A health club which intends to commence the sale of health club contracts, shall, prior to commencing sale, compile a written list of the equipment and each service which it intends to have available for use by buyers at the time of commencing such sale and shall submit a copy of the list to the Commissioner of Consumer Protection. Such list, as may be updated from time to time, shall be included in any health club contract. No health club shall be considered fully operative or established until substantially all of the equipment and services so listed are actually available for use by buyers. Each individual place of business of each health club shall be fully operative or established prior to commencing the sale of health club contracts.

(P.A. 76-262, S. 6; P.A. 77-585, S. 6; P.A. 82-50, S. 2, 4; P.A. 83-292, S. 1, 3; P.A. 84-531, S. 5; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 05-158, S. 6.)

History: P.A. 77-585 replaced previous provision re permits for preopening sales campaigns with wholly new provisions requiring listing of equipment and services and expanding provisions re preopening sales campaigns; P.A. 82-50 amended Subsec. (b) by specifically requiring owners of more than one health club to obtain a preopening sales permit for each establishment; Sec. 19-341f transferred to Sec. 21a-221 in 1983; P.A. 83-292 amended Subsec. (a) to apply to any health club intending to commence sale of health club contracts, where prior law applied to any health club which had not previously sold health club contracts; P.A. 84-531 required health clubs to submit a list of equipment and services to the commissioner and to include such list in each health club contract and eliminated provisions which had allowed preopening sales permits; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp.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; P.A. 05-158 changed requirement from a written list of “each piece of” equipment to a written list of “the” equipment and each service that health club intends to have available for use by buyers at the time of commencing sale of contracts and added provision re update of list from time to time, effective July 1, 2005.