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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-81. - Unsuitable persons prohibited from having financial interest in permit businesses. Employment of minors restricted.

No person who is, by statute or regulation, declared to be an unsuitable person to hold a permit to sell alcoholic liquor shall be allowed to have a financial interest in any such permit business. Except as provided in section 30-90a, no minor shall be employed in any premises operating under a cafe permit in any capacity or in handling any alcoholic liquor upon, in delivering any alcoholic liquor to, or in carrying or conveying any alcoholic liquor from, any permit premises.
(1949 Rev., S. 4288; 1971, P.A. 137; P.A. 75-642, S. 1; P.A. 81-367, S. 7, 9; P.A. 82-68, S. 2, 11; P.A. 93-139, S. 64; P.A. 21-37, S. 74.)
History: 1971 act deleted provision which had prohibited employment of women in taverns unless they are wives or daughters of proprietors; P.A. 75-642 deleted provision which had prohibited persons declared to be unsuitable as permit holder from being employed in drawing or preparing alcoholic liquor at any bar and deleted exception re electorship requirement in Sec. 30-45(3) as condition of employment in force unless employee is an elector in another state; P.A. 81-367 changed exception for package store beer permit to exception for grocery store beer permit as of May 29, 1981; P.A. 82-68 added an exception to the prohibition against employment of minors in a tavern and eliminated the exception for establishments operating under a grocery store beer permit; P.A. 93-139 made technical changes; P.A. 21-37 changed “tavern permit” to “cafe permit”, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-82. - Sale pending renewal of permit.

No criminal information or process shall be issued against an applicant for the renewal of a permit pending the decision of the Department of Consumer Protection upon such application, or pending determination of any appeal from any such decision of the department; provided such application shall have been made and filed with the department before the expiration of his former permit within the time and in the form required by the department, and provided the application shall conform in all other respects with the restrictions contained in his former permit. The right to sell alcoholic liquor, as provided in this chapter, may be revoked by the department in the same manner as provided in section 30-55.
(1949 Rev., S. 4289; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 95-195, S. 76, 83; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
Continued operation when permitted pending appeal, is not a renewal of a permit. 167 C. 442. Cited. 176 C. 428.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-83 to 30-85. - Selectmen to give permittees lists of drinkers receiving town aid. Sales to relatives. Liquors not to be sent to certain persons or their abodes.

Sections 30-83 to 30-85, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 4290–4292; 1971, P.A. 343, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-86b. - Photographing a person whose age is in doubt, or photocopying such person's driver's license or identity card. Use of photograph or photocopy. Regulations. Affirmative defense.

(a) A permittee issued a permit pursuant to this chapter or an agent or employee of such permittee may require any person whose age is in question to have such person's photograph be taken by, and a photocopy of such person's driver's license or identity card issued in accordance with the provisions of section 1-1h, be made by, such permittee, agent or employee as a condition of selling or delivering alcoholic liquor to such person.
(b) No permittee or agent or employee of a permittee shall use a photograph taken or a photocopy made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for a purpose other than the purpose specified in said subsection (a).
(c) No permittee or agent or employee of a permittee shall sell or otherwise disseminate a photograph taken or a photocopy made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or any information derived from such photocopy, to any third party for any purpose including, but not limited to, any marketing, advertising or promotional activities, except that a permittee or an agent or employee of a permittee may release such photograph, photocopy or information pursuant to a court order.
(d) The Department of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to establish guidelines and specifications for the photographic equipment to be used and the format of the photograph to be taken by a permittee or an agent or employee of a permittee.
(e) In any prosecution of a permittee or an agent or employee of a permittee for selling or delivering alcoholic liquor to a minor in violation of subsection (b) of section 30-86, it shall be an affirmative defense that such permittee, agent or employee sold or delivered alcoholic liquor to such minor in good faith and in reasonable reliance upon the identification presented by such minor and, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, photographed the minor and made a photocopy of such identification. In support of such defense, such permittee, agent or employee may introduce evidence of such photograph and photocopy.
(P.A. 04-230, S. 1.)
History: (Revisor's note: In 2005, a reference to “Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Consumer Protection” to reflect the repeal of the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection by P.A. 04-189).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-87. - Inducing minors to procure liquor. Exceptions. Official investigation or enforcement activity.

