Title 42, Title 42: Business, Selling, Trading and Collection Practices

Sec. 42-226a. Penalty. Any dealer who violates any of the provisions of sections 42-221 to 42-226, inclusive, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 14-64. (P.A. 93-397, S. 3.)

Sec. 42-227. Automobile manufacturers' warranty adjustment programs. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Consumer” means the purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a motor vehicle, a lessee of a motor vehicle, any person to whom such motor vehicle is transferred …

Sec. 42-230. (Formerly Sec. 21a-78a). Retail prices during an emergency. No person, firm or corporation shall increase the price of any item which such person, firm or corporation sells or offers for sale at retail at any location in an area which is the subject of any disaster e…

Sec. 42-231. Governor's proclamation of supply emergency. Imposition of price restrictions or rationing. Legislative disapproval. (a) In the event of a state-wide or regional shortage or threatened shortage of a product or service due to an abnormal market disruption resulting fr…

Sec. 42-232. Prohibition on sale of product or service or energy resource at excessive price during supply or energy emergency. Penalty. (a) No person shall sell or offer for sale during the course of any supply emergency declared by the Governor under section 42-231 any product …

Sec. 42-233. Petition for exemption. Commissioner's responsibilities. Appeal. Regulations. (a)(1) Any person aggrieved by any order issued under section 42-231 may file a petition with the Commissioner of Consumer Protection requesting an exemption. The petition shall be in such …

Sec. 42-234. Abnormal market disruptions and prices of energy resources. Definitions. Unconscionably excessive price prohibited. Attorney General notice re abnormal market disruption. Abnormal market disruption upon increase in price of gasoline. Fines on large sellers of gasolin…

Sec. 42-234a. Abnormal market disruptions and prices of energy resources: Civil actions by Attorney General; unfair trade practice. (a) The Attorney General, upon referral by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, may bring a civil action in the superior court for the judicial …

Sec. 42-234b. Price of petroleum products not to include amount in excess of tax liability. Enforcement by Commissioner of Consumer Protection. Unfair trade practice. (a) Any company subject to the tax imposed by chapter 227 shall not include in any billing with respect to the fi…

Sec. 42-235. Proclamation of severe weather event emergency. Unconscionably excessive price for sale of consumer goods and services during severe weather event emergency prohibited. Determination of violation. Exemption. Unfair trade practice. (a) For purposes of this section, “c…

Sec. 42-240. Definitions. As used in sections 42-240 to 42-253, inclusive: (1) “Advertisement” means any oral, written or graphic statement or representation made in connection with the solicitation of business in any manner by a lessor and includes, but is not limited to, statem…

Sec. 42-241. Written agreement. Information which must be disclosed. (a) A rent-to-own agreement shall be a written statement and shall include the following information in the following order: (1) A brief description of the rented property, sufficient to identify the property to…

Sec. 42-242. Prohibited provisions. (a) A rent-to-own agreement shall not contain a provision requiring: (1) A garnishment of wages, a power of attorney to confess a judgment or an assignment of wages; (2) Authorization to the lessor or a person acting on the lessor's behalf to u…

Sec. 42-243. Lessor prohibited from imposing certain charges upon lessee. Permitted charges. A lessor shall not charge a lessee for: (1) Any insurance whether in connection with the transaction or otherwise, except that a charge may be made for property insurance for the rented p…

Sec. 42-244. Prohibited provisions void. Agreement not otherwise affected. Any provision in a rent-to-own agreement which is prohibited by sections 42-240 to 42-253, inclusive, shall be void, but shall not otherwise affect the validity of the rent-to-own agreement. (P.A. 91-162, …

Sec. 42-245. Liability damage waiver. Fee. Notice. Prohibitions and requirements. In addition to the other charges permitted by section 42-243, the parties may contract for a liability waiver fee not to exceed seven and one-half per cent of any periodic rental payment. The sellin…

Sec. 42-246. Reinstatement of terminated agreement. (a) If the property is returned to the lessor other than through judicial process, the lessee shall be entitled to reinstate the terminated agreement as follows: (1) If the lessee has paid less than one-third of the total amount…

Sec. 42-247. Written notice of assignment of lessor's right to receive payment under the agreement. The lessee shall pay the original lessor until the lessee receives written notification of an assignment of the lessor's rights to payment pursuant to a rent-to-own agreement and t…

Sec. 42-248. Limit on total rental payments. Lessee to acquire ownership when fifty per cent of all rental payments made by lessee equals cash price of rented property. Termination of agreement. (a) No lessor shall offer a rent-to-own agreement in which the total of rental paymen…

Sec. 42-249. Lessee's early purchase option. At any time after the initial payment, the lessee may acquire ownership of the property by tendering an amount equal to the cash price of the property minus fifty per cent of all previous renewal payments made. (P.A. 91-162, S. 10, 18.…

Sec. 42-250. Advertisement of rent-to-own agreements. Disclosure. (a) An advertisement for a rent-to-own agreement that refers to or states the amount of a payment and the right to acquire ownership of any one particular item under the agreement shall clearly and conspicuously st…

Sec. 42-251. Violations. Lessee's right to minimum recovery, set-off and counterclaim. Attorney's fees and court costs. (a) A violation of any provision of sections 42-240 to 42-253, inclusive, shall be deemed an unfair or deceptive trade practice under subsection (a) of section …

Sec. 42-252. Lessor's obligations. A lessor shall have the same obligations as a seller under sections 42a-1-304, 42a-2-302 and 42a-2-312 to 42a-2-318, inclusive, and the same obligations as a creditor under sections 36a-645 to 36a-647, inclusive. Any rent-to-own agreement shall …

