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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-106a. - Tamper-resistant odometer required. Mileage reading required on registration application.

(a) On and after January 1, 1971, no passenger motor vehicle designated as a 1971 or later model shall be registered in this state unless it is equipped with a tamper-resistant odometer designed with the intent to reduce the likelihood of unlawful tampering with the mileage reading thereon. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may make regulations establishing standards for such devices, which standards shall be consistent with provisions of federal law, if any, relating thereto. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall not require, as a condition precedent to the initial sale of a vehicle, the inspection, certification or other approval of such odometer if such device or equipment has been certified by the manufacturer as complying with federal or state law or regulation.
(b) The application for registration of a motor vehicle shall include the mileage reading at the time of registration, sale or transfer.
(1969, P.A. 366; P.A. 85-338, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 85-338 added Subsec. (b), requiring that motor vehicle registration applications include mileage reading at time of registration, sale or transfer.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-106c. - Headerboards required on commercial van-type motor vehicles.

No commercial van-type motor vehicle manufactured after January 1, 1975 shall be operated in this state unless equipped with headerboards or similar devices of sufficient strength to prevent load shifting and penetration or crushing of the driver's compartment. Such headerboards or similar devices shall conform to the requirements of such devices set forth in the Motor Carrier Safety Regulations of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
(P.A. 73-227; P.A. 75-314.)
History: P.A. 75-314 rephrased provisions but made no substantive change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-108. - Report of accidents.

Section 14-108 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 2453; 1951, 1953, S. 1343d; 1957, P.A. 173; 1961, P.A. 33; 168; 318, S. 4; February, 1965, P.A. 447, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 379, S. 1; P.A. 75-577, S. 62, 126; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 79-302, S. 2; P.A. 83-165, S. 1; P.A. 84-197, S. 1; P.A. 88-27, S. 1; P.A. 90-143, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-108b, 14-108c and 14-109. - Statistical information based on reports. Report of accident involving unlicensed operator under instruction. Coroner to investigate fatal motor vehicle accidents.

Sections 14-108b, 14-108c and 14-109 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 2454; 1961, P.A. 318, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 832, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 699, S. 38; P.A. 80-142, S. 2; 80-190, S. 14; P.A. 90-143, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111a. - Possession of alcoholic liquors in motor vehicles by underage persons.

Section 14-111a is repealed, effective July 1, 2010.
(February, 1965, P.A. 276, S. 1; P.A. 82-68, S. 10, 11; P.A. 10-110, S. 62.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111b. - Suspension of operator's license following conviction for speeding.

(a) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall not suspend or revoke an operator's license or right to operate a motor vehicle in this state for a first, second or third violation of section 14-219, unless the court wherein the conviction was rendered recommends such suspension or revocation for a period not to exceed thirty days. The court shall notify said commissioner of such recommendation and said commissioner shall make such suspension or revocation effective.
(b) Whenever any person is convicted of a fourth or subsequent violation of said section 14-219, said commissioner shall suspend or revoke the operator's license or right to operate a motor vehicle in this state for a period not to exceed thirty days for a fourth violation, sixty days for a fifth violation and six months for each subsequent violation.
(c) For the purposes of this section, a second or subsequent violation shall be defined as provided in section 14-1, and a fourth or subsequent violation means four or more arrests within any two-year period for violation of any provision of section 14-219 which result in conviction.
(1971, P.A. 2, S. 1
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3; P.A. 79-609, S. 2; P.A. 84-429, S. 62.)
History: P.A. 79-609 amended Subsec. (a) to extend applicability to second and third violations, made Subsec. (b) applicable to fourth, fifth and subsequent violations, rather than to second, third and subsequent violations and defined fourth or subsequent violation in Subsec. (c); P.A. 84-429 made technical changes for statutory consistency.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111c and 14-111d. - Driver License Compact. Definitions applicable to Driver License Compact; comparable convictions to be reported; report of suspension or revocation action to department.