Any person who induces any minor to procure alcoholic liquor from any person permitted to sell such alcoholic liquor shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section 30-113. The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1) the procurement of liquor by a person over age eighteen who is an employee or permit holder under section 30-90a where such procurement is made in the course of such person's employment or business, or (2) any such inducement in furtherance of an official investigation or enforcement activity conducted by a law enforcement agency. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any action from being taken under section 30-55 or section 30-86, or both, against any person permitted to sell alcoholic liquor who has sold alcoholic liquor to a minor where such minor is participating in an official investigation or enforcement activity conducted by a law enforcement agency.
(1949 Rev., S. 4294; P.A. 82-68, S. 5, 11; P.A. 98-164, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 82-68 provided that inducing minors to procure liquor prohibition is inapplicable to persons over eighteen employed or holding a permit where procurement is made in the course of such person's business; P.A. 98-164 made technical changes and added provisions re participation of a minor in an official investigation or enforcement activity.
Cited. 207 C. 88.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-88. - Identity card.

Section 30-88 is repealed.
(1957, P.A. 260, S. 1, 2, 3; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 59; P.A. 75-641, S. 23; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 81-308, S. 1, 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-88a. - Operator's license as proof of age. Misrepresentation of age to procure liquor.

Each person who attains the age of twenty-one years and has a motor vehicle operator's license, containing a full-face photograph of such person, may use, and each permittee may accept, such license as legal proof of the age of the licensee for the purposes of this chapter. Any person who, for the purpose of procuring alcoholic liquor, misrepresents his or her age or uses or exhibits an operator's license belonging to any other person shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
(P.A. 78-155; P.A. 82-68, S. 6, 11; P.A. 83-508, S. 4; 83-571, S. 2; P.A. 85-264, S. 3, 4; P.A. 93-139, S. 66; P.A. 03-171, S. 14; P.A. 04-257, S. 48.)
History: P.A. 82-68 substituted 19 for 18 years as the age at which a person with an operator's license may use his license as proof of age; P.A. 83-508 substituted 20 for 19 years as the age at which a person with an operator's license may use his license as proof of age; P.A. 83-571 increased the fine from not more than $50 to not less than $200 nor more than $500; P.A. 85-264 amended section to reflect raising of the drinking age from 20 to 21; P.A. 93-139 made technical change, deleting obsolete reference to persons attaining age of 20 on or before September 1, 1985; P.A. 03-171 deleted reference to motorcycle operator's license and made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality; P.A. 04-257 made technical changes, effective June 14, 2004.
See Sec. 1-1h re use of identity card as alternative to operator's license as proof of age.
See Sec. 14-111e re suspension of motor vehicle operator's license for misuse of operator's license to procure alcoholic liquor.
Cited. 207 C. 88.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-89a. - Permitting minor to illegally possess liquor in dwelling unit or on private property or failing to halt such illegal possession. Penalty.

(a) No person having possession of, or exercising dominion and control over, any dwelling unit or private property shall (1) knowingly or recklessly permit any minor to possess alcoholic liquor in violation of subsection (b) of section 30-89 in such dwelling unit or on such private property, or (2) knowing that any minor possesses alcoholic liquor in violation of subsection (b) of section 30-89 in such dwelling unit or on such private property, fail to make reasonable efforts to halt such possession. For the purposes of this subsection, “minor” means a person under twenty-one years of age.
(b) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(P.A. 06-112, S. 1; P.A. 12-199, S. 1; P.A. 14-144, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 111.)
History: P.A. 12-199 amended Subsec. (a) by adding “recklessly, or with criminal negligence” in Subdiv. (1) and deleting provision re knowing that minor possesses alcoholic liquor in violation of Sec. 30-89(b) in Subdiv. (2) and amended Subsec. (b) by replacing penalty of an infraction for first offense and a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment of not more than 1 year or both for subsequent offense with a class A misdemeanor; P.A. 14-144 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision re knowing that minor possesses alcoholic liquor in Subdiv. (2) and make technical changes, effective June 6, 2014; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “or with criminal negligence” in Subdiv. (1) and making a conforming change, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-90. - Loitering on permit premises. Unaccompanied minors prohibited.

