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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-309 to 53-311. - Abandonment. Combination to increase price of necessities. Issuing currency; bills of credit.

Sections 53-309 to 53-311, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8591, 8611, 8612; 1949, S. 3296d; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214; 1971, P.A. 608, S. 22.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-311a. - Distribution of unsolicited credit cards, charge plates.

(a) No person, company, partnership or corporation shall engage in the practice of mailing or the distribution in any form of any credit card, charge plate or any like instrument or device to any other person, firm or corporation unless such other person, firm or corporation has previously made a request therefor in writing or verbally.
(b) Any person, company, partnership or corporation which violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each card, plate, instrument or device so mailed or distributed.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the renewal of any credit card, charge plate or like instrument or device unless the recipient has previously indicated in writing his intention that such renewal not be effected nor shall it apply to the replacement of any such instrument or device by the issuer thereof during the period such instrument or device is in effect.
(1969, P.A. 136, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-313. - “Bucket shop”; definition.

A bucket shop, within the meaning of this section and section 53-314, is defined to be an office, store or other place wherein the proprietor or keeper thereof, either in his or its own behalf, or as the agent or correspondent of any other person, corporation, association or copartnership within or without the state, conducts the business of making or offering to make contracts, agreements, trades or transactions respecting the purchase or sale or purchase and sale of any stocks, grain, provisions or other commodity or personal property, wherein both parties thereto, or such proprietor or keeper, contemplates or intends that such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall be or may be closed, adjusted or settled according to, or upon the basis of, the public market quotations of prices made on any board of trade or exchange upon which the commodities or securities referred to in such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions are dealt in, and without a bona fide transaction on such board of trade or exchange; or wherein both parties, or such keeper or proprietor, contemplate or intend that such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions shall be, or may be deemed, closed or terminated when the public market quotations of prices made on such board of trade or exchange for the articles or securities named in such contracts, agreements, trades or transactions reach a certain figure; also, any office, store or other place in which the keeper or proprietor thereof, either in his or its own behalf, or as an agent as aforesaid, makes or offers to make, whether such offer is accepted or not, contracts, trades or transactions with others for the purchase or sale of any such commodity, wherein the parties thereto do not contemplate the actual or bona fide receipt or delivery of such property, but contemplate a settlement thereof based upon differences in the price at which such property is claimed to be bought and sold.
(1949 Rev., S. 8614.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-314. - Keeping bucket shop.

No corporation, association, copartnership or person shall keep or cause to be kept any bucket shop; and any person or corporation, whether acting individually, or as a member of, or an officer, agent or employee of, any corporation, association or copartnership, who or which keeps or assists in the keeping of any bucket shop shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred and not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in a community correctional center until such fine is paid, provided such imprisonment shall not continue for more than one year; and any person or persons who are found guilty of a second offense under this section and sections 53-315 and 53-316 shall, in addition to the penalty hereinbefore prescribed, be imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year, and any corporation convicted of such second offense shall be liable to forfeiture of its charter. The continuance of any such establishment after a first conviction shall be deemed a second offense.
(1949 Rev., S. 8615; 1969, P.A. 297.)
History: 1969 act substituted “community correctional center” for “jail”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-315. - Keeping bucket shop; accessory.

Any corporation, association, copartnership or person who communicates, receives, exhibits or displays, in any manner, any statements of quotations of the prices of any property mentioned in section 53-313, with a view to any transactions prohibited in section 53-314, shall be deemed an accessory, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined and punished the same as the principal, and as provided in section 53-314.
(1949 Rev., S. 8616.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-316. - Information to be furnished to customers.

Each commission merchant, copartnership, association, corporation, person or broker engaged in the business of buying or selling or buying and selling stocks, grain, provisions or other commodities or personal property for any person, principal, customer or purchaser shall furnish, upon demand, to any customer or principal for whom such commission merchant, broker, copartnership, corporation, association or person has executed any order for the actual purchase or sale of the commodities hereinbefore mentioned, either for immediate or future delivery, a written statement containing the names of the parties from whom such property was bought or to whom it was sold, as the case may be, the time when, the place where and the price at which the same was either bought or sold; and the refusal of any such commission merchant, broker, copartnership, corporation or association to promptly furnish such statement, upon reasonable demand, shall be prima facie evidence that such property was sold or bought in violation of the provisions of section 53-314.
(1949 Rev., S. 8617.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-319. - Sale or shipment of diseased flesh.

