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Chapter 545

• Sec. 30-1. Definitions.
• Secs. 30-1a and 30-1b. Term "Liquor Control Commission" deemed to mean Division of Liquor Control within the Department of Business Regulation, exception. Term "Division of Liquor Contr
• Sec. 30-2. Liquor Control Commission: Appointment, term, vacancies, oath, removal.
• Sec. 30-3. Assistance.
• Sec. 30-4. Commissioners and employees prohibited from dealing in or manufacturing alcoholic liquor.
• Sec. 30-5. Receipts and expenditures.
• Sec. 30-6. Powers and duties of Department of Consumer Protection; report; records and certified copies.
• Sec. 30-6a. Adoption of regulations.
• Sec. 30-6b. Regulation requiring locking of certain beer coolers accessible to the public prohibited.
• Sec. 30-7. Regulations to be furnished upon request.
• Sec. 30-8. Investigations, oaths and subpoenas.
• Sec. 30-9. Status of towns as to sale of alcoholic liquor.
• Sec. 30-10. Vote on liquor permit question.
• Sec. 30-11. Form of ballot label.
• Sec. 30-12. Liquor permit contrary to vote void.
• Sec. 30-13. Previous town action to remain in effect.
• Sec. 30-13a. Prior vote not to apply to sale under golf country club permit. Referendum requirement.
• Sec. 30-13b. Local option re nonprofit theater permits.
• Sec. 30-14. Nature and duration of permit. Renewal by transferee or purchaser of permit premises.
• Sec. 30-14a. Renewal and issuance of package store permits. Removal of premises.
• Sec. 30-15. Issuance of permits.
• Sec. 30-16. Manufacturer permit.
• Sec. 30-17. Wholesaler permit. Termination or diminishment of distributorship.
• Sec. 30-17a. Sales by wholesaler permittees to retail permittees outside territory.
• Sec. 30-17b. Wholesaler's salesman certificates.
• Sec. 30-18. Out-of-state shipper's permit for alcoholic liquors.
• Sec. 30-18a. Out-of-state small winery shipper's permit for wine.
• Sec. 30-19. Out-of-state shipper's permit for beer.
• Secs. 30-19a to 30-19e.
• Sec. 30-19f. In-state transporter's permit.
• Sec. 30-20. Package store permits; grocery store beer permits.
• Sec. 30-20a. University permit.
• Sec. 30-21. Hotel permit.
• Sec. 30-21a. Night club permit.
• Sec. 30-21b. Resort permit.
• Sec. 30-22. Restaurant permit. Wine ordered with restaurant meals.
• Sec. 30-22a. Cafe permit.
• Sec. 30-22b. Restaurant permit for catering establishment. Certain requirements may be waived upon written application.
• Sec. 30-22c. Juice bars. Notification of local police re scheduled events. Prohibition of alcoholic liquor at juice bar.
• Sec. 30-23. Club permits.
• Sec. 30-23a. Guest book requirements under club permits.
• Sec. 30-23b. Club permit for Rocky Hill Veterans' Home and Hospital.
• Sec. 30-24. Spouses of club and golf country club members.
• Sec. 30-24a. Golf country club permit. Nonprofit service club.
• Sec. 30-24b. Auxiliary club members.
• Sec. 30-25. Special club permit for picnics.
• Sec. 30-25a. Club permit in no-permit towns.
• Sec. 30-26. Tavern permit.
• Sec. 30-27. Taverns not to be screened from street.
• Sec. 30-28. Railroad permit.
• Sec. 30-28a. Airline permit.
• Sec. 30-29. Boat permit.
• Sec. 30-30. Broker's permit.
• Sec. 30-31. Sale of warehouse receipts for alcoholic beverages.
• Sec. 30-32. Warehouse permit.
• Sec. 30-33. Concession permit.
• Sec. 30-33a. Coliseum permit. Coliseum concession permit. Special rule re backers.
• Sec. 30-33b. Special sporting facility permits.
• Sec. 30-33c. Special outing facility permits.
• Sec. 30-34. Military permit.
• Sec. 30-35. Temporary permit for outings, picnics or social gatherings.
• Sec. 30-35a. Nonprofit theater permit.
• Sec. 30-35b. Ninety-day provisional permit.
• Sec. 30-36. Druggist permit.
• Sec. 30-37. Sales on prescription.
• Sec. 30-37a. Nonprofit public museum permit.
• Sec. 30-37b. Charitable organization permit.
• Sec. 30-37c. Bowling establishment permits. Racquetball facility permit.
• Sec. 30-37d. Nonprofit public television corporation permit.
