Sec. 53-199. Theaters and moving picture shows; seating capacity; standing room.
Sec. 53-199. Theaters and moving picture shows; seating capacity; standing
room. No person owning, managing or conducting any place where any moving picture
or theatrical production is exhibited shall sell any admission ticket or charge or receive
any admission fee or collect or receive any valuable thing from any person after the
seating capacity of such place has been exhausted, unless, at the time of such sale, charge,
receipt or collection, the person making such sale, charge or collection or receiving such
admission fee or valuable thing distinctly announces to the person making such purchase,
or from whom such charge or collection is made or fee or valuable thing received, that
standing room only is available. The state police shall, in order to insure safety and
health, limit the number of persons that may occupy standing room in each place where
any moving picture or theatrical production is exhibited, and shall require the person
owning, managing or conducting such place to display conspicuously, at each entrance
thereto, a placard upon which shall be plainly printed such standing room capacity. Any
person who violates any provision of this section or any order of the Commissioner of
Public Safety made pursuant thereto limiting the number of persons that may occupy
standing room in a theater where any moving picture or theatrical production is exhibited, or who fails to display conspicuously, at the entrance thereto, a placard on which
shall be plainly printed such standing room capacity, shall be fined not more than fifty
dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8528; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136.)
History: P.A. 77-614 made state police department a division within the department of public safety, effective January
1, 1979, but language was not changed to reflect the fact under discretionary codification powers granted by P.A. 78-303.
See chapter 531 (Sec. 29-109 et seq.) re moving pictures, generally.
Superior court held to have no original jurisdiction of violation in city of New Haven. 97 C. 600 et seq.