Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 7 - Municipalities › 186k - Operation and Conduct of Games of Chance › Section 7-186k-19 - Suspension, revocation, hearing, penalty

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Whenever it
			 appears to the executive director of the division of special revenue after an
			 investigation that any person is violating or is about to violate any provision
			 of section
			 7-170
			 to
			 7-185, inclusive, or
			 administrative regulations issued pursuant thereto, the executive director may
			 in his discretion, to protect the public welfare, order that any registration
			 or permit issued pursuant to said sections be immediately suspended or revoked
			 and that the person cease and desist from the actions constituting such
			 violation or which would constitute such violation. After such an order is
			 issued, the person named therein may, within fourteen days after receipt of the
			 order, file a written request for a hearing. Such hearing shall be held in
			 accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
(b) Whenever the executive director of the
			 Division of Special Revenue finds as the result of an investigation that any
			 person has violated any provision of sections 7-186a to 7-186p, inclusive, or
			 administrative regulations issued pursuant thereto or made any false statement
			 in an application for a permit or in any report required by the provisions of
			 said sections, the executive director may send a notice of a hearing to such
			 person by certified mail, return receipt requested. Any such notice shall
			 include (1) a reference to the section or regulation alleged to have been
			 violated or the application or report in which an alleged false statement was
			 made, (2) a short and plain statement of the matter asserted or charged, (3)
			 the fact that any registration or permit issued pursuant to sections 7-186a to
			 7-186p, inclusive, may be suspended or revoked for such violation or false
			 statement and the maximum penalty that may be imposed for such violation or
			 false statement, and (4) the time and place for the hearing. Such hearing shall
			 be fixed for a date not earlier than fourteen days after the notice is
			 mailed.
(c) The executive director
			 shall hold a hearing upon the charges made unless such person fails to appear
			 at the hearing. Such hearing shall be held in accordance with the provisions of
			 chapter 54. If such person fails to appear at the hearing or if, after the
			 hearing, the executive director finds that such person committed such a
			 violation or made such a false statement, the executive director may, in his
			 discretion, suspend or revoke such registration or permit and order that a
			 civil penalty of not more than two hundred dollars be imposed upon such person
			 for such violation or false statement. The executive director shall send a copy
			 of any order issued pursuant to this subsection by certified mail, return
			 receipt requested, to any person named in such order.
(d) Whenever the executive director revokes a
			 permit issued pursuant to sections 7-186a to 7-186p, inclusive, he shall not
			 issue any permit to such permittee for three years after the date of the
			 violation.