2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 31-28. Registration of manufacturing and mechanical establishments.

      Sec. 31-28. Registration of manufacturing and mechanical establishments. (a) Each person who operates or intends to operate in this state any manufacturing or mechanical establishment which has not been registered with the Labor Commissioner or included by him in the "List of Connecticut Factories" shall register each establishment so operated or to be operated with said commissioner, stating, on forms to be supplied by the commissioner, the name and address of the owner, the name under which the business is carried on, the nature of the business, the location of the establishment and such other pertinent information as the commissioner requires. No such person shall open any such establishment until he has secured a certificate of registration signed by the commissioner or his authorized deputy. No such person shall change the location of his place of business until he has secured a certificate of registration for the new place of business, signed by the commissioner or his authorized deputy. Such certificates shall be issued forthwith upon registration and in any event before the expiration of forty-eight hours from the receipt of such registration in the office of the commissioner or his authorized deputy.

      (b) Any employer covered by this section who fails to register in compliance with the provisions of this section shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and, for any subsequent offense, be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days or be both fined and imprisoned.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3748.)