(a) Carcasses of young calves, pigs, kids and lambs are unfit for human consumption and shall be condemned if (1) the meat has the appearance of being water-soaked, is loose, flabby, tears easily and can be perforated with the fingers; or (2) its color is grayish red; or (3) good muscular development as a whole is lacking, which condition is especially noticeable on the upper shank of the leg, where small amounts of serous infiltrates or small edematous patches are sometimes present between the muscles; or (4) the tissue which later develops as the fat capsule of the kidneys is edematous, dirty yellow or grayish red, tough and intermixed with islands of fat.
(b) The possession of any such flesh dressed in a manner suitable for sale or use shall be deemed prima facie evidence of an intent to sell and a violation of the provisions of this section. All unborn and stillborn animals shall be condemned, and no hide or skin thereof shall be removed from the carcass within a room in which edible products are handled. Any person, firm or corporation which violates or causes to be violated any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.
(1949 Rev., S. 8620.)
Meaning of “wilfully” under former statute. 76 C. 94.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-320. - Distribution of noxious seeds or poisons.

No person shall spread, distribute, sow, have in his possession or deliver to another, with malicious intent, any seeds of foul or noxious plants, or spread or distribute poisons upon the land or trees of another except for the purpose of spraying such trees. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 8621; P.A. 13-258, S. 115.)
History: P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-322. - Sale of clams by the barrel or bushel.

Any person who sells clams usually known as quahogs, cherry stones or little necks by the barrel or bushel, unless such barrel contains not less than two hundred forty pounds or such bushel contains not less than eighty pounds net delivered, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 8629; 1957, P.A. 342.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-324. - Articles purporting to be made of gold to be marked.

Any article represented to be of gold, which is made for sale or offered for sale, or held in possession with intent to sell, by any dealer, shall bear upon it, plainly stamped, the figures indicating the exact number of twenty-fourth parts of pure gold or proportion of gold that such article contains. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8623.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-325. - Articles made of gold or alloy; false representations.

Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of gold or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereon, or on any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing enclosing or encasing such article or articles for sale, any stamp, brand, engraving, printed label, trademark, imprint or other mark, indicating or designed or intended to indicate that the gold, alloy or imitation thereof in such article or articles is different from or better than the actual kind and quality of such gold, alloy or imitation thereof, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8624.)
Statute does not apply to sales in another state. 80 C. 510; 81 C. 114.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-326. - Sterling silver defined. Penalty.

Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of silver, or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereon, or on any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing enclosing or encasing such article for sale, any stamp, brand, engraving, printed label, trademark, imprint or other mark, containing the word “sterling” or the words “sterling silver”, referring or designed or intended to refer to the silver or alloy or imitation thereof, which contains less than nine hundred and twenty-five one-thousandths thereof of pure silver, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8625.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-327. - Coin silver defined. Penalty.

Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of silver, or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereon, or on any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing enclosing or encasing such article for sale, any stamp, brand, engraving, printed label, trademark, imprint or other mark containing the word “coin” or the words “coin silver”, referring or designed or intended to refer to the silver or alloy or imitation thereof in such article, when such silver, alloy or imitation contains less than nine-tenths thereof of pure silver, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8626.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-328. - Manufacture and sale of gold and silver articles.

Any manufacturer of or dealer in articles constructed in part of gold or silver or any alloy or imitation thereof, upon payment of a fee of ten dollars, may file in the office of the Secretary of the State a bond executed by himself as principal, with sufficient surety, which bond shall be approved by the secretary, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned that such manufacturer or dealer shall not violate any of the provisions of sections 53-324 to 53-327, inclusive. If it appears to the court before whom any person is prosecuted for the violation of any of the provisions of said sections that the article of merchandise concerning which the charge is brought was not made or altered in any way by the defendant and that it was acquired by him in good faith as an article of the standard of purity prescribed in said sections and without knowledge or information on his part to the contrary, such prosecution shall be dismissed and the defendant discharged, provided the person from whom the defendant acquired the article is within the jurisdiction of the court or has filed the bond provided for in this section and such bond was in full force and effect at the time of the sale by such defendant and at the time of the dismissal of such prosecution and provided such defendant shall furnish to such court an affidavit stating the name, residence and place of business of the person from whom such article was acquired by the defendant and the date and circumstances of its acquisition. Upon satisfactory proof by affidavit to the Attorney General of a violation, by any person giving bond as provided in this section, of the terms of such bond, the Attorney General shall declare the bond forfeited and forthwith proceed on behalf of the state to collect as damages the whole of the sum specified therein from the parties thereto. If, however, the violation of said sections by the principal in such bond occurred within the limits of this state, and such principal, at any time before the recovery of judgment upon such forfeiture, appears before any court having jurisdiction so that a criminal prosecution for the violation of any of the provisions of said sections may be commenced against him, such proceedings for the forfeiture and collection of such bond shall be discontinued. The court before which such action for the forfeiture and collection of such bond is pending shall have power in its discretion to chancer such bond.
(1949 Rev., S. 8627; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 192.)
History: 1959 act deleted reference to jurisdiction of magistrates.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-329. - Products of prison labor. Proceeds from sales credited to industrial fund.

