2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 420b - Dependency-Producing Drugs
Section 21a-257 - (Formerly Sec. 19-464). Person receiving narcotic drug to keep it in original container.
A person to whom or for whose use any narcotic drug has been prescribed, sold or dispensed by a physician, dentist, pharmacist or other person authorized under the provisions of section 21a-248, and the owner of any animal for which any such drug has been prescribed, sold or dispensed may lawfully possess it only in the container in which it was delivered to the recipient by the person selling or dispensing the same except as may be authorized by regulations adopted hereunder.
(1967, P.A. 555, S. 20; 1969, P.A. 753, S. 15; P.A. 99-102, S. 37.)
History: 1969 act referred to “narcotic” rather than “controlled” drugs; Sec. 19-464 transferred to Sec. 21a-257 in 1983; P.A. 99-102 deleted obsolete reference to osteopathy and made a technical change.
Annotations to former section 19-464:
Defendant held to have burden of proving he had drug in container in which it was delivered to him by person dispensing it. 148 C. 57.
Cited. 7 CA 403.
Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 584.
Annotation to present section:
Section is not unconstitutionally vague as applied due to lack of notice and arbitrary enforcement despite the lack of intent or knowledge requirement in language of section, or the doctrine of desuetude, because the record is devoid of evidence that section has been openly, notoriously and pervasively violated without prosecution for a long period of time or that there has been a conspicuous policy of nonenforcement. 129 CA 239.
