Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 423 · 49 active provisions
(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to investigate marketing conditions and to establish and maintain state brands for farm and horticultural crops, including poultry and poultry products. He may obtain, prepare and disseminate information concerning the marketing, prices, supply and demand for any or all…
The Commissioner of Agriculture may determine or design brands to be used on labels for identifying farm products packed in accordance with the official grades and standards established under the provisions of section 22-27, and shall cause such labels to be printed and distributed at a reasonable price. A written appl…
Upon the establishment of such grades or standards and upon the determination of such brands, notice thereof shall be published for three successive weeks in three newspapers, stating the grade or grades so established and the brands so determined and the date on which such establishment or determination is to become e…
Any person who uses a brand promulgated under the provisions of section 22-29 without having written permission as provided in section 22-28 shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture or any person authorized by him shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any building or other place wherein it is reasonably believed that farm products labeled in accordance with official grades established and promulgated by the Commissioner of Agriculture are being marke…
Section 22-32 is repealed.
The Commissioner of Agriculture may prescribe regulations for carrying out the provisions of sections 22-27, 22-28 and subsection (b) of section 22-31, including the fixing of fees for inspections under the provisions of section 22-31.
No person shall use any words, titles or names designated by the Commissioner of Agriculture, under the provisions of sections 22-27, 22-28 and 22-29, subsection (b) of section 22-31 and section 22-33, for use in grading or marketing of farm products, unless the products which he is identifying, advertising, designatin…
No person, firm or corporation shall sell or offer for sale, at retail, potatoes in any package or container which is not plainly marked or labeled with the name of the official Connecticut or United States grade which represents a standard no higher than the actual grade of the potatoes contained therein, provided the…
(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture may, after investigation and public hearing, establish and promulgate definitions of “culls” as applied to farm products, or any of them; and may alter such definitions from time to time. (b) No person shall sell, expose for sale or transport for sale farm products in open or closed…
Section 22-37 is repealed, effective July 1, 2005.
Section 22-37a is repealed, effective July 1, 1998.
(a) For purposes of this section, “farm products” means products resulting from the practice of agriculture or farming, as defined in section 1-1 and “Connecticut-Grown” or “CT-Grown” means produce and other farm products that have a traceable point of origin within Connecticut. (b) Only farm products grown or produced…
The Commissioner of Agriculture shall establish and administer a program to promote the marketing of farm products grown and produced in Connecticut for the purpose of encouraging the development of agriculture in the state. The commissioner may, within available appropriations, provide a grant-in-aid to any person, fi…
Section 22-38b is repealed, effective June 4, 2024.
There shall be an expand and grow Connecticut agriculture account, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account. Funds received pursuant to sections 22-38a and 26-194 shall be deposited into said account. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall make payments from said account to fund the program established in section 2…
(a) There is established, within the Department of Agriculture, a farm to school program. In consultation with the Department of Education, the program shall facilitate and promote the sale of Connecticut-grown farm products by farms to school districts, individual schools and other educational institutions under the j…
(a) The holder of a permit issued pursuant to chapter 545 who manufactures alcoholic liquor, as defined in section 30-1, on a farm in this state, using farm products grown in this state, may apply to the Commissioner of Agriculture for permission to use the words “Connecticut Farm Winery”, “Connecticut Farm Brewery”, “…
Any person who obstructs or hinders the Commissioner of Agriculture or any of the commissioner's assistants in the performance of their duties under the provisions of sections 22-27 to 22-38, inclusive, shall be fined not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars.
No person shall sell or exchange or offer or expose for sale or exchange or transport for sale any fruit represented as having been exposed to “controlled atmosphere”, or “modified atmosphere”, alone or with other words, or shall so use any such term or form of words or symbols of similar import on any container or lot…
(a) Any person owning or operating a controlled atmosphere room or storage building or packers or repackers of fruit subject to section 22-39a shall register with the Commissioner of Agriculture on a form prescribed by said commissioner. The registration period shall commence on August first and end on July thirty-firs…
Each owner or operator shall make the required air components determinations daily. The percentage of oxygen shall be reduced to five per cent within twenty days after the date of sealing.
(a) A record on a form approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be kept at a convenient location adjacent to such room or storage building from the day of sealing to the day of opening of the room or storage building, and shall be subject to review by said commissioner or his authorized agents at any time for…
The Commissioner of Agriculture or any of his agents shall, periodically and at a reasonable time, enter any building or place where fruit of controlled atmosphere storage origin, from either within or outside the state of Connecticut, is sold or offered or exposed for sale and may open therein any box or other contain…
Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of sections 22-39a to 22-39e, inclusive, or section 22-39g or 22-54u, any regulation adopted pursuant to subsection (h) of section 22-39g or section 22-54u, or who obstructs or hinders the Commissioner of Agriculture or the commissioner's authorized agents in the perfo…