Title 53 — Title 53: Crimes

Sec. 53-289d. Entertainment event ticketing sales systems. Prohibitions. Paperless ticketing systems. Denial of admission to entertainment events. Exclusions. Unfair or deceptive act or practice. (a)(1) No person shall employ an entertainment event ticketing sales system that fai…

Sec. 53-289e. Automated ticket purchasing software. Prohibitions. Unfair or deceptive act or practice. (a) No person shall utilize automated ticket purchasing software to purchase tickets on an Internet web site. For purposes of this section, “automated ticket purchasing software…

Sec. 53-290. Lotteries prohibited; publication of promotional drawing. Section 53-290 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8667; 1955, S. 3306d; 1963, P.A. 516; 1971, P.A. 865, S. 21; P.A. 73-455, S. 9.)

Sec. 53-290a. Disclosures re promotional drawings. Any person who operates a promotional drawing which is authorized by the provisions of section 53-278g shall cause to be printed on each ticket or token of participation, in type not less than one-third the size of the largest ty…

Secs. 53-291 to 53-300. Sale of property by lottery. Property disposed of by hazard. Lottery tickets not to be sold. Drawing a lottery. Pool selling. Sporting contest pools. Policy playing; gaming by use of lottery slips or tickets. Possession of lottery tickets of other state or…

Sec. 53-300a. Sunday real estate contracts valid. No provision of section 53-302a shall be construed to render invalid any contract for the sale or lease of real property entered into on Sunday, and no such contract, entered into after October 1, 1967, shall be deemed to be inval…

Sec. 53-301. Dealing in automobiles on Sunday. Section 53-301 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 8607; 1951, 1953, 1955, S. 3302d; 1957, P.A. 614, S. 1; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 53-302. Employment of labor on Sunday. Section 53-302 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8608; 1967, P.A. 888; 1969, P.A. 435; P.A. 76-415, S. 9; 76-435, S. 81, 82.)

Sec. 53-302a. Employment of labor on Sunday prohibited; exceptions. Sunday sales. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in work, labor or business, or employ others in work, labor or business on Sunday, except the following: (a) Any enterprise whose activities are conducted…

Sec. 53-303. Persons who observe Saturday excepted from Sunday law. No person who conscientiously believes that the seventh day of the week ought to be observed as the Sabbath, and actually refrains from work, labor or business on that day, or who conscientiously believes that th…

Sec. 53-303a. Retail sales on certain holidays. Section 53-303a is repealed. (1961, P.A. 421; 1963, P.A. 384; P.A. 76-415, S. 9; 76-435, S. 81, 82.)

Sec. 53-303b. Employment of labor and retail sales on certain holidays. (a) The provisions of section 53-302a shall apply to Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, New Year's Day, Memorial and Independence Day, or if any of said days is on Sunday, to the Monday following, and to Labor Day.…

Sec. 53-303c. Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation who violates any provision of sections 52-207, 53-300a, 53-302a or 53-303 to 53-303e, inclusive, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense; not more than five hundred dollars for the second and …

Sec. 53-303d. Injunction. Any of the following may petition the superior court for the judicial district in which the violation occurs to enjoin any violations of section 53-302a or section 53-303b: (a) Any person engaged in work, labor or business prohibited or regulated by sect…

Sec. 53-303e. More than six days employment in calendar week prohibited. Employee remedies. (a) No employer shall compel any employee engaged in any commercial occupation or in the work of any industrial process to work more than six days in any calendar week. An employee's refus…

Sec. 53-303f. Lease provisions requiring Sunday openings prohibited. Section 53-303f is repealed. (P.A. 78-329, S. 5; P.A. 79-415, S. 2.)

Sec. 53-303g. Transferred to Chapter 830, Sec. 47a-4b.

Sec. 53-304. Nonsupport. Support orders and agreements. Administration of oaths by family relations counselors and support enforcement officers. (a) Any person who neglects or refuses to furnish reasonably necessary support to the person's spouse, child under the age of eighteen …

Sec. 53-305. Bond on appeal. If the accused appeals, such court, in addition to requiring a recognizance or appearance bond, may order such accused to give a bond conditioned for his furnishing support pending the determination of such appeal. (1949 Rev., S. 8587; 1967, P.A. 656,…

Sec. 53-306. Failure to comply with terms or make payment. If any person convicted under section 53-304 fails to comply fully with the terms and conditions imposed under the provisions of said section or to make any payment required by any bond given pursuant to an appeal under s…

Sec. 53-307. Jurisdiction. Section 53-307 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8589; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)

Sec. 53-308. Forfeited bonds in nonsupport cases. When any bond or recognizance conditioned for the appearance of any person accused in any information or complaint charging a violation of any of the provisions of section 53-304 becomes forfeited or whenever any person convicted …

Secs. 53-309 to 53-311. Abandonment. Combination to increase price of necessities. Issuing currency; bills of credit. Sections 53-309 to 53-311, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8591, 8611, 8612; 1949, S. 3296d; 1969, P.A. 828, S. 214; 1971, P.A. 608, S. 22.)

Sec. 53-311a. Distribution of unsolicited credit cards, charge plates. (a) No person, company, partnership or corporation shall engage in the practice of mailing or the distribution in any form of any credit card, charge plate or any like instrument or device to any other person,…

Sec. 53-312. False statements of the value of stocks, bonds and other property. Section 53-312 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8613; 1969, P.A. 591, S. 3.)

