There is a newer version of the Connecticut General Statutes
2009 Connecticut Code
Title 21a Consumer Protection
Chapter 420b Dependency-producing Drugs
Sec. 21a-257. (Formerly Sec. 19-464). Person receiving narcotic drug to keep it in original container.
Sec. 21a-257. (Formerly Sec. 19-464). Person receiving narcotic drug to keep
it in original container. A person to whom or for whose use any narcotic drug has
been prescribed, sold or dispensed by a physician, dentist, pharmacist or other person
authorized under the provisions of section 21a-248, and the owner of any animal for
which any such drug has been prescribed, sold or dispensed may lawfully possess it
only in the container in which it was delivered to the recipient by the person selling or
dispensing the same except as may be authorized by regulations adopted hereunder.(1967, P.A. 555, S. 20; 1969, P.A. 753, S. 15; P.A. 99-102, S. 37.)
History: 1969 act referred to "narcotic" rather than "controlled" drugs; Sec. 19-464 transferred to Sec. 21a-257 in 1983; P.A. 99-102 deleted obsolete reference to osteopathy and made a technical change.
Annotations to former section 19-464:
Defendant held to have burden of proving he had drug in container in which it was delivered to him by person dispensing it. 148 C. 57.
Cited. 7 CA 403.
Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 584.
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