§ 20-160 — Deceptive ownership or management of optical establishments. Misuse of designations.

Connecticut § 20-160

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 20: Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
• Ch. 381: Opticians

Text

Any person, firm or corporation, owning, managing or conducting any store, shop or place of business, not holding an optical permit or an optician's license, or not having in his or its employ a licensed optician for the supervision of such store, office, place of business or optical establishment, or including in any advertisement, whether in a newspaper, book, magazine or other printed matter, or by radio, the term “optician”, “licensed optician”, “optical establishment”, “optical office”, “opticians” or any combination of such terms, within or without such store, in such manner as to mislead the public to the belief that the same is a legally established optical place of business, licensed as such, or owned, managed or conducted by a person holding an optician's license, or that such person, firm or corporation is the holder of an optical permit, when, in fact, it is not, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 4522.) Cited. 141 C. 288.