No person, firm or corporation shall possess, use, distribute, exchange, sell or offer for sale in this state any goods, wares or merchandise manufactured, produced or mined wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners of this or any other state, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation; provided nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of such goods to the state or any political subdivision thereof, or to any public institution owned and managed or controlled by the state or by any political subdivision thereof, when such goods are to be used or possessed solely by the state, such political subdivision thereof or such institution, or to any person, firm or corporation which may purchase such goods for its use or consumption but not for resale, when such purchase has been approved by the Commissioner of Administrative Services or to forbid sales under the provisions of section 18-46a. Nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of products or by-products of farming operations conducted for the dual purpose of keeping convicts or prisoners employed and of producing food for use in state institutions, such by-products to include but not to be limited to bulls or bull calves or parts of carcasses thereof resulting from operations conducted to produce milk and cockerel chicks resulting from the incubation of eggs in egg-production activities. The proceeds from all sales resulting from such activities shall be paid to the Treasurer and credited to the industrial fund for the institutions of the Department of Correction created pursuant to section 18-88. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
(1949 Rev., S. 8628; 1953, S. 3303d; 1963, P.A. 239, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 70, 610; P.A. 84-236, S. 3; P.A. 85-150, S. 1, 2; 85-613, S. 78, 154; P.A. 12-80, S. 186.)
History: 1963 act added reference to sales under Sec. 18-46b; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of finance and control with commissioner of administrative services; P.A. 84-236 added provision requiring proceeds of sales to be paid to treasurer and credited to industrial fund for institutions of department of corrections created pursuant to Sec. 18-88; P.A. 85-150 added provision re sale of “products” of farming operations; P.A. 85-613 made technical change; P.A. 12-80 changed penalty from a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days or both to a class C misdemeanor.
See Sec. 18-88 re industrial activities in correctional institutions.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-330. - Admission to public performances.

As used in this section, “places of public entertainment and amusement” means legitimate theaters, burlesque theaters, music halls, opera houses, concert halls, circuses and motion picture theaters. No person, agency, bureau, corporation or association, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public entertainment and amusement shall refuse to admit to any public performance held at such place any person over the age of eighteen years who presents a ticket of admission to the performance or shall eject or demand the departure of any such person from such place during the course of the performance, whether or not an offer is made to refund the purchase price or value of the ticket of admission presented by such person; but no provision of this section shall be construed to prevent the refusal of admission to or the ejectment of any person whose conduct or speech in such place is abusive or offensive or any person engaged in any activity which may tend to a breach of the peace.
(1953, S. 3317d; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 77.)
History: 1972 act amended section to reflect lowering of age of majority from 21 to 18.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-330a. - Access to public transportation and places of public accommodation for volunteer canine search and rescue teams.

(a) Any individual who is an active member of a volunteer canine search and rescue team, as defined in section 5-249, may travel on a train or on any other mode of public transportation, and may enter or visit any other place of public accommodation which caters or offers its services or facilities or goods to the general public, including, but not limited to, any public building, inn, restaurant, hotel, motel, tourist cabin, place of amusement, resort or any facility of any such public accommodation, accompanied by the dog in such team, and such individual may keep such dog with him or her at all times in any such public accommodation or facility thereof at no extra charge, provided such team is engaged in a search or rescue operation and such dog shall be in the direct custody of such individual and shall wear a harness or red or orange-colored identification. No such individual shall be charged any fee not applicable alike to all guests, provided the owner of such dog shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such dog.
(b) Any person who denies the rights afforded to active individual members of a volunteer canine search and rescue team under subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor, provided such individual member complies with the applicable provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
(P.A. 04-241, S. 5.)
See Sec. 46a-44 for like provisions re guide and assistance dogs.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-331. - Use of arsenic in embalming.

