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2023 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; (H) a person who is blind and such person's service animal; and (I) a person operating (i) a commercial motor vehicle equipped with a garbage compactor, a detachable container or a curbside recycling body, (ii) a tank vehicle, (iii) a vehicle authorized by the United States government to carry mail, or (iv) a vehicle operated by an express delivery carrier, (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; P.A. 21-195, S. 1.)
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; P.A. 21-195 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by adding new Subpara. (I) re operation of vehicle with garbage compactor, detachable container or curbside recycling body, tank vehicle, vehicle carrying mail or vehicle by express delivery carrier.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety › Section 14-300j. - Opening or leaving open a motor vehicle door so as to cause physical contact with moving traffic.

(a) For the purposes of this section, “moving traffic” includes, but is not limited to, a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric bicycle or electric foot scooter using a highway for the purpose of travel and a pedestrian or a person riding a bicycle, electric bicycle or electric foot scooter on a sidewalk, shoulder or bikeway for the purpose of travel, and “bikeway” has the same meaning as provided in subsection (a) of section 13a-153f.
(b) No person shall open the door of a motor vehicle in such a manner as to cause physical contact with moving traffic with such door, provided moving traffic is traveling at a reasonable rate of speed and with due regard for the safety of all persons and property.
(c) No person shall leave the door of a motor vehicle open for a period of time longer than necessary to load or unload passengers and in such a manner as to cause physical contact with moving traffic with such door.
(d) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall have committed an infraction.
(P.A. 21-28, S. 4.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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”.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.)
2023 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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety › Section 14-314c. - Erection of signs to warn operators of presence of persons who are deaf. Regulations.

(a) The Office of the State Traffic Administration, on any state highway, or a local traffic authority, on any highway under its control, shall, upon receipt of an application on behalf of any person under the age of eighteen who is deaf, as certified by a physician, a physician assistant or an advanced practice registered nurse, erect one or more signs in the person's neighborhood to warn motor vehicle operators of the presence of such person.
(b) The Office of the State Traffic Administration may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this section.
(P.A. 84-72; P.A. 97-236, S. 26, 27; P.A. 12-132, S. 41; P.A. 16-39, S. 13; P.A. 17-202, S. 47; P.A. 21-196, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 97-236 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “may” for “shall” re adoption of regulations, effective June 24, 1997; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 16-39 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to advanced practice registered nurse; P.A. 17-202 amended Subsec. (a) by making a technical change; P.A. 21-196 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to physician assistant.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety › Section 14-314d. - Erection of signs stating the requirement of the use of signal lights when changing lanes.

The Office of the State Traffic Administration, on any state highway, or a local traffic authority, on any highway under its control, may, within available appropriations, designate locations at which signs bearing the words “STATE LAW REQUIRES USE OF SIGNAL LIGHTS WHEN CHANGING LANES” may be erected.
(P.A. 99-181, S. 23; P.A. 12-132, S. 42.)
History: P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety › Section 14-315. - Duties of Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection re street and highway safety and accident prevention.

The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall study the problems of street and highway safety, shall act as the central coordinating agency of state departments, organizations and instrumentalities engaged in the elimination of motor vehicle accidents; shall study all phases of the problem of obtaining better observance and uniform enforcement of the laws for the regulation of highway travel and motor vehicle operation; shall study methods of safety control and engineering in this and other states with a view to improvement in such methods in this state; shall study problems of safety as they affect home, farm and school accidents; shall act as the central coordinating agency of the state in the planning and execution of safety programs and campaigns for the prevention of accidents and the loss of manpower and may conduct educational programs and campaigns relating to industrial safety; shall advise with and assist the Commissioner of Transportation and other state department heads in the accomplishment of the purposes stated herein.
(1949 Rev., S. 2532; 1951, S. 1409d; 1957, P.A. 305, S. 1; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 154; P.A. 77-614, S. 513, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 12, 136; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)
History: 1969 act replaced highway commissioner with commissioner of transportation; P.A. 77-614 abolished Connecticut safety commission and transferred duties to commissioner of public safety, deleted reference to commissioner of motor vehicles and deleted provision re annual report to governor, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 deleted obsolete reference to commissioner of state police; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.
See Sec. 38a-683 re accident prevention course for senior citizens, entitling them to insurance premium reductions.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety › Section 14-316 and 14-317. - Commissioners to serve without compensation; offices. Assistants.

