Title 21a, Title 21a: Consumer Protection

Sec. 21a-253. Possession of marijuana pursuant to a prescription. Any person may possess or have under his control a quantity of marijuana less than or equal to that quantity supplied to him pursuant to a prescription made in accordance with the provisions of section 21a-249 by (…

Sec. 21a-254. (Formerly Sec. 19-461). Designation of restricted drugs or substances by regulations. Records required by chapter. Electronic prescription drug monitoring program. Information reporting of diabetes drugs and devices. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection, afte…

Sec. 21a-254a. Appointment of prescription drug monitoring working group. Membership. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall appoint a prescription drug monitoring working group for the purpose of advising the commissioner on the implementation of the electronic prescripti…

Sec. 21a-255. (Formerly Sec. 19-462). Penalty for failure to make, furnish or keep records, statements or information. General penalty. (a) Any person who, either as principal or agent, refuses or fails to make, furnish or keep any record, notification, order form, statement, inv…

Sec. 21a-256. (Formerly Sec. 19-463). Labeling of package or container of controlled substances. (a) When a manufacturer sells or dispenses a controlled substance and when a wholesaler sells, dispenses or distributes a controlled substance in a package prepared by him, he shall s…

Sec. 21a-257. (Formerly Sec. 19-464). Person receiving narcotic drug to keep it in original container. Exceptions. Class D misdemeanor. (a) A person to whom or for whose use any narcotic drug has been prescribed, sold or dispensed by a physician, dentist, pharmacist or other pers…

Sec. 21a-258. (Formerly Sec. 19-465). Exceptions concerning possession and control. The provisions of this part restricting the possession and control of controlled substances shall not apply to common carriers or to warehousemen, while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing…

Sec. 21a-259. (Formerly Sec. 19-466). Common nuisances. Receivership of rental housing property development. (a) As used in this section, “rental housing property development” means any privately owned multifamily dwelling consisting of not less than six units which are not owner…

Sec. 21a-260. (Formerly Sec. 19-467a). Narcotics control section in Department of Consumer Protection. The narcotics control section of the Department of Public Health shall be merged into the Department of Consumer Protection. (P.A. 73-681, S. 28, 29; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P…

Sec. 21a-261. (Formerly Sec. 19-468). Inspection of records. Entry on premises. Warrants and arrests. (a) Every person required by section 21a-254 to prepare or obtain and keep records of controlled substances, and any carrier maintaining records with respect to any shipment cont…

Sec. 21a-262. (Formerly Sec. 19-469). Commissioner's authority and duties re controlled substances. When seizing authority may destroy. Disposal by long-term care facilities, outpatient surgical facilities and home health care agencies. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection…

Sec. 21a-263. (Formerly Sec. 19-469a). Power of commissioner to receive and destroy drug paraphernalia. Records. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may receive, take into custody or destroy any drug paraphernalia as defined in subdivision (20) of section 21a-240. Said commis…

Sec. 21a-264. (Formerly Sec. 19-470). Notice to licensing boards of violations by licensees. On the conviction of any person of the violation of any provision of this part, a copy of the judgment and sentence and of the opinion of the court, if any opinion is filed, shall be sent…

Sec. 21a-265. (Formerly Sec. 19-471). Inspection of prescriptions, orders, records and stocks restricted to government officers and third-party payors. Confidentiality. Prescriptions, orders and records required by sections 21a-243 to 21a-282, inclusive, and stocks of controlled …

Sec. 21a-266. (Formerly Sec. 19-472). Prohibited acts. (a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a controlled substance or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a controlled substance (1) by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or subterfuge, or (2) by the forgery…

Sec. 21a-267. (Formerly Sec. 19-472a). Penalty for use, possession or delivery of drug paraphernalia associated with a controlled substance other than cannabis. Immunity. (a) No person shall use or possess with intent to use drug paraphernalia, as defined in subdivision (20) of s…

Sec. 21a-268. (Formerly Sec. 19-473). Misrepresentation of substance as controlled substance. Exemption. (a) Any person who knowingly delivers or attempts to deliver a noncontrolled substance (1) upon the express representation that such substance is a controlled substance or (2)…

Sec. 21a-269. (Formerly Sec. 19-474). Burden of proof of exception, excuse, proviso or exemption. In any complaint, information or indictment, and in any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of any provision of this part, it shall not be necessary to negative any exce…

Sec. 21a-270. (Formerly Sec. 19-474a). Drug paraphernalia: Factors to be considered by court or other authority in determination. In determining whether any object or material listed in subdivision (20) of section 21a-240 shall be deemed “drug paraphernalia”, a court or other aut…

Sec. 21a-271. (Formerly Sec. 19-474b). Severability of provisions concerning drug paraphernalia. If any section, part, clause or phrase in subdivision (20) of section 21a-240, section 21a-263, 21a-267, 21a-270 or this section, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutio…

Sec. 21a-272. (Formerly Sec. 19-475). Preparations which may be sold and dispensed. Exceptions. (a) The following preparations may be sold at retail in pharmacies and dispensed by hospitals, dentists, veterinarians and physicians without a prescription or written order, in quanti…

Sec. 21a-273. (Formerly Sec. 19-476). Substances exempt under federal law. (a) No prescription or written order shall be required for those controlled substances and preparations which are permitted by federal food and drug laws to be sold or dispensed without a prescription or w…

Sec. 21a-274. (Formerly Sec. 19-477). Cooperation in enforcement of law. (a) The Commissioners of Public Health and Consumer Protection and their authorized agents, police officers within their respective jurisdictions and all state's attorneys and prosecuting attorneys shall coo…

