Sec. 30-106. Entry into disorderly house by officer.
Sec. 30-106. Entry into disorderly house by officer. Every officer who has a
warrant for the arrest of any person charged with keeping a house of ill-fame, or a house
reputed to be a house of ill-fame, or a house of assignation or a house where lewd,
dissolute or drunken persons resort, or where drinking, carousing, dancing and fighting
are permitted, to the disturbance of the neighbors, or with violating any law against
gaming in the house or rooms occupied by such person, or with resorting to any house
for any of said purposes, and every officer who has a warrant for the arrest of any person
charged with keeping open any room, place, enclosure, building or structure, of any
kind or description, in which it is reputed that alcoholic liquor is exposed for sale contrary
to law, or with selling alcoholic liquor in any place contrary to law, or for the seizure
of alcoholic liquor, may, at any time, for the purpose of gaining admission to such house,
room, place, enclosure, building or structure, or for the purpose of arresting any of the
persons aforesaid, make violent entry into such house, room, place, enclosure, building
or structure, or any part thereof, after demanding admittance and giving notice that the
officer is an officer and has such warrant, and may arrest any person so charged and
take such person before the proper authority. The Department of Consumer Protection,
its agents and any member of any organized police department in any town, city or
borough, and any state policeman, may, at any time, enter upon the premises of any
permittee to ascertain the manner in which such person conducts business and to preserve
order.
(1949 Rev., S. 4310; 1959, P.A. 516; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4,
170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 95-195, S. 80, 83; P.A. 00-99, S. 80, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 94, 181; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6,
S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: 1959 act substituted, for entry on permit premises, any member of organized police department for chief or
policeman authorized by him; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor
control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control
an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which
would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer
Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to the sheriff of the
county and any specially authorized deputy sheriff, effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes for
purposes of gender neutrality, effective July 11, 2001; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department
of Consumer Protection with 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.
Cited. 153 C. 155. Voluntary admittance of officer does not constitute forcible, warrantless entry. No illegal search
and seizure. 160 C. 1. Cited. 226 C. 418.
City police without warrants are not within the class of persons authorized by statute. 13 CS 171.