Title 30 — Title 30: Intoxicating Liquors

Sec. 30-37j. Caterer liquor permit. Notice requirements. Exemptions. Exclusive catering services contracts. (a) A caterer liquor permit shall allow a person regularly engaged in the business of providing food and beverages to others for service at private gatherings or at special…

Sec. 30-37k. Casino permit. (a) As used in this section and subsection (a) of section 30-91: (1) “Casino” means the premises within which a gaming facility is operated with other facilities, including, but not limited to, restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, bingo halls or convention…

Secs. 30-37l to 30-37n. Wine festival permit. Out-of-state entity wine festival permit. Wine festival and out-of-state entity wine festival permits. Notification to chief municipal law enforcement official. Sections 30-37l to 30-37n, inclusive, are repealed, effective May 23, 202…

Sec. 30-37o. Farmers' market sales permit. Municipal prohibition of sale. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall issue a farmers' market sales permit to the holder of a manufacturer permit issued under section 30-16 upon submission of proof to the commissioner that suc…

Sec. 30-37p. Gift basket retailer permit. (a) A gift basket retailer permit shall allow the retail sale of wine, mead or beer. Such wine, mead or beer shall be included in a gift basket sold at retail by the permit holder. Such wine, mead or beer shall not be consumed on the prem…

Sec. 30-37q. Sale, delivery or shipment of gift baskets containing wine or beer. Requirements. Audit. Advertising. Regulations. (a) A gift basket retailer permit issued in accordance with section 30-37p shall allow the sale and delivery or shipment of gift baskets containing wine…

Sec. 30-37r. Farmers' market beer sales permit. Municipal prohibition of sale of beer by permittee. Section 30-37r is repealed, effective July 1, 2020. (P.A. 15-24, S. 10; P.A. 17-160, S. 3; P.A. 19-24, S. 27.)

Sec. 30-37s. Religious wine retailer permit. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Religious organization” means (A) any religious corporation, society or organization that is formed or recognized under chapter 598, or (B) any religious organization that is eligible for an e…

Sec. 30-37t. Festival permit. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Eligible manufacturer” means the holder of a manufacturer permit for (A) spirits issued under subsection (a) of section 30-16, (B) beer issued under subsection (b) of section 30-16, (C) a farm winery issued …

Sec. 30-37u. Temporary auction permit. Regulations. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Auctioneer” means any person who (A) regularly provides professional services by auctioning items for sale, and (B) does not hold any other permit issued under this chapter; and (2) “In…

Sec. 30-38. Storage of liquor. Approval of facilities. Each permit granted under the provisions of sections 30-16, 30-17, 30-20, 30-21, 30-21b, 30-22, 30-22a, 30-22g, 30-22aa, 30-28a, 30-33a, and 30-36, shall also, under the regulations of the Department of Consumer Protection, a…

Sec. 30-38a. Transfer of liquor between retail permit premises under common ownership. In all cases where two or more retail liquor permit premises are in common or cooperative ownership, or where a majority of the capital stock having voting privileges of corporations owning tog…

Sec. 30-38b. Permits for on-premises consumption of alcoholic liquor. Limit on number of drinks sold to person. (a) A permit issued pursuant to this title for any on-premises consumption of alcoholic liquor shall allow the retail sale of not more than two drinks to any one person…

Sec. 30-39. Applications for permits, renewals. Fees. Publication, remonstrance, hearing. Prohibited conduct by third parties, hearing, penalties. (a) For the purposes of this section, the “filing date” of an application means the date upon which the department, after approving t…

Sec. 30-39a. Bartender certificate. When required. Application; fee; refusal; exemption. Section 30-39a is repealed. (P.A. 75-642, S. 2; 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. 82-332, S. 12, 13.)