Any person who injects into the body of any deceased person, for the purpose of embalming the same, any fluid or substance containing arsenic in any form shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 8632.)
See Sec. 20-216 re cases where medical examiner's permission is required prior to embalming.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-332. - Burials; proximity to dwelling.

Section 53-332 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012.
(1949 Rev., S. 8633; 1963, P.A. 328; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 10-32, S. 150; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-334. - Unlawful disinterment.

Any person who opens the grave or tomb where any corpse has been deposited, or removes any corpse from its place of sepulture, without the consent of the husband or wife or the near relatives of the deceased, or receives, conceals or secretes any corpse so removed, or assists in any surgical or anatomical experiments or demonstrations therewith or dissection thereof, knowing it to have been so removed, except as provided in section 19a-413, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 8635; 1969, P.A. 699, S. 30; P.A. 13-258, S. 116.)
History: 1969 act added exception re Sec. 19-537; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $2,000 and imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
See Sec. 54-50 re reward for information regarding unlawful disinterment of corpse.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-335 to 53-340. - Malicious injury to property in cemeteries. Tramps. Wilful injury by tramps; carrying firearms. Officer may arrest without warrant. Exceptions. Vagrants and common drunkards.

Sections 53-335 to 53-340, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8636, 8640–8644; 1955, S. 3304d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 137; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-340a. - Solicitation of clients, patients or customers for persons or entities providing legal or health care services.

(a) For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Provider” means an attorney, a health care professional, as defined in section 19a-12a, a person who owns or operates a business or entity that provides legal or health care services, a person who, by such person's representations, creates a reasonable belief that such person or such person's practice, business or entity can provide legal or health care services or a person employed by or acting on behalf of any of such persons;
(2) “Public media” means telephone directories, professional directories, newspapers and other periodicals, radio, television, billboards and mailed or electronically transmitted written communications that do not involve in-person contact with a specific prospective client, patient or customer; and
(3) “Runner” means an individual who, for a pecuniary benefit, procures or attempts to procure a client, patient or customer at the direction of, request of or in cooperation with a provider whose purpose is to seek to obtain benefits under an insurance contract or assert a claim against an insured or an insurance company for providing services to the client, patient or customer, or to obtain benefits under or assert a claim against a state or federal health care benefits program or prescription drug assistance program, except that “runner” does not include (A) an individual who procures or attempts to procure a client, patient or customer for a provider through public media, (B) an individual who refers a prospective client, patient or customer to a provider as otherwise authorized by law, (C) an individual who facilitates, presents or speaks at a meeting, program or seminar that is open to the public and at which information about a provider's services are discussed, or (D) an individual who is a bona fide employee of a provider who responds to an inquiry or request for information initiated by a prospective client, patient or customer.
(b) An individual who knowingly acts as a runner or uses, solicits, directs, hires or employs another individual to act as a runner shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall not apply to the referral of individuals between attorneys, between health care professionals or between attorneys and health care professionals.
(d) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to, and shall not be construed to limit or restrict, the provisions of sections 51-86, 51-87 and 51-87a.
(P.A. 09-222, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-341. - Use of words “physician”, “surgeon”, “medical doctor”, “osteopath” or “doctor”, or initials “M.D.”, “D.O.” or “Dr.”. Exceptions. Penalties.

