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2009 Connecticut Code
Title 16 Public Service Companies
Chapter 277 Department Of Public Utility Control. Office Of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 16-33. Obstructing department; false entries and returns to; penalty.
Sec. 16-33. Obstructing department; false entries and returns to; penalty. Any
person who wilfully makes any false return or report to the Department of Public Utility
Control, or to any member thereof, or to any agent or any employee acting therefor, or
who testifies falsely to any material fact in any matter wherein an oath or affirmation
is required or authorized, or who makes any false entry or memorandum upon any
account, book, paper, record, report or statement of any company, or who wilfully destroys, mutilates, alters or by any other means or device falsifies or destroys the record
of any such account, book, paper, record, report or statement, with the intent to mislead
or deceive the department, or any member thereof, or any agent or employee acting
therefor, or who wilfully obstructs or hinders the department, or any of its members,
agents or employees, in the making of any examination of the accounts, affairs or condition of any company, and any person who, with like intent, aids or abets another in any
of the acts hereinbefore set forth, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or
imprisoned not more than five years or both.(1949 Rev., S. 5423, 8708; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 71, 348.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation.
Cited. 159 C. 556.
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