This chapter shall not apply to any of the following persons or organizations: (1) The government of the state, municipalities of the state, or any department or agency of the state or such municipalities; (2) the government of the United States or any of its departments or agencies; (3) any school, public or private, offering as part of a vocational education program courses and training in the installation, maintenance, repair, replacement, testing, inspection and modification of receiving equipment and the instructors and teachers of such courses and training; provided the exemption granted by this subdivision shall be applicable only to the service of receiving equipment rendered in and as part of a regularly constituted vocational educational program and when such service is not offered to the public for hire; (4) any bona fide manufacturer of receiving equipment or the component parts of receiving equipment; (5) any public service company regulated by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, including any community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, or any of their corporate affiliates where the work performed for such affiliates is on behalf of such public service company; (6) dealers and repairers licensed under the provisions of section 14-52, provided, the exemption granted by this subdivision shall apply only to sales, installation and removal of receiving equipment for motor vehicles.

(February, 1965, P.A. 456, S. 9; P.A. 75-486, S. 53, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 79-271; P.A. 80-482, S. 178, 348; P.A. 96-21, S. 2, 3; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-271 added exemption re dealers and repairers in new Subdiv. (6) replaced other alphabetic Subdiv. indicators with numeric indicators and rephrased provisions previously in existence; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 96-21 added reference to community antenna television companies in Subdiv. (5), effective April 29, 1996; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” in Subdiv. (5), effective July 1, 2011.