Title 29 — Title 29: Public Safety and State Police

Sec. 29-10. Commissioner may delegate authority. Any person may, and any policeman, with the consent of the authority to which he is subject, shall, go to any part of the state when required by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, and, while so acting und…

Sec. 29-10a. Use of state police rifle ranges by civilian rifle clubs. Civilian rifle clubs affiliated with the National Rifle Association of the United States and members of organized police departments may be permitted to use the outdoor and indoor rifle and pistol ranges belon…

Sec. 29-10b. Fees for record searches and copies. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall charge the following fees for the item or service indicated: (1) Each search of the record files made pursuant to a request for a copy of an accident or investigat…

Sec. 29-10c. Accident records of state police. Any memorandum, sketch, chart, written statement, report or photograph obtained, prepared or created by the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in the investigation of any accide…

Sec. 29-11. State Police Bureau of Identification. Fees. Agreements re fingerprinting. Regulations. (a) The bureau in the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection known as the State Police Bureau of Identification shall be maintai…

Sec. 29-11a. State police to report arrests to Bureau of Identification. Any state police officer who makes an arrest of a person shall, without delay, report the record of such arrest to the State Police Bureau of Identification. For the purposes of this section, “record of such…

Sec. 29-12. Fingerprints, photograph and physical description of arrested persons. Regulations. (a) All persons arrested for crime as described in section 29-11 shall submit to the taking of their fingerprints, photograph and physical description and all constables and chiefs of …

Sec. 29-12a. Maintenance of fingerprints in electronic format. Destruction of paper copy. Electronic submission of fingerprints. (a) The State Police Bureau of Identification may maintain the fingerprints of arrested persons received pursuant to section 29-12 and of persons who h…

Sec. 29-13. Notice of judgments. When the criminal charge against a person who has been arrested and fingerprinted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter is disposed of in any court, the clerk of such court shall, within three days, notify the State Police Bureau of Id…

Sec. 29-14. Duties of bureau. Said bureau shall, on the receipt of any such identification card, immediately cause the files to be examined and shall promptly return to the police department or peace officer submitting such identification card a true transcript of the record of p…

Sec. 29-15. Return or destruction of fingerprints, photograph and physical description. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, whenever any person, having no record of prior criminal conviction, whose fingerprints, photograph and physical description are…

Sec. 29-16. Use of information. Conviction information, as defined in subsection (c) of section 54-142g, contained in the files of the State Police Bureau of Identification, shall be available to the public in accordance with the provisions of section 54-142k. All information con…

Sec. 29-17. Penalty. Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of sections 29-11 to 29-16, inclusive, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. (1949 Rev., S. 3659.) Cited. 196 C. 430. Cited. 1 CA 697.

Sec. 29-17a. Criminal history records checks. Procedure. Fees. (a) If a criminal history records check is required pursuant to any provision of the general statutes, such check shall be requested from the State Police Bureau of Identification and shall be applicable to the indivi…

Sec. 29-17b. Criminal history records checks of coaches in police-sponsored athletic activities. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall perform state and national criminal history records checks at the request of any sworn police officer with respect to …

Sec. 29-17c. Collection of fingerprints by municipal police department or Division of State Police. Fees. (a) No employee of a municipal police department or the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall refuse to collect the…

Sec. 29-18. Special policemen for state property. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may appoint one or more persons nominated by the administrative authority of any state buildings or lands including, but not limited to, state owned and managed housing …

Sec. 29-18a. Special policemen for investigating public assistance fraud. Appointment, powers and duties. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may appoint one or more persons to act as special policemen in the Department of Emergency Services and Public Pr…

Sec. 29-18b. Special policemen for Department of Revenue Services. (a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may appoint persons nominated by the Commissioner of Revenue Services to act as special policemen in the Department of Revenue Services. Such appoin…

Sec. 29-18c. Special policemen for Department of Consumer Protection. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may appoint not more than four persons employed as investigators in the security unit of the Department of Consumer Protection, upon the nomination o…

Sec. 29-18d. Special police officers for Department of Children and Families. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall appoint not more than two persons nominated by the Commissioner of Children and Families to act as special police officers. Each such s…

Sec. 29-19. Special police officers for utility and transportation companies. Special police officer for the Connecticut Airport Authority. (a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may, upon the application of any electric distribution, gas, telephone or w…

Sec. 29-1zz. (Formerly Sec. 29-1a). Terms “State Police Commissioner” or “Commissioner of State Police” deemed to mean Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection; “State Police Department” deemed to mean Division of State Police. (a) Whenever the term “State Police …

Sec. 29-2. Powers of commissioner. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall have general jurisdiction of the affairs of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and shall have all the powers and privi…

Sec. 29-20. Special policemen for armored cars. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may, upon the application of any person, firm or corporation operating an armored car service within this state, commission during his pleasure one or more suitable person…

Sec. 29-21. Special policemen for war industry premises. Upon the application of any person, firm or corporation engaged in the production of war materials owning, leasing, maintaining, managing or controlling any property, plant or equipment in this state, the Commissioner of Em…

Sec. 29-22. Volunteer police auxiliary force. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection is authorized to recruit, train and organize a volunteer police auxiliary force for the purpose of providing emergency services throughout the state for peacetime or wartime…

Sec. 29-23. Emergency service and equipment. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection is authorized to provide and maintain appropriate emergency equipment and emergency services to protect life and property endangered by fire, explosions, floods and other cau…

Sec. 29-23a. Establishment of rotational system for summoning wreckers. Exemptions. Regulations. (a) The Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection may establish, within its patrol jurisdiction, a rotational system for summoning lic…

Sec. 29-24. Disposition of money recovered in case of theft from the person or robbery. Section 29-24 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3663; P.A. 75-530, S. 24, 35.)