Any permittee who, by himself, his servant or agent, permits any minor or any person to whom the sale or gift of alcoholic liquor has been forbidden according to law to loiter on his premises where such liquor is kept for sale, or allows any minor other than a person over age eighteen who is an employee or permit holder under section 30-90a or a minor accompanied by his parent or guardian, to be in any room where alcoholic liquor is served at any bar, shall be subject to the penalties of section 30-113. For barrooms consisting of only one room and for premises without effective separation between a barroom and a dining room, no minor may sit or stand at a consumer bar without being accompanied by a parent, guardian or spouse.
(1949 Rev., S. 4295; 1972, P.A. 177; P.A. 77-149; P.A. 82-68, S. 8, 11; P.A. 21-37, S. 75.)
History: 1972 act deleted provision forbidding permittee to allow person to loiter “to whom the sale or gift of alcoholic liquor has been forbidden according to law by the selectmen, either because of the complaint of some relative … or because such person or some member of his legal family had received town aid for support within the time specified by law”; P.A. 77-149 deleted provision forbidding permittee to allow loitering by “any female, unless she is the proprietor or an employee of the proprietor”; P.A. 82-68 added an exception to the prohibition against minors loitering on permit premises for persons over eighteen who are employees or permit holders; P.A. 21-37 added provision re prohibiting unaccompanied minors at bar in 1-room barrooms and premises without effective separation, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-90a. - Employment of minors.

Any person sixteen years of age or over may be employed by an employer holding a permit issued under this chapter, except that (1) any person fifteen years of age or older may be so employed by such an employer on premises operating under a grocery store beer permit, and (2) any person under the age of eighteen who is employed on any permit premises shall not serve or sell alcoholic liquor. An employee eighteen years of age or over who is located on the grocery store beer permit premises shall approve all sales of beer on such premises. A minor performing paid or volunteer services of an emergency nature shall be deemed to be an employee subject to the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 82-68, S. 9, 11; P.A. 88-364, S. 89, 123; P.A. 93-139, S. 67; P.A. 15-24, S. 3; P.A. 16-103, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 88-364 reduced the permitted age for persons to work on premises operating under a grocery store beer permit from over age 16 to 15 years of age or older; P.A. 93-139 deleted a provision of permits held by, and financial interests of, persons over 18 on July 1, 1982; P.A. 15-24 changed age for employment from 18 to 16 years of age or over, designated provision re person 15 years of age as Subdiv. (1) and added Subdiv. (2) re person under age of 18 employed on permit premises not to serve or sell alcoholic liquor, effective June 4, 2015; P.A. 16-103 added provision re employee age 18 or over who is located on grocery store beer permit premises to approve all sales of beer on the premises, effective June 2, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-91a. - Effect of prior local votes re Sunday sale.

(a) In all cases where a town, either by vote of a town meeting or by ordinance, had, prior to April 30, 1971, authorized the sale of alcoholic liquor on Sunday between the hours of twelve o'clock noon and nine o'clock in the evening, such sale shall be authorized until the time specified in section 30-91 unless an earlier closing hour is established by town meeting or ordinance after April 30, 1971.
(b) Nothing in section 30-91 shall be construed to supersede any action taken by a town prior to May 25, 1971, to prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquor in such town from midnight on Saturday until one a.m. on Sunday and such action shall be construed to prohibit such sale from midnight on Saturday until two a.m. on Sunday in such town.
(c) In all towns that have authorized the sale of alcoholic liquor on Sunday commencing at twelve o'clock noon, either by vote of a town meeting or by ordinance, such sale shall be permitted commencing at eleven o'clock a.m. in places operating under permits listed in subsection (a) of section 30-91, unless a later opening hour is established by vote of a town meeting or by ordinance after July 1, 1981.
(1971, P.A. 89, S. 2; 309, S. 2; P.A. 75-299, S. 1, 2; P.A. 80-483, S. 156, 186; P.A. 81-169, S. 2, 3; P.A. 82-38, S. 1, 2; P.A. 93-139, S. 69; P.A. 21-37, S. 77.)
History: P.A. 75-299 added Subsec. (c) re Sunday liquor sales; P.A. 80-483 substituted “the time specified in section 30-91” for references to eleven o'clock p.m. closing times for sales in Subsecs. (a) and (c); P.A. 81-169 added Subsec. (d) to permit sale of alcoholic liquor to commence at eleven in the morning instead of noon on Sunday in hotels, restaurants, clubs and golf country clubs unless town action restores the later commencing time; P.A. 82-38 specified that eleven o'clock commencement of sales on Sunday applies to places operating under cafe permits in Subsec. (d); P.A. 93-139 made technical changes and added a provision allowing additional types of permit premises to commence sales at eleven o'clock a.m. on a Sunday, where previously such sales were allowed only under hotel, restaurant, cafe, club or golf country club permits; P.A. 21-37 deleted former Subsec. (c) re operating under a tavern permit and redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-92. - Capacity of beer containers.

