Any person who sells or offers for sale at retail or gives away, living chickens, ducklings, other fowl or rabbits, which have been dyed, colored or otherwise treated so as to import to them an artificial color, shall be fined not more than one hundred fifty dollars.
(February, 1965, P.A. 82, S. 1; P.A. 10-32, S. 149.)
History: P.A. 10-32 made a technical change, effective May 10, 2010.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 945 - (Offenses Against Humanity and Morality) Cruelty to Animals
Section 53-242 to 53-246. - Blasphemy. Obscenity. Intoxication.
Section 53-247a. - Provision of cannabis to domesticated animals.
Section 53-248. - Sale or treatment of animals unable to work.
Section 53-249. - Cruelty to poultry.
Section 53-249a. - Sale or gift of dyed fowl or rabbits prohibited.
Section 53-250. - Use of animals, reptiles and birds.
Section 53-251. - Docking of horses' tails.
Section 53-252. - Transportation of animals on railroads.
Section 53-253. - Notice of arrest of offender to be given.
Section 53-254. - Causing dependency or delinquency of children.