(a) Except as otherwise permitted by chapters 369 to 388, inclusive, and subsection (b) of this section, no person engaged in the practice of any branch of the art of healing the sick or injured or professing to be engaged in such practice, other than a person who is licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of chapter 370, may use or imply the use of the words “physician”, “surgeon”, “medical doctor”, “osteopath” or “doctor”, or the initials “M.D.”, “D.O.” or “Dr.”, or any similar title or description of services, with the intent to represent, or in a manner that is likely to induce the belief that, the person (1) practices medicine within the state, (2) is licensed to practice medicine within the state, or (3) may diagnose or treat any injury, deformity, ailment or disease, actual or imaginary, of another person for compensation, gain or reward.
(b) A person who holds the degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy, but who is not licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of chapter 370, may use the initials “M.D.” or “D.O.” provided such initials are not used with the intent to represent, or in a manner that is likely to induce the belief that, the person (1) practices medicine within the state, (2) is licensed to practice medicine within the state, or (3) may diagnose or treat any injury, deformity, ailment or disease, actual or imaginary, of another person for compensation, gain or reward.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section or section 20-9, 20-12d or 20-12n shall be guilty of a class D felony. For the purposes of this section, each instance of patient contact or consultation that is in violation of chapter 370 shall constitute a separate offense. Failure to renew a license in a timely manner shall not constitute a violation of this section.
(1949 Rev., S. 8646; P.A. 99-102, S. 50; P.A. 06-195, S. 58; P.A. 13-258, S. 117.)
History: P.A. 99-102 deleted obsolete reference to osteopathy and made technical changes re gender neutrality; P.A. 06-195 deleted former provisions, added Subsec. (a) prohibiting use of terms “physician”, “surgeon”, “medical doctor”, “osteopath” or “doctor”, or initials “M.D.”, “D.O.” or “Dr.”, by persons not licensed to practice medicine under chapter 370, added Subsec. (b) re limited exception for unlicensed persons who hold degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy and added Subsec. (c) re penalties for violations, effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (c) to change penalty from fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony and make a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-341a. - Sale of badge or shield of specific governmental official or employee.

No person, firm or corporation may sell or offer for sale a badge or shield that identifies the wearer as holding a specific office, title or position with a state or local government or the federal government unless the purchaser presents valid identification that indicates the purchaser holds such office, title or position at the time of such sale. Any person, firm or corporation that violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
(P.A. 97-123, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-341b. - Sale or delivery of body armor restricted.

(a) No person, firm or corporation shall sell or deliver body armor to another person unless the transferee meets in person with the transferor to accomplish the sale or delivery.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to the sale or delivery of body armor to (1) a sworn member or authorized official of an organized local police department, the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the Division of Criminal Justice, the Department of Correction, the Board of Pardons and Paroles or the Department of Motor Vehicles, (2) an authorized official of a municipality or the Department of Administrative Services that purchases body armor on behalf of an organized local police department, the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the Division of Criminal Justice, the Department of Correction, the Board of Pardons and Paroles or the Department of Motor Vehicles, (3) an authorized official of the Judicial Branch who purchases body armor on behalf of a probation officer or a judicial marshal, or (4) a member of the National Guard or the armed forces reserve.
(c) As used in this section, “body armor” means any material designed to be worn on the body and to provide bullet penetration resistance.
(d) Any person, firm or corporation that violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
(P.A. 98-127, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 82; P.A. 06-119, S. 2; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; 11-213, S. 49; P.A. 14-207, S. 7.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (b) to exempt a sale or delivery of body armor to a sworn member or authorized official of the Division of Criminal Justice, to an authorized official of a municipality or the Department of Administrative Services who purchases body armor on behalf of the Division of Criminal Justice or to an authorized official of the judicial branch who purchases body armor on behalf of a probation officer, and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-119 amended Subsec. (b) to insert Subdiv. designators, exempt in Subdiv. (1) the sale or delivery of body armor to a sworn member or authorized official of Department of Correction or Board of Pardons and Paroles and exempt in Subdiv. (2) the sale or delivery of body armor to an authorized official of Department of Administrative Services that purchases body armor on behalf of Department of Correction or Board of Pardons and Paroles, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-213 amended Subsec. (b)(1) and (2) to add references to Department of Motor Vehicles, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-207 amended Subsec. (b)(3) to add “or a judicial marshal”.
See Sec. 53a-217d re criminal possession of body armor as a class A misdemeanor.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-341c. - Unauthorized taking or transmission by first responders of images of crime or accident victims.

Any peace officer or firefighter, as those terms are defined in section 53a-3, or any ambulance driver, emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician or paramedic, as those terms are defined in section 19a-175, who responds to a request to provide medical or other assistance to a person and, other than in the performance of his or her duties, knowingly (1) takes a photographic or digital image of such person without the consent of such person or a member of such person's immediate family, or (2) transmits, disseminates or otherwise makes available to a third person a photographic or digital image of such person without the consent of such person or a member of such person's immediate family, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(P.A. 11-47, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-342 and 53-343. - Attendance of children at places of amusement. Unauthorized credit to minor student.