• Sec. 30-37e. Airport restaurant permit. Airport bar permit. Airport airline club permit.
• Sec. 30-37f. Airport permit. Leasing and concessions. Access requirements. Excepted from local option, discretionary disapproval.
• Sec. 30-37g. Nonprofit golf tournament permit.
• Sec. 30-37h. Nonprofit corporation permit.
• Sec. 30-37i. Hotel guest bar permit.
• Sec. 30-37j. Caterer liquor permit. Notice requirements. Exemptions.
• Sec. 30-37k. Casino permit.
• Sec. 30-38. Storage of liquor. Approval of facilities.
• Sec. 30-38a. Transfer of liquor between retail permit premises under common ownership.
• Sec. 30-39. Applications for permits, renewals. Fees. Publication, remonstrance, hearing.
• Sec. 30-39a. Bartender certificate. When required. Application; fee; refusal; exemption.
• Sec. 30-40. Second application.
• Secs. 30-41 and 30-42. Permit fees. Rebate of permit fees.
• Sec. 30-42a. Permit fee rebate.
• Sec. 30-43. Granting and denial of permits. Notice of hearing.
• Sec. 30-44. Mandatory refusal of permit where sale prohibited.
• Sec. 30-45. Mandatory refusal of permits to certain persons. Exceptions.
• Sec. 30-46. Discretionary suspension, revocation or refusal of permit; location or character of premises; other grounds.
• Sec. 30-46a. Permit for restaurant within a coliseum.
• Sec. 30-47. Discretionary suspension, revocation or refusal of permits; disqualification of applicant or permittee; alcohol seller and server training program; permittee participation.
• Sec. 30-48. Limitations of permits; exceptions. Loans. Period of credit. Resolution of credit disputes.
• Sec. 30-48a. Limitation on interest in retail permits.
• Sec. 30-48b. Municipalities and authorities as backers of coliseum permittees.
• Secs. 30-49 and 30-50. Sale of liquor on credit. Period of credit. Suspension of credit restrictions in case of disaster.
• Sec. 30-51. Sales in dwelling houses regulated.
• Sec. 30-51a. Leasing of part of premises operating under grocery store beer permit.
• Sec. 30-52. Permit to specify location and revocability. Removal to another location.
• Sec. 30-53. Permit to be recorded.
• Sec. 30-54. Permit to be hung in plain view.
• Sec. 30-55. Revocation or suspension of permits; hearing; appeal to stay proceedings.
• Sec. 30-55a. Suspension of permit for failure to pay unemployment compensation contributions; violation of noise standards by liquor permittees; penalties.
• Sec. 30-56. When appeal not to act as stay of execution.
• Sec. 30-57. Conviction of permittee or backer; revocation or suspension of permit; forfeiture.
• Sec. 30-58. Revocation of permit obtained by fraud.
• Sec. 30-58a. Offer in compromise in lieu of suspension.
• Sec. 30-58b. Continuation of service when special sporting facility permit revoked. Application for new permit.
• Sec. 30-59. Certificate of revocation, suspension or reinstatement.
• Sec. 30-59a. Notice of suspension or revocation of sporting facility permits or licenses issued by the Division of Special Revenue or the Gaming Policy Board.
• Sec. 30-60. Appeal.
• Sec. 30-61. Service of process on members of commission.
• Sec. 30-62. Substitution of permittees. Fee.
• Sec. 30-62a. Consumer bars.
• Sec. 30-62b. Home manufacture of wine.
• Sec. 30-63. Registration of brands, fees. Posting and notice of prices. Brand registration of fortified wine. When departmental approval prohibited.
• Secs. 30-63a to 30-63d. Prices charged by manufacturers and out-of-state shippers to Connecticut wholesalers. Affirmation re price. Determination of price. Enforcement; regulations.
• Sec. 30-63e. Conditions required for closeout sale.
• Sec. 30-63f. Brand or size to be closed out.
• Sec. 30-64. Fair trade; schedule of suggested prices to be filed with Department of Consumer Protection.
• Sec. 30-64a. Sales within a wholesaler's geographic territory.
• Sec. 30-64b. Unfair pricing practices.
• Sec. 30-65. Regulations.
• Sec. 30-66. Administration expenses.
• Sec. 30-67. Penalties.
• Sec. 30-68. Wholesale prices of wine.
• Secs. 30-68a to 30-68h. Minimum retail markups; definitions. Minimum selling price. Suggested consumer resale price. Enforcement; regulations. Minimum wholesale markups; definitions. Minimum selling p
• Sec. 30-68i. Minimum selling price of out-of-state shipper, wholesaler or manufacturer permittee.
