Title 21 — Title 21: Licenses

Secs. 21-47f to 21-47m. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 21-47n. “Fine art” defined. License required. (a) For purposes of sections 21-47n to 21-47u, inclusive, “fine art” means any (1) drawing; (2) painting; (3) sculpture; (4) mosaic; (5) photograph; (6) work of calligraphy; (7) work of graphic art, including any etching, lithogr…

Sec. 21-47o. Fine art secured lender license. (a) The licensing authority of any town or city may grant licenses to suitable persons to be fine art secured lenders in such town or city respectively, and may suspend or revoke such licenses for cause, which shall include, but not b…

Sec. 21-47p. Identification required. Record keeping system. Exemptions. (a) No fine art secured lender shall take, receive or purchase fine art without receiving proof of the identity of the person depositing, pledging or selling the fine art. Such identification shall include a…

Sec. 21-47q. Memorandum or note. Limitation on fee for use of money loaned. Check, draft and money order requirements. (a) Each fine art secured lender shall, at the time of making any loan on a deposit or pledge of fine art or of purchasing such fine art on condition of selling …

Sec. 21-47r. Quarterly transaction statements. Exemption. Each fine art secured lender shall submit quarterly to the licensing authority a sworn statement of his or her transactions, describing the fine art received and summarizing the nature and terms of each transaction. Such s…

Sec. 21-47s. Receipt for seized property. Request for return. Whenever property is seized from the place of business of a fine art secured lender by a law enforcement officer, such officer shall give the fine art secured lender a duly signed receipt for the fine art containing a …

Sec. 21-47t. Sale or disposal of fine art by lender. Right of redemption or repurchase. No fine art secured lender shall sell or dispose of any fine art left with such fine art secured lender in deposit or pledge for money loaned or as a result of the purchase of such fine art on…

Sec. 21-47u. Penalties. (a) Any person who wilfully engages in the business of a fine art secured lender, unless licensed according to law, or after notice that his or her license has been suspended or revoked, shall be guilty of a class D felony. (b) Any person who wilfully viol…

Sec. 21-47v. Exclusions. The provisions of sections 21-47n to 21-47u, inclusive, shall not apply to any bank, out-of-state bank or any affiliate of a bank or out-of-state bank, as such terms are defined in section 36a-2. (P.A. 12-131, S. 9.)

Sec. 21-48. License; records; definition. The selectmen of any town, the chief of police of any city and the warden of any borough may grant licenses to suitable persons to be lodging house keepers and to carry on the business of renting rooms and beds for lodgings in such town, …

Sec. 21-49. License. Section 21-49 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 4688; 1972, P.A. 272, S. 1; P.A. 81-335, S. 5, 6.)

Sec. 21-50. Permit for structure. No person, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain any outdoor advertising structure, device or display until a permit for the erection of such structure, device or display has been obtained from the Commissioner of Transportation. Applicatio…

Sec. 21-51. Permit for maintenance of outdoor advertising sign. Exception. No person, firm or corporation, not engaged in the business of outdoor advertising for direct profit, shall erect or maintain any outdoor advertising structure, device or display, other than upon property …

Sec. 21-52. Fees. (a) The fee for an application for a permit to erect or maintain any outdoor advertising structure, device or display shall be as follows: For each panel, bulletin, or sign containing less than three hundred square feet of advertising space, one hundred dollars;…

Sec. 21-53. Issuance of permit. Contents. Termination. Exemption from other permit fee. Upon receipt of an application, as set forth in section 21-50, and the required application and annual permit fees, the Commissioner of Transportation shall cause to be issued a permit for the…

Sec. 21-54. Foreign applicant to file bond. A permit shall not be granted to a person, firm or corporation having his or its principal place of business outside of the state, for the display of any advertisement or the erection of any billboard or other structure designed and int…

Sec. 21-55. When permit not required. The provisions of this chapter shall not require a permit for any advertising sign containing six square feet or less, from any town, city, borough, fire district or incorporated fire company, service club or church or ecclesiastical society …

Sec. 21-56. Permit numbers. The Commissioner of Transportation shall provide with each permit issued for the display of advertising, under the provisions of this chapter, a permit number which shall be painted on each structure in legible figures not less than two inches in heigh…

Sec. 21-57. Advertising signs to be kept in good repair. Each advertising structure, device or display shall be substantially built, well and neatly painted and kept in good repair. When it comes to the attention of the Commissioner of Transportation that any advertising structur…

Sec. 21-58. Prohibited locations. Advertisements and signs shall not be displayed within one hundred feet of any public park, state forest, playground or cemetery, or within fifteen feet from the outside line of any highway outside the thickly settled or business part of a city o…

Sec. 21-59. Change in location may be ordered. The Commissioner of Transportation may order the removal or change in location of any advertisement when, in his opinion, such advertisement will obstruct a clear view along any highway, or when it is within the legal limits of any h…

Sec. 21-60. Removal of advertising matter. The Commissioner of Transportation, the selectmen of any town or the mayor of any city shall cause to be removed any advertisement or sign displayed contrary to the provisions of this chapter. Said state, town or city officials shall rem…

Sec. 21-61. Exemption as to location. Notwithstanding any statutory provision to the contrary, the Commissioner of Transportation may, with the consent of the selectmen of a town, the mayor of a city or the warden of a borough, permit the erection of advertising signs designed to…

Sec. 21-62. “Display” defined. Name of advertiser. The word “display”, as used in this chapter and in other statutes relating to advertisements and signs, means erecting, maintaining, pasting, painting and posting any advertisement or sign out-of-doors or erecting or maintaining …

Sec. 21-63. Penalty. Any person who erects, maintains, displays or allows to remain in view an advertisement, sign or billboard or any structure designed for the display of advertising matter contrary to any provision of this chapter shall be in violation of a provision of this c…

Sec. 21-64. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Mobile manufactured home” means a detached residential unit having three-dimensional components which are intrinsically mobile with or without a wheeled chassis or a detached residential unit built on or after June 15, 1976, …

Sec. 21-64a. Term “mobile home” means mobile manufactured home. Whenever the term “mobile home” occurs or is referred to in the general statutes, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to a mobile manufactured home. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3, S. 1.) Cited. 208 C. 620.

