Sec. 21a-32. (Formerly Sec. 19-185). Sale and use of articles containing wood alcohol.

Any person who sells, exchanges, offers for sale or exchange or delivers to another any wood alcohol, known as methyl alcohol, shall affix to the vessel or container holding the same a label bearing the words, “wood alcohol, poison”, printed or written thereon in letters not less than one-fourth of an inch in height. No person shall sell, exchange, offer for sale or exchange or deliver, or have in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any article of food or drink, or any drug intended for external or internal use on or within the human body, or any perfume or toilet article, containing any wood alcohol known as methyl alcohol. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both. The Commissioner of Consumer Protection shall cause a prosecution to be instigated for any violation of the provisions of this section.

(1949 Rev., S. 4170; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 38, 42; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)

History: 1959 act replaced commissioner of food and drugs with commissioner of consumer protection; Sec. 19-185 transferred to Sec. 21a-32 in 1983; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp.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.