2011 Connecticut Code
Title 29 Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 531 Moving Pictures
Sec. 29-117. Moving picture licenses. Fees. Penalty.

      Sec. 29-117. Moving picture licenses. Fees. Penalty. No person shall exhibit, show or use any moving picture film, reel or view in any place to which an admission fee is charged, except in a church, parish house, school or other building of a religious, ecclesiastical or educational organization in furtherance of its purposes, without a license for such purpose issued by the Commissioner of Public Safety. The commissioner, after investigation, shall issue the license required herein to any person found by him to be a suitable person, provided he shall have received a written application therefor, which application shall describe the location of the place and shall give its seating capacity and such other information as the commissioner requires. Such license shall be effective until September first next following its issuance, unless suspended or revoked for cause, and the applicant shall pay for the same and for each renewal thereof the sum of fifty dollars. When any person so licensed exhibits, shows or uses or permits to be exhibited, shown or used in any place described in such license any moving picture film, title, subtitle or part thereof, reel or view of an immoral, degrading or criminal character, or which is unlawful under the provisions of section 53a-194 or 53a-196, the commissioner may, upon complaint or upon his own motion, suspend or revoke the license of such person. No license shall be granted to any person to whom two of the licenses issued have been either suspended or revoked. Any person, or the officer of any corporation, violating any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3702; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 109; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 80-297, S. 15, 20; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6, S. 58, 117; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-1, S. 141.)

      History: 1971 act substituted reference to Secs. 53a-194 and 53a-196 for reference to Sec. 53-245; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-297 increased license fee from $10 to $25; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-6 raised license fee to $35; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-1 increased fee for licensure from $35 to $50, effective July 1, 2007.

      Statutory requirement that a license is good for only one year enables the administrative officer to review his own decisions. 8 CS 360.