Title 21a — Title 21a: Consumer Protection

Sec. 21a-62b. Definitions. For the purposes of this section and sections 21a-62c to 21a-62h, inclusive: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection or an authorized agent of the commissioner; (2) “Cottage food operation” means any person who produces cottage …

Sec. 21a-62c. Cottage food operations. Examination of premises. Licensure requirements. (a) All cottage food operations shall be licensed annually by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. The license application form shall be developed by the commissioner. The license shall sp…

Sec. 21a-62d. Limitation on total annual gross sales. Direct sale to consumer. Authorized food products. Display of license. (a) Total annual gross sales for a cottage food operation shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars per calendar year. If annual gross sales exceed the maxim…

Sec. 21a-62e. Inspection of cottage food operation. (a) The commissioner may inspect a cottage food operation at any time to ensure compliance with the provisions of this section, sections 21a-62c, 21a-62d and sections 21a-62f to 21a-62h, inclusive. (b) Nothing in this section, s…

Sec. 21a-62f. Authorized food items. Prohibited food items. (a) A cottage food operation may produce food items that are not potentially hazardous food. (b) A cottage food operation shall not produce: (1) Potentially hazardous food items; and (2) Food items that present a food sa…

Sec. 21a-62g. Prepackaged food products. Labels. If a cottage food operation sells cottage food products that are prepackaged, such packaging shall include an affixed label that contains the following information and that is printed in English: (1) The name and address of the cot…

Sec. 21a-62h. Cottage food operation requirements. License suspension and revocation. Hearing. Cost of inspection. (a) Each cottage food operation shall comply with the following requirements and any failure to comply shall be deemed a violation of this section and sections 21a-6…

Sec. 21a-63. (Formerly Sec. 19-210h). State clinical thermometer standard. The term “clinical thermometer”, as used in this section, means a maximum self-registering thermometer of the type commonly used for measuring body temperatures and a “correct clinical thermometer” means a…

Sec. 21a-64. (Formerly Sec. 19-209). Distribution of drugs and poisons. Any person who, by himself, his servant or agent, distributes or gives away, in any street or highway or from house to house, any bottle, box, envelope or package containing any liquid medicine, or any pill, …

Sec. 21a-65. (Formerly Sec. 19-209a). Sale of hypodermic needles and syringes restricted. Application to use secured machine. Destruction of used hypodermic needles and syringes. Penalty. (a) A licensed manufacturer or licensed wholesaler may sell hypodermic needles and syringes …

Sec. 21a-66. (Formerly Sec. 19-209b). Regulations re sale, purchase, handling and disposal of hypodermic needles and syringes. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to control the sale, purchase, handling a…

Sec. 21a-67. (Formerly Sec. 19-209c). Apricot kernels. Labeling requirement. No person shall sell or offer for sale any apricot kernels unless such kernels are packaged and each package is labeled with a warning that such kernels contain cyanide and that ingestion of such kernels…

Sec. 21a-68. (Formerly Sec. 19-209d). Packaging of veterinary drugs. Any substance containing aspirin, or a controlled substance as defined in section 21a-240, or a legend drug as defined in section 20-l84a, sold or offered for sale in this state and intended to be administered t…

Sec. 21a-69. (Formerly Sec. 19-209e). “Companion animal” defined by regulation. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, with the advice and assistance of the State Board of Veterinary Registration and Examination, shall by regulation adopted in accordance with chapter 54 define …

Sec. 21a-70. (Formerly Sec. 19-210). Registration of manufacturers and wholesalers of drugs. Sale of drugs limited. (a) Definitions. As used in this section: (1) “Drugs”, “devices” and “cosmetics” have the same meanings as defined in section 21a-92, “wholesaler” or “distributor” …

Sec. 21a-70a. (Formerly Sec. 21a-250a). Distribution of noncontrolled drugs used as emergency stock. Noncontrolled drugs distributed as emergency stock to a medical director of a chronic and convalescent nursing home or a rest home with nursing supervision shall be supplied in co…

