Connecticut General Statutes Title 22. Agriculture. Domestic Animals § 22-36. Culls

(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture may, after investigation and public hearing, establish and promulgate definitions of “culls” as applied to farm products, or any of them; and may alter such definitions from time to time.

(b) No person shall sell, expose for sale or transport for sale farm products in open or closed packages, if the package containing them or the label on them bears any statement, design or device regarding such farm products which is false or misleading in any particular. No person shall sell or offer for sale or transport for sale in either open or closed packages farm products packed in such manner that the face or shown surface is not an average of the contents of the package.

(c) The Commissioner of Agriculture shall adopt such regulations generally to supplement and give full effect to the provisions of this section, and specifically to regulate the marketing, packing, labeling and shipping of culls, as he deems necessary. Such regulations shall be filed and open for public inspection at the principal office of the Department of Agriculture and shall be published at least once in three newspapers published in this state.

(d) Any person, firm or corporation which violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than two hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.