Section 30-92 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 4321; 1957, P.A. 333, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 231; 1967, P.A. 298; 299; P.A. 78-85.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-92a. - Bottle size, conversion to metric system.

(a) Any person holding a manufacturer permit, a wholesaler permit or an out-of-state shippers permit under this chapter, shall convert his bottle size to the metric system of weights and measures on or before January 1, 1979, for wine. Any such person may convert his bottle size to such metric system for wine prior to such date or for spirits and alcohol at any time, provided he files notice of such conversion with the Department of Consumer Protection thirty days prior to such conversion. No bottle size converted to such metric system shall be reconverted to the United States customary system of weights and measures.
(b) Repealed by P.A. 03-235, S. 5, effective June 26, 2003.
(P.A. 75-259, S. 7, 8; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 84-126; P.A. 95-195, S. 78, 83; P.A. 03-235, S. 5; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 84-126 added Subsec. (b), prohibiting the sale of alcoholic liquor, other than wine, in containers of 100 milliliters; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 03-235 repealed Subsec. (b) which had prohibited sale of alcoholic liquor other than wine in 100-milliliter containers or bottles, effective June 26, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-92b. - Beer packaging.

(a) A permittee issued a permit pursuant to section 30-20 who sells beer not to be consumed on the permit premises may sell bottles or cans of beer only (1) in the original package material in which the bottles or cans of beer were received, (2) as individual bottles or cans, or (3) if repackaged in a manner that is not misleading to a consumer or that does not result in omitting or obscuring any labeling required by statute or regulation.
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall prevent a holder of a permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this title from making a claim for the replacement of beer delivered in a damaged condition to the holder of such permit by a wholesaler.
(P.A. 01-14.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-93. - Containers to be sealed.

Alcoholic liquors, except beer, cider, wine and cordials shall be purchased by the holders thereof in sealed bottles or containers and poured for sale and consumption from the original bottles or containers. No such bottle or container shall be refilled in whole or in part.
(1949 Rev., S. 4322; February, 1965, P.A. 553, S. 13; P.A. 73-563, S. 2; P.A. 75-259, S. 6, 8; P.A. 82-332, S. 9, 13; P.A. 93-89.)
History: 1965 act added reference to golf country club permits; P.A. 73-563 added special provision re required size of containers for alcoholic liquors purchased under hotel permit, previously containers were to conform to requirements for restaurant, club and golf country club permits; P.A. 75-259 added references to containers sized by liters and milliliters; P.A. 82-332 eliminated minimum container sizes; P.A. 93-89 expanded the prohibition against refilling bottles or containers to all permittees, deleting prior exemption for restaurant, hotel, club and golf country club permittees.
Statute does not give right to sell whiskey to be consumed off the premises so long as seals are broken. 130 C. 377. Cited. 158 C. 362.
Cited. 13 CS 273.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-93a. - Regulation of shipments into state.

Any person who ships into this state any package or carton containing alcoholic liquor shall, for each offense, be subject to any penalty set forth in section 30-55, unless (1) the contents of such package or carton are clearly marked on the outside of such package or carton, and (2) such person conditions delivery of such alcoholic liquor upon the signature of an individual who is (A) at least twenty-one years of age, or (B) legally authorized to receive such alcoholic liquor under the provisions of this chapter.
(P.A. 99-237, S. 2; P.A. 21-37, S. 95.)
History: P.A. 21-37 replaced provision re fine of not more than $1,000 with reference to any penalty in Sec. 30-55, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-94. - Gifts, loans and discounts prohibited between permittees. Tie-in sales. Floor stock allowance. Depletion allowance.

