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CT Gen Stat § 14-135 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-135 - Attorney General to act when commissioner is disqualified.

 If the commissioner is disqualified to act in any matter, the Attorney General, upon request of the commissioner, shall act in his stead, and the decision of the Attorney General shall, subject to appeal as provided, be binding upon the parties and enforceable under the provisions of this chapter in the same manner and to the same degree as any decision or order of the commissioner.(1949 Rev., S. 2459.)Cited. 169 C. 267.
CT Gen Stat § 14-136 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-136 - First complaint.

 Section 14-136 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(1949 Rev., S. 2460; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-137 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-137 - Authority to make regulations and certify or limit the use of devices and equipment.

 (a) The commissioner may make, alter or repeal regulations governing the administration of all statutes relating to motor vehicles and may certify any device or accessory which forms part of any motor vehicle, or of its equipment, as to its compliance with the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner may also limit the use of any device or accessory in any way which appears to him to be required for safety, may authorize the use of any such device or accessory upon the highway and may make, alter or repeal any regulation relating to any such device or accessory in the interest of public safety, provided the commissioner may not limit or prohibit the possession, installation or use of a radar detecting device in any motor vehicle. Violation of any regulation adopted under this subsection shall be an infraction.(b) The commissioner may enter into an agreement with the Automotive Manufacturer Equipment Compliance Agency by which the commissioner shall accept the agency's certification of any equipment including but not limited to components, parts, material and assemblies. Such certification shall permit the legal sale and use of such equipment.(1949 Rev., S. 2461; 1971, P.A. 577; 597; P.A. 83-312; P.A. 92-256, S. 6; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-11, S. 50, 70; P.A. 96-167, S. 33.)History: 1971 acts clarified limitations on devices and accessories and authorizations for their use via regulations in the interest of public safety and added provisions re agreements with American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; P.A. 83-312 amended Subsec. (a) by providing that violation of a regulation adopted thereunder shall be an infraction; P.A. 92-256 amended Subsec. (a) to add proviso that the commissioner may not limit or prohibit the possession, installation or use of a radar detecting device; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-11 changed effective date of P.A. 92-256 but did not affect the date applicable to this section; P.A. 96-167 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “Automotive Manufacturer Equipment Compliance Agency” for “American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators”.Cited. 169 C. 267.Cited. 8 CA 578; 30 CA 922.Cited. 35 CS 659; 36 CS 551.
CT Gen Stat § 14-138 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-138 - State police to assist.

 The commissioner may call upon the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for aid in enforcing the provisions of this chapter or chapter 248. The state police shall, upon such request, make arrests in all cases of violations of the provisions of this chapter or chapter 248 which they witness or upon speedy information thereof.(1949 Rev., S. 2462; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)History: P.A. 77-614 made state police department a division within the department of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.Cited. 169 C. 267; 210 C. 333.
CT Gen Stat § 14-139 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-139 - Conviction to be endorsed on license.

 Section 14-139 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 2463; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 61; February, 1965, P.A. 506.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-140a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-140a - Automobile club bail bond certificates, when acceptable as bail.

 Any guaranteed bail bond certificate with respect to which a surety company licensed to do business in this state has become surety, shall when posted by the person whose signature appears thereon, be accepted in lieu of cash bail or other bond in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars to guarantee the appearance of such person in any court in this state at such time as may be required by such court, when the person is arrested for any motor vehicle violation or violation of any motor vehicle ordinance of any municipality; provided any such guaranteed bail bond certificate so posted as a bail bond in any court shall be subject to the forfeiture and enforcement provisions of section 54-66.(P.A. 74-110, S. 2; P.A. 90-243, S. 174; 90-285, S. 2, 3.)History: P.A. 90-243 added the reference “licensed to do business in this state”, deleting reference to Sec. 38-177a repealed by Sec. 180 of the act; P.A. 90-285 increased the maximum amount of a guaranteed bail bond certificate that will be accepted in lieu of cash bail or other bond from $200 to $500.
CT Gen Stat § 14-141 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-141 - Courts to report convictions and other dispositions to commissioner.