Sections 14-316 and 14-317 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 2533, 2534; P.A. 77-614, S. 73, 609, 610.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-318. - Definitions.

Terms used in this chapter shall be construed as follows, unless another construction is clearly apparent from the language or context in which the term is used or unless the construction is inconsistent with the manifest intention of the General Assembly:
(1) The following terms shall be construed as they are defined in section 14-1: “Fuels”, “motor vehicle” and “person”;
(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection or any assistant to the Commissioner of Consumer Protection who is designated and authorized by, and who is acting for, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection;
(3) “Distributor” means any person, wherever resident or located, who imports fuels or causes fuels to be imported into this state, for sale or use; a person who produces, refines, manufactures or compounds fuels within this state; and a person who distributes gasoline by tank wagon in this state;
(4) “Local authority” means the selectmen or town manager of a town, the mayor of a city or the warden of a borough or other board or authority designated by local charter, regulation or ordinance, except in any town or city having a zoning commission and a board of appeals, “local authority” means the board of appeals;
(5) “United States Government Motor Gasoline” means gasoline which is or may be prescribed by the federal specification board of the United States government for use as fuel for motor vehicle, motor boat and similar engines;
(6) “United States Aviation Gasoline, Domestic Grade” means that gasoline which is or may be prescribed by the federal specification board of the United States government for use as aviation fuel; and
(7) “Retail dealer” means any person operating a service station, filling station, store, garage or other place of business for the sale of motor fuel for delivery into the service tank or tanks of any vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine.
(1949 Rev., S. 2535; P.A. 84-429, S. 43; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-9, S. 1, 10; P.A. 03-184, S. 9; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 84-429 divided section into Subsecs., rephrased provisions, added definition of “local authority” in Subdiv. (3) and made other technical changes; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-9 deleted reference to “commissioner” in Subdiv. (1), inserted new definition of “commissioner” as Subdiv. (2) and renumbered remaining Subdivs. accordingly; P.A. 03-184 amended definition of “local authority” in Subdiv. (4) to include other board or authority designated by local charter, regulation or ordinance and to make a technical change; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
Cited. 131 C. 714.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-320. - Approval of gasoline station location by commissioner.

No station or place of business for the wholesale or retail sale of gasoline shall be established or maintained in a place adjoining a state highway, or in a town or city containing fewer than ten thousand inhabitants according to the last-preceding census of the United States, unless the person establishing or maintaining such station has procured from the commissioner a certificate stating that, in the opinion of the commissioner, the location of such station or place of business will not imperil the safety of the public. The commissioner may revoke any such certificate whenever, in his opinion, such station will, by reason of its location, imperil the safety of the public. For the initial examination of the location of each such station there shall be charged the sum of one hundred dollars, and on and after July 1, 1985, one hundred fifty dollars, on and after July 1, 1989, two hundred twenty-five dollars, on and after July 1, 1991, two hundred eighty dollars, and on and after July 1, 1993, three hundred fifty dollars. For the examination of each pump which is to be added to or relocated on the premises of any licensed station and of the proposed location and plan of installation of such pump, there shall be charged a fee of fourteen dollars, and on and after July 1, 1985, twenty-one dollars, on and after July 1, 1989, thirty-two dollars, on and after July 1, 1991, forty dollars, and on and after July 1, 1993, fifty dollars. For the examination of the location of any such station upon the change of ownership of such station, there shall be charged a fee of fourteen dollars, and on and after July 1, 1985, twenty-one dollars, on and after July 1, 1989, thirty-two dollars, on and after July 1, 1991, forty dollars, and on and after July 1, 1993, fifty dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 2537; 1959, P.A. 221, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 581, S. 19; February, 1965, P.A. 52; P.A. 83-489, S. 14, 17; P.A. 84-254, S. 53, 62.)
History: 1959 act increased fee for initial examination of location; 1961 act increased fees for examination of additional pumps and for examination of location on change of ownership; 1965 act added provision re relocated pumps; P.A. 83-489 increased fees as follows: For the initial examination of the location of each such station, from $50 to $100, for the examination of each pump to be added to or relocated on the premises of a licensed station and of the proposed location and plan of installation of such pump, from $7 to $14, and for the examination of the location of any such station upon the change of ownership of such station, from $7 to $14; P.A. 84-254 periodically increased the fees scheduling the increases to take effect July first of the following years: 1985, 1989, 1991 and 1993.
Action of commissioner is reviewable only where he has acted arbitrarily, illegally or abused his discretion. 117 C. 262. Cited. 149 C. 513. Revocation cannot be by letter and without hearing. 149 C. 517.
Cited. 3 CS 224.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-322. - Hearing and finding of suitability.