(a) No permittee or group of permittees licensed under the provisions of this chapter, in any transaction with another permittee or group of permittees, shall directly or indirectly offer, furnish or receive any free goods, gratuities, gifts, prizes, coupons, premiums, combination items, quantity prices, cash returns, loans, discounts, guarantees, special prices or other inducements in connection with the sale of alcoholic beverages or liquors. No such permittee shall require any purchaser to accept additional alcoholic liquors in order to make a purchase of any other alcoholic liquor.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section and subsection (b) of section 30-63, a holder of a manufacturer permit issued under subsection (a) of section 30-16 or an out-of-state shipper's permit for alcoholic liquor other than beer issued under section 30-18 may offer and provide to a holder of a wholesaler permit issued under subsection (a) of section 30-17 a floor stock allowance or a depletion allowance, or both, with the prior approval of the department or upon written notice to the department in advance. Such allowances shall be offered and provided on a nondiscriminatory basis to all such wholesaler permittees authorized to distribute the products of any such manufacturer or out-of-state shipper permittee in accordance with such requirements as the department may prescribe by regulation adopted under chapter 54, provided (1) no such manufacturer or out-of-state shipper permittee may require any such wholesaler permittee to participate in any program providing such allowances, and (2) the rate or percentage used to calculate any such allowance may not vary based on the quantity of alcoholic liquor other than beer that is sold. As used in this subsection, “floor stock allowance” means any rebate, discount or other inducement that is given to a wholesaler permittee to be used for the sales promotion or the destruction of any alcoholic liquor other than beer that is stored in the wholesaler permittee's warehouse or other storage facilities at the time such rebate, discount or other inducement is given, and “depletion allowance” means any rebate, discount or other inducement used for the sales promotion of any alcoholic liquor other than beer that is given to a wholesaler permittee based on the amount of such alcoholic liquor subject to such promotion that is sold at wholesale by the wholesaler permittee.
(1955, S. 2181d; P.A. 98-4; P.A. 17-90, S 1.)
History: P.A. 98-4 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and made technical changes, and added new Subsec. (b) re floor stock allowances and depletion allowances; P.A. 17-90 amended Subsec. (b) to add “or upon written notice to the department in advance”, effective June 9, 2017.
Cited. 194 C. 165; 213 C. 184; 239 C. 599.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-95. - Advertising and bottling.

No electric or neon sign advertising the sale of any registered brand of alcoholic liquor shall be attached to the outside of any permit premises and there shall be no advertising, labeling, bottling or canning of alcoholic liquor which, in any way, deceives or tends to deceive a purchaser or consumer of such alcoholic liquor as to the nature, quality or quantity of such liquor, and all advertising, labeling, bottling or canning of alcoholic liquors shall be subject to such regulations as the Department of Consumer Protection prescribes, provided nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the mailing of magazines imprinted with an identification or a designation of a package store, which magazines contain therein recipes, articles and advertisements of quality foods, cookery items and potables irrespective of whether or not the recipients thereof reside in no-permit towns.
(1949 Rev., S. 4320; 1961, P.A. 242; P.A. 75-252, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 95-195, S. 79, 83; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1961 act added proviso allowing mailing of magazines imprinted with package store identification or designation; P.A. 75-252 prohibited signs advertising sale of “any registered brand of alcoholic liquor” rather than signs advertising the sale of “alcoholic liquor”; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
Regulation restricting display of manufacturer's brand or trademark within scope of powers. 126 C. 451. It was the duty of commission to withhold approval of deceptive labels; whether or not labels were deceptive is a question of fact. 133 C. 349. Cited. 226 C. 418.
Constitutionality of provision prohibiting the use of electric signs. 5 CS 418. Commission refused to register brand “Private Stock Whiskey”. 14 CS 51.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-95a. - Display of trademarks by permittees.

Any retail liquor permittee may display on the outside walls of his permit premises a trademark of any manufacturer or wholesaler of alcoholic beverages if such trademark has specific reference only to some product other than such alcoholic beverage.
(February, 1965, P.A. 427.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-97. - Town and probate records not to be kept where liquor is sold.

