(a) The provisions of section 53-302a shall apply to Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, New Year's Day, Memorial and Independence Day, or if any of said days is on Sunday, to the Monday following, and to Labor Day.
(b) The provisions of section 53-302a shall not apply to the sale or furnishing of personal property or services at retail by any retail stores not exempted under said section 53-302a, on those Sundays following the fourth Thursday in November and preceding December twenty-fifth.
(P.A. 76-415, S. 2; 76-435, S. 81, 82; P.A. 78-329, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 76-435 changed effective date of P.A. 76-415 from October 1, 1976, to date of passage; P.A. 78-329 added Subsec. (b) re sales during Christmas shopping season.
Discussion of constitutionality of Sunday closing laws or Blue Laws. 177 C. 304.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 946 - Offenses Against Public Policy
Section 53-258a. - Misuse or mutilation of the flag.
Section 53-264. - Maintenance.
Section 53-278a. - Gambling: Definitions.
Section 53-278b. - Gambling; professional gambling; penalties.
Section 53-278d. - Transmission of gambling information.
Section 53-278e. - Gambling premises as nuisance.
Section 53-278f. - Persistent offenders.
Section 53-278g. - Gambling: Excepted activities.
Section 53-280. - Billiard and pool rooms; permits.
Section 53-289. - Ticket scalping.
Section 53-289a. - Disclosure in advertisements of service charge on tickets.
Section 53-289b. - Ticket resellers. Conditions. Refunds. Penalty.
Section 53-289c. - Unauthorized ticket resale in proximity to event prohibited. Exemptions. Penalty.
Section 53-290. - Lotteries prohibited; publication of promotional drawing.
Section 53-290a. - Disclosures re promotional drawings.
Section 53-300a. - Sunday real estate contracts valid.
Section 53-301. - Dealing in automobiles on Sunday.
Section 53-302. - Employment of labor on Sunday.
Section 53-302a. - Employment of labor on Sunday prohibited; exceptions. Sunday sales.
Section 53-303. - Persons who observe Saturday excepted from Sunday law.
Section 53-303a. - Retail sales on certain holidays.
Section 53-303b. - Employment of labor and retail sales on certain holidays.
Section 53-303d. - Injunction.
Section 53-303e. - More than six days employment in calendar week prohibited. Employee remedies.
Section 53-303f. - Lease provisions requiring Sunday openings prohibited.
Section 53-305. - Bond on appeal.
Section 53-306. - Failure to comply with terms or make payment.
Section 53-307. - Jurisdiction.
Section 53-308. - Forfeited bonds in nonsupport cases.
Section 53-311a. - Distribution of unsolicited credit cards, charge plates.
Section 53-312. - False statements of the value of stocks, bonds and other property.
Section 53-313. - “Bucket shop”; definition.
Section 53-314. - Keeping bucket shop.
Section 53-315. - Keeping bucket shop; accessory.
Section 53-316. - Information to be furnished to customers.
Section 53-317. - Fraudulent sale of kosher meat, meat products and other food.
Section 53-318. - Sale, use or exposure of diseased horses and other animals.
Section 53-319. - Sale or shipment of diseased flesh.
Section 53-320. - Distribution of noxious seeds or poisons.
Section 53-321. - Sale of thistle seed in grass seed.
Section 53-322. - Sale of clams by the barrel or bushel.
Section 53-324. - Articles purporting to be made of gold to be marked.
Section 53-325. - Articles made of gold or alloy; false representations.
Section 53-326. - Sterling silver defined. Penalty.
Section 53-327. - Coin silver defined. Penalty.
Section 53-328. - Manufacture and sale of gold and silver articles.
Section 53-329. - Products of prison labor. Proceeds from sales credited to industrial fund.
Section 53-330. - Admission to public performances.
Section 53-331. - Use of arsenic in embalming.
Section 53-332. - Burials; proximity to dwelling.
Section 53-333. - Depth of burial.
Section 53-333a. - Depth of burial.
Section 53-334. - Unlawful disinterment.
Section 53-341a. - Sale of badge or shield of specific governmental official or employee.
Section 53-341b. - Sale or delivery of body armor restricted.
Section 53-344a. - Sale of cigarettes or tobacco products. Proof of age.
Section 53-345. - Soliciting for philanthropic purposes.
Section 53-345a. - Nitrous oxide containers; sale to or purchase by minors prohibited. Proof of age.