2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles › Section 14-52a. - Grounds for refusal to grant or renew a dealer or repairer license.

(a) The commissioner may, after notice and hearing, refuse to grant or renew a license to a person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of selling or repairing motor vehicles pursuant to the provisions of section 14-52 if the applicant for, or holder of, such a license, or an officer or major stockholder, if the applicant or licensee is a firm or corporation, has been found liable in a civil action for odometer fraud or operating a dealer, repairer or motor vehicle recycler business without a license, convicted of a violation of any provision of laws pertaining to the business of a motor vehicle dealer or repairer, including a motor vehicle recycler, or convicted of any violation of any provision of laws involving fraud, larceny or deprivation or misappropriation of property, in the courts of the United States or any state. Each applicant for such a license shall submit to state and national criminal history records checks, conducted in accordance with section 29-17a and based on the applicant's name and date of birth, not more than thirty days before such application is made and provide the results of such records check to the Department of Motor Vehicles. The commissioner may require a person, firm or corporation to submit its application electronically. Upon renewal of such license, a licensee shall make full disclosure of any such civil judgment or conviction under penalty of false statement.
(b) The commissioner shall not, after notice and hearing, grant or renew a license to an applicant for or the holder of a used car dealer's license that is delinquent in the payment of sales tax in connection with a business from which it is or was obligated to remit sales tax, as reported to the commissioner by the Department of Revenue Services.
(P.A. 73-200, S. 1; P.A. 80-243; P.A. 84-374, S. 1, 3; P.A. 96-167, S. 9; P.A. 02-70, S. 23; P.A. 14-130, S. 15; P.A. 16-55, S. 3; P.A. 21-106, S. 20.)
History: P.A. 80-243 required notice and hearing before commissioner refuses to grant or renew license and required applicant or licensee to make full disclosure of conviction of law violation; P.A. 84-374 divided the section into Subsecs. and inserted new language in Subsec. (b), prohibiting the commissioner from refusing to grant or renew a repairer's license where another independently owned business shares the same property; P.A. 96-167 amended Subsec. (a) substituting “recycler” for “junk yard”; P.A. 02-70 allowed commissioner to refuse to grant or renew a dealer or repairer license if the applicant has been convicted of any violation involving fraud, larceny or deprivation or misappropriation of property and deleted Subsec. (a) designator and former Subsec. (b) re prohibiting commissioner from refusing to grant or renew repairer's license where another independently owned business shares the same property; P.A. 14-130 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) prohibiting commissioner from granting or renewing license to an applicant or licensee that is delinquent in payment of sales tax, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 16-55 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing provisions re applicant to make disclosure at time of application for or renewal of license of any conviction within last 5 years with provisions re applicant to submit to state criminal history records check and, upon renewal of license, to make disclosure of any conviction under penalty of false statement, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 21-106 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re civil action for odometer fraud or operating dealer, repairer or motor vehicle recycler business without a license, adding provision re national criminal history records check, adding provision re electronic submission of application and adding provision re full disclosure of civil judgment and made technical changes throughout, effective July 1, 2021.