Sections 53-342 and 53-343 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8677, 8678; 1967, P.A. 287; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-343a. - Presence of persons under twenty-one years of age in class III gaming facilities prohibited. Wagering and misrepresentation of age by such persons prohibited.

(a) For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Gaming facility” means any room in which class III gaming, as legally authorized pursuant to a tribal-state compact governing the conduct of gaming activities on Indian lands or federal procedures issued by the Secretary of the Interior, is conducted, but does not include a room limited to the playing of bazaar games;
(2) “Class III gaming” has the same meaning as provided in the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 25 USC 2703; and
(3) “Alcoholic liquor” has the same meaning as provided in section 30-1.
(b) No person under the minimum age for the purchase of alcoholic liquor under the provisions of chapter 545 shall be present in any gaming facility, except that, unless otherwise prohibited by law, a person over the age of majority may be employed in a gaming facility if such person has obtained any license required by the state for such employment and such employment does not include handling or serving alcoholic liquor. Any person under such minimum age for the purchase of alcoholic liquor who violates the provisions of this subsection shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
(c) Any person under the minimum age for the purchase of alcoholic liquor under the provisions of chapter 545 who is present in any gaming facility and directly or indirectly places a wager in such gaming facility shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(d) Any person under the minimum age for the purchase of alcoholic liquor under the provisions of chapter 545 who, for the purpose of gaining access to a gaming facility, (1) misrepresents such person's age, or (2) uses or exhibits (A) a forged, counterfeit or altered government-issued identity card, passport or motor vehicle operator's license, or (B) a government-issued identity card, passport or motor vehicle operator's license belonging to any other person, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit minors from receiving lottery tickets or chances in lawfully operated games of chance as gifts.
(P.A. 03-114, S. 2; P.A. 04-257, S. 85.)
History: P.A. 04-257 made a technical change in Subsec. (d), effective June 14, 2004.
See Sec. 12-576 re presence of minors at facilities where gambling activity authorized by state law takes place.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-344a. - Sale of cigarettes or tobacco products. Proof of age.

Each retailer of cigarettes or tobacco products or agent, employee or representative of such retailer shall require a person who is purchasing or attempting to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products, who appears to be under the age of thirty, to exhibit proper proof of age. If a person fails to provide such proof of age, such retailer or agent, employee or representative shall not sell cigarettes or tobacco products to the person. As used in this section, “proper proof” means a motor vehicle operator's license, a valid passport or an identity card issued in accordance with the provisions of section 1-1h.
(P.A. 92-66, S. 5; P.A. 19-13, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 19-13 added references to agent and representative and replaced “whose age is in question” with “who appears to be under the age of thirty”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-345. - Soliciting for philanthropic purposes.

Section 53-345 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8606; 1953, S. 3301d; 1959, P.A. 659; 1963, P.A. 551, S. 15.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy › Section 53-345a. - Nitrous oxide containers; sale to or purchase by minors prohibited. Proof of age.

(a) Any person who sells, gives or delivers to any minor under eighteen years of age any container exclusively containing nitrous oxide, unless the minor is delivering or accepting delivery in his capacity as an employee, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars for the first offense, not more than three hundred fifty dollars for a second offense within an eighteen-month period and not more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent offense within an eighteen-month period.
(b) Any person under eighteen years of age who purchases or misrepresents his age to purchase any container exclusively containing nitrous oxide shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
(c) Each retailer of containers exclusively containing nitrous oxide or employee of such retailer shall require a person who is purchasing or attempting to purchase a container exclusively containing nitrous oxide, whose age is in question, to exhibit proper proof of age. If a person fails to provide such proof of age, such retailer or employee shall not sell any container exclusively containing nitrous oxide to the person. As used in this section, “proper proof” means a motor vehicle operator's license, a valid passport or an identity card issued in accordance with the provisions of section 1-1h.
(P.A. 98-17.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 947 - Forgery and Counterfeiting › Section 53-346 and 53-347. - Forgery. Forging or counterfeiting stamps or labels.

Sections 53-346 and 53-347 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8684, 8685; 1963, P.A. 51, S. 14; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 947 - Forgery and Counterfeiting › Section 53-348 to 53-353. - Counterfeiting, generally.

