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CT Gen Stat § 14-300g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-300g - Operation of golf carts. Equipment. Insurance.

 (a) The traffic authority of any city, town or borough is authorized to permit the operation of golf carts, during daylight hours only, on any street or highway within the limits of, and under the jurisdiction of, such traffic authority, provided: (1) Each such golf cart shall be equipped with an operable horn in accordance with the requirements of subsection (e) of section 14-80; (2) each such golf cart shall be equipped with a flag that is positioned to assist operators of motor vehicles in observing the location and operation of such golf cart; (3) no such authorization shall be granted for operation on any street or highway the posted speed limit of which is more than twenty-five miles per hour; and (4) the operator of any such golf cart shall carry a valid motor vehicle operator's license while operating such golf cart. Any person who operates a golf cart in violation of any provision of this subsection, any insurance requirement established in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, or any other conditions or limitations established by the traffic authority for the operation of golf carts shall have committed an infraction.(b) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may establish, by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, insurance requirements for the operation of golf carts in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 09-187, S. 27; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 218.)History: P.A. 09-187 effective July 8, 2009; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “Connecticut” re valid motor vehicle operator's license, effective June 30, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 14-300h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-300h - Special event permit for fire department to use state highway to collect charitable donations.

 Notwithstanding any provision of section 14-298 or any regulation adopted thereunder, the Office of the State Traffic Administration shall, at the request of a local traffic authority of a municipality, issue a special event permit to allow members of the fire department of such municipality to use a state highway, other than a limited access highway, to collect donations for charitable purposes. No such permit shall be issued except for the use of a state highway at an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal or stop sign where the posted speed limit is thirty miles per hour or less. No permit shall be issued for a period of more than one day. No local traffic authority shall be issued more than two such permits per year per fire company. The issuance of a permit shall be considered an agreement by the municipality to indemnify and hold harmless the state against any financial loss and expense arising out of any claim, demand, suit or judgment resulting from or related to the issuance of the permit or the collection of donations.(P.A. 13-93, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-300i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-300i - Vehicle operator to exercise reasonable care when near vulnerable user on a public way.

 (a) As used in subsection (b) of this section, (1) “vulnerable user” means: (A) A pedestrian; (B) a highway worker; (C) a person riding or driving an animal; (D) a person riding a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric foot scooter; (E) a person using a skateboard, roller skates or in-line skates; (F) a person operating or riding on an agricultural tractor; (G) a person using a wheelchair or motorized chair; and (H) a person who is blind and such person's service animal, (2) “public way” includes any state or other public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, driveway, parkway or place, under the control of the state or any political subdivision of the state, dedicated, appropriated or opened to public travel or other use, (3) “substantial bodily harm” means bodily injury that involves a temporary but substantial disfigurement, causes a temporary but substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily part or organ, or causes a fracture of any bodily part, and (4) “serious physical injury” has the same meaning as provided in section 53a-3.(b) Any person operating a motor vehicle on a public way who fails to exercise reasonable care and causes substantial bodily harm to, or the serious physical injury or death, of a vulnerable user of a public way, provided such vulnerable user has shown reasonable care in such user's use of the public way, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.(P.A. 14-31, S. 1; P.A. 17-202, S. 45; P.A. 18-165, S. 18; P.A. 19-162, S. 18.)History: P.A. 17-202 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(H) to replace “blind person” with “person who is blind”; P.A. 18-165 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(D) to add “or an electric bicycle”; P.A. 19-162 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(D) to add reference to electric foot scooter, further amended Subsec. (a) to add Subdivs. (3) and (4) defining “substantial bodily harm” and “serious physical injury”, and amended Subsec. (b) to add reference to substantial bodily harm and made technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 14-302 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-302 - “Yield” signs.

 The Office of the State Traffic Administration, on any state highway, or a local traffic authority, on any highway under its control, may designate intersections at which signs bearing the words “Yield” may be erected. The driver of a vehicle approaching a “Yield” sign shall, in obedience to such sign, slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions, and shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving across or within the intersection, provided, if such driver is involved in a collision, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of such driver's failure to yield the right-of-way.(1955, S. 1406d; February, 1965, P.A. 448, S. 40; P.A. 12-132, S. 33.)History: 1965 act deleted reference to state aid highway, words “right-of-way” after “Yield” and provision specifying application of collision proviso was to collisions with pedestrians or other vehicles, and changed driver's duty on approaching sign from slowing to 10 miles per hour and yielding so as to avoid collision to slowing to reasonable speed so as to avoid hazard; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.See Sec. 14-111g re operator's retraining program.
CT Gen Stat § 14-303 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-303 - Designation of one-way streets.

 Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the traffic authority shall have power to designate streets as one-way streets and to place and maintain on each street intersecting a street designated as a one-way street, at or near the property line of such one-way street, appropriate signs upon or in the street; such signs, devices or marks to bear the word “one-way” with an arrow pointing in the direction that all vehicular traffic shall travel when using such designated one-way street. No person shall operate or drive any vehicle upon or through any one-way street contrary to the directions as indicated by such signs, devices or marks established under the provisions of this section.(1949 Rev., S. 2521.)See Sec. 14-111g re operator's retraining program.
CT Gen Stat § 14-304 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-304 - Safety zones.

