2020 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 420b - Dependency-Producing Drugs
Section 21a-255. (Formerly Sec. 19-462) - Penalty for failure to make, furnish or keep records, statements or information. General penalty.

(a) Any person who, either as principal or agent, refuses or fails to make, furnish or keep any record, notification, order form, statement, invoice or information required by sections 21a-243 to 21a-282, inclusive, or regulations adopted pursuant to section 21a-244, (1) for a first offense, may be fined not more than five hundred dollars, and (2) for any subsequent offense, may be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned.

(b) Any person who, with intent to defeat the purpose of this chapter, fails to keep any record required by sections 21a-243 to 21a-282, inclusive, or regulations adopted pursuant to section 21a-244, (1) for a first offense, may be fined not more than three thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or be both fined and imprisoned, and (2) for any subsequent offense, shall be guilty of a class C felony.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of sections 21a-243 to 21a-282, inclusive, for which no penalty is expressly provided, (1) for a first offense, may be fined not more than three thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or be both fined and imprisoned, and (2) for any subsequent offense, shall be guilty of a class C felony.

(1967, P.A. 555, S. 18; 1969, P.A. 753, S. 14; 1972, P.A. 278, S. 10; P.A. 77-277, S. 5; P.A. 87-129, S. 4; P.A. 13-258, S. 13; P.A. 17-17, S. 3.)

History: 1969 act made imposition of fines and terms of imprisonment optional rather than mandatory and standardized wording and penalties so that penalty in all cases is fine and/or imprisonment; 1972 act replaced reference to repealed Sec. 19-450 with reference to Sec. 19-451; P.A. 77-277 added reference to regulations under Sec. 19-451a; Sec. 19-462 transferred to Sec. 21a-255 in 1983; P.A. 87-129 substituted reference to Sec. 21a-243 for Sec. 21a-242, repealed by the same act; P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (b) to change fine for first offense from $1,000 to $3,500 and penalty for second or subsequent offense from fine of not more than $10,000 or 10 years imprisonment to a class C felony; P.A. 17-17 substantially amended Subsec. (a) by replacing provisions re person who fails to make, furnish or keep record, notification, order form, statement, invoice or information with provisions re same, substantially amended Subsec. (b) by replacing provisions re person who fails to keep required record with intent to defeat purpose of chapter or who violates provisions of Secs. 21a-243 to 21a-282 with provisions re person who with intent to defeat purpose of chapter fails to keep required record, and added Subsec. (c) re person who violates provisions of Secs. 21a-243 to 21a-282.

Cited. 207 C. 698.