• Sec. 30-68j. Minimum markup in sale of beer.
• Sec. 30-68k. Price discrimination prohibited.
• Sec. 30-68l. Wholesale permittees; sales below cost prohibited.
• Sec. 30-68m. Retail permittees; sales below cost prohibited.
• Sec. 30-68n. Advertisement of manufacturers' rebates.
• Secs. 30-69 to 30-73. Seizures.
• Sec. 30-74. Unauthorized sale prohibited.
• Sec. 30-75. Prima facie evidence of intent to sell.
• Sec. 30-76. Purchase for resale.
• Sec. 30-76a. Sales to persons holding temporary or charitable organization permits.
• Sec. 30-77. Disposing of liquor without permit.
• Sec. 30-78. Nuisance. Disposal.
• Sec. 30-79. Soliciting orders in no-permit towns.
• Sec. 30-80. Delivery in town deemed sale.
• Sec. 30-81. Unsuitable persons prohibited from having financial interest in permit businesses. Employment of minors restricted.
• Sec. 30-82. Sale pending renewal of permit.
• Secs. 30-83 to 30-85. Selectmen to give permittees lists of drinkers receiving town aid. Sales to relatives. Liquors not to be sent to certain persons or their abodes.
• Sec. 30-86. Sale or delivery to minors, intoxicated persons and habitual drunkards prohibited. Exceptions. Use of transaction scan devices.
• Sec. 30-86a. Statement from purchaser as to age.
• Sec. 30-86b. Photographing a person whose age is in doubt, or photocopying such person's driver's license or identity card. Use of photograph or photocopy. Regulations. Affirmative defense.
• Sec. 30-87. Inducing minors to procure liquor. Exceptions. Official investigation or enforcement activity.
• Sec. 30-88. Identity card.
• Sec. 30-88a. Operator's license as proof of age. Misrepresentation of age to procure liquor.
• Sec. 30-89. Purchasing liquor or making false statement to procure liquor by person forbidden to purchase prohibited. Possessing liquor by minor on public street or highway or other public or private
• Sec. 30-89a. Permitting minor to illegally possess liquor in dwelling unit or on private property or failing to halt such illegal possession. Penalty.
• Sec. 30-90. Loitering on permit premises.
• Sec. 30-90a. Employment of minors. Permits held by, and financial interests of, persons over eighteen on July 1, 1982, not affected.
• Sec. 30-91. Hours and days of closing. Exemption.
• Sec. 30-91a. Effect of prior local votes re Sunday sale.
• Sec. 30-92. Capacity of beer containers.
• Sec. 30-92a. Bottle size, conversion to metric system.
• Sec. 30-92b. Beer packaging.
• Sec. 30-93. Containers to be sealed.
• Sec. 30-93a. Regulation of shipments into state.
• Sec. 30-94. Gifts, loans and discounts prohibited between permittees. Tie-in sales. Floor stock allowance. Depletion allowance.
• Sec. 30-95. Advertising and bottling.
• Sec. 30-95a. Display of trademarks by permittees.
• Sec. 30-96. When music permitted.
• Sec. 30-97. Town and probate records not to be kept where liquor is sold.
• Sec. 30-98. Liquor not to be furnished to prisoners.
• Sec. 30-99. Denatured alcohol or adulterated liquor.
• Sec. 30-100. Bottle clubs.
• Sec. 30-101. Pharmacist, breaking law, forfeits permit and license.
• Sec. 30-102. Dram Shop Act; liquor seller liable for damage by intoxicated person. No negligence cause of action for sale to person twenty-one years of age or older.
• Sec. 30-103. Contracts and actions based on illegal sales.
• Sec. 30-104. Jurisdiction.
• Sec. 30-105. Prosecutions.
• Sec. 30-106. Entry into disorderly house by officer.
• Sec. 30-107. Arrest and seizure without warrant. Disposition of illegal liquor.
• Sec. 30-108. Court may order analysis of liquor.
• Sec. 30-109. State chemist to analyze samples. Copies of analysis to be evidence.
• Sec. 30-110. Tampering with analysis.
• Sec. 30-111. Reports of convictions, fines and forfeited bonds.
• Sec. 30-112. Civil action barred on certain debts.
• Sec. 30-113. Penalties.
• Sec. 30-114. Beer keg identification and receipt requirements. Restrictions on keg deposit refunds. Grounds for permit revocation or suspension.
• Sec. 30-115. Possession of beer keg lacking required identification. False information on beer keg receipt. Penalties.
• Sec. 30-116. Sale, purchase or possession of alcohol vaporization device prohibited. Penalty.