Sec. 29-25. Laundry and dry cleaning identification marks. Each person, firm or corporation conducting a laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or offering as an independent contractor the services of such an establishment, shall report to the Commissioner of Emergency Services a…

Sec. 29-26. Training of municipal police at State Police Training School. Any municipality or other political subdivision of the state may enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection to secure the services of the State Police Training…

Sec. 29-27. “Pistol” and “revolver” defined. The term “pistol” and the term “revolver”, as used in sections 29-28 to 29-38, inclusive, mean any firearm having a barrel less than twelve inches in length. (1949 Rev., S. 4157; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 14.) History: July Sp. Sess…

Sec. 29-28. Permit for sale at retail of firearms. Permit to carry pistol or revolver. Confidentiality of name and address of permit holder. Permits for out-of-state residents. (a)(1) No person who sells ten or more firearms in a calendar year or is a federally licensed firearm d…

Sec. 29-28a. Application for permit. Notice of decision to applicant. (a) Requests for temporary state permits under section 29-28 shall be submitted to the chief of police, the chief of police of a law enforcement unit of any federally recognized Native American tribe within the…

Sec. 29-28b. Holders of permits to sell firearms at retail. Duties. Inventory reconciliation. (a) In addition to any other duty required by this chapter, a person who possesses a permit to sell firearms at retail issued pursuant to subsection (a) of section 29-28 shall not: (1) F…

Sec. 29-29. Information concerning criminal records of applicants for permits. (a) No temporary state permit for carrying any pistol or revolver shall be issued under the provisions of section 29-28 unless the applicant for such permit gives to the local authority, or the chief o…

Sec. 29-2a. Legal review of police policies and practices of Division of State Police. The Chief State's Attorney and the Attorney General, or their designees who shall be attorneys in their respective offices, shall annually conduct a legal review of the police policies and prac…

Sec. 29-2b. Imposition of pedestrian citation or traffic ticket quotas prohibited. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall not impose any quota with respect to the issuance of citations to pedestrians or summonses for motor vehicle violations upon any pol…

Sec. 29-3. “State policeman” defined. “State policeman” or “state policemen”, wherever used in the general statutes, shall, unless otherwise indicated by the context, include a state policewoman or state policewomen. (1949 Rev., S. 3642.)

Sec. 29-30. Fees for permits for sale at retail of firearms and for carrying of pistols and revolvers. Expiration and renewal of permits. (a) The fee for each permit originally issued under the provisions of subsection (a) of section 29-28 for the sale at retail of firearms shall…

Sec. 29-31. Display of permit to sell. Record of sales. No sale of any firearm shall be made except in the room, store or place described in the permit for the sale of firearms, and such permit or a copy of such permit certified by the authority issuing the same shall be exposed …

Sec. 29-32. Revocation of permit. Notification. Confiscation. Penalty for failure to surrender permit. Reinstatement of permit. (a) For the purposes of this section, “conviction” means the entry of a judgment of conviction by any court of competent jurisdiction. (b) Any state per…

Sec. 29-32a. Appeal from refusal or revocation of permit. Section 29-32a is repealed. (1959, P.A. 263, S. 1; 615, S. 24; 1967, P.A. 633, S. 1.)

Sec. 29-32b. Board of Firearms Permit Examiners. Appeals to board. Hearings. (a) There is established a Board of Firearms Permit Examiners, within the Office of Governmental Accountability established under section 1-300, to be comprised of nine members, eight of whom shall be ap…

Sec. 29-32c. Law enforcement unit posting of rights concerning firearms. The administrative head of each law enforcement unit, as defined in section 7-291e, shall ensure that each police station, headquarters or barracks under such administrative head's jurisdiction posts in a co…

Sec. 29-33. Sale, delivery or transfer of pistols and revolvers. Procedure. Penalty. (a) No person, firm or corporation shall sell, deliver or otherwise transfer any pistol or revolver to any person who is prohibited from possessing a pistol or revolver as provided in section 53a…

Sec. 29-34. False statement or information in connection with sale or transfer of pistol or revolver prohibited. Sale or transfer to person under twenty-one years of age prohibited. Temporary transfers. Penalties. (a) No person shall make any false statement or give any false inf…

Sec. 29-35. Carrying of pistol or revolver without permit prohibited. Knowingly carrying any firearm with intent to display such firearm prohibited. Exceptions. (a)(1) No person shall carry any pistol or revolver upon such person's person, except when such person is within such p…

Sec. 29-36. Alteration of firearm identification mark, serial number or name. (a) No person shall remove, deface, alter or obliterate the name of any maker or model or any maker's number, unique serial number or other mark of identification on any firearm as defined in section 53…