Sections 14-111c and 14-111d are repealed, effective January 1, 2003.
(P.A. 92-186, S. 1–3; P.A. 02-70, S. 88.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111f. - Suspension of operator's license for possession of counterfeit or altered license.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall suspend for a period of two months the motor vehicle operator's license of any person who possesses a counterfeit or altered motor vehicle operator's license containing a photograph of such person. Upon such suspension or revocation of a motor vehicle operator's license, the commissioner shall comply with the provisions of section 14-111. Such aggrieved person shall have all the prescribed rights outlined in said section 14-111.
(P.A. 93-315, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111h. - Definitions applicable to driver license agreement.

As used in sections 14-111h to 14-111q, inclusive, the following terms and their derivatives have the following meanings:
(1) “Administrative action” means a final determination by a duly authorized administrative agency that a person has violated laws related to the operation of a motor vehicle, or that a person is incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle;
(2) “Citation” means any summons, complaint or other official document issued to a person by a duly authorized law enforcement officer or judicial official for any violation relating to conduct to be reported under the driver license agreement;
(3) “Conviction” has the meaning provided in section 14-1 and includes a judgment by default, or in absentia;
(4) “Driver control record” means the driving history record maintained by the jurisdiction of record in accordance with the driver license agreement;
(5) “Failure to comply” means failure to appear or to answer a citation in the manner required by law or the failure to pay fines, penalties or costs related to the disposition of the violation for which the citation has been issued;
(6) “Identification card” means a nondriver identity card issued in accordance with the provisions of section 1-1h;
(7) “Jurisdiction” means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, a territory or province of Canada or any state of the Republic of Mexico or the federal district of Mexico;
(8) “Jurisdiction of record” means the jurisdiction that has issued the last driver's license to a person or, if the person has not been issued a driver's license, the jurisdiction of the person's most current address, as shown on the citation, or record of conviction or on any associated report;
(9) “License”, “driver's license” or “operator's license” means an authorization or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in accordance with the laws of a jurisdiction that is recognized by all member jurisdictions;
(10) “Licensing authority” means the official organization or entity responsible for administering the driver licensing laws of a member jurisdiction, and with reference to this state, means the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles;
(11) “Member jurisdiction” means a jurisdiction that has entered into the driver license agreement; and
(12) “Withdrawal” means the suspension, revocation, cancellation or denial of a license or motor vehicle registration or of the privilege to operate a motor vehicle or to obtain a license or registration.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 34; P.A. 04-217, S. 13; P.A. 14-122, S. 106.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003; P.A. 04-217 defined “identification card” in new Subdiv. (6), redesignated existing Subdivs. (6) to (11) as new Subdivs. (7) to (12), respectively, and amended Subdiv. (3) to eliminate reference to Sec. 14-1(a)(16), effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 14-122 made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111i. - Entry into driver license agreement. Regulations.

The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may enter into a driver license agreement with any other state legally joining in such agreement. The commissioner may exercise the powers and duties conferred by the provisions of sections 14-111h to 14-111q, inclusive, and may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, as necessary to meet the obligations of membership and to fully participate with other member states in the driver license agreement.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 35.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111l. - Driver control record. Record of convictions and administrative actions.

(a) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall maintain a driver control record for each person who has been issued a motor vehicle operator's license, until such time as the commissioner is notified by another member jurisdiction that such person has surrendered such license and has been issued a license by such other jurisdiction.
(b) Upon notification of issuance of a license by another member jurisdiction, in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner shall transfer the driver control record to the driver licensing authority of such new jurisdiction of record within thirty days.
(c) Each driver control record shall contain the information prescribed by the commissioner, in accordance with the terms of the driver license agreement and as set forth in regulations adopted by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
(d) The commissioner shall maintain a record as to all convictions and administrative actions for motor vehicle and traffic violations committed in this state, and for any cases of failure to comply, as reported to the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of sections 14-140 and 14-141, by any person who has not been issued a motor vehicle operator's license by the commissioner or by the licensing authority of any other member jurisdiction, or whose license has expired or been cancelled. The commissioner shall transmit such record to such licensing authority of another jurisdiction, upon notification of the issuance of a license to such person.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 38; P.A. 03-171, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003; P.A. 03-171 amended Subsec. (d) to delete reference to motorcycle operator's license.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111m. - Notice of failure to comply with a citation.

