Sec. 21-33. Sworn statement before advertising special sale. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 21-33. Sworn statement before advertising special sale. No itinerant vendor or managing itinerant vendor shall advertise, represent or hold forth any sale as an insurance, bankrupt, insolvent, assignee's, trustee's, executor's, administrator's, receiver's, wholesale or manufacturer's sale, or as a sale of any goods damaged by smoke, fire, water or otherwise, or in any similar form, unless, before so doing, he states under oath to the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, either in the original application for a state license or in a supplementary application subsequently filed, and copied on the license, all the facts relating to the reasons and character of such special sale so advertised or represented, including the opening and terminating date of the proposed sale, a complete inventory of the goods, wares and merchandise actually on hand in the place where such sale is to be conducted at the opening thereof, a statement of the names of the persons from whom the goods, wares and merchandise were obtained, the date of delivery to the person applying for the license, the place from which such goods, wares and merchandise were last taken and all details necessary to locate exactly and identify fully the goods, wares and merchandise to be sold. Any false statement in an application, either original or supplementary, for a license and any failure on the part of any licensee to comply with all the requirements of this section shall subject such itinerant vendor or managing itinerant vendor to a fine of not more than fifty dollars or imprisonment of not more than sixty days or both.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4678; November, 1955, S. N203; 1959, P.A. 117, S. 4; 1961, P.A. 265, S. 4; P.A. 76-304, S. 3; P.A. 91-184, S. 3; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

      History: 1959 act provided for tax commissioner rather than state treasurer to take vendor's oath; 1961 act substituted commissioner of consumer protection for tax commissioner; P.A. 76-304 deleted references to closing-out sales; P.A. 91-184 applied provisions to managing itinerant vendors; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp.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.