Sec. 21-28. Itinerant vendor license. Managing itinerant vendor license. Application. License fee. Itinerant Vendor Guaranty Fund fee. Conspicuous display in printed advertisements of license number a
Sec. 21-28. Itinerant vendor license. Managing itinerant vendor license. Application. License fee. Itinerant Vendor Guaranty Fund fee. Conspicuous display
in printed advertisements of license number and name under which license issued.
List of participating vendors. Participating vendors deemed agents. Violations.
(a) Each itinerant vendor or managing itinerant vendor shall obtain a license from the
Department of Consumer Protection prior to conducting business in this state. Application for such license shall be made on a form prescribed by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection and the commissioner shall require as a condition to the issuance and
renewal of any license obtained under this chapter that the application for such license
shall be accompanied by a license fee of one hundred dollars, together with a fee of one
hundred dollars payable to the Itinerant Vendor Guaranty Fund established in section
21-33b. Such license shall authorize the licensee to do business in this state in conformity
with the provisions of this chapter for the term of one year from the date thereof. Each
license shall set forth a copy of the application upon which it is granted and shall not
be transferable. Each itinerant vendor or managing itinerant vendor licensed under this
chapter shall display in a conspicuous manner in all printed advertisements, the license
number and the name under which the license is issued. Any license obtained, held or
used in violation of law shall be void. All applications for state licenses shall be sworn
to, shall disclose the names and residences of the owner or owners or parties in whose
interest the business is to be conducted, and shall be kept on file by the commissioner,
and a record shall be kept by him of all licenses issued upon such applications. All files
and records, both of the commissioner and of the several towns, cities and boroughs,
relative to such licenses shall be in convenient form and open for public inspection.
(b) At least ten days prior to the commencement of any organized show of itinerant
vendors, each managing itinerant vendor shall submit a list of participating vendors to
the commissioner, together with any other information which the commissioner may
prescribe. The list of participating itinerant vendors in each show shall be maintained
by the managing itinerant vendor for a period of one year and shall be made available
to the commissioner within ten days of a written request by the commissioner.
(c) For the purposes of this chapter, any itinerant vendor who participates in any
show under the direction and control of a managing itinerant vendor, shall be deemed
to be an agent of the managing itinerant vendor and shall not be required to obtain an
individual itinerant vendor license.
(d) The commissioner, after providing notice and conducting a hearing in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, may revoke, suspend or refuse to issue an itinerant
vendor license or a managing itinerant vendor license to any person who (1) engages
in conduct of a character likely to mislead, deceive or defraud the public or the commissioner; (2) engages in any untruthful or misleading advertising; or (3) violates any provision of the general statutes relating to this chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant
to section 21-33a or 42-110b.
(1949 Rev., S. 4676; 1959, P.A. 117, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 265, S. 1; P.A. 76-304, S. 2; P.A. 91-184, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess.
P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c), (d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act placed responsibilities re license on tax commissioner rather than state treasurer; 1961 act substituted
commissioner of consumer protection for tax commissioner; P.A. 76-304 changed deposit from $500 to $1,000 and deleted
prohibition on more than one state license per person; P.A. 91-184 divided section into Subsecs., deleted provision re
$1,000 special deposit, added provisions re licensing of itinerant vendors and managing itinerant vendors and re a fee to
be paid to the newly-created itinerant vendor guaranty fund, required that licensees display in a conspicuous manner in all
printed advertisements the license number and the name under which the license was issued and that a list of participating
vendors be submitted to the commissioner by each managing itinerant vendor at least ten days before the start of any
organized show, specified that vendors selling "under the direction and control of a managing itinerant vendor" would be
considered agents of the managing vendor and would not be required to obtain individual vendor licenses and authorized
commissioner to revoke, suspend or refuse to issue licenses; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Commissioner and Department of Consumer Protection with Commissioner and 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.
Provision for deposit upheld. 77 C. 326.