Who Thinks Up These Laws? More Importantly, Why?
Posted By Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. on March 11, 2010
My colleague and fellow blogger, Attorney Adrian Baron, celebrated his 1-year anniversary as author of The Nutmeg Lawyer this week. Congratulations, Adrian!
At the end of his post, Will Connecticut Residents Finally Be Able To Buy Alcohol On Sunday? he lists some arcane (and quite amusing) Connecticut laws. Inspired by his research, I decided to do some of my own.
With the sale of alcohol on Sundays on everyone’s mind in Connecticut these days … well maybe it’s not on everyone’s mind but it’s on enough people’s minds to be the subject of debate … And with the whole restructuring of the Probate Courts taking place as you read this, I offer the following statute:
Chapter 545 Sec. 30-97. Town and probate records not to be kept where liquor is sold.
Town or probate records shall not be kept in any room in which alcoholic liquor is sold, nor in any room from which
there is direct access to a room in which such liquor is sold. Any town clerk or judge of probate violating the
provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 30-113.(1949 Rev., S. 4298.)
FYI, that law was repealed effective October 1, 2002! I guess someone finally took the time to read that chapter!
My question is, who thinks up these laws? More importantly, why?
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