Requirements related to advertising the sale of untaxed alcoholic beverages for use in Connecticut

Any written advertisement in this state for the sale of untaxed alcoholic beverages for use and consumption in this state shall contain the following words in not less than fourteen point reverse type in block form: “These alcoholic beverages are subject to the payment of the Connecticut alcoholic beverages use tax and the Connecticut use tax and may be subject to seizure as contraband goods.” In the case of any such advertisement being announced verbally, such announcement shall be immediately followed by the words above enclosed in quotation marks. Any person engaged in the business of selling alcoholic beverages, whether or not issued a license by the commissioner under the provisions of this chapter, violating the provisions of this section shall be fined five hundred dollars for each offense.

(P.A. 89-251, S. 11, 203; P.A. 91-129, S. 1, 2.)

History: P.A. 91-129 provided that the required wording be in fourteen point reverse type in block form.