(a) The Centralized Infractions Bureau of the Superior Court and each court having jurisdiction of each case involving a violation of any general statute relating to motor vehicles shall, in accordance with the provisions of section 14-141, continue to report to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles the name, operator's license number, jurisdiction that issued the operator's license and such other information as may be available concerning each nonresident owner or operator of a motor vehicle who has been convicted of a violation of any statute relating to motor vehicles, or has failed to appear for any scheduled court appearance, or has failed to submit a plea of not guilty by the answer date, or has not paid the full amount of any fine or additional fee required by law.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a) of section 14-140, any person who has been charged by any law enforcement officer of this state with a violation of any provision of any general statute relating to motor vehicles may be released upon such person's own recognizance, without posting collateral or bond.
(c) Upon receipt of each report made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section concerning a nonresident owner or operator of a motor vehicle, the commissioner shall notify the jurisdiction of record, in accordance with the procedures of the driver license agreement. Each notification of a conviction shall be made within thirty days of receipt by the commissioner. No such notification shall be made pursuant to this subsection more than six months later than the date of disposition by the court.
(d) Upon receipt of a notice of failure to comply with a citation issued by any member jurisdiction, or administrative action taken by such jurisdiction concerning any person who is licensed to operate a motor vehicle in this state or who is the owner of a motor vehicle registered in this state, the commissioner shall proceed to suspend such person's operator's license and, if authorized or required by any provision of the general statutes, the registration of any motor vehicle owned by such person, or the privilege to register any motor vehicle, until such time as the commissioner is duly notified, in the manner provided by the procedures of the driver license agreement, that such person has complied with the terms of such citation.
(e) The provisions of subsections (c) and (d) of this section shall apply only to citations issued for motor vehicle traffic or safety violations identified in the code of the driver license agreement, as set forth in regulations adopted by the commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 39.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111o. - Form and use in evidence of records received from other member jurisdictions. Electronic transmission.

(a) Any notice or copy of a record furnished to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles by any member jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions and obligations of the driver license agreement and sections 14-111h to 14-111q, inclusive, concerning any conviction, administrative action, withdrawal and the status of an operator's license or motor vehicle registration may be transmitted and received by electronic or documentary means. Any such notice or record shall, when certified, be admissible in any hearing conducted by the commissioner and in any appeal taken from a final decision of the commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183. Any such notice or record so transmitted and certified shall be accepted as proof of the facts contained therein, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
(b) A notice or record as referred to in subsection (a) of this section may be certified by electronic means in an electronic format and, when so certified, shall be accepted by the commissioner and by any court of this state as proof of the facts contained therein, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. As used in this section, the term “record” includes, but is not limited to, any paper, document, facsimile information, micro-photographically stored information or digitized image maintained, deposited or filed with a member jurisdiction.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 41.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111p. - Validity of reports or records received from members of the Driver License Compact.

Any notification, report or record received from any state that is a member of the Driver License Compact may be used by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for any purpose authorized by sections 14-111h to 14-111o, inclusive, in the same manner and to the same extent as any such notification, report or record received from any jurisdiction that is a member of the driver license agreement.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 42.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-111q. - Hearing.

Any person aggrieved by an action of the commissioner to withdraw (1) a license or registration, or (2) the privilege to operate a motor vehicle or to register a motor vehicle in this state, pursuant to sections 14-111h to 14-111p, inclusive, shall be entitled, upon request, to a hearing conducted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 43.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-113 to 14-115. - Financial responsibility of motor vehicle owners and operators required after accident; definitions. Administration by Motor Vehicle Commissioner; hearings; appeals. Abstract of operating record.

