PocketLaw | Connecticut General Statutes | Offenses Against Public

Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety

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Sections
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 information concerning bombs. Loitering. Soliciting from occupants of vehicles.

Soliciting rides in motor vehicles.

Use of highways by pedestrians.

Sections
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.

Power boats on Killingly Pond, Alexander's Lake or Lake Wononscopomuc.

Motorboats on Bolton Ponds and Gardner's Lake.

Sections
53-192 and 53-193

Speed of boats in Wethersfield Cove. Lights on boats on Highland Lake.

Preservation of Bantam Lake.

Sections
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.

Smoking in motor buses, railroad cars and school buses.

Theaters and moving picture shows; seating capacity; standing room.

Prize fighting.

Witnessing or aiding prize fights.

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.

Sections
53-202p to 53-202v

Reserved for future use.

Section
53-202w

Large capacity magazines. Definitions. Sale, transfer or possession prohibited. Exceptions.

Section
53-202x

Declaration of possession of large capacity magazine. Regulations.

Sections
53-202y and 53-202z

Reserved for future use.

Unlawful discharge of firearms.

Hunting or discharging firearm from public highway.

Loaded shotguns, rifles and muzzleloaders prohibited in vehicles and snowmobiles.

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.

Sections
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.

Refusal to relinquish telephone party line.

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

Use of Roentgen-rays, x-rays and radium.

Section
53-212a

Use of fluoroscopic x-ray shoe-fitting devices prohibited.

Sections
53-212b to 53-214

Use of machinery in proximity to high voltage conductors. Spitting in public places. Pollution of drinking utensils.

Abandonment of refrigerator.

Section
53-215a

Manufacture or sale of defective recapped tires.