(a) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may refund to any permittee the fee paid by him for any permit issued by said commissioner and returned to him prior to its use, provided application for such refund shall be made not later than sixty days after the effective date of such permit.

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(b) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may impose a fine of twenty dollars on any applicant for a permit or license issued by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection who issues to the commissioner a check or electronic funds transfer drawn on the account of such applicant in payment of a permit or license fee and whose check or electronic funds transfer is returned to the Department of Consumer Protection as uncollectible. In addition, the commissioner may require the applicant to pay to the department any fees charged by a financial institution to the department as a result of such returned check or electronic funds transfer.

(c) The Commissioner of Consumer Protection may impose a late fee on any applicant who fails to renew a license, permit, certificate or registration on or before the expiration date of such license, permit, certificate or registration. The amount of the late fee shall be equal to ten per cent of the renewal fee but shall not be less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars.

(d) If the Department of Consumer Protection does not receive a completed license, permit, certificate or registration renewal application from an applicant on or before the expiration date of such license, permit, certificate or registration but the applicant submits a completed renewal application to the department not later than ninety days after such expiration date, the applicant shall pay any late fee imposed by the commissioner under subsection (c) of this section but shall not be required to apply for reinstatement under subsection (e) of this section.

(e) When a license, permit, certificate or registration has lapsed for a period longer than ninety days after its expiration date or the length of time specified in any other provision of the general statutes allowing for its reinstatement, an applicant may apply to the Department of Consumer Protection to reinstate such lapsed license, permit, certificate or registration. Upon receipt of such completed reinstatement application and payment of the corresponding application fee, the department may, in the department’s discretion and if such application is made not later than three years after such expiration date or specified time, reinstate such lapsed license, permit, certificate or registration without examination. The applicant, prior to reinstatement by the department, shall attest that the applicant has not worked in the applicable occupation or profession in this state while such license, permit, certificate or registration was lapsed, pay the current year’s renewal fee for reinstatement and take any continuing education required for the year preceding such reinstatement and the year of such reinstatement. If the applicant worked in the applicable occupation or profession in this state while such license, permit, certificate or registration was lapsed, the applicant shall pay all license and late fees due and owing for the period in which such license, permit, certificate or registration was lapsed and demonstrate to the department that the applicant has completed all continuing education required for the year preceding reinstatement. If a license, permit, certificate or registration has lapsed for longer than three years after the license, permit, certificate or registration expiration date or the length of time specified in any other provision of the general statutes allowing for reinstatement, whichever is longer, the applicant shall apply for a new license, permit, certificate or registration under this subsection. No person who had a license, permit, certificate or registration that lapsed during the three years immediately preceding the date of an application made pursuant to this subsection may seek a new license, permit, certificate or registration of the same type under the same name.

(f) Unless expressly provided otherwise by law, application fees for a license, permit, certificate or registration within the purview of the Department of Consumer Protection shall be nonrefundable.