Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 939 - Offenses Against the Person
Section 53-41a. - Surveillance devices in dressing rooms prohibited.

No department or clothing store shall install or in any manner use a closed-circuit television system, a two-way mirror, a peephole or any other surveillance device, including any mechanical device in any dressing room available to the public. Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three months or both.

(February, 1965, P.A. 214; P.A. 85-287.)
History: P.A. 85-287 prohibited department or clothing stores from using or installing a two-way mirror, peephole or other surveillance device including any mechanical device, in any dressing room available to the public and provided for a fine or prison term for persons convicted of a violation of this section.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 53 - Crimes

Chapter 939 - Offenses Against the Person

Section 53-9 and 53-10. - Degrees of murder; trial. First degree murder, other homicides; death penalty or life imprisonment.

Section 53-10a. - Persons sentenced to life imprisonment prior to October 1, 1963.

Section 53-11 to 53-19. - Homicide or injuries to person punishable by imprisonment for life. Assault with intent to murder. Manslaughter. Maiming with intent to disfigure; robbery with violence; armed robbery. Assault with acid or other burning subs...

Section 53-20. - Cruelty to persons.

Section 53-21. - Injury or risk of injury to, or impairing morals of, children. Sale of children.

Section 53-21a. - Leaving child unsupervised in place of public accommodation or motor vehicle. Failure to report disappearance of a child.

Section 53-22. - Psychiatric examinations.

Section 53-23. - Abandonment of child under the age of six years.

Section 53-23a. - Hazing.

Section 53-24 to 53-33. - Taking or enticing away a child. Unlawful exhibition or employment of child. Abduction of child by either parent. Kidnapping. Assault with intent to rob. Attempt to procure miscarriage or abortion. Abortion or miscarriage: F...

Section 53-34a. - Deprivation of rights of physically disabled and blind; class C misdemeanor.

Section 53-34b. - Deprivation of the right to breast-feed one's child.

Section 53-35b and 53-36. - Posting of notices. Complaint to Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities; commission may issue complaint; damages.

Section 53-36c. - Counsel for commission.

Section 53-37. - Ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.

Section 53-37a. - Deprivation of a person's civil rights by person wearing mask or hood: Class D felony.

Section 53-37b. - Deprivation of a person's equal rights and privileges by force or threat.

Section 53-38. - Fictitious notice of birth, marriage or death.

Section 53-39. - Malicious prosecution.

Section 53-39a. - Indemnification of law enforcement unit members, certain special police and inspectors in the Division of Criminal Justice.

Section 53-40. - Blackmail.

Section 53-41. - Tattooing of persons restricted.

Section 53-41a. - Surveillance devices in dressing rooms prohibited.

Section 53-41b. - Ear piercing.