Section 30-97 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1949 Rev., S. 4298; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-98. - Liquor not to be furnished to prisoners.

Every jailer, prisonkeeper or other officer who furnishes, or suffers to be furnished, to any prisoner under his charge any alcoholic liquor, except as medicine, and any person who delivers to any such prisoner any alcoholic liquor without authority from such keeper, shall be subject to the penalties of section 30-113.
(1949 Rev., S. 4299.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-99. - Denatured alcohol or adulterated liquor. Penalty.

Any person who transports, manufactures, possesses, sells, keeps for sale or distills for beverage purposes any denatured alcohol or any alcoholic liquor, which is adulterated with any deleterious or poisonous substance, shall be fined not more than three thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 4300; P.A. 13-258, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 13-258 changed maximum fine from $1,000 to $3,500 and added “, or both”.
Evidence of more than one sale to show intent. 24 C. 204. Section constitutional. 25 C. 195; Id., 290. Defendant need not know of adulteration; statute construed; evidence admissible. 37 C. 421; 96 C. 105.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-100. - Bottle clubs.

(a) A person, partnership, organization, association, society or corporation, not licensed under the provisions of this chapter, shall not, except during the hours when the sale of alcoholic liquor is lawful under the provisions of subsection (a) of section 30-91, own, maintain, lease or otherwise furnish to its members, their guests or other persons any premises, building, apartment or place wherein such members, guests or other persons may engage in the drinking of alcoholic liquor for a fee or other consideration. A fee or other consideration includes the sale of food, mixers, ice or other fluids used with alcoholic drinks, or the storage of alcoholic liquor.
(b) A violation of any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be punishable as provided in section 30-113.
(c) Any town may provide by ordinance that the provisions of this section shall not be effective in the town.
(1953, S. 2174d, 2175d; P.A. 93-139, S. 70; P.A. 99-194, S. 26.)
History: P.A. 93-139 made technical changes and deleted former Subsec. (b) prohibiting sale or dispensing of liquor without a permit by clubs, associations, fraternal organizations, etc., relettering former Subsecs. (c) and (d) accordingly; P.A. 99-194 made a technical change.
Regulation is constitutionally valid exercise of police power, both as to its purpose in regulating business which could be dangerous to public health, safety and morals and in the reasonable provisions adopted to accomplish the purpose; putting the risk of knowing the facts on defendant is permissible. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 565.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-101. - Pharmacist, breaking law, forfeits permit and license.

Every pharmacist who, by himself, his agent or employee, sells alcoholic liquor to be drunk on the premises shall, upon conviction, forfeit both his druggist's permit for the sale of such liquor and his pharmacist's license, and be subject to the penalties of section 30-113.
(1949 Rev., S. 4301.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-103. - Contracts and actions based on illegal sales.

All contracts, conveyances, liens, attachments and securities, any part of the consideration of which has been the illegal sale of alcoholic liquor, shall be void; and no action of any kind shall be maintained for the price of any such liquor sold in any other state or country contrary to its laws, or sold anywhere with intent to enable any person to violate any law of this state relating to the sale of such liquor, nor shall any action be maintained for the recovery of the possession of any such liquors held by the owner or possessor thereof contrary to law, or for damages for the seizure of the same; but the provisions of this section shall not affect the holder of any property or chose in action, who may have taken the same in good faith and without notice of any defect in the inception or transfer of its title.
(1949 Rev., S. 4314.)
If inducements to purchase were given in contravention of regulation, the sales were rendered void. 128 C. 436.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-105. - Prosecutions.

The state's attorneys and the assistant or deputy assistant state's attorneys shall have the right to bring and prosecute all violations of the laws relating to the sale of alcoholic liquor.
(1949 Rev., S. 4309; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 66; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 34; P.A. 74-183, S. 266, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 229, 681.)
History: 1959 act removed references to prosecuting officers of municipal courts and prosecuting grand jurors and added circuit court; 1963 act deleted reference to prosecution power of court of common pleas; P.A. 74-183 replaced circuit court with court of common pleas; P.A. 76-436 replaced reference to the state's attorney and prosecuting attorneys of court of common pleas with reference to state's attorneys and assistant or deputy assistant state's attorneys, effective July 1, 1978.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-107. - Arrest and seizure without warrant. Disposition of illegal liquor.