Sections 14-113 to 14-115, inclusive, are repealed.
(1951, S. 1350d
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1352d; 1955, S. 1351d, 1352d; 1957, P.A. 254; September, 1957, P.A. 16, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 581, S. 17; 1971, P.A. 755, S. 1; P.A. 73-549, S. 2, 4; P.A. 76-436, S. 344, 681; P.A. 77-603, S. 34, 125; P.A. 89-232, S. 2, 3; P.A. 80-466, S. 22, 25.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-115a. - Request for document from motor vehicle record.

No process to compel the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles to furnish a copy of any document from a motor vehicle record, as defined in section 14-10, of any person shall be issued unless such request is in writing and unless at least seven working days have elapsed since the receipt thereof by the commissioner.
(P.A. 73-549, S. 3, 4; P.A. 10-110, S. 17.)
History: P.A. 10-110 substituted “any document from a motor vehicle record, as defined in section 14-10” for “an abstract of a driver's history record”, effective July 1, 2010.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-116 to 14-128. - Accident reports. Determination of amount of security; suspension of license and registration; exceptions; liability policy or bond. Release in behalf of minor. Exceptions. Duration of suspension. Unlicensed or nonresident operators; reciprocity. Amount of security, reduction. Custody, use and return of deposits. Evidence inadmissible in damage actions. Suspension pending disposition of judgment. Transfer of registration or ownership during suspension. Return of license or registration to commissioner. Governmental and public service vehicles exempt.

Sections 14-116 to 14-128, inclusive, are repealed.
(1951, S. 1353d
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1361d, 1363d, 1364d, 1366d; 1953, S. 1354d, 1360d, 1361d; 1957, P.A. 456, S. 1; 625, S. 1; 1959, P.A. 584; 649; 663; February, 1965, P.A. 122; 447, S. 2, 3; 574, S. 19; 1967, P.A. 213, S. 2; 293; 332; 1971, P.A. 146, S. 1, 2; 379, S. 3, 4; 487, S. 3; 755, S. 2, 3; 871, S. 88; P.A. 75-545, S. 5; P.A. 77-186; P.A. 80-190, S. 2; P.A. 83-98, S. 3, 4; P.A. 85-613, S. 32, 154; P.A. 89-232, S. 2, 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-129. - Self-insurance.

(a) Any person in whose name more than twenty-five motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the commissioner as provided in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) The commissioner may, in his discretion, upon the application of such person, issue a certificate of self-insurance when he is satisfied that such person is possessed and will continue to be possessed of ability to pay judgments obtained against such person.
(c) Upon not less than five days' notice and a hearing pursuant to such notice, the commissioner may, upon reasonable grounds, cancel a certificate of self-insurance. Failure to pay any judgment within thirty days after such judgment has become final shall constitute a reasonable ground for the cancellation of a certificate of self-insurance.
(1951, S. 1367d.)
Cited. 143 C. 202; 169 C. 267. Self-insurance provision discussed. 248 C. 195. Self-insurers not required to provide uninsured motorist coverage. 254 C. 404.
City's notification to Insurance Commissioner that does not contain a specific amount of its exposure as a self-insurer does not deem city to have agreed to unlimited liability coverage; section does not and cannot define amount of coverage that a city agreed to provide when it became a self-insurer. 63 CA 815. Self-insured municipal employer was not required to create a writing to give notice of its intention to reduce amount of its uninsured motorist coverage by amount of workers' compensation benefits paid to plaintiff employee because the self-insured municipality functions as both insurer and insured. 82 CA 752; judgment reversed, see 273 C. 519.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-131 to 14-133. - Discharge in bankruptcy not to release judgment debtor. Relief under other statutes. Penalties.