 A record shall be kept by each court of original jurisdiction of any violation of the laws relating to the registration, equipment and operation of motor vehicles, the licensing of operators or the establishment, maintenance or conduct of a pump or station for the sale of any product to be used in the propelling of motor vehicles using combustion type engines, or to the sale of such product, and of any violation of the provisions of sections 53a-55 to 53a-57, inclusive, when such violation has been caused by the use of a motor vehicle, of any violation of sections 53a-70 to 53a-80, inclusive, or of a violation of the provisions of any other criminal statute in which the use of a motor vehicle is a principal part, of all cases in which any person arrested for such violation forfeits his bail or has his case nolled or judgment or execution suspended, and of all cases in which the court ordered a psychiatric examination under section 53-22; and a summary of such record, with a statement of the number of the operator's license and the registration number of the motor vehicle operated, shall, within five days after such conviction, forfeiture or any other disposition or nolle, be transmitted to the commissioner by such court. Each court shall furnish to the commissioner the details of all such cases heard before it and shall make such recommendations as to the suspension or revocation of the licenses of the parties defendant as it deems advisable.(1949 Rev., S. 2465; 1951, 1955, S. 1372d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 49; February, 1965, P.A. 373; 1967, P.A. 283; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 89.)History: 1959 act deleted references to appellate courts and trial justices rendered obsolete by circuit court act; 1965 act increased time allowed for transmitting abstract from two days and deleted references to court clerk and forfeiture for untimely transmittal of abstract; 1967 act replaced “certified abstract” with “summary” of records; 1971 act replaced references to Secs. 53-13, 53-17, 53-57, 53-66, 53-217, 53-238, 53-239 and 53-240 with reference to Secs. 53a-55 to 53a-57 and 53a-70 to 53a-80.Cited. 169 C. 267.Cited. 24 CS 363.
CT Gen Stat § 14-142 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-142 - Proceedings against negligent court clerk.

 (a) Any clerk of any court who fails to deliver to the commissioner any abstract of any cause within his court, on application of the commissioner to the superior court for the judicial district wherein such clerk resides, or to any judge of the Superior Court when the same is not then sitting in such judicial district, showing such failure, may be required by such court or such judge to deliver the same within such time as is designated by such court or judge. On receipt of such application, the court or judge shall designate a time and place of hearing thereon and shall cite such clerk to appear at such time and place to show cause why he has failed to deliver such abstract to the commissioner.(b) Upon finding the allegations of such application to be true, such superior court or judge may issue an order in the nature of a peremptory mandamus requiring such clerk to comply with the provisions of the statutes in relation thereto, which provisions shall be particularly mentioned in such order, and shall render judgment against such clerk with costs as in mandamus proceedings. Any clerk who fails to comply with any order issued by the authority of the provisions of this section shall be in contempt and the court or judge issuing the same may punish therefor as in mandamus proceedings. Any person claiming to be aggrieved by any order issued on such application shall have the same right to review by the Supreme Court as in the case of mandamus proceedings.(1949 Rev., S. 2466; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 146; 1967, P.A. 656, S. 8; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 17, 130.)History: 1959 act removed references to trial justices who were abolished by same act; 1967 act deleted all references to town treasurer and deleted provision re failure to deliver money due commissioner on the part of either clerk or town treasurer; P.A. 78-280 replaced “county” with “judicial district”; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 amended Subsec. (a) by making technical change, effective July 1, 1994.Cited. 169 C. 267.
CT Gen Stat § 14-143 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-143 - Expenses in unsuccessful prosecutions by state police.

 Section 14-143 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 2467; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 204.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-144 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-144 - No fees for arrests for motor vehicle violations.

 No fee shall be paid to the arresting officer for an arrest made because of a violation of any provision of the general statutes relating to motor vehicles or a violation of an ordinance of any municipality concerning the operation of motor vehicles.(1949 Rev., S. 2468; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 73.)Cited. 169 C. 267.
CT Gen Stat § 14-145a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-145a - Towing, removal or use of wheel-locking device prohibited except upon express instruction of property owner or lessee or for repossession. Rebate prohibited.