Sec. 42-253. Action must be brought within three years. No action shall be brought under the provisions of sections 42-240 to 42-253, inclusive, more than three years after the person bringing the action knew or should have known of the occurrence of the alleged violation. (P.A. …

Sec. 42-260. Extended warranties. Definitions. Warranty requirements. Reimbursement insurance policy. Reserves. Surplus and ratio requirement. Requirement re filing of financial statement. Regulations. Exceptions. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Extended warranty” means a contr…

Sec. 42-261. Express warranties. Prohibition re conditioning initial term on consumer registration. (a) For purposes of this section, (1) “express warranty” means a written statement arising out of a sale to a consumer of consumer goods pursuant to which the manufacturer, distrib…

Sec. 42-270. Definitions. As used in this section and section 42-271: (1) “Lease” means a consumer lease, as defined in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 42-391, of a motor vehicle, as defined in subdivision (11) of subsection (a) of section 42-391. (2) “Lessor” means …

Sec. 42-271. Requirements of lease agreement re excess wear and tear charges. Procedure to contest charges. (a) A lessor may charge, receive or collect excess wear and tear charges only if the lease sets forth reasonable standards for wear and tear and any excess wear and tear ch…

Sec. 42-271a. Applicability. Sections 42-270 and 42-271 shall apply to leases entered into on or after July 1, 2003. (P.A. 96-56, S. 1, 2; P.A. 02-81, S. 48.) History: P.A. 96-56 effective May 7, 1996; P.A. 02-81 deleted reference to “lease agreements” and applied provisions to l…

Sec. 42-280. Definitions. As used in sections 42-280 to 42-283, inclusive: (1) “Diet company” means any person, except a hospital, engaged in the business of selling a product or service, the primary purpose of which is to cause weight loss in the person who uses the product or s…

Sec. 42-281. Prohibited activities. A diet company shall not: (1) Make any written representation regarding the safety of any diet program providing less than one thousand calories per day unless the diet company provides conspicuous disclosure that a physician is monitoring the …

Sec. 42-282. Required disclosures by diet companies. Required provisions in diet program contracts. (a) Any written representation by a diet company that consumers have successfully maintained weight loss must include in clear and conspicuous type and in close proximity to such r…

Sec. 42-283. Unfair trade practices. A violation of sections 42-280 to 42-282, inclusive, shall be deemed an unfair or deceptive trade practice under subsection (a) of section 42-110b. (P.A. 96-126, S. 4.)

Sec. 42-284. Definitions. As used in this section, sections 42-285 to 42-289, inclusive: (1) “Automated dialing system” means a device that (A) automatically dials a telephone number, or (B) makes a connection to an end user by means of an automated system that is used to dial a …

Sec. 42-285. Contract requirements. (a) No oral agreement made by a consumer to purchase, lease or rent goods or services from a telemarketer shall be a binding, valid or enforceable contract against the consumer unless the telemarketer receives from the consumer a written and si…

Sec. 42-286. Prohibited actions before receipt of signed contract. (a) A telemarketer shall not accept payment in any form from a consumer, or make or submit any charge to the consumer's credit card, charge card, debit card or electronic payment platform account, unless the telem…

Sec. 42-287. Exempted transactions. The provisions of sections 42-284 to 42-286, inclusive, shall not apply to: (1) Any transaction between a consumer and a publisher, owner, agent or employee of a newspaper marketing its own publications; (2) Any transaction between a consumer a…

Sec. 42-288. Applicability. Unfair trade practice. Rebuttable presumption. (a) For the purposes of sections 42-284 to 42-287, inclusive, any transaction which occurs between a telemarketer and a consumer shall be considered to have taken place in this state if (1) the telemarkete…

Sec. 42-288a. Telephonic sales calls. “No sales solicitation calls” listing and “National Do Not Call Registry”. Prohibited acts. Disclosures. Exceptions. Regulations. Penalties. (a) The department shall establish and maintain a “no sales solicitation calls” listing of consumers …

Sec. 42-288b. Telephone and telecommunications companies to provide notice to consumers re “no sales solicitation calls” listing and complaint form. Each telephone and telecommunications company, as defined in section 16-1, that issues an account statement to a consumer with resp…

Sec. 42-288c. Compensation paid to person providing material information re investigation and enforcement of action against telephone solicitor. Section 42-288c is repealed, effective October 1, 2023. (P.A. 15-230, S. 3; P.A. 23-98, S. 25.)

Sec. 42-289. Prohibitions re voice communications and telephonic sales calls. Exceptions. Rebuttable presumption. Civil penalty. Unfair trade practice. (a) As used in this section, “terminating provider” means a telecommunications provider upon whose network a voice communication…

Sec. 42-295. Definitions. As used in sections 42-295 to 42-301, inclusive: (1) “Advertise” means the use of the media, mail, computer, telephone or personal contact to offer: (A) To a specifically named person the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes and such offer represe…

Sec. 42-296. Sweepstakes. Restrictions on advertisements. No person may advertise a sweepstakes if there is any condition or restriction attached to the receipt of any prize a person wins in the sweepstakes, unless the condition or restriction to claim the prize is through any me…

Sec. 42-297. Required disclosures. (a) A person advertising a sweepstakes in this state shall disclose in immediate proximity to and in at least the same size and face type as the description of each prize in the advertisements: (1) The verifiable retail value of such prize; (2) …

Sec. 42-298. Games of skill. Restriction on advertisement. No person shall advertise a game of skill where a prize with a fair market value of over two hundred dollars is awarded to a winner if participants are required to pay an entry or judging fee or are solicited to purchase …