Connecticut § 30-90 - Loitering on permit premises. Unaccompanied minors and intoxicated persons prohibited. Exception.

§ 30-90. Loitering on permit premises. Unaccompanied minors and intoxicated persons prohibited. Exception.

Sec. 30-90. Loitering on permit premises. Unaccompanied minors and intoxicated persons prohibited. Exception. Any permittee who, either personally or through such permittee's servant or agent, allows any minor, intoxicated person or person to whom the sale or gift of alcoholic liquor has been prohibited by law to loiter on the permit premises where alcoholic liquor is kept for sale, or who allows any minor, other than a person who is at least eighteen years of age and an employee or permit holder under section 30-90a or a minor accompanied by the minor's parent or guardian, or intoxicated person to be in any room where alcoholic liquor is served at any bar, shall be subject to the penalties described in section 30-113. For barrooms consisting of only one room and for permit premises without effective separation between a barroom and a dining room, an unaccompanied minor or intoxicated person may remain on the permit premises while waiting for and consuming food prepared on such permit premises. No minor may sit or stand at a consumer bar without being accompanied by a parent, guardian or spouse.

(1949 Rev., S. 4295; 1972, P.A. 177; P.A. 77-149; P.A. 82-68, S. 8, 11; P.A. 21-37, S. 75; P.A. 22-104, S. 29; P.A. 24-142, S. 74.)

History: 1972 act deleted provision forbidding permittee to allow person to loiter “to whom the sale or gift of alcoholic liquor has been forbidden according to law by the selectmen, either because of the complaint of some relative ... or because such person or some member of his legal family had received town aid for support within the time specified by law”; P.A. 77-149 deleted provision forbidding permittee to allow loitering by “any female, unless she is the proprietor or an employee of the proprietor”; P.A. 82-68 added an exception to the prohibition against minors loitering on permit premises for persons over eighteen who are employees or permit holders; P.A. 21-37 added provision re prohibiting unaccompanied minors at bar in 1-room barrooms and premises without effective separation, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-104 added provision allowing unaccompanied minor to remain on permit premises while waiting for and consuming food prepared on permit premises, and made technical and conforming changes, effective May 24, 2022; P.A. 24-142 added provisions re intoxicated person and made conforming changes, effective June 6, 2024.

Cited. 154 C. 644.

Cited. 10 CS 283. “Loiter” defined; proof beyond a reasonable doubt is required that liquor or beer contained more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume. 23 CS 473.