Sections 14-131 to 14-133, inclusive, are repealed.
(1951, S. 1365d, 1369d, 1371; P.A. 77-8; P.A. 89-232, S. 2, 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-134. - Appeals from commissioner.

Any appeal from a decision of the commissioner shall, if such appeal is from an order based upon a violation of any provision of this chapter, be taken in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183. No appeal taken from the order of a court in a criminal case involving the operation of a motor vehicle without permission of the owner, the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs, reckless driving or evading responsibility for accidents or involving fatal accidents, shall act as a stay to any action of the commissioner.
(1949 Rev., S. 2458; 1971, P.A. 870, S. 39; P.A. 76-436, S. 346, 681; P.A. 77-603, S. 36, 125.)
History: 1971 act replaced superior court with court of common pleas, effective September 1, 1971, except that courts with cases pending retain jurisdiction unless pending matters deemed transferable; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court and added references to judicial districts, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 77-603 replaced previous provision re appeal procedure with statement that appeals be made in accordance with Sec. 4-183.
See Sec. 20-427a re cooperation between Commissioners of Motor Vehicles and Consumer Protection in nonrenewal of commercial motor vehicle registration of home improvement contractor in violation of statute.
Court infers section may apply only to actions arising under chapter. 148 C. 456. Cited. 169 C. 267.
Ample protection afforded against arbitrary action. 7 CS 165. Cited. 24 CS 350; 25 CS 512.
Cited. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 34, 39; 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 76.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-149a. - Ownership or operation of a chop shop. Penalty.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Chop shop” means any area, building, storage lot, field or any other premises or place, except an impoundment or storage area authorized by and under the control or direction of a state or municipal law enforcement agency, (A) where one or more persons are engaged or have engaged in altering, dismantling, reassembling or in any way concealing or disguising the identity of a stolen motor vehicle or of any major component part of a stolen motor vehicle, (B) where there are three or more stolen motor vehicles present, or (C) where there are major component parts from three or more stolen motor vehicles present.
(2) “Major component part” means one of the following parts of a motor vehicle: (A) The engine, (B) the transmission, (C) the right or left front fender, (D) the hood, (E) a door allowing entrance to or egress from the passenger compartment of the vehicle, (F) the front or rear bumper, (G) the right or left rear quarter panel, (H) the deck lid, tailgate or hatchback, (I) the trunk floor pan, (J) the cargo box of a pickup, (K) the frame, or if the vehicle has a unitized body, the supporting structure or structures which serve as the frame, (L) the cab of a truck, (M) the body of a passenger vehicle, or (N) any other part of a motor vehicle which the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles determines is comparable in design or function to any of the parts listed in subparagraphs (A) to (M), inclusive, of this subdivision.
(3) “Motor vehicle” means motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1, but shall include construction equipment, agricultural tractors and farm implements.
(b) Any person who knowingly owns, operates or conducts a chop shop or who knowingly aids and abets another person in owning, operating or conducting a chop shop shall, for a first offense, be guilty of a class D felony and, for a second or subsequent offense, be guilty of a class D felony, except that such person shall be fined not less than ten thousand dollars.
(c) Upon conviction of any person for a violation of this section, the court may, in addition to, but not in lieu of, imposing a fine or a term of imprisonment, order such person to make restitution to the rightful owner of a stolen motor vehicle or of a stolen major component part, or to the owner's insurer if the owner has already been compensated for the loss by the insurer, for any financial loss sustained as a result of the theft of such motor vehicle or major component part.
(P.A. 93-405, S. 1; P.A. 00-103, S. 5; P.A. 13-258, S. 59.)
History: P.A. 00-103 redefined “motor vehicle” in Subsec. (a)(3) to include construction equipment, agricultural tractors and farm equipment; P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (b) to change penalty for first offense from a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony, and to change imprisonment provision for second or subsequent offense from imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.