2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22-166. Sale of milk from emaciated or diseased animals. Civil penalty.

      Sec. 22-166. Sale of milk from emaciated or diseased animals. Civil penalty. Any person who sells or exposes for sale milk, or any product of milk, from an animal which has reacted to the tuberculin test or which is emaciated or which shows physical symptoms of disease, which disease may, or may be reasonably suspected to, affect the healthfulness of such milk or any product thereof, after such animal has been adjudged by the commissioner or his deputy or agent to be so emaciated or diseased, shall be assessed a civil penalty in accordance with the provisions of section 22-7.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3203; 1951, S. 1749d; P.A. 91-312, S. 22; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 79, 130.)

      History: P.A. 91-312 replaced the criminal penalty of a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisonment of not more than thirty days or both with a provision for the assessment of a civil penalty; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 made a technical change for accuracy, effective July 1, 1994.

      Cited. 111 C. 440.