Sec. 22-167. Local regulations for the sale of milk.
Sec. 22-167. Local regulations for the sale of milk. No provision of section 22-133 shall affect the authority of any town, city or borough to enact ordinances concerning
the sale or distribution, within its limits, of milk which may be detrimental to public
health. In any town, city or borough where no local system of milk and cream control
is provided for by charter, the local director of health or board of health may present,
at a meeting of the electors warned and held for such purpose, proposed rules and regulations concerning the inspection of dairies and the production, care, handling, marketing
or sale of milk or cream, the protection of the public from the use of milk or cream
which may be detrimental to the public health and the granting of licenses to milk dealers.
Upon approval by the town, city or borough, such rules and regulations shall be enforced
in the town, city or borough by the director of health. Amendments of such rules and
regulations shall be made in accordance with the procedure provided for their adoption.
Such local directors of health or boards of health may revoke any license granted in
accordance herewith after due notice and hearing for violation of any such rules and
regulations. Any person who produces, handles, markets or sells milk or cream within
the limits of any town, city or borough in which such rules and regulations are in effect,
without a license as hereinbefore provided, shall be fined not more than one hundred
dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both. Any person aggrieved by the
failure of the local director of health or board of health to grant a license in accordance
with the foregoing provisions or by the action of such director of health or board in
revoking a license may appeal from the action of such director of health or board to the
Milk Regulation Board in accordance with the provisions of sections 22-169 and 22-170.
(1949 Rev., S. 3213; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 80; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 81-147, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A.
81-147 repealed the requirement that proposed local rules and regulations receive approval of the department of health
services prior to enactment.
Cited. 67 C. 550. Cited. 73 C. 407. Local ordinance requiring milk to be sold in sealed bottles valid. 91 C. 69. Ordinance
of town prohibiting sale of raw milk in conflict with statute held invalid. 111 C. 433.