Sec. 21a-70b. Regulation of sales of drugs at flea markets. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Flea market” means any location other than a permanent retail store at which space is rented or otherwise made available to others for the conduct of business as transient or itinerant v…

Sec. 21a-70c. Prescription drug pedigree program. Working group convened. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall convene a working group comprised of the Commissioners of Consumer Protection and Emergency Services and Public Protection, or their designees, a member of …

Sec. 21a-70d. Definitions. As used in this section and section 21a-70e: (1) “Biologic” means a biological product, as defined in 42 USC 262(i), as amended from time to time, that is regulated as a drug under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 USC 301 et seq.; (2) “Depart…

Sec. 21a-70e. Pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing company. Adoption of code on interaction with health care professionals and comprehensive compliance program. Civil penalty. (a) On or before January 1, 2011, each pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturing company …

Sec. 21a-70f. Report of payment or transfer of value by manufacturer to advanced practice registered nurse who is practicing not in collaboration with a physician. Penalty. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Advanced practice registered nurse” means a person licensed pursuant…

Sec. 21a-70g. Investigational drug, biological product or device for patients with terminal illnesses. Liability of manufacturer. (a) A manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product or device, as defined in section 20-14q, may make available the manufacturer's inves…

Sec. 21a-70h. Registration as pharmaceutical marketing firm. Definitions. For the purposes of this section and sections 21a-70i to 21a-70k: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection or the commissioner's authorized representative; (2) “Contact” means any co…

Sec. 21a-70i. Registration of pharmaceutical manufacturer as pharmaceutical marketing firm. Fees. List of employees. Reports. (a) On and after October 1, 2023, a pharmaceutical manufacturer that employs a pharmaceutical representative shall register annually with the department a…

Sec. 21a-70j. Disclosures re legend drugs. Each pharmaceutical marketing firm that employs or compensates a pharmaceutical representative who is engaged in marketing, promoting or providing information regarding a legend drug for human use in this state shall ensure that such pha…

Sec. 21a-70k. Authority of commissioner re pharmaceutical marketing firms. Regulations. (a) The commissioner may (1) refuse to authorize the issuance or renewal of a registration to operate as a pharmaceutical marketing firm, (2) revoke, suspend or place conditions on a registrat…

Sec. 21a-71. (Formerly Sec. 19-210a). Sale of food, drug or cosmetic at auction. No person shall sell any food, drug or cosmetic, as defined by section 21a-92, at an auction, unless such person has notified the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, in writing, of such sale; provid…

Sec. 21a-72. (Formerly Sec. 19-210b). Certificate of disinfection of stuffed toys. Any manufacturer of stuffed toys to be sold in the state using materials in such toys containing products of animal origin shall obtain from the Department of Consumer Protection a certificate of d…

Sec. 21a-73. (Formerly Sec. 19-210c). Unit pricing: Definitions. As used in sections 21a-73 to 21a-77, inclusive: (a) “Commissioner” means Commissioner of Consumer Protection; (b) “Consumer commodity” means any food, including, but not limited to, any food that is weighed for ret…

Sec. 21a-74. (Formerly Sec. 19-210d). Seller to disclose unit and total price of consumer commodity. (a) Any person who sells or offers or exposes for sale at retail any consumer commodity designated by the commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of section 21a-75, shall …

Sec. 21a-75. (Formerly Sec. 19-210e). Regulations. Hearings. Civil penalties for noncompliance. (a) The commissioner shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 21a-73 to 21a-77, inclusive, for the best interests of consumers and, in addition, shall by…

Sec. 21a-76. (Formerly Sec. 19-210f). Exceptions. The provisions of sections 21a-73 to 21a-77, inclusive, shall not apply to any owner-operated single retail store or to any store occupying a total retail sales area of not more than three thousand five hundred square feet. (1971,…

Sec. 21a-77. (Formerly Sec. 19-210g). Criminal penalty. Any person who violates any provision of sections 21a-73 to 21a-77, inclusive, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars for the first offense and not more than one thousand dollars for each subsequent offense. Each v…

Sec. 21a-78. (Formerly Sec. 19-210i). Shelf life pricing; definition; penalty. Section 21a-78 is repealed, effective October 1, 1999. (P.A. 75-601; P.A. 88-56; 88-364, S. 115, 123; P.A. 99-23, S. 2.)

