Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 943 - Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety
Section 53-209a. - Manufacture of chemical, biological or radioactive weapon.

Any person who fabricates, in any manner, (1) a weapon designed or intended to cause death or serious physical injury by the release, dissemination or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors, (2) a weapon involving a disease organism, or (3) a weapon designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life, other than a person engaged in the manufacture of such weapons for lawful purposes, shall be guilty of a class B felony.

(P.A. 02-97, S. 2.)

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 53 - Crimes

Chapter 943 - Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety

Section 53-169 to 53-180. - Dispersion of riotous assembly. Disturbance of meetings and elections. Refusal to assist public officer. Breach of the peace; intimidation; libel. Indecent or harassing telephone calls. Disorderly conduct. False informatio...

Section 53-181. - Soliciting rides in motor vehicles.

Section 53-182. - Use of highways by pedestrians.

Section 53-183 to 53-189. - Animals on highway, generally. Transportation of wild animals. Signal lights and exhausts or mufflers on motor boats. Reckless operation of motor boats.

Section 53-190. - Power boats on Killingly Pond, Alexander's Lake or Lake Wononscopomuc.

Section 53-191. - Motorboats on Bolton Ponds and Gardner's Lake.

Section 53-192 and 53-193. - Speed of boats in Wethersfield Cove. Lights on boats on Highland Lake.

Section 53-194. - Preservation of Bantam Lake.

Section 53-195 to 53-197. - Abandonment or obstruction of engines or cars. Hindering street railway company in use of its tracks. Neglect to close gates and bars at railroad crossings; protection at ferry docks.

Section 53-198. - Smoking in motor buses, railroad cars and school buses.

Section 53-199. - Theaters and moving picture shows; seating capacity; standing room.

Section 53-200. - Prize fighting.

Section 53-201. - Witnessing or aiding prize fights.

Section 53-202. - Machine guns.

Section 53-202a. - Assault weapons: Definitions.

Section 53-202aa. - Firearms trafficking: Class C or B felony.

Section 53-202b. - Sale or transfer of assault weapon prohibited. Exemptions. Olympic pistols. Regulations. Class C felony.

Section 53-202c. - Possession of assault weapon prohibited. Exemptions. Class D felony.

Section 53-202d. - Certificate of possession of assault weapon. Certificate of transfer of assault weapon to gun dealer. Circumstances where possession of assault weapon authorized.

Section 53-202e. - Relinquishment of assault weapon to law enforcement agency.

Section 53-202f. - Transportation and transfer of assault weapon. Authorized actions of gun dealer, manufacturer, pawnbroker or consignment shop operator.

Section 53-202g. - Report of loss or theft of assault weapon or other firearm. Penalty.

Section 53-202h. - Temporary transfer or possession of assault weapon for transport to out-of-state event.

Section 53-202i. - Circumstances in which manufacture, transportation or temporary transfer of assault weapons not prohibited.

Section 53-202j. - Commission of a class A, B or C felony with an assault weapon: Eight-year nonsuspendable sentence.

Section 53-202k. - Commission of a class A, B or C felony with a firearm: Five-year nonsuspendable sentence.

Section 53-202l. - Armor piercing and incendiary .50 caliber ammunition: Definition. Sale or transfer prohibited. Class D felony.

Section 53-202m. - Circumstances when assault weapons exempt from limitations on transfers and registration requirements.

Section 53-202n. - Possession of specified assault weapon permitted under certain circumstances. Notice requirement.

Section 53-202o. - Affirmative defense in prosecution for possession of specified assault weapon.

Section 53-202w. - Large capacity magazines. Definitions. Sale, transfer or possession prohibited. Exceptions.

Section 53-202x. - Declaration of possession of large capacity magazine. Regulations.

Section 53-203. - Unlawful discharge of firearms.

Section 53-204. - Hunting or discharging firearm from public highway.

Section 53-205. - Loaded shotguns, rifles and muzzleloaders prohibited in vehicles and snowmobiles.

Section 53-206. - Carrying of dangerous weapons prohibited.

Section 53-206a. - Application for permit. Notice of decision to applicant.

Section 53-206b. - Unlawful training in use of firearms, explosive or incendiary devices or techniques capable of causing injury. Class C felony.

Section 53-206c. - Sale, carrying and brandishing of facsimile firearms prohibited. Class B misdemeanor.

Section 53-206d. - Carrying a firearm or hunting while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drug prohibited.

Section 53-206e. - Limitation on sale and use of laser pointers.

Section 53-206f. - Failure of parent or guardian to halt illegal possession of firearm by minor child.

Section 53-206g. - Sale, possession, use or manufacture of bump stocks or other rates of fire enhancement prohibited. Class D felony or Class D misdemeanor.

Section 53-206h. - Bump stocks or other rates of fire enhancement prohibition. Notice.

Section 53-206i. - Manufacture of firearm from polymer plastic without detectable security exemplar. Prohibited. Penalty.

Section 53-206j. - Sale, delivery or transfer of unfinished frame or lower receiver. Prohibited. Exceptions. Penalty.

Section 53-206k. - Conditions for sale or transfer of electronic defense weapons. Penalty.

Section 53-207 to 53-209. - Carrying of knife or razor with intent to assault. Removal of danger signal. Abuse of public utility employees.

Section 53-209a. - Manufacture of chemical, biological or radioactive weapon.

Section 53-210. - Refusal to relinquish telephone party line.

Section 53-211. - Use of white canes by others than blind persons prohibited. Vehicles to reduce speed, grant right-of-way.

Section 53-212. - Use of Roentgen-rays, x-rays and radium.

Section 53-212a. - Use of fluoroscopic x-ray shoe-fitting devices prohibited.

Section 53-212b to 53-214. - Use of machinery in proximity to high voltage conductors. Spitting in public places. Pollution of drinking utensils.

Section 53-215. - Abandonment of refrigerator.

Section 53-215a. - Manufacture or sale of defective recapped tires.