2005 Formal Opinions

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• Honorable Pam Law, Commissioner of Revenue Services, 2005-033, Formal Opinion, Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, State of Connecticut

  You have asked for an opinion whether non-profit employers’ mutual insurance associations under Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 31-328 to 31-339 (“Mutual Association Statutes”) are “insurance companies” within the meaning of Conn. Gen. Stat. §12-201(4) and are therefore subject to the Connecticut insurance premium tax, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§12-201 to 12-212a (“Connecticut Premium Tax”).

• Commissioner Shaun B. Cashman, 2005-027, Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  Your department has asked for advice on the payment of wages to service workers employed by contractors of the state or vendors supplying services to state contractors. You ask if the standard wage rate provisions of Conn. Gen. Stat. §31-57f apply to contracts between the state and management companies and between management companies and their vendors under various scenarios.

• Edwin R. Rodriguez, Commissioner of Consumer Protection, Chairman, Liquor Control Commission, 2005-012 Formal Opinion, Attorney General of Connecticut

  This is in response to your request for an opinion on whether it would be lawful, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 30-77(b), for students at Connecticut College to form a brewing club for the purpose of making beer on the college campus in New London, Connecticut, without a liquor permit required by the Liquor Control Act. Consumption would be restricted to persons over the age of twenty-one.