Connecticut General Statutes Title 43. Weights and Measures § 43-9. Penalties

(a) (1) Any person (A) who, by himself or by his servant or agent or as the servant or agent of another, offers or exposes for sale, sells or uses in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing or for hire or reward or retains in his possession a false weight or measure or weighing or measuring device or any weight or measure or weighing or measuring device which has not been sealed by the sealer of weights and measures within one year;  or (B) who disposes of any condemned weight, measure or weighing or measuring device contrary to the provisions of the statutes;  or (C) who tampers with, marks, defaces, removes, forges or counterfeits any seal or tag attached to a weighing or measuring instrument or device by a sealer of weights and measures;  or (D) who knowingly sells, offers or exposes for sale less than the quantity he represents;  or (E) who buys and receives any commodity the weight or measure of which is determined by weights or measures of the purchaser and gives credit or pays for a quantity of such commodity less than that received by him;  or (F) who sells or offers or exposes for sale any commodity in a manner contrary to the provisions of the statutes;  or (G) who sells or offers for sale or has in his possession for the purpose of selling any device or instrument to be used to, or calculated to, falsify any weight or measure, shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a class C misdemeanor and, for any subsequent offense, be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

(2) Any person who hinders or obstructs the Commissioner of Weights and Measures or any inspector or any municipal sealer in the performance of his official duties shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.

(3) Any person who impersonates the Commissioner of Weights and Measures or any inspector or any municipal sealer, by use of his seal or a counterfeit of his seal, or otherwise, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.