 (a) The traffic authority shall have power to establish safety zones of such character and at such places as it deems necessary for the protection of pedestrians.(b) No person shall operate or drive any vehicle over or through any safety zone established under the provisions of this section.(1949 Rev., S. 2522.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-305 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-305 - Bus stops and public service motor vehicle stands.

 (a) The traffic authority shall have power to establish bus stops with the approval of the Department of Transportation. The traffic authority shall also have the power to establish stands for other motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers for hire and designate the same by appropriate signs and markings.(b) No person other than an operator of a motor vehicle used for the transportation of passengers for hire shall park any vehicle in any officially designated public service motor vehicle stand, and no operator of any such motor vehicle shall park such vehicle upon any highway in any business district at any place other than a public service motor vehicle stand; but this provision shall not prevent the operator of any such motor vehicle from temporarily stopping such vehicle in accordance with parking regulations at any place for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.(1949 Rev., S. 2523; 1949, S. 1407d; P.A. 75-486, S. 45, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 36, 348; P.A. 84-20, S. 3; P.A. 90-263, S. 54, 74.)History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 gave division of public utility control department status and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 84-20 amended Subsec. (a) to transfer power to approve establishment of bus stops from public utility control department to transportation department; P.A. 90-263 substituted “motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers for hire” for “public service motor vehicle”.
CT Gen Stat § 14-306 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-306 - Taxi stands in front of hotels.

 The traffic authority of any city or town is authorized to establish a public taxi stand in connection with any hotel within the limits of such city or town and may, with the approval of the owner or lessee of such hotel, limit the use of such public taxi stand to cabs of a company to be designated by such owner or lessee.(1949 Rev., S. 2524.)Cited. 118 C. 375. Statute construed as applying to establishment of taxi stands adjacent to hotels in those portions of highway of which hotel owner holds fee; hence constitutional. 119 C. 325.
CT Gen Stat § 14-308 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-308 - Loading and unloading.

 (a) The traffic authority shall have power to determine the location of loading and unloading zones and shall erect and maintain signs designating the same.(b) No operator of any vehicle shall park for a period of time longer than is necessary for the loading or unloading of materials or merchandise in any place marked as a loading or unloading zone.(1949 Rev., S. 2526.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-309 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-309 - Approval of traffic safety measures and traffic control devices, signs or markings. Approval of related municipal regulation or ordinance.

 No traffic safety measure or traffic control device, sign or marking shall be installed or maintained on any state highway or on any bridge on any such highway or within the right-of-way of any such highway or bridge by the traffic authority of any town, city or borough, except by consent and written approval of the Office of the State Traffic Administration. No rule, regulation, order or ordinance of any town, city or borough relative to or in connection with such safety measure or traffic control device, sign or marking on any such highway or bridge, or within the right-of-way of any such highway or bridge, shall take effect until approved in writing by said office or be effective after such approval has been revoked. Approval of any such traffic control measure may be revoked by said office at any time, if it deems such revocation to be in the interest of public safety.(1949 Rev., S. 2527; P.A. 12-132, S. 35.)History: P.A. 12-132 replaced references to State Traffic Commission with references to Office of the State Traffic Administration, effective July 1, 2012.Cited. 134 C. 636.
CT Gen Stat § 14-310 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-310 - Fraudulent or obstructive signs and signals.

 (a) No person, firm or corporation shall place, maintain or display upon or in view from any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is in imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal and no person, firm or corporation shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit, upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.(b) The traffic authority having jurisdiction over any such highway is authorized, without notice, to cause any such prohibited sign, signal or marking to be removed as a public nuisance.(1949 Rev., S. 2528.)See Sec. 13a-124 re unauthorized signs.Cited. 122 C. 518.
CT Gen Stat § 14-311a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-311a - New certificate for increase in parking spaces.

 Section 14-311a is repealed, effective July 1, 2012.(1971, P.A. 611, S. 2; P.A. 12-132, S. 52.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-311b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-311b - Traffic controls for certain parking areas and commercial establishments.

 The Office of the State Traffic Administration, in cooperation and agreement with local traffic authorities, may, in any parking area for twenty or more vehicles or for any commercial establishment having an exit or entrance on or abutting or adjoining any state highway, establish traffic controls by signal or device, for access to and egress from and for traffic within such parking area or commercial establishment. The traffic authority of any city, town or borough may establish similar controls for parking areas for twenty or more vehicles or for any commercial establishment having an exit or entrance on or abutting or adjoining any highway under their jurisdiction. The owner or operator of any parking area or commercial establishment where such traffic controls have been established, pursuant to this section, shall erect and maintain the necessary uniform traffic control signals or devices, which shall conform to the specifications of the manual of uniform traffic control devices established under this chapter and as approved and revised by the Office of the State Traffic Administration, provided no traffic control signal or device shall be installed, operated or maintained until a permit for such installation, operation or maintenance has been procured from the Office of the State Traffic Administration.(1971, P.A. 600; P.A. 12-132, S. 37.)History: (Revisor's note: In 2005 a reference to “chapter 249” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “this chapter”); P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 14-311d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-311d - Economic development project applications submitted to Commissioner of Transportation or Office of the State Traffic Administration.