Sec. 30-39b. Adoption of ordinance re written notice of liquor permit renewal application. Report. (a) A municipality may adopt an ordinance requiring each person who files an application pursuant to section 30-39 for renewal of a liquor permit that allows on-premises serving or …

Sec. 30-4. Commissioners and employees prohibited from dealing in or manufacturing alcoholic liquor. No commissioner of the Liquor Control Commission and no employee of the Department of Consumer Protection who carries out the duties and responsibilities of sections 30-2 to 30-68…

Sec. 30-40. Second application. (a) No person, permittee or backer whose application for a permit has been denied on the ground that he is an unsuitable person may make another application for a permit within one year after such denial. (b) No person, permittee or backer whose pe…

Secs. 30-41 and 30-42. Permit fees. Rebate of permit fees. Sections 30-41 and 30-42 are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4260, 4279; 1951, 1953, S. 2153d, 2162d; November, 1955, S. N197; March, 1958, P.A. 21, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 55; 1961, P.A. 567, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 179, S.…

Sec. 30-42a. Permit fee rebate. Whenever, by reason of any catastrophe, act of God or serious natural disaster, on or after January 1, 1993, a business for which a permit has been issued by the Department of Consumer Protection is discontinued, the Department of Consumer Protecti…

Sec. 30-43. Granting and denial of permits. Notice of hearing. Permits may be granted without hearing by the Department of Consumer Protection in its discretion; but, in any case of the denial of or refusal to renew a permit, the department shall, in such manner as it directs, no…

Sec. 30-43a. Continuance of certain permits until due for renewal or until replacement permit becomes available. The holder of a permit issued prior to July 1, 2020, under section 30-16, 30-16a, 30-19f, 30-20a, 30-21, 30-22, 30-22a, 30-23, 30-24a, 30-26, 30-28, 30-29, 30-33a, 30-…

Sec. 30-44. Mandatory refusal of permit where sale prohibited. The Department of Consumer Protection shall refuse permits for the sale of alcoholic liquor (1) in no-permit towns and (2) where prohibited by the zoning ordinance of any city or town. (1949 Rev., S. 4262; 1959, P.A. …

Sec. 30-45. Mandatory refusal of permits to certain persons. Exceptions. The Department of Consumer Protection shall refuse permits for the sale of alcoholic liquor to the following persons: (1) Any state marshal, judicial marshal, judge of any court, prosecuting officer or membe…

Sec. 30-46. Discretionary suspension, revocation or refusal of permit; location or character of premises; other grounds. (a) The Department of Consumer Protection may, except as to a store engaged chiefly in the sale of groceries, in its discretion, suspend, revoke or refuse to g…

Sec. 30-46a. Permit for restaurant within a coliseum. The issuance of a coliseum permit shall not prohibit the issuance of a restaurant permit permitted under this chapter for a restaurant within a coliseum. (P.A. 73-533, S. 10; P.A. 21-37, S. 67.) History: P.A. 21-37 deleted ref…

Sec. 30-47. Discretionary suspension, revocation or refusal of permits; fine; disqualification of applicant, applicant's backer, backer or permittee; alcohol seller and server training program; permittee participation. (a) The Department of Consumer Protection may, in its discret…

Sec. 30-48. Limitations of permits; exceptions. Loans. Period of credit. Resolution of credit disputes. Relationship of permittee to backer. (a) No backer or permittee of one permit class shall be a backer or permittee of any other permit class except in the case of airline permi…

Sec. 30-48a. Limitation on interest in retail permits. (a) No person, and no backer, as defined in section 30-1, shall, except as provided in this section, acquire an interest in more than four alcoholic beverage retail permits, except that on and after July 1, 2021, such person …

Sec. 30-48b. Municipalities and authorities as backers of coliseum permittees. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special act or any municipal charter to the contrary, a municipality or a civic center authority or a coliseum authority created by a munici…

Secs. 30-49 and 30-50. Sale of liquor on credit. Period of credit. Suspension of credit restrictions in case of disaster. Sections 30-49 and 30-50 are repealed. (1951, S. 2168d; November, 1955, S. N199; February, 1965, P.A. 598; P.A. 75-641, S. 14; P.A. 77-438, S. 6.)

