2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs
Section 21a-72 - (Formerly Sec. 19-210b). Certificate of disinfection of stuffed toys.
Any manufacturer of stuffed toys to be sold in the state using materials in such toys containing products of animal origin shall obtain from the Department of Consumer Protection a certificate of disinfection on forms provided by said department. The application for such certificate shall contain random samples of such products when ready for market. Only disinfecting processes approved by said department as rendering such products clean, pure and neither harmful nor dangerous to potential users thereof shall be used. Any person, firm or corporation which sells or offers to sell any such stuffed toy for which such certificate of disinfection has not been obtained shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.
(February, 1965, P.A. 82, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)
History: Sec. 19-210b transferred to Sec. 21a-72 in 1983; 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of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp.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.
