Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 529 - Division of State Police
Section 29-6a. - Use of official hat and insignia of state police.

(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall cause to be filed with the Secretary of the State a drawing or photograph and a worded description of the official hat and insignia to be worn by state policemen while on duty.

(b) Thereafter, no policeman shall wear or use in public such official hat or insignia, or any imitation, reproduction or facsimile thereof, except a duly appointed member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection authorized by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection to wear such hat or insignia.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars.
(1967, P.A. 594; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: P.A. 77-614 made state police department a division within the department of public safety and replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” and “Department of Public Safety” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” and “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.

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