Sec. 53-313. “Bucket shop”; definition. A bucket shop, within the meaning of this section and section 53-314, is defined to be an office, store or other place wherein the proprietor or keeper thereof, either in his or its own behalf, or as the agent or correspondent of any other …

Sec. 53-314. Keeping bucket shop. No corporation, association, copartnership or person shall keep or cause to be kept any bucket shop; and any person or corporation, whether acting individually, or as a member of, or an officer, agent or employee of, any corporation, association …

Sec. 53-315. Keeping bucket shop; accessory. Any corporation, association, copartnership or person who communicates, receives, exhibits or displays, in any manner, any statements of quotations of the prices of any property mentioned in section 53-313, with a view to any transacti…

Sec. 53-316. Information to be furnished to customers. Each commission merchant, copartnership, association, corporation, person or broker engaged in the business of buying or selling or buying and selling stocks, grain, provisions or other commodities or personal property for an…

Sec. 53-317. Fraudulent sale of kosher meat, meat products and other food. Section 53-317 is repealed, effective July 1, 2016. (1949 Rev., S. 8618; P.A. 16-117, S. 7.)

Sec. 53-318. Sale, use or exposure of diseased horses and other animals. Section 53-318 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8619; P.A. 80-159.)

Sec. 53-319. Sale or shipment of diseased flesh. (a) Carcasses of young calves, pigs, kids and lambs are unfit for human consumption and shall be condemned if (1) the meat has the appearance of being water-soaked, is loose, flabby, tears easily and can be perforated with the fing…

Sec. 53-320. Distribution of noxious seeds or poisons. No person shall spread, distribute, sow, have in his possession or deliver to another, with malicious intent, any seeds of foul or noxious plants, or spread or distribute poisons upon the land or trees of another except for t…

Sec. 53-321. Sale of thistle seed in grass seed. Any person who vends any grass seed, in which he knows there is any seed of the Canada thistle, shall be fined not more than ten dollars. (1949 Rev., S. 8622.)

Sec. 53-322. Sale of clams by the barrel or bushel. Any person who sells clams usually known as quahogs, cherry stones or little necks by the barrel or bushel, unless such barrel contains not less than two hundred forty pounds or such bushel contains not less than eighty pounds n…

Sec. 53-323. Coercion in placing of insurance on real or personal property. Payment for inspection of damaged property. Time limit for inspection. No person, firm or corporation selling real or personal property or engaged in the business of financing the purchase of real or pers…

Sec. 53-324. Articles purporting to be made of gold to be marked. Any article represented to be of gold, which is made for sale or offered for sale, or held in possession with intent to sell, by any dealer, shall bear upon it, plainly stamped, the figures indicating the exact num…

Sec. 53-325. Articles made of gold or alloy; false representations. Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of gold or any alloy or imitation …

Sec. 53-326. Sterling silver defined. Penalty. Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of silver, or any alloy or imitation thereof, having th…

Sec. 53-327. Coin silver defined. Penalty. Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of silver, or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereo…

Sec. 53-328. Manufacture and sale of gold and silver articles. Any manufacturer of or dealer in articles constructed in part of gold or silver or any alloy or imitation thereof, upon payment of a fee of ten dollars, may file in the office of the Secretary of the State a bond exec…

Sec. 53-329. Products of prison labor. Proceeds from sales credited to industrial fund. No person, firm or corporation shall possess, use, distribute, exchange, sell or offer for sale in this state any goods, wares or merchandise manufactured, produced or mined wholly or in part …

Sec. 53-330. Admission to public performances. As used in this section, “places of public entertainment and amusement” means legitimate theaters, burlesque theaters, music halls, opera houses, concert halls, circuses and motion picture theaters. No person, agency, bureau, corpora…

Sec. 53-330a. Access to public transportation and places of public accommodation for volunteer canine search and rescue teams. (a) Any individual who is an active member of a volunteer canine search and rescue team, as defined in section 5-249, may travel on a train or on any oth…

Sec. 53-331. Use of arsenic in embalming. Any person who injects into the body of any deceased person, for the purpose of embalming the same, any fluid or substance containing arsenic in any form shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. (1949 R…

Sec. 53-332. Burials; proximity to dwelling. Section 53-332 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012. (1949 Rev., S. 8633; 1963, P.A. 328; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 10-32, S. 150; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)

Sec. 53-333. Depth of burial. Section 53-333 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8634; 1959, P.A. 302, S. 1.)

Sec. 53-333a. Depth of burial. Section 53-333a is repealed, effective October 1, 2012. (1959, P.A. 302, S. 2; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)

Sec. 53-334. Unlawful disinterment. Any person who opens the grave or tomb where any corpse has been deposited, or removes any corpse from its place of sepulture, without the consent of the husband or wife or the near relatives of the deceased, or receives, conceals or secretes a…

Secs. 53-335 to 53-340. Malicious injury to property in cemeteries. Tramps. Wilful injury by tramps; carrying firearms. Officer may arrest without warrant. Exceptions. Vagrants and common drunkards. Sections 53-335 to 53-340, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 8636, 8640–864…