Title 21a — Title 21a: Consumer Protection

Secs. 21a-237 to 21a-239. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 21a-240. (Formerly Sec. 19-443). Definitions. The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Abuse of drugs” means the use of controlled substances solely for their stimulant, depressan…

Sec. 21a-241. (Formerly Sec. 19-449). Prior regulations continued. Regulations promulgated under chapter 344 of the general statutes, revision of 1958, as amended, and chapters 344a and 344b of the 1965 supplement thereto, in effect on October 1, 1967, shall, unless clearly in co…

Sec. 21a-242. (Formerly Sec. 19-450a). Schedules of controlled substances. Exceptions. Section 21a-242 is repealed. (1972, P.A. 278, S. 30; P.A. 73-221, S. 1, 2; 73-616, S. 17, 67; 73-681, S. 2, 29; P.A. 74-338, S. 32, 94; P.A. 75-318; P.A. 77-142; 77-604, S. 48–50, 84; P.A. 78-3…

Sec. 21a-243. (Formerly Sec. 19-451). Regulations. Schedules of controlled substances. (a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall adopt regulations for the efficient enforcement and operation of sections 21a-244 to 21a-282, inclusive. (b) The Commissioner of Consumer Prote…

Sec. 21a-244. (Formerly Sec. 19-451a). Regulations re storage and retrieval of prescription information. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall, on or before January 1, 1978, adopt regulations governing the storage and retrieval of prescription information for controlled s…

Sec. 21a-244a. Drug records maintained on electronic data processing systems or media systems. Electronic identifiers. Regulations. (a) The following terms shall have the following meanings when used in this section: (1) “Drug” means (A) articles recognized in the official United…

Sec. 21a-245. (Formerly Sec. 19-452). Manufacture, sale, administering of restricted substances regulated. No person shall manufacture, possess, have under his control, sell, prescribe, dispense, compound, process, deliver or administer to another person any restricted substance,…

Sec. 21a-246. (Formerly Sec. 19-453). License to manufacture, wholesale, supply, compound, etc. Exception. License fees. License to possess and supply marijuana. (a) No person within this state shall manufacture, wholesale, repackage, supply, compound, mix, cultivate or grow, or …

Sec. 21a-247. (Formerly Sec. 19-454). Qualifications of applicant for license. No license shall be issued under section 21a-246 until the applicant therefor has furnished proof satisfactory to the licensing authority (1) that the applicant is of good moral character or, if the ap…

Sec. 21a-248. (Formerly Sec. 19-456). Sale or dispensing of controlled drugs by licensed manufacturer or wholesaler. Records; orders. Scope of uses limited. (a) A licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and dispense controlled drugs to any of the following-named persons, but…

Sec. 21a-249. (Formerly Sec. 19-457). Prescription requirements. (a) All prescriptions for controlled drugs shall include (1) the name and address of the patient, or the name and address of the owner of an animal and the species of the animal, (2) whether the patient is an adult …

Sec. 21a-250. (Formerly Sec. 19-458). Rights and duties of pharmacist. (a) A pharmacist, in good faith, may sell and dispense controlled substances to any person upon a prescription of a physician or dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, physician assistant licensed pur…

Sec. 21a-250a. Transferred to Chapter 417, Sec. 21a-70a.

Sec. 21a-251. (Formerly Sec. 19-459). Dispensing of controlled substances by hospitals, infirmaries or clinics. (a) No controlled substances shall be dispensed or administered by hospitals, infirmaries or clinics except upon written order signed or initialed by the prescribing pr…

Sec. 21a-252. (Formerly Sec. 19-460). Prescription and dispensing of controlled substances by certain practitioners. Surrender of unused substances by patients. Prescription, dispensing and administering of controlled substances to immediate family members or for personal use. (a…

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…