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      Sec. 30-55a. Suspension of permit for failure to pay unemployment compensation contributions; violation of noise standards by liquor permittees; penalties. (a) The Department of Consumer Protection shall, upon notice from the administrator of the Unemployment Compensation Act of the name and address of any employer subject to chapter 567 who has failed to file any return or to pay the contributions prescribed under the provisions of said chapter, suspend the permit of such employer until written notice from the administrator has been received that the returns have been filed and the contributions, including interest, have been paid.

      (b) When any permit premises where alcoholic liquor is consumed on the premises emits noise which, when measured at a radius of two hundred feet from the premises, as described in the permittee's application for a liquor permit, exceeds the ambient noise standard for the land use classification for the location at which such measurement is made, as established by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to section 22a-69, the Department of Consumer Protection may suspend the permit to sell alcoholic liquor for three days for a first violation, five days for a second violation and fourteen days for any subsequent violation.

      (1967, P.A. 328; P.A. 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 91-116; P.A. 95-195, S. 56, 83; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 91-116 added Subsec. (b) re suspension of permits when permit premises violate noise standards established by the department of environmental protection pursuant to Sec. 22a-69; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.

      Subsec. (b):

      Cited. 226 C. 418.