Sec. 30-5. Receipts and expenditures. The moneys received from the permit fees shall be deposited by the Department of Consumer Protection daily with the State Treasurer. Such deposit shall operate as a full discharge of the department of all liability therefor. The expenses of t…

Sec. 30-51. Prohibition on sale of alcoholic liquor in building where portion not used as permit premises. Approval of new means of access to permit premises. No permit may be issued for the sale of alcoholic liquor in any building, a portion of which will not be used as the perm…

Sec. 30-51a. Leasing of part of premises operating under grocery store beer permit. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 30-47 and section 30-51, a permittee of premises operating under a grocery store beer permit issued under subsection …

Sec. 30-52. Permit to specify location and revocability. Removal to another location. (a) Every permit for the sale of alcoholic liquor shall specify the town and the particular building or place in such town in which such liquor is to be sold, and shall not authorize any sale in…

Sec. 30-53. Permit to be recorded. Each permit granted or renewed by the Department of Consumer Protection shall be of no effect until a duplicate thereof has been filed by the permittee with the town clerk of the town within which the club or place of business described in such …

Sec. 30-54. Permit to be hung in plain view. Every permittee, other than a corporation holding a cafe permit issued under subsection (h) of section 30-22a, or an airline permit issued under section 30-28a, shall cause such permittee's permit or a duplicate thereof to be framed an…

Sec. 30-55. Revocation, suspension or placing conditions on permits and provisional permits. Fine. Hearing. (a) The Department of Consumer Protection may, in its discretion, revoke, suspend or place conditions on any permit or provisional permit or impose a fine of not greater th…

Sec. 30-55a. Suspension of permit for failure to pay unemployment compensation contributions. Suspension of permit for violation of noise standards. (a) The Department of Consumer Protection shall, upon notice from the administrator of the Unemployment Compensation Act of the nam…

Sec. 30-56. When appeal not to act as stay of execution. (a) When any permit is revoked or suspended after a final decision pursuant to chapter 54 or upon forfeiture of bond under the provisions of section 30-57, an appeal therefrom shall not act as a stay of execution upon such …

Sec. 30-57. Conviction of permittee or backer; revocation or suspension of permit; forfeiture. When any permittee or backer has been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of any of the laws of the United States or of the laws of any other state pert…

Sec. 30-58. Revocation of permit obtained by fraud. Whenever any permit under this chapter has been obtained by fraud or misrepresentation, the Department of Consumer Protection, upon proof that such permit was so obtained, shall, upon hearing had, revoke the same, and all moneys…

Sec. 30-58a. Offer in compromise in lieu of suspension. The Department of Consumer Protection, in the department's discretion and subject to such regulations as the department may adopt, may accept from any applicant, applicant's backer, backer or permittee an offer in compromise…

Sec. 30-58b. Continuation of service when special sporting facility permit revoked. Application for new permit. Section 30-58b is repealed, effective July 1, 2021. (P.A. 74-307, S. 10; 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, 3…

Sec. 30-59. Posting of notice of revocation or suspension. The Department of Consumer Protection shall post notice of any revocation or suspension of any permit on the department's Internet web site. (1949 Rev., S. 4274; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136;…

Sec. 30-59a. Suspension of permit for license suspension or revocation. The Department of Consumer Protection may suspend any permit issued under this chapter if the permittee has had a license suspended or revoked by the department until such license has been restored to such pe…

Sec. 30-6. Powers and duties of Department of Consumer Protection; report; records and certified copies. (a) The Department of Consumer Protection shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. The department may, upon notification by the Governor that a state of emergency exists …

Sec. 30-60. Appeal. Any applicant for a permit or for the renewal of a permit for the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquor whose application is refused or any applicant or permittee whose permit is denied, revoked or suspended by the Department of Consumer Protection or any te…

Sec. 30-61. Service of process on members of commission. Service of process in any action in which the commission is a party shall be made upon any member of the commission. (1949 Rev., S. 4278; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 21-37, S. 90.) Histo…

Sec. 30-62. Substitution of permittees. Fee. In any case a new permittee may be substituted when so requested, provided the person so substituted shall be a suitable person as defined and set forth in this chapter, and such person shall be permitted to serve in the place and stea…