2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53 - Crimes
Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy
Section 53-303b - Employment of labor and retail sales on certain holidays.

CT Gen Stat § 53-303b (2015) What's This?

(a) The provisions of section 53-302a shall apply to Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, New Year’s Day, Memorial and Independence Day, or if any of said days is on Sunday, to the Monday following, and to Labor Day.

(b) The provisions of section 53-302a shall not apply to the sale or furnishing of personal property or services at retail by any retail stores not exempted under said section 53-302a, on those Sundays following the fourth Thursday in November and preceding December twenty-fifth.

(P.A. 76-415, S. 2; 76-435, S. 81, 82; P.A. 78-329, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 76-435 changed effective date of P.A. 76-415 from October 1, 1976, to date of passage; P.A. 78-329 added Subsec. (b) re sales during Christmas shopping season.

Discussion of constitutionality of Sunday closing laws or Blue Laws. 177 C. 304.

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