Sec. 21a-274a. Drug enforcement grant program. Safe neighborhoods grant program. Community mobilization antidrug grant program. (a) There is established a drug enforcement grant program which shall be administered by the Office of Policy and Management. Grants may be made to muni…

Sec. 21a-275. (Formerly Sec. 19-478). Revocation or suspension of licenses by commissioner. (a) If the Commissioner of Consumer Protection has reasonable cause to believe that a person licensed by him under section 21a-246, or any licensed practitioner, is violating or has violat…

Sec. 21a-276. (Formerly Sec. 19-479). Discretion of commissioner to issue warning. Nothing in sections 20-50, 20-576, 20-577, subdivision (3) of section 21a-92, subsection (e) of section 21a-115, sections 21a-240, 21a-243 to 21a-279, inclusive, and 21a-283, shall be construed as …

Sec. 21a-277. (Formerly Sec. 19-480). Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription, dispensing. (a)(1) No person may manufacture, distribute, sell, prescribe, dispense, compound, transport with the intent to sell or dispense, possess with the intent to sell o…

Sec. 21a-278. (Formerly Sec. 19-480a). Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription or administration by non-drug-dependent person. (a)(1) No person may manufacture, distribute, sell, prescribe, dispense, compound, transport with the intent to sell or dispens…

Sec. 21a-278a. Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription or administration. (a) Any person eighteen years of age or older who violates section 21a-277 or 21a-278, and who is not, at the time of such action, a drug-dependent person, by distributing, selling…

Sec. 21a-278b. Penalty for illegal manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription administration or growing of cannabis or cannabis products. (a) No person may manufacture, distribute, sell, prescribe, dispense, compound, transport with the intent to sell or dispense, possess with…

Sec. 21a-278c. Cultivation of cannabis plants in consumer's primary residence. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 21a-278b, any consumer may cultivate up to three mature cannabis plants and three immature cannabis plants in the consumer's primary residence, provided such p…

Sec. 21a-279. (Formerly Sec. 19-481). Penalty for illegal possession of a controlled substance other than cannabis. Alternative sentences. Immunity. (a)(1) Any person who possesses or has under such person's control any quantity of any controlled substance, except any quantity of…

Sec. 21a-279a. Limits for legal possession of cannabis. Penalty for illegal possession. Calculation of amount and equivalencies. Immunity. (a) Any person twenty-one years of age or older may possess, use and otherwise consume cannabis, provided the amount of all such cannabis doe…

Sec. 21a-279b. Construction of public act 15-2 of the June special session* re violations of section 21a-279. The provisions of public act 15-2 of the June special session* concerning a person who is convicted of a violation of section 21a-279 shall not be construed in a manner t…

Sec. 21a-279c. Exceptions for seeking medical assistance for medical distress from use of cannabis. The provisions of subsections (b) to (e), inclusive, of section 21a-279a, and sections 21a-278b, 21a-421aaa, 21a-421ccc and 21a-421ddd shall not apply to any person (1) who, in goo…

Sec. 21a-279d. Cannabis given by one consumer to another. Any consumer may give cannabis to another consumer, without compensation or consideration, provided such consumer reasonably believes such other consumer may possess such cannabis without exceeding the possession limit pur…

Sec. 21a-280. (Formerly Sec. 19-481a). Breathing of anesthesia not violation. The breathing, inhalation, sniffing or drinking of anesthesia for medical or dental purposes under the direction of a physician or dentist, acting in the course of his professional practice, is determin…

Sec. 21a-281. (Formerly Sec. 19-481b). Presumption of psychological dependence on volatile substances. One who is found to have inhaled or to be under the influence of one or more of the volatile substances enumerated in subdivision (49) of section 21a-240 shall be presumed to be…

Sec. 21a-282. (Formerly Sec. 19-482). No prosecution where federal action has been taken. No person shall be prosecuted for a violation of any provision of sections 21a-243 to 21a-282, inclusive, if such person has been acquitted or convicted under the federal Controlled Substanc…

Sec. 21a-283. (Formerly Sec. 19-483). Analytical tests for presence of controlled drugs or alcohol. Standards and procedures. Convictions constituting prior offense. Imposition of cost when analysis performed. (a) The Division of Scientific Services within the Department of Emerg…

Sec. 21a-283a. Court authorized to depart from imposing mandatory minimum sentence. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, when sentencing a person convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter, except a violation of subsection (a) or (c) of section 21…

Secs. 21a-284 and 21a-285. (Formerly Secs. 19-484 and 19-485). Suspension of prosecution for treatment for drug dependence; dismissal of charges. Order for treatment in addition to penalties on conviction; penalty for unauthorized departure from hospital. Sections 21a-284 and 21a…

Sec. 21a-286. Agreements for distribution and administration of opioid antagonists. Secure boxes, vending machines and secured machines. Test strips. Regulations. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection; (2) “Departme…

Secs. 21a-287 to 21a-300. Reserved for future use. PART II INSTITUTIONAL PHARMACIES AND PHARMACISTS' DRUG ROOMS

Secs. 21a-301 to 21a-305. (Formerly Secs. 19-504a, 19-504c to 19-504e, 19-504g). Definitions. Regulations. Inspections of: Institutional pharmacies, pharmacist's drug rooms and dispensing outpatient facilities; correctional and juvenile training institutions and care-giving insti…

Sec. 21a-307. (Formerly Sec. 19-504i). Definitions re dispensing of drugs. Section 21a-307 is repealed. (1969, P.A. 593, S. 17; P.A. 73-681, S. 22, 29; P.A. 75-176, S. 2; P.A. 81-200, S. 1; P.A. 82-472, S. 69, 183; P.A. 91-47, S. 1; P.A. 95-264, S. 70.)