Sec. 21-65. Licensure of park required. Section 21-65 is repealed. (1972, P.A. 186, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610.)

Sec. 21-65a. Licensure of mobile manufactured home parks. Rents not recoverable, when. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate a mobile manufactured home park, within the limits of this state unless such person shall first obtain a license therefor, in acco…

Sec. 21-66. Temporary permit. Section 21-66 is repealed. (1972, P.A. 186, S. 3; P.A. 73-57, S. 1; 73-94, S. 1, 2; P.A. 78-303, S. 95, 136; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3, S. 19, 20.)

Sec. 21-67. License: Application. Fee. Renewal. Inspections. (a) Application for a license to operate a mobile manufactured home park shall be made in writing to the department on such forms and in such manner and accompanied by such evidence in support of the application as the …

Sec. 21-67a. Filing of documents re mobile manufactured homes and mobile manufactured home parks. (a) List of homes and owners. Not later than October 1, 1986, the licensee of any mobile manufactured home park licensed under this chapter shall file with the town clerk, for purpos…

Sec. 21-68. Conformance with building and fire safety codes, ordinances and regulations required. Replacement of mobile manufactured home in mobile manufactured home park. Each mobile manufactured home park shall conform to the requirements of the State Building Code, the Fire Sa…

Sec. 21-68a. Exemption of certain mobile manufactured homes from inspection provisions of State Building Code. Any mobile manufactured home manufactured prior to September 1, 1971, and any used mobile manufactured home sold on site or resited on an individual lot outside a mobile…

Sec. 21-69. Attendant required at park. Notification of name and address of manager and agent for service of process. Liability of owner and manager. (a) The licensee, or a duly authorized attendant or caretaker, shall be in charge at all times to keep the mobile manufactured hom…

Sec. 21-70. Disclosure statement. Rental agreements and renewals. Notice when home or lot located in common interest community. Adoption of rules and regulations. Documents filed with department. Notice of proposed land use change or sale. Purchase of mobile manufactured home par…

Sec. 21-70a. Displacement of residents due to change in land use. Relocation expenses and compensatory payments. Notice of closing of park, requirements. (a) A mobile manufactured home park resident who owns a mobile manufactured home and is required to remove the home from the p…

Sec. 21-70b. Opportunity for residents to purchase mobile manufactured home parks. (a) Any owner of a mobile manufactured home park who intends to sell, lease or transfer land used as a mobile manufactured home park to any person, except a sale, lease or transfer governed by subs…

Sec. 21-70c. Conveyance tax exemption when a mobile manufactured home park is purchased by its residents. An owner of a mobile manufactured home park that sells, leases or transfers such park to residents of the park in compliance with the requirements of section 21-70b or subsec…

Sec. 21-71. Revocation, suspension, refusal to renew or placement of conditions on license for violation. Fine. Independent inspection report. Remedies available to residents. Order to discontinue or remediate violation. Fine for failure to comply after reinspection. (a) The depa…

Sec. 21-72. Appeal from department's actions. Any person aggrieved by any action of the department may appeal therefrom in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183. (1972, P.A. 186, S. 9; P.A. 77-603, S. 89, 125; 77-614, S. 250, 610; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3, S. 10.) Histo…

Sec. 21-73. Collection of rents prohibited after suspension or revocation of permit or license. Management fee. (a) Upon the suspension or revocation of a license or the refusal to renew a license, pursuant to section 21-71, the licensee shall be prohibited from collecting any re…

Sec. 21-73a. Owner's interest subject to tax lien. The interest of each owner of a mobile manufactured home park in such park shall be subject to any tax lien on such park continued pursuant to the provisions of section 12-173. No such lien shall be valid unless the tax collector…

Sec. 21-73b. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 21-73c. Constructive notice of lien. Each certificate of lien filed pursuant to the provisions of sections 12-172 and 21-73a, this section and section 21-73d shall constitute constructive notice of the existence of the lien and the claim of the municipality against any such …

Sec. 21-73d. Order of precedence of liens. The liens filed pursuant to section 21-73a shall take precedence over any claim of right of an insured owner, mortgagee, assignee or other interested party. (P.A. 83-456, S. 6, 7; P.A. 84-83, S. 8, 10.) History: P.A. 84-83 provided that …

Sec. 21-74. Advisory committee. Section 21-74 is repealed. (1972, P.A. 186, S. 11; June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 4; P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610.)

Sec. 21-75. Regulations. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54. (1972, P.A. 186, S. 12; June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 4; P.A. 77-614, S. 208, 610; P…

Sec. 21-76. Penalty. Section 21-76 is repealed. (1972, P.A. 186, S. 16; P.A. 75-567, S. 49, 80; P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610.)