 (a) No vehicle shall be towed or removed from private property except (1) upon express instruction of the owner or lessee, or his or her agent, of the property upon which the vehicle is trespassing, or (2) for the purpose of repossession of the motor vehicle by a lending institution. No vehicle shall be rendered immovable on private property through the use of a wheel-locking device except upon express instruction of the owner or lessee, or his or her agent. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the right of a municipality or the state to remove an abandoned motor vehicle in accordance with the provisions of section 14-150.(b) No person or firm that tows or removes a motor vehicle from private property or renders a motor vehicle immovable on private property shall rebate or pay any money or other valuable consideration to the owner or lessee, or his or her agent, of the property from which the vehicle is towed or removed or on which the vehicle is rendered immovable, or to a lending institution, for the privilege of towing, removing or rendering immovable such vehicle.(P.A. 91-408, S. 2; P.A. 15-42, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 234.)History: P.A. 15-42 amended Subsec. (a) to add provisions re use of wheel-locking device and re towing, removal or use of wheel-locking device for purpose of repossession, amended Subsec. (b) to add references to motor vehicle rendered immovable and to prohibit rebate to lending institution, and made technical and conforming changes; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that a wheel-locking device may only be used upon the instruction of the owner or lessee.
CT Gen Stat § 14-145c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-145c - Liability of property owner, lessee or lending institution for improper towing or removal of motor vehicle or use of a wheel-locking device.

 Whenever an owner or lessee of private property or a lending institution, or such owner's, lessee's or institution's agent, improperly causes a motor vehicle to be towed or removed from such property or rendered immovable on such property, the owner or lessee of the property or the lending institution shall be liable to the owner of the vehicle for the costs of towing or removal and of storage of the vehicle or for fees charged for removing a wheel-locking device, and for reasonable attorney's fees and court costs, if applicable.(P.A. 91-408, S. 4; P.A. 15-42, S. 4.)History: P.A. 15-42 added references to removal by a lending institution, added reference to vehicle rendered immovable and added provision re liability for fees charged to remove a wheel-locking device.
CT Gen Stat § 14-145d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-145d - Notification to chief of police required prior to use of wheel-locking device.

 (a) Any person, firm or corporation that engages in rendering motor vehicles immovable through the use of wheel-locking or similar devices and is hired by an owner or lessee of private property to render unauthorized motor vehicles immovable on such owner or lessee's private property shall, five business days prior to taking such action within a municipality, notify the chief of police of the local police department of such municipality of such activities. Such notification shall be in the form and manner directed by the chief of police.(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for a first offense, be deemed to have committed an infraction and be fined fifty dollars and, for each subsequent offense, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days or be both fined and imprisoned.(P.A. 15-42, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-146 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-146 - Objects not to be thrown at motor vehicles.

 No person shall throw any object at a motor vehicle or at a person in such motor vehicle or on any highway, which may cause injury to such vehicle or the tires thereon or to any person therein. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for the first offense, be fined not more than five hundred dollars and, for each subsequent offense, be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.(1949 Rev., S. 2470; 1967, P.A. 381; P.A. 12-80, S. 120.)History: 1967 act increased fine for first offense from $50 to $500; P.A. 12-80 rephrased penalty provision and changed penalty for subsequent offense from a term of imprisonment of not more than 60 days to a class D misdemeanor.
CT Gen Stat § 14-147 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-147 - Improper use of marker, registration or license.

