery of interest mandatory, rather than discretionary, for causes of action arising on or after May 27, 1997 and to provide that the interest shall be computed “from the date that is 20 days after the date of judgment or the date that is 90 days after the date of verdict, whichever is earlier, upon the amount of the judgment” rather than “from the date of judgment”, and added Subsec. (b) re the effect on the recovery of interest when the plaintiff files a postverdict or postjudgment motion or an appeal, effective May 27, 1997.Standard to determine award of interest under Sec. 37-3a is no different from the standard under version of this section in effect before 1997 amendment; interest is authorized when trial court determines, in its discretion, that considerations of fairness and equity warrant such an award; trial court misconstrued standard of Sec. 37-3a as requiring proof of wrongfulness over and above proof of the underlying legal claim, and because trial court did not exercise the discretion contemplated by said section, its decision to deny postjudgment interest under this section was improper. 310 C. 38. 2005 revision authorizes award of postjudgment interest at an annual rate of up to 10 per cent and does not restrict discretion of the trial court to choose any rate within that range or limit the trial court to a consideration of specific factors not enumerated in section; the legal duty to pay postjudgment interest arises when the trial court, in the exercise of its discretion, awards such postjudgment interest, and not beforehand, and the interest on the award of such postjudgment interest does not lawfully begin to accrue until such date. 316 C. 790.Cited. 15 CA 381; 31 CA 455; 45 CA 543.
CT Gen Stat § 37-3c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-3c - Rate of interest recoverable in condemnation cases.

 The judgment of compensation for a taking of property by eminent domain shall include interest at a rate that is reasonable and just on the amount of the compensation awarded. If a court does not set a rate of interest on the amount of compensation awarded, the interest shall be calculated as follows: (1) If the period for which interest is owed does not exceed one year, interest shall be calculated from the date of taking at an annual rate equal to the weekly average one-year constant maturity yield of United States Treasury securities, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for the calendar week preceding the date of taking; and (2) if the period for which interest is owed exceeds one year, interest for the first year shall be calculated pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (1) of this section and interest for each additional year shall be calculated on the combined amount of principal, which is the amount by which the compensation award exceeds the original condemnation deposit, plus accrued interest at an annual rate equal to the weekly average one-year constant maturity yield of United States Treasury securities, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for the calendar week preceding the beginning of each year for which interest is owed. Such judgment shall not include interest on any funds deposited by the condemnor as compensation for the taking for the period after such deposited funds become available for withdrawal by the condemnee. The interest shall accrue from the date of taking to the date of payment.(P.A. 87-260, S. 3; P.A. 95-343, S. 1, 2; P.A. 02-52, S. 1.)History: P.A. 95-343 added provisions re calculation of interest applicable if court does not set rate of interest on amount of compensation awarded, effective July 13, 1995; P.A. 02-52 changed the rate of interest from the coupon issue yield equivalent of the average accepted auction price of 52-week U.S. Treasury bills settled immediately prior to the date of taking to the weekly average one-year constant maturity yield of U.S. Treasury securities for the calendar week preceding the date of taking, effective May 9, 2002.Section unambiguously dictates that when the “judgment of compensation” does not include a rate of interest, the default rate applies. There is no authority allowing a trial court to adopt another rate of interest. 330 C. 200.Cited. 21 CA 359. Trial court's statement that final award included, “all claims for interest, costs and appraisal fees,” precluded proper application of statute by preventing landowner from claiming interest on damages awarded to him. 109 CA 16.
CT Gen Stat § 37-5 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-5 - Notes not to be accepted for greater amounts than loaned.

 No person and no firm or corporation, or agent thereof, shall, with intent to evade the provisions of section 37-4, accept a note or notes for a greater amount than that actually loaned.(1949 Rev., S. 6780.)Unlawful intent as well as acceptance must be proved. 94 C. 148; 101 C. 558; 118 C. 4. Intent to violate statute as a matter of law. 130 C. 552. Cited. 113 C. 571; 117 C. 255; 120 C. 665; 123 C. 95; 126 C. 338. Transactions between plaintiff and defendant were sales of notes and contracts and not usurious even though interest exceeded 12 per cent. 139 C. 424. Cited. 145 C. 465. Unless the difference between the actual amount of the loan and the face amount of the note are explained to show that interest does not exceed 12 per cent, the loan is per se usurious and in violation of Sec. 37-4. 151 C. 21. Where lender was a 78-year-old woman and borrower, an astute businessman, persuaded lender not to seek legal counsel and to accept his note in an usurious amount, held no intent to evade provisions of Sec. 37-4. 153 C. 400. Cited. 172 C. 395; 188 C. 477; 211 C. 613.Cited. 6 CA 691; 21 CA 131.Cited. 1 CS 160. Does not apply to any loan made by any national bank or any state bank or trust company incorporated in Connecticut. 32 CS 245.
CT Gen Stat § 37-6 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-6 - Certain expenses not to be charged to the borrower.

 No person and no firm or corporation, or agent thereof, shall charge a borrower with any expense of inquiry as to his financial responsibility or expense of negotiating a loan, or charge, at the time of making the loan, the expense of collecting the interest and principal of the loan, unless the total of such charges and of the interest agreed upon is, during any one year, twelve per cent of the loan or less.(1949 Rev., S. 6781.)Cited. 113 C. 571; 120 C. 665; 145 C. 342, 465; 172 C. 395; 211 C. 613.Cited. 6 CA 691.Cited. 1 CS 160.
CT Gen Stat § 37-7 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 37 - Interest|Chapter 673 - Interest|Section 37-7 - Penalty.

 Any person who, individually, or as a member of any firm, or as an officer of any corporation, or as an agent of any firm or corporation, violates any provision of section 37-4, 37-5 or 37-6 shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.(1949 Rev., S. 6782.)Cited. 126 C. 338; 149 C. 12.Cited. 6 CA 691; 44 CA 439; Id., 471.Cited. 8 CS 245.Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 283.