In any case a new permittee may be substituted when so requested, provided the person so substituted shall be a suitable person as defined and set forth in this chapter, and such person shall be permitted to serve in the place and stead of the original permittee for the remainder or any part thereof of the term of the permit upon which he has been substituted and such a substitution may be made upon the death of a permittee, when so requested. A substitute permittee under this section shall not be subject to the provisions of section 30-39. In the case of an application to permanently substitute the identity of the permittee, the applicant shall pay to the Department of Consumer Protection a nonrefundable application fee of thirty dollars.

(1949 Rev., S. 4280; 1951, S. 2167d; P.A. 77-114, S. 2; 77-614, S. 165, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 80, 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 170, 191, 345, 348; P.A. 95-195, S. 64, 83; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 77-114 imposed $30 nonrefundable fee for application to permanently substitute the identity of the permittee; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced liquor control commission with division of liquor control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of liquor control an independent department and abolished the department of business regulation, overriding provision of same act which would have placed the division within the public safety department; P.A. 95-195 substituted Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp.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.

Cited. 137 C. 23; 150 C. 425; 213 C. 184.

Commission ought not to change permittee unless all parties unite to accept the responsibilities of either permittee or backer. 5 CS 234.