Sec. 3-106. Seal.
Sec. 3-106. Seal. The great seal of the state shall conform to the following description: It shall be a perfect ellipse with its major axis two and one-half inches in length
and its minor axis two inches in length, the major axis being vertical. Within such ellipse
shall appear another ellipse with its major axis one and fifteen-sixteenths inches in length
and its minor axis one and one-half inches in length. The inner ellipse is separated from
the outer ellipse only by a line two points one-thirty-sixth of an inch in width and with
the space between the two ellipses, being seven-thirty-seconds of an inch, forming a
border. In said space shall appear, letter spaced and in letters one-eighth of an inch in
height and of twelve point century Roman, the words "SIGILLUM REIPUBLICAE
CONNECTICUTENSIS", beginning and ending one and one-sixteenth inches apart in
the lower space along such border. In the center of the inner ellipse shall be three grape
vines, two above and one below, each with four leaves and three clusters of grapes
intertwined around a support nine-sixteenths of an inch high, and the base of the supports
of the two upper vines one inch from the base of the inner ellipse and eleven-sixteenths
of an inch apart. The base of the lower support shall be nine-sixteenths of an inch from
the base of the inner ellipse and halfway between said bases shall appear the motto
"QUI TRANSTULIT SUSTINET", in number three, six point card Roman letters, or
engraver's Roman letters, on a ribbon gracefully formed, with the ends of the ribbon
turned upward and inward and cleft. A drawing of said seal shall be filed in the office
of the Secretary and shall be its official drawing.
(1949 Rev., S. 179, 8490; 1953, S. 3280d; 1959, P.A. 328, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 76, S. 2.)
History: 1959 act deleted provision confining use of seal to use under direction of secretary and stated reproductions
could only be for purposes related directly or indirectly to state business; 1961 act deleted all provisions re reproductions,
but see Sec. 3-106a.