Any official so authorized in section 54-1f may, without a warrant, arrest any person whom he finds in the act of illegally manufacturing or selling alcoholic liquor, and seize the liquor, vessels and implements of manufacture or sale in the possession of such person and detain them in some place of safekeeping. Any property seized pursuant to this section may be adjudged a nuisance by the judge or court having jurisdiction of such arrested person and ordered destroyed or otherwise disposed of in the manner provided in section 54-33g.
(1949 Rev., S. 4313; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 169; 1971, P.A. 130.)
History: 1959 act substituted circuit court judge for trial justice; 1971 act replaced list of specific officials having arrest powers with reference to officials “so authorized in section 6-49”, deleted detailed provisions setting forth procedure to be followed in obtaining warrant following arrest made without warrant and authorized judge or court to declare seized property a nuisance and to order its destruction or disposition.
Articles not excluded as evidence because seized in violation of prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. 120 C. 573.
Cited. 24 CS 32.
Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 127.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-108. - Court may order analysis of liquor.

When any prosecution is pending for manufacturing, selling or keeping with intent to sell any alcoholic liquor, and a sample of such liquor is presented in court, the court may order such sample to be conveyed to a state chemist for analysis and may adjourn the trial of such prosecution a reasonable time for such analysis.
(1949 Rev., S. 4315.)
Analysis of alcoholic content by state's chemist entitled to full credit though liquors are destroyed before accused can procure an analysis. 103 C. 145. Analysis by state chemist not exclusive method of proof. 119 C. 439. Not applicable to hearing before Liquor Control Commission concerning after hour sales. 160 C. 1.
Cited. 23 CS 281.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-109. - State chemist to analyze samples. Copies of analysis to be evidence.

Each state chemist shall analyze all samples of alcoholic liquor presented to him for that purpose by any legal officer and keep a record of all such samples, stating the kind of liquor, the name and address of the person from whom he received it and the result of his analysis. Copies of records of any analysis of liquors, made by a state chemist or a United States government chemist and certified by him, shall be legal evidence of the facts stated in such records.
(1949 Rev., S. 4316.)
Not applicable to hearing before Liquor Control Commission concerning after hour sales. 160 C. 1.
Cited. 23 CS 475.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-110. - Tampering with analysis.

No person shall tamper with samples of alcoholic liquor mentioned in sections 30-108 and 30-109 or alter the statements made upon the forms or certificates of the state chemist.
(1949 Rev., S. 4317.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-111. - Reports of convictions, fines and forfeited bonds.

The clerks of the Superior Court shall report in writing the first Monday of every month to the Department of Consumer Protection the names and residences of all persons who have been convicted, paid a fine or penalty or forfeited their bonds, as provided in this chapter; and shall, at the same time, file with the department a certified copy of the record of each such conviction.
(1949 Rev., S. 4318; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 170; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 35; P.A. 75-567, S. 27, 80; P.A. 77-452, S. 60, 72; 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 95-195, S. 81, 83; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act deleted references to trial justices and municipal court clerks and added circuit court clerks; 1963 act deleted reference to clerks of common pleas courts; P.A. 75-567 replaced clerks of circuit courts with clerks of common pleas courts; P.A. 77-452 deleted reference to clerks of common pleas courts; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-112. - Civil action barred on certain debts.

No civil action shall be maintained upon any debt incurred for the sale of alcoholic liquor, except upon any debt incurred in the purchase of alcoholic liquor for off-premise consumption or for on-premise consumption together with an order of food, or unless the purchaser at the time of purchase was a permittee purchasing for resale.
(1949 Rev., S. 4323; 1961, P.A. 563; February, 1965, P.A. 233.)
History: 1961 act added exception for debt in purchase of liquor for off-premise consumption; 1965 act added exception for on-premise consumption with an order of food.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-113. - Penalties.

Any person convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter for which a specified penalty is not imposed, shall, for each offense, be subject to any penalty set forth in section 30-55.
(1949 Rev., S. 4305; P.A. 81-294, S. 18, 22; P.A. 21-37, S. 96.)
History: P.A. 81-294 made no substantive change; P.A. 21-37 replaced provision re fine of not more than $1,000 and imprisonment of not more than 1 year or both with reference to any penalty in Sec. 30-55, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-114. - Beer keg identification and receipt requirements. Restrictions on keg deposit refunds. Grounds for permit revocation or suspension.