Section 14-322 is repealed, effective October 1, 2003.
(1949 Rev., S. 2539; 1967, P.A. 794; P.A. 82-89; P.A. 84-429, S. 45; P.A. 03-184, S. 10.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-323. - Commissioner to decide if requested by local authorities.

Section 14-323 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 2540; 1959, P.A. 253, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 309, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-325. - Curb pumps.

No license shall be issued to sell gasoline or other fuels by means of any curb pump, or of any pipe or hose extending over or under any sidewalk, except the renewal of the license of such curb pump, pipe or hose, if the same was licensed for the sale of gasoline or other fuels on June 1, 1935, and has been continuously licensed for such purpose at such location since that date; and except that any such license may be transferred or devised by a holder thereof to his child or spouse.
(1949 Rev., S. 2542; February, 1965, P.A. 585.)
History: 1965 act added exception for transfer or devise to child or spouse of holder.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-325a. - Air compressors.

Any person licensed under section 14-319 to dispense motor fuel for sale to the public for any motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1, shall provide for free public use an air compressor for the purpose of tire inflation during the hours such premises are open for business. Each such licensee shall post a sign in a conspicuous location upon the premises and in such form as the commissioner may require, informing the public of the availability of an air compressor for free public use during the hours such premises are open. Such compressor shall be capable of producing at least eighty pounds per square inch pressure at the outlet.
(P.A. 79-260; P.A. 88-100; P.A. 04-92, S. 1; 04-217, S. 31.)
History: P.A. 88-100 required each licensee to post a sign informing public of availability of an air compressor for free public use; P.A. 04-92 eliminated exemption from requirement to provide free air for owner of retail food store that dispenses motor fuel; P.A. 04-217 eliminated reference to Sec. 14-1(47), effective January 1, 2005.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-325b. - Refueling privileges for operators who have a disability. Signs. Exceptions.

(a) Each retail dealer as defined in section 14-318 that offers self-service and full-service facilities for the sale of gasoline or motor fuel shall provide, at a self-service pump, upon request, refueling service to an operator who has a disability and is operating a motor vehicle that bears a special license plate or a removable windshield placard issued pursuant to section 14-253a, at a price no greater than that which such dealer would charge the public to purchase gasoline or motor fuel without any refueling service.
(b) Each retail dealer that is required to provide refueling service to an operator who has a disability pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall publicly display and maintain on or near each self-service pump a clearly legible sign informing the public that such retail dealer will provide refueling service to such operator upon request. Such sign shall be displayed in a location and manner that is clearly visible to operators who have disabilities and shall contain instructions indicating how an operator who has a disability may contact or notify the retail dealer or cashier, if applicable, that such operator requires refueling service.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to dealers that sell gasoline or motor fuel and that (1) have remotely controlled pumps, or (2) are operated by a single cashier.
(P.A. 84-151; P.A. 14-16, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 225; P.A. 16-78, S. 6; P.A. 17-202, S. 48.)
History: P.A. 14-16 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same by deleting provisions re dealers to which provisions of section do not apply, added Subsecs. (b) and (c) re display of sign re refueling service for handicapped drivers and exception for dealers having remotely controlled pumps or that are operated by a single cashier, and made technical changes; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (a) to add “or a removable windshield placard”; P.A. 16-78 amended Subsec. (a) to delete “international symbol of access” in provision re special license plate, effective January 1, 2017; P.A. 17-202 replaced references to handicapped driver with references to operator who has a disability and made technical and conforming changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-326. - Gasoline sold for aircraft or other engines to be of United States standard.

No person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver or have in possession for the purpose of sale, any article or product represented as gasoline for use in internal combustion engines used in aircraft that is not equal to or better in quality and specifications than that known as “United States Aviation Gasoline, Domestic Grade”, or for use in such engines other than those used in aircraft that is not equal to or better in quality and specifications than that known as “United States Government Motor Gasoline”.
(1949 Rev., S. 2543.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-327. - Testing of quality of gasoline or diesel fuel.

All tests to determine the quality of gasoline or diesel fuel shall be made in accordance with the most recent revision of either Standard D439, Specification for Automotive Gasoline, or Standard D975, Specification for Diesel Fuel Oils, of Part 23 of the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(1949 Rev., S. 2544; P.A. 81-172, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 81-172 updated the method of testing gasoline and included a test for diesel fuel.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-327a. - Motor fuel quality testing: Definitions.

