Sec. 21-47. Penalties. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 21-47. Penalties. (a) Any person, corporation, limited liability company or partnership which engages in the business of a pawnbroker, or in any business described in section 21-39, unless licensed according to law, or after notice that its license has been revoked, shall be guilty of a class D felony, and also shall forfeit treble the amount loaned on the property so pledged to any person injured thereby who sues therefor.

      (b) Any person, corporation, limited liability company or partnership which wilfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided or neglects to keep a record-keeping system in the English language or to make the entries therein as provided by law or refuses to allow the same to be inspected by the proper officers or receives an article of personal property by way of pawn, pledge or purchase from any minor, knowing or having reason to believe him to be a minor, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4668; P.A. 97-164, S. 7.)

      History: P.A. 97-164 added reference to "limited liability company", increased the penalty for engaging in business without a license to a class D felony, increased the penalty to a class A misdemeanor for violating provisions of the chapter for which no other penalty is provided, neglecting to keep a record-keeping system or make the required entries, refusing to allow inspection of such system and receiving property from a minor and designated said latter penalty provision as new Subsec. (b).

      Cited. 201 C. 89.