2020 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 30 - Intoxicating Liquors
Chapter 545 - Liquor Control Act
Section 30-77 - Disposing of liquor without permit.
(a) Any person who, without a permit therefor, except as provided in section 30-37 or subsection (b) of section 12-436, the provisions of which shall not be construed as requiring an individual to be physically present at the point of purchase of alcoholic beverages to import such alcoholic beverages, or contrary to the provisions of this chapter and the regulations of the Department of Consumer Protection with respect to the class of permit held by such person, manufactures or, by sample, by soliciting or procuring orders, or otherwise, sells or delivers, or offers or exposes for sale or delivery, or owns or keeps with intent to sell or deliver, or who ships, transports or imports into this state, any alcoholic liquor, shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section 30-113; provided nothing in this section shall prohibit any common carrier, warehouseman or other lien holder, or any officer acting under legal process, or any insurance company that acquires the same as the result of fire, flood or water damage, from exercising the right of such person or such entity to sell alcoholic liquor under a lien or such process or such acquisition, with the permission of the department. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the delivery to a permittee under this chapter of alcoholic liquor which is legally authorized. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the shipment into this state of ethyl alcohol intended for use or used for scientific, mechanical and industrial uses, for use in hospitals and public institutions, for medicinal purposes in the manufacture of patented, proprietary, medicinal, pharmaceutical, antiseptic, toilet, scientific, chemical, mechanical and industrial preparations or products not sold as a beverage for human consumption, nor to the shipment of wine to be used in the manufacture of patented, proprietary or pharmaceutical preparations or products or in the manufacture of fruit preserves. No such shipment shall be made except with the approval of the department and only in such manner as the department prescribes. The department shall notify the Commissioner of Revenue Services of the approval of any such shipment.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not prohibit a person, other than a minor, from producing beer for personal or family use only, in the following amounts: (1) One hundred gallons or less in one calendar year if there are two persons who have attained the age of twenty-one residing in the household; and (2) fifty gallons or less in one calendar year if there is only one person who has attained the age of twenty-one residing in the household. Such beer may be transported in sealed containers for use at organized affairs including beer exhibitions, contests or competitions. Such beer shall not be sold or offered for sale.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not prohibit a person from manufacturing or dispensing wine as part of an academic course in a curriculum established, approved by and under the control of a regionally accredited institution of higher education and located on the premises of such accredited institution.
(1949 Rev., S. 4303; 1957, P.A. 239; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 95-195, S. 74, 83; P.A. 96-220, S. 4, 7; P.A. 01-92, S. 3; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 12-17, S. 8.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced tax commissioner with commissioner of revenue service and, in conjunction with P.A. 78-303, replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-220 added Subsec. (b) to permit the home-brewing of beer in specific amounts, effective June 4, 1996; P.A. 01-92 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to Sec. 12-436(b) and language re point of purchase and making technical changes for the purposes of gender neutrality; 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; P.A. 12-17 added Subsec. (c) re exemption for persons manufacturing or dispensing wine as part of an academic course, effective July 1, 2012.
Penal provisions of former section construed. 118 C. 267. Cited. 137 C. 328; 152 C. 470. History discussed. 153 C. 67. Cited. 154 C. 644. Held unconstitutional insofar as statute pertains to prohibition on sale of alcoholic liquor on Good Friday. 183 C. 552.
Cited. 8 CA 290.
Cited. 23 CS 128; 24 CS 23.
Arrest of defendant for crime here defined justified subsequent search of his premises for liquor without a warrant. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 125.
