Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 941 - Offenses Against Private Property
Section 53-142c. - Manufacture, sale or distribution of records, tapes, cassettes or discs without identification marks prohibited.

(a) No person shall manufacture or knowingly sell, distribute, advertise for sale or cause to be sold, distributed or circulated for profit any phonograph record, tape, album of phonograph records or tapes or audio or video cassette or disc, without the actual name and address of the manufacturer thereof, and the name of the featured performer or group prominently disclosed on the outside cover, box or jacket containing such record, tape, album of records or tapes or audio or video cassette or disc.

(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(P.A. 74-160, S. 2; P.A. 94-140, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 94-140 added “audio or video cassette or disc” and added Subsec. (b) re penalty for violation, replacing former penalty contained in repealed Sec. 53-142d.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 53 - Crimes

Chapter 941 - Offenses Against Private Property

Section 53-56 to 53-80. - Theft from the person. Theft of motor vehicle, bicycle or livestock. Shoplifting. Theft, counterfeiting or embezzlement of passage tickets. Receiving stolen goods. Robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, generally. Use of...

Section 53-80a. - Manufacture of bombs.

Section 53-81 to 53-129. - Wilful injury to private building. Damage to materials of construction project. Arson, generally. Illegal burning and dumping. Injury to or obstruction of railroads or navigation. Trespass, generally. Other offenses.

Section 53-129a. - Defrauding secured party.

Section 53-129b. - Concealment or conveyance of leased property.

Section 53-130. - Concealing or destroying attached property.

Section 53-131. - Removal of identifying marks on electrical devices.

Section 53-132. - Sale of equipment with defective identification marks.

Section 53-132a. - Altering manufacturer's serial number.

Section 53-133. - Unlawful alteration or disposal of rental electric storage batteries.

Section 53-134. - Possession of outboard motor having defaced factory or engine number.

Section 53-135 to 53-142. - Unlawful appropriation of electric current. Fraudulent diversion or use of water. Defrauding gas companies or public hospitals. Unauthorized performance of certain compositions. Tapping telegraph or telephone wires. Unlawf...

Section 53-142a. - Illegal sale or possession of master car key.

Section 53-142b. - Transferral, sale or use of records, tapes, film, cassettes or discs without owner's consent, or supplying machinery for reproduction thereof, prohibited. Exceptions.

Section 53-142c. - Manufacture, sale or distribution of records, tapes, cassettes or discs without identification marks prohibited.

Section 53-142d. - Penalties for violations of sections 53-142b, 53-142c.

Section 53-142f. - Possession of unauthorized recordings prohibited.

Section 53-142j. (Formerly Sec. 53-142e). - Destruction, delay or opening of letters and packages by private messenger or courier service prohibited.

Section 53-142k. - Organized retail theft.