 Notwithstanding any provision of title 13b or this title, in all matters in which a formal petition, application or request for a permit is required to be submitted to the Commissioner of Transportation or the Office of the State Traffic Administration, and such petition, application or request is in connection with an economic development project, the commissioner or office shall, not later than sixty days after the date on which the commissioner or office receives a completed petition, application or request, make a final determination whether to approve such completed petition, application or request. The commissioner or office shall notify the petitioner, applicant or requestor of such final determination. In the event that the commissioner or office fails to make a final determination not later than sixty days after the date on which the commissioner or office received such completed petition, application or request, such completed petition, application or request shall be deemed approved.(Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1, S. 8; P.A. 12-132, S. 39.)History: Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1 effective October 27, 2011; P.A. 12-132 replaced references to State Traffic Commission with references to Office of the State Traffic Administration, effective July 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 14-312 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-312 - Regulations.

 The traffic authority shall have power to make regulations necessary to make effective the provisions of this chapter, and may make and enforce temporary regulations to cover emergencies and special conditions.(1949 Rev., S. 2529.)Cited. 130 C. 243.
CT Gen Stat § 14-313 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-313 - Appeal.

 Any person aggrieved by any order or regulation made by any traffic authority under the provisions of this chapter, relating to the establishment of through streets, the making of safety zones, the establishment of parking restrictions or the location of loading and unloading zones, or by the performance of any act pursuant to any provision of this chapter, may take an appeal therefrom to the court of common council or to the board of aldermen of the city, to the town council or board of selectmen of the town, or to the warden and burgesses of the borough, wherein such traffic authority is located, or to the superior court for the judicial district in which it is located. Such appeal shall be to the next session of such court or board which will allow sufficient time for the service of the notice required herein. A written notice of such appeal, addressed to such traffic authority, shall be deposited with, or forwarded by registered or certified mail to, such traffic authority at least ten days before the return day thereof. Upon such hearing, such court or board shall determine whether the order or regulation appealed from is reasonable, and shall thereupon sustain or revoke such order or regulation.(1949 Rev., S. 2530; 1963, P.A. 486; P.A. 74-183, S. 203, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 174, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127.)History: 1963 act specified appellate body in towns and boroughs; P.A. 74-183 added reference to judicial districts; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to counties.Cited. 28 CA 344.
CT Gen Stat § 14-314 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-314 - Penalties.

 Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with any order made pursuant to any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both, and shall be subject to the provisions of section 14-111. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with any traffic control signal, sign, marking or other device placed and maintained upon the highway, or with any regulation adopted pursuant to any provision of this chapter, by the Office of the State Traffic Administration or the traffic authority of any city, town or borough shall be deemed to have committed an infraction, if no other penalty is provided by law. Traveling at a greater rate of speed than is reasonable as provided in section 14-218a shall not be deemed to be a failure to comply with the provisions of this section but shall be deemed to be the commission of an infraction within the provisions of said section 14-218a.(1949 Rev., S. 2531; 1967, P.A. 195, S. 1; P.A. 75-577, S. 125, 126; P.A. 76-381, S. 19; P.A. 90-342, S. 3, 5; P.A. 12-132, S. 40.)History: 1967 act deleted reference to violations of “any provision of this chapter” and added additional $50 maximum penalty for failure to comply with signals, markings, etc.; P.A. 75-577 replaced provision for $50 maximum fine with statement that violation is an infraction and moved failure to comply with regulations from $100 penalty provision to infraction provision; P.A. 76-381 added provision re traveling at greater than reasonable speed; P.A. 90-342 increased penalty for violations of the chapter from $100 to $5,000; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.Cited. 131 C. 167.Cited. 43 CA 52. Section does not provide state with method of charging the driving public with an infraction for failing to obey a warning sign; regulations of Connecticut state agencies delineate between regulatory signs, warning signs and guide signs, and driver's failure to follow a warning sign's advice does not give rise to an infraction with which driver may be cited. 54 CA 98.Cited. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 619.
CT Gen Stat § 14-314a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-314a - Periodic review of traffic control signals and signs.

 Section 14-314a is repealed.(1961, P.A. 339; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 153; P.A. 95-325, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-314b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety|Section 14-314b - Injury to or removal of traffic control devices, signs or lights.

 Any person who, without lawful authority, attempts to or in fact alters, defaces, injures, knocks down or removes any official traffic control device, signal light, railroad sign, portable warning light or barricade, or any other sign or light or any part thereof, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.(1971, P.A. 690, S. 1; P.A. 12-80, S. 65.)History: P.A. 12-80 replaced penalty of a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both with a class D misdemeanor.Cited. 219 C. 179.