Sec. 12-561. Conflict of interest. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 12-561. Conflict of interest. No executive director or unit head or employee of the division or member or employee of the Gaming Policy Board shall directly or indirectly, individually or as a member of a partnership or as a shareholder of a corporation, have any interest whatsoever in dealing in any lottery, racing, fronton or betting enterprise or in the ownership or leasing of any property or premises used by or for any lottery, racing, fronton or betting enterprise. No executive director, unit head or member of the Gaming Policy Board shall, directly or indirectly, wager at any off-track betting facility, race track or fronton authorized under this chapter or purchase lottery tickets issued under this chapter. No employee of the division or the board shall, directly or indirectly, purchase lottery tickets issued under this chapter. The executive director may, by regulation adopted with the advice and consent of the board, prohibit any employee of the division from engaging, directly or indirectly, in any other form of legalized gambling activity in which such employee is involved because of his employment with the division.

      (1971, P.A. 865, S. 5; 1972, P.A. 187, S. 2; P.A. 79-404, S. 12, 45; P.A. 80-27.)

      History: 1972 act included references to frontons; P.A. 79-404 substituted "executive director or unit head" for "commissioner" and "division" for "commission", included gaming policy board members in prohibition against having interest in enterprise regulated by division and added prohibition against wagering or purchasing lottery tickets; P.A. 80-27 included employees of board in prohibition against having interest in regulated enterprises and added provision for prohibition against participation in any other form of legalized gambling.