Sec. 21a-78a. Transferred to Chapter 743h, Sec. 42-230.

Sec. 21a-78b. Suspension of application. Monitoring by department. Section 21a-78b is repealed, effective October 1, 1999. (P.A. 96-220, S. 6, 7; P.A. 97-78, S. 2, 3; P.A. 99-23, S. 2.)

Sec. 21a-79. (Formerly Sec. 19-210j). Universal product coding. Electronic shelf labeling. Electronic pricing. Marking of retail price. Electronic price higher than posted price for consumer commodity. Coupons. Exemptions. Regulations. Penalties. (a) For the purposes of this sect…

Sec. 21a-79a. Program for test audit of alternative electronic retail pricing systems. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 21a-79 and any regulations adopted under said section, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection may, within available appropriations, establish a pr…

Sec. 21a-79b. Consumer commodity. Price at point of sale higher than posted or advertised price. Sign. Coupon. Warning citation or civil penalty. Exemptions. (a) For the purposes of this section, “consumer commodity” has the same meaning as provided in section 21a-79. (b) (1) Not…

Secs. 21a-80 and 21a-81. (Formerly Secs. 19-210k and 19-210l). Natural or organically grown foods; requirements. Misbranding of natural or organically grown foods. Sections 21a-80 and 21a-81 are repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (P.A. 79-379, S. 2, 3; P.A. 80-483, S. 80, 186; P.A…

Sec. 21a-82. (Formerly Sec. 19-65a). Use of paint in tenements and municipally-owned buildings. (a) No person, firm or corporation shall use any paint on an interior surface of any tenement house, lodging house or boarding house as defined in chapter 368o nor on or around the int…

Sec. 21a-83. (Formerly Sec. 19-65b). Packaging or sale of paint not conforming to federal standards. Labeling requirements. On or after January 1, 1976, no person, firm or corporation shall package, distribute, offer for sale, sell or give away any paint which does not conform to…

Sec. 21a-84. (Formerly Sec. 19-65c). Seizure of mislabeled paint. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may seize and remove for safe keeping paint which any person, firm or corporation packages, distributes, offers for sale, sells or gives away in violation of section 21a-83. …

Sec. 21a-84a. Connecticut Poison Control Center: Publication and distribution of list of poisonous plants. (a) The Connecticut Poison Control Center shall annually furnish a list of poisonous plants to trade associations that represent retailers of flowers and plants for publicat…

Sec. 21a-85. (Formerly Sec. 19-65d). Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of sections 21a-82 and 21a-83 shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. (1971, P.A. 35, S. 1.) History: Sec. 19-65d transferred to Sec. 21a-85 in 1983. Cited. 31…

Sec. 21a-86. “Plumbing fixtures” defined. As used in sections 21a-86a to 21a-86g, inclusive, “plumbing fixtures” means water closets, including tank-type toilets, flushometer-tank toilets, flushometer-valve toilets, electromechanical hydraulic toilets and any other toilet that us…

Sec. 21a-86a. Regulations establishing minimum efficiency standards for plumbing fixtures and other water-saving devices. (a) On or before October 1, 1990, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, in consultation with the State Building Inspector and the Commissioners of Public H…

Sec. 21a-86b. Compliance with standards. No person may sell, offer for sale or install any new showerhead, urinal, faucet or replacement aerator on and after October 1, 1990, or any new tank-type toilet, flushometer-valve toilet, flushometer-tank toilet or electromechanical hydra…

Sec. 21a-86c. Procedures for testing plumbing fixtures. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, in consultation with the State Building Inspector and the Commissioners of Public Health and Energy and Environmental Protection, shall establish procedures for testing the effici…

Sec. 21a-86d. Right of access by commissioner to places where plumbing fixtures are sold, stored or maintained. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall have access at all reasonable times to places where distributors or retailers sell, store or maintain plumbing fixture…