2011 Connecticut Code
Title 29 Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 529 Division of State Police
Sec. 29-37. Penalties.

      Sec. 29-37. Penalties. (a) Any person violating any provision of section 29-28 or 29-31 shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three years or both, and any pistol or revolver found in the possession of any person in violation of any of said provisions shall be forfeited.

      (b) Any person violating any provision of subsection (a) of section 29-35 may be fined not more than one thousand dollars and shall be imprisoned not less than one year or more than five years, and, in the absence of any mitigating circumstances as determined by the court, one year of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court. The court shall specifically state the mitigating circumstances, or the absence thereof, in writing for the record. Any pistol or revolver found in the possession of any person in violation of any provision of subsection (a) of section 29-35 shall be forfeited.

      (c) Any person violating any provision of subsection (b) of section 29-35 shall have committed an infraction and shall be fined thirty-five dollars.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4168; P.A. 81-222, S. 3; P.A. 88-128, S. 2; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 15; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2, S. 13; P.A. 97-56, S. 2; P.A. 07-217, S. 134.)

      History: P.A. 81-222 added Subsec. (b) establishing a mandatory one-year prison sentence for any person violating Sec. 29-35 unless the court finds mitigating circumstances, and requiring the court to state the mitigating circumstances or absence thereof in writing; P.A. 88-128 added Subsec. (c) to provide a penalty for any person violating Sec. 29-35(b); July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Sec. 29-33 because that same public act added revised penalty provisions for violations of Sec. 29-33 within that section itself; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to Sec. 29-34 because that same public act added penalty provisions for violations of Sec. 29-34 within that section itself; P.A. 97-56 amended Subsec. (a) to delete penalty provision for a violation of Sec. 29-36 because that same public act added penalty provision for violations of that section to Sec. 29-36 itself; P.A. 07-217 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 12, 2007.

      Cited. 179 C. 576. Cited. 186 C. 654. Cited. 193 C. 7. Cited. 209 C. 322.

      Cited. 9 CA 169; judgment reversed, see 205 C. 370.

      Where offense lay not in failing to keep record of sale of gun but in failing to keep it in book and form prescribed by state police commissioner, minimum sentence of two years reduced to one year as too severe. 22 CS 25. Cited. 27 CS 275.

      Subsec. (b):

      Cited. 221 C. 315. Cited. 222 C. 718. Cited. 224 C. 546. Cited. 228 C. 234. Cited. 229 C. 125. Cited. 231 C. 43. Cited. 233 C. 813. Cited. 235 C. 397.

      Cited. 6 CA 402. Cited. 20 CA 137. Cited. 22 CA 321; Id., 507. Cited. 24 CA 408; Id., 685; Id., 692. Cited. 25 CA 433. Cited. 27 CA 263; Id., 403. Cited. 30 CA 26; Id., 68. Cited. 31 CA 614. Cited. 34 CA 223. Cited. 36 CA 805; Id., 831. Cited. 40 CA 151. Cited. 43 CA 252.