(a) As used in this section, “keg” means any brewery-sealed individual container of beer having a liquid capacity of six gallons or more.
(b) Any holder of a package store permit or a grocery store beer permit under section 30-20 that sells kegs for consumption off the permit premises shall, at the time of sale, (1) place an identification tag on all kegs sold by the permittee, (2) require each purchaser of any such keg to sign a receipt for the keg, and (3) inform such purchaser that any deposit paid by the purchaser for the keg, if required, shall be forfeited if the keg is returned without the original identification tag intact and readable.
(c) (1) The identification tag required under subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section shall be in the form of a numbered label, prescribed and furnished by the department, that clearly identifies the seller of the keg. Such tags shall be fabricated and made attachable in such a manner as to make the tag easily removable by a beer manufacturer for the purpose of cleaning and reusing the keg.
(2) The receipt required under subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this section shall be on a form prescribed and furnished by the department and shall include the name, address and signature of the purchaser of the keg and the purchaser's motor vehicle operator's license number or such other identifying information as the department may prescribe by regulation under section 30-6a. The permittee shall retain a copy of all such receipts on the permit premises for a period of six months. Such receipts shall be available for inspection and copying by the department or any authorized criminal justice agency.
(3) The information required under subdivision (3) of subsection (b) of this section may be given verbally to each purchaser of a keg or may be provided by means of a sign conspicuously posted at the point of sale in such form and containing such disclosures as the department may require by regulation under section 30-6a.
(4) The department may charge a reasonable fee for furnishing the forms required by subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection, not to exceed the actual cost of furnishing such forms.
(d) No holder of a package store permit or a grocery store beer permit under section 30-20 may refund any deposit upon the return of any keg that (1) does not have an identification tag required under subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section or (2) has an identification tag that has been defaced to the extent that the information contained on the tag cannot be read.
(e) The violation by any holder of a package store permit or a grocery store beer permit under section 30-20 of any provision of this section shall be cause for revocation or suspension of such permit under section 30-55.
(P.A. 98-236, S. 1, 6.)
History: P.A. 98-236 effective January 1, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-115. - Possession of beer keg lacking required identification. False information on beer keg receipt. Penalties.

(a) Any person who possesses any keg containing beer that is required to have an identification tag pursuant to section 30-114, knowing that such keg does not have such required identification tag, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor. This subsection shall not apply to any manufacturer, shipper, wholesaler or retail seller of beer, or to any person who finds a discarded keg containing beer on such person's property.
(b) Any person who purchases any keg containing beer and who knowingly provides false information on any receipt required by section 30-114 at the time of such purchase shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
(P.A. 98-236, S. 2, 6.)
History: P.A. 98-236 effective January 1, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-116. - Sale, purchase or possession of alcohol vaporization device prohibited. Penalty.

(a) For purposes of this section, “alcohol vaporization device” means a device, machine or process which mixes spirits, alcoholic liquors or any product containing alcoholic liquor with oxygen or any other gas to produce a vaporized product for consumption by humans by inhalation.
(b) No person shall sell, purchase or possess an alcohol vaporization device. No person shall permit such a device on premises licensed for the sale of alcoholic liquor.
(c) Any person who violates subsection (b) of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(P.A. 06-95, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors › Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act › Section 30-117. - Purchase, possession or sale of powdered alcohol prohibited. Penalty.

(a) As used in this section, “powdered alcohol” means molecularly encapsulated alcohol in powdered form that may be used in such form or reconstituted as an alcoholic beverage when mixed with water or other liquid.
(b) No person shall knowingly purchase, possess or sell powdered alcohol.
(c) Any person who knowingly purchases or possesses powdered alcohol in violation of subsection (b) of this section shall be fined one hundred dollars for the first offense, two hundred fifty dollars for the second offense and five hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
(d) Any person who knowingly sells powdered alcohol in violation of subsection (b) of this section shall be fined two hundred fifty dollars for the first offense, five hundred dollars for the second offense and one thousand dollars for each subsequent offense.
(P.A. 15-24, S. 1.)