The provisions of sections 21a-73 to 21a-77, inclusive, shall not apply to any owner-operated single retail store or to any store occupying a total retail sales area of not more than three thousand five hundred square feet.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 21a-76
(1971, P.A. 856, S. 6; P.A. 84-250, S. 1, 2.)