As used in sections 14-327a to 14-327e, inclusive:
(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection.
(2) The “American Society for Testing and Materials” means the scientific and technical organization established for the development of standards of characteristics and performance of materials, products, systems and services and the promotion of related knowledge.
(3) “Distributor” means any person who imports or causes to be imported into this state motor fuel for sale or use in this state or any person who produces, refines, blends, manufactures or compounds motor fuels within this state for sale or use in this state and includes any affiliate of either such person who purchases motor fuel for sale, consignment or distribution to another or receives motor fuel on consignment for consignment or distribution to his own motor fuel accounts or to accounts of his supplier, but does not include any person who is an employee of, or merely transports motor fuel for, such supplier.
(4) “Retailer” means any person engaged in the business of selling motor fuel to the general public for ultimate consumption.
(5) “Motor fuel” means (A) all products commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline, including casinghead and absorption or natural gasoline, regardless of their classification or uses, (B) any liquid prepared, advertised, offered for sale or sold for use, or commonly and commercially used, as a fuel in internal combustion engines, including any liquid commonly referred to as “gasohol” which is prepared, advertised, offered for sale or sold for use, or commonly and commercially used, as a fuel in internal combustion engines, but excluding aviation fuel and liquefied petroleum gases.
(6) “Person” means a natural person, company, partnership, foreign or domestic corporation, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization, association and any other legal entity.
(P.A. 91-322, S. 1, 6; P.A. 95-79, S. 42, 189; 95-126, S. 24, 25; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 95-79 redefined “person” to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; P.A. 95-126 amended the exclusion in Subdiv. (3) to substitute the phrase “transports motor fuel” for “serves as a common carrier providing transportation service”, effective July 1, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-327b. - Annual registration of distributors. Application for certificate of registration. Required information. Fee.

(a) No distributor shall sell or offer to sell motor fuel in this state unless such distributor has first registered with the Department of Consumer Protection each type of motor fuel which he intends to sell and has received from the department a certificate of registration for each type of motor fuel which he intends to sell.
(b) Each distributor required to register with the department as provided in subsection (a) of this section shall apply annually to the commissioner, in writing on a form provided by the commissioner, for such certificate of registration.
(c) The application for a certificate of registration shall include: (1) The name and address of the person registering the motor fuel, (2) the name, brand or trademark under which the type of motor fuel will be sold, (3) the antiknock index or Cetane number, as is applicable, at which the motor fuel will be sold, (4) a certification that each individual type of motor fuel registered shall conform to the provisions of sections 14-327a to 14-327e, inclusive, and (5) any other information required by the commissioner. A separate application shall be made for each type of motor fuel to be registered. Such application and its contents shall not be available to the public.
(d) Each application for a certificate of registration shall be accompanied by a fee of two hundred dollars.
(P.A. 91-322, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 161.)
History: June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (d) to increase application fee from $100 to $200.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-327c. - Regulations.

The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 establishing standards for the quality of motor fuels sold or offered for sale in this state. The regulations shall be consistent with standards established by the American Society for Testing and Materials, unless otherwise required by federal statute or regulation.
(P.A. 91-322, S. 3, 6.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales › Section 14-327d. - Commissioner to have free access to places and premises. Subpoena powers. Court orders. Regulations.

(a) The commissioner or his authorized agent shall have free access, at all reasonable hours, to all places or premises where motor fuels intended for eventual sale to the public are stored or sold, for the purpose of testing such motor fuels in compliance with sections 14-327a to 14-327e, inclusive. The commissioner or his authorized agent is authorized to take samples of such motor fuels and cause them to be tested. No distributor, retailer or person shall deny the commissioner or his authorized agent access to any such motor fuels for the purposes of testing in compliance with sections 14-327a to 14-327e, inclusive.
(b) The commissioner or his authorized agents may require by subpoena the attendance and testimony of any person and the production of any documentary material concerning any matter under investigation under sections 14-327a to 14-327e, inclusive.
(c) If any person refuses to appear, to testify or to produce any documentary material when so ordered, the Attorney General, at the request of the commissioner, may apply to the Superior Court for such order as may be appropriate to aid in the enforcement of this section.
(d) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the provisions of sections 14-327a to 14-327e, inclusive.
(P.A. 91-322, S. 4.)