2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 26-226. Injury to enclosure.

      Sec. 26-226. Injury to enclosure. Any person who wilfully injures any oyster enclosure legally designated, marked out and enclosed or removes any buoys or stakes used to mark out any oyster ground, or who takes any shells from such enclosure, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days; on a second conviction, he shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, and, on each subsequent conviction, he shall be fined one hundred fifty dollars and imprisoned not more than six months.

      (1949 Rev., S. 5057; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 25; P.A. 78-334, S. 10.)

      History: 1961 act deleted provision which allowed prosecutions for first or second offenses to be heard and determined by a trial justice; P.A. 78-334 changed maximum fine for first offense from seven to fifty dollars, changed fines for second conviction from minimum of seven dollars to fifty dollars and from maximum of twenty dollars to one hundred dollars and increased fine for subsequent convictions from fifty to one hundred fifty dollars and specified six-month prison term as a maximum sentence.

      History of law. 79 C. 701.