 (a) Any person who counterfeits any number plate or marker, or makes any substitute or temporary marker except as provided in section 14-18, or who counterfeits or in any manner alters any motor vehicle registration or operator's license, and any person who gives, loans or sells any such counterfeited or altered number plate, marker, motor vehicle registration or operator's license, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.(b) Any person who loans or sells any operator's license issued by the commissioner, for use by any person, or any marker or certificate of registration issued by the commissioner, for use on any car, except as provided in sections 14-59 and 14-60, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.(c) No person shall use any motor vehicle registration or operator's license other than the one issued to him by the commissioner, except as provided in section 14-18; and no person shall use a motor vehicle registration on any motor vehicle other than that for which such registration has been issued. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.(1949 Rev., S. 2471; 1959, P.A. 176; 1967, P.A. 408; P.A. 18-164, S. 27.)History: 1959 act added provision re counterfeiting or altering of operator's license in Subsec. (a) and increased fine in Subsec. (b); 1967 act made Subsec. (a) applicable to persons who give, loan or sell counterfeited or altered plates, markers, registrations or operator's licenses to another, raised fine from $100 to $200 maximum and allowed imposition of 30 days imprisonment or both fine and imprisonment and made technical changes; P.A. 18-164 amended Subsec. (c) to increase maximum fine from $100 to $500.See Sec. 14-111(b), (h) re suspension or revocation of license.Cited. 161 C. 388; 200 C. 102.Cited. 14 CA 309; judgment reversed, see 212 C. 50; 16 CA 272; 20 CA 336; Id., 521; 32 CA 84; 33 CA 49.Cited. 26 CS 184.Cited. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 219.
CT Gen Stat § 14-147a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-147a - Theft or illegal possession of number plate or sticker.

 Any person who takes any motor vehicle number plate or sticker denoting the expiration date of the registration from such number plate or possesses such number plate or sticker without the permission of the person to whom such number plate or sticker was issued shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars.(1961, P.A. 117; P.A. 97-226, S. 5, 6; P.A. 07-217, S. 51.)History; P.A. 97-226 substituted “sticker denoting the expiration date of the registration” for “annual insert”, made penalty applicable to persons who illegally possess number plates or stickers and modified penalty to increase fine from $25 maximum to not less than $100 nor more than $500 and to eliminate term of imprisonment, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 07-217 made a technical change, effective July 12, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 14-148 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-148 - Abandoned markers.

 (a) Any person who has found, or has in his possession, any number plate or number plates, or identifying part thereof, currently in use, which plate or plates were not issued to him, shall immediately deliver the same to the commissioner or to any officer. Such officer shall, within twenty-four hours, notify the commissioner that he holds such number plate or number plates or identifying part thereof to his order.(b) Any officer may remove any number plate or number plates from any motor vehicle when such motor vehicle is apparently abandoned or when such number plate or number plates have been or are being used illegally and shall forward them to the commissioner with a statement of the reason for such removal.(c) Violation of any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be an infraction.(1949 Rev., S. 2472; 1961, P.A. 233, S. 9; P.A. 75-577, S. 64, 126.)History: 1961 act made technical change to conform to new system of staggered registration periods; P.A. 75-577 deleted reference to $5 maximum fine and made violation an infraction in Subsec. (c).Cited. 30 CA 742.
CT Gen Stat § 14-150a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-150a - Removal of abandoned motor vehicles by municipalities. Notice.

 Any municipality may, by action of its legislative body, provide for the removal of abandoned, inoperable or unregistered motor vehicles within the limits of such municipality which remain unmoved for thirty days after: (1) Notice to the owner of the property on which such motor vehicle so remains, requesting removal of such motor vehicle and (2) notice in a newspaper having a substantial circulation in such municipality. The legislative body shall designate the local board or officer who shall be responsible for notifying such owner, causing publication of the general notice and for removal and disposition of such motor vehicles.(1971, P.A. 817, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-150b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-150b - Municipal Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund.

 Section 14-150b is repealed.(P.A. 88-270, S. 1, 8; P.A. 90-3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 167, 168.)
CT Gen Stat § 14-151 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline|Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles|Section 14-151 - State marshals and constables to enforce law concerning abandoned motor vehicles.

 State marshals and the constables of the several towns shall have the same authority in respect to the provisions of section 14-150 as inspectors of the Department of Motor Vehicles, officers attached to an organized police department or state police officers.(1949 Rev., S. 2476; P.A. 00-99, S. 49, 154.)History: (Revisor's note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes to “Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner” and “Motor Vehicle(s) Department” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “Commissioner of Motor Vehicles” or “Department of Motor Vehicles”, as the case may be, for consistency with customary statutory usage); P.A. 00-99 replaced reference to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs with state marshals, effective December 1, 2000.