2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act
Section 30-17b - Wholesaler’s salesman certificates.

(a) No person shall be employed by any wholesaler of alcoholic liquor to sell or offer for sale alcoholic liquor to any retailer of alcoholic liquor unless such person holds a wholesaler’s salesman certificate or files an application for such certificate not later than ten days after the date of his or her initial employment. Any person desiring a wholesaler’s salesman certificate or renewal thereof, shall file a sworn application for such certificate upon forms to be furnished by the Department of Consumer Protection, showing his or her name, address and such other information as the department may require. An application for an initial certificate shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee in the amount of fifty dollars. All such certificates shall expire biennially on January thirty-first. The biennial renewal fee for a certificate shall be twenty dollars. If a certified wholesaler’s salesman changes employment, a renewal application shall be filed not later than ten days after the date such new employment commences and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee in the amount of fifty dollars.

(b) The department shall not issue a wholesaler’s salesman certificate to any person who is, by statute or regulation, declared to be an unsuitable person to hold a permit to sell alcoholic liquor.

(c) The Department of Consumer Protection may, in its discretion, refuse a certificate to a wholesaler’s salesman if it has reasonable ground to believe: (1) That the applicant appears to be financially irresponsible; (2) that the applicant is in the habit of using alcoholic beverages to excess; (3) that the applicant has wilfully made any false statement to the department in a material matter; or (4) that the applicant has been convicted of violating any of the liquor laws of this or any other state or the liquor laws of the United States or has been convicted of a felony as such term is defined in section 53a-25 or has such a criminal record that the department reasonably believes he is not a suitable person to hold a certificate, provided no refusal shall be rendered under this subdivision except in accordance with the provisions of sections 46a-80 and 46a-81.

(d) The Department of Consumer Protection may, of its own motion, revoke or suspend a wholesaler’s salesman certificate upon cause found after hearing, provided ten days’ written notice of such hearing has been given to the holder of the certificate setting forth, with the particulars required in civil pleadings, the charges upon which such proposed revocation or suspension is predicated and provided no certificate shall be suspended or revoked for any violation of this chapter of which the holder of the certificate was finally found not guilty by, or received dismissal in, a court having jurisdiction thereof, and no disciplinary action shall be taken thereafter by said department against the holder of the certificate, and provided the department shall not initiate hearing proceedings pursuant to this section based upon any arrest which has not resulted in a conviction. Any appeal from such order of revocation or suspension shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183.

(e) Any person who applies for a wholesaler’s salesman certificate or for the renewal of such certificate, whose application is refused or any person who holds a certificate which is revoked or suspended by the Department of Consumer Protection may appeal therefrom in the same manner as provided in section 30-60.

(P.A. 86-191; P.A. 95-195, S. 22, 83; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 329; P.A. 12-17, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 95-195 amended Subsecs. (a), (c), (d) and (e) by substituting Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 increased fees in Subsec. (a) from $25 to $50; P.A. 12-17 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting requirement that department issue certificate which shall be renewed only upon change of employment, adding provisions re biennial expiration of certificates and biennial renewal fee and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2012.