Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › 78 - Commercial Driving Schools › Standards and Procedures for Commercial Driving Schools › Section 14-78-20 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in section 14-78-20 to section
				  14-78-52,
				  inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Behind-the-wheel instruction" means
				instruction or training provided to a student by a commercial driving
				instructor, which permits the student to obtain driving experience on public
				roads and highways, in a motor vehicle equipped and registered as required by
				law, while the student is operating the motor vehicle, in accordance with the
				provisions of section
				14-78-34
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, or in accordance with section
				14-78-42a
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(2) "Classroom instruction" means group
				instruction of students in a classroom or similar group situation by a
				commercial driving instructor, in accordance with section
				14-78-33
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(3) "Clock hour" means sixty (60)
				minutes;
(4) "Commercial driving
				instructor" means a person who has an instructor's license as provided in
				section
				14-73
				of the Connecticut General Statutes and is employed by a commercial driving
				school licensed by the commissioner in accordance with section
				14-69
				of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(5) "Commercial driving school" means a
				person, firm, corporation, or other business entity that engages in the
				business of providing driver education and that is licensed by the Commissioner
				in accordance with section
				14-69
				of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(6) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of
				motor vehicles or the commissioner's designee;
(7) "Department" means the department of
				motor vehicles;
(8) "Driver's
				education certificate" means a form approved by the commissioner, which
				evidences successful completion of course requirements as required by sections
				14-78-35
				or
				14-78-36
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(9) "Driver education program" means an
				organized system of instruction in safe driving procedures and practice,
				approved by the commissioner, permitting a student to obtain behind-the-wheel
				or classroom instruction, or both;
(10) "Dual control vehicle" means a motor
				vehicle having dual controls on the foot-brake and on the clutch if so
				equipped, installed and maintained in accordance with the recommendations of
				the manufacturer thereof, operable by a person in the front seat of the vehicle
				other than the driver;
(11) "Full
				course" means a minimum of thirty (30) classroom hours and eight (8) hours of
				behind-the-wheel instruction received from a commercial driving school in
				accordance with section
				14-78-33
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(12) "License certificate" means the document
				issued by the commissioner authorizing a driver education program to be
				conducted;
(13) "Master instructor"
				means a person approved by the commissioner to provide instructor training, and
				who meets the requirements of section
				14-78-49
				of the Regulations of Connecticut States Agencies;
(14) "Place of business" means the physical
				location where driver education, or other business associated with operating a
				commercial driving school, is conducted; and
(15) "Simulator" means a machine that
				simulates specific conditions or the characteristics of the real process of
				driving a motor vehicle for the purposes of driver education;
(16) "Student" means a person enrolled in a
				course of classroom instruction, behind the wheel instruction, or both in motor
				vehicle operation and highway safety at a commercial driving school.