Sec. 26-40c. Search and seizure.
Sec. 26-40c. Search and seizure. Any officer or agent authorized by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection or any state police officer or any police officer of
any town shall have authority to execute any warrant to search for and seize any goods,
merchandise or any threatened or endangered species possessed, sold or offered for sale
in violation of section 26-311 or any property or item used in connection with a violation
of said section. Such goods, merchandise, threatened or endangered species or property
shall be held pending proceedings in any court of proper jurisdiction. Upon the conviction of any person charged with a violation of section 26-311 the goods, merchandise
or threatened or endangered species seized in connection therewith under the provisions
of this section shall be forfeited and retained by the commissioner or offered to a recognized institution for scientific or educational purposes, or destroyed. All costs incurred
by the state shall be assessed against the violator.
(1971, P.A. 107, S. 3; June, 1971, P.A. 1, S. 6; P.A. 73-445, S. 4; P.A. 85-104, S. 1; P.A. 89-224, S. 15, 22.)
History: June, 1971 act replaced incorrect reference to commissioner of agriculture and natural resources with reference
to commissioner of environmental protection; P.A. 73-445 substituted "rare or endangered species" for "wild animal" and
"subsection (b) of section 26-40e" for "subsection (a) of section 26-40b"; P.A. 85-104 substituted references to "threatened"
species for references to "rare" species; P.A. 89-224 added references to Sec. 26-311, removed obsolete language, added
the alternative that seized goods, merchandise or species be retained by the commissioner and added the provision that
costs incurred by the state be assessed against the violator.