Conn. Gen. Stat. § 30-22b: Restaurant permit for catering establishment or qualified managed residential community. Certain requirements may be waived upon written application.

(a) For the purposes of this section:

(1) “Catering establishment” means any premises that (A) has an adequate, suitable and sanitary kitchen, dining room and facilities to provide hot meals in compliance with the regulations of the local department of health, (B) has no sleeping accommodations for the public, (C) is owned or operated by any person who, or business entity that, (i) regularly furnishes for hire on such premises one or more ballrooms, reception rooms, dining rooms, banquet halls or similar places of assemblage for a particular function, occasion or event, or (ii) furnishes provisions and services for consumption or use at any function, occasion or event described in subparagraph (C)(i) of this subdivision, and (D) employs an adequate number of employees on such premises at the time of any function, occasion or event described in subparagraph (C)(i) of this subdivision; and

(2) “Qualified managed residential community” means a managed residential community, as defined in section 19a-693, that (A) has an adequate, suitable and sanitary kitchen, dining room and facilities to provide hot meals in compliance with the regulations of the local department of health, (B) provides daily meals in the dining room described in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, and (C) exclusively serves meals to (i) residents of the managed residential community and their guests, and (ii) employees of the managed residential community.

(b) (1) A restaurant permit for a catering establishment or qualified managed residential community shall allow a catering establishment or a qualified managed residential community to serve alcoholic liquor at a function, occasion or event on the premises of the catering establishment or qualified managed residential community, and shall allow a qualified managed residential community to serve alcoholic liquor at the daily scheduled meals on the premises of the qualified managed residential community, provided (A) alcoholic liquor shall be sold only to persons invited to and attending such function, occasion, event or meals, and (B) alcoholic liquor shall be sold only during the specific hours such function, occasion or event is, or meals are, scheduled on such premises. The permittee shall comply with the regulations of the local department of health.

(2) The department may waive the requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subdivision (1) of this subsection (A) for not more than sixteen functions, occasions or events of a catering establishment annually, provided such establishment makes written application to the department at least ten days prior to the scheduled date of the function, occasion or event for which a waiver is sought, and (B) permanently for a qualified managed residential community, provided such community offers alcoholic beverages exclusively with daily scheduled meals on the premises of such community.

(3) The annual fee for a restaurant permit for a catering establishment or qualified managed residential community shall be one thousand four hundred fifty dollars.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require that any catering establishment operated under a restaurant permit for a catering establishment be open for business to the public at any time other than when a particular function, occasion or event is scheduled on such premises.

(d) No organization eligible for a club or nonprofit club permit, or other entity established primarily to serve its members, shall be eligible for a restaurant permit for a catering establishment.