Sections 53-348 to 53-353, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8686–8691; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 114; 1963, P.A. 652, S. 10; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-354 to 53-364. - Embezzlement by public or corporation officer or fiduciary. Embezzlement, generally. Obtaining valuable thing or service by false pretenses. Fraudulent issue of checks or drafts. Procuring property or credit by false statement. Fraudulent warehouse receipts. Defrauding of public community by officer.

Sections 53-354 to 53-364, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8692–8702; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-366 and 53-367. - Diversion from state of benefit of labor of employees. Unlawful removal of vessel by master.

Sections 53-366 and 53-367 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8704, 8705; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-368. - Falsely certifying as to administration of oath.

Any person authorized by the laws of this state to administer oaths and affirmations, who falsely certifies that an oath or affirmation has been administered by him to any person in any matter where an oath or affirmation is by law required or falsely certifies that any affidavit, deposition or written statement of any kind required by law to be made upon oath or affirmation has been sworn or affirmed to before him by the person making such affidavit, deposition or written statement in any case where the same is required by law to be made, shall be guilty of a class E felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 8706; P.A. 13-258, S. 31.)
History: P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 3 years to a class E felony.
See Sec. 1-24 re officers empowered to administer oaths.
Statute not void for vagueness; it is sufficiently explicit to guide persons of ordinary intelligence; “false” imports requirement of specific intent to deceive. 175 C. 279.
Cited. 5 CA 616.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-369. - False pretenses as to pedigree of animal.

Any person who, by any false pretense, device or representation, obtains from any club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other domestic animals the registration of any animal in the herd register or other register of any such club, association, society or company or the transfer of any such registration or who knowingly gives a false pedigree of any such animal shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than five hundred dollars or both. The person who wrongfully obtains a registration or the transfer of a registration, as aforesaid, may be tried therefor either in the venue where the false pretense, device or representation was made or practiced or where such registration or transfer was made.
(1949 Rev., S. 8709.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-370. - Fraudulent sale of liquid fuels or lubricating oils.

No person, firm or corporation, or any member or employee thereof, shall store, expose for sale or sell any liquid fuels, lubricating oils, greases or similar products in such manner as to deceive as to identity, nature or quality; or use any container for storage with the trademark or symbol of any manufacturer or distributor except that of the manufacturer or distributor of the product contained therein; or imitate the design, trademark or symbol of any manufacturer on any container, buildings or equipment with intent to deceive purchasers as to the nature, source or quality of the commodity sold; or mix, blend or compound any of such products of one manufacturer or distributor with that of another and sell the same as the product of either, provided any owner may sell such compound under his own trademark; or aid, assist or abet any person in the violation of the above provisions by depositing or delivering such products in any container other than that of the manufacturer or distributor of such product. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
(1949 Rev., S. 8710; P.A. 12-80, S. 108.)
History: P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $200 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a class D misdemeanor.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-371 to 53-376. - Defrauding keeper of hotel, restaurant or boarding house. Evasion of fares. Fraudulent issue and use of transfer ticket upon public conveyance. False statement by hirer of horse; by hirer of boat. Conversion of money by court officer.

Sections 53-371 to 53-376, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 8712–8717; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 57; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 53 - Crimes › Chapter 948 - Frauds and False Pretenses › Section 53-377. - Fraudulent uses of badges or insignia.

Any person who copies, imitates or simulates the insignia, flag, ribbon, badge, rosette, seal, button or emblem of any society, association, labor union or incorporated club, registered under the provisions of section 35-18c, or of any society, association, labor union or incorporated club which has been in existence continuously since May 23, 1898, or any person who wears the button, badge or insignia of the Grand Army of the Republic, the American Legion or Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, or the insignia, rosette, badge or other indicia of membership of any fraternal or beneficial order or society or of any historical, naval or military organization or uses the same to obtain aid or assistance, or uses the name of any such society, organization or order or the title of any of its officers or its rituals or ceremonies unless such person is entitled to do so under the constitution, bylaws or rules and regulations of such order or society, or falsely claims to be a member thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 8718; 1961, P.A. 240; P.A. 74-338, S. 43, 94.)
History: 1961 act added Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated; P.A. 74-338 substituted reference to Sec. 35-18c for reference to Sec. 35-14.
See Sec. 53-341a re sale of badge or shield of governmental official or employee.