Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › 34a - International Registration Plan › Section 14-34a-1a - International registration plan numbering system

Current through July 10, 2024
The International Registration Plan is adopted using the plan
				numbering system as follows:
Article I
Purpose And Principle
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Title
This reciprocal agreement shall be referred to, cited and known
				as the International Registration Plan, (herein referred to as IRP).
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Fundamental Principle
It is the purpose of this agreement to promote and encourage
				the fullest possible use of the highway system by authorizing apportioned
				registration of fleets of vehicles, and the recognition of vehicles apportioned
				in other jurisdictions, thus contributing to the economic and social
				development and growth of the jurisdictions.
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One Registration Plate
It is the purpose of this agreement to implement the concept of
				one registration plate for one vehicle.
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Reciprocal Grants Of Fees
It is the purpose of this agreement to grant exemptions from
				payment of certain fees when such grants are reciprocal.
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Granting Of Reciprocity
It is the purpose of this agreement to grant reciprocity to
				apportioned fleets of vehicles, and to provide for the continuance of
				reciprocity granted to those vehicles that are not eligible for apportioned
				registration under the terms of this agreement.
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Discharge Of Registrant Responsibility
The payment to the base jurisdiction for all member
				jurisdictions of apportioned fees due under this agreement discharges the
				responsibility of the registrant for payment of such apportioned fees to
				individual member jurisdictions, except as may be provided in Section
				410.
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Registrant From Non-Member Jurisdiction
(a) Registrants based in any jurisdiction not
			 a member of this agreement, and who have been licensing vehicles in any member
			 jurisdiction under basing point, allocation or proration, may declare the
			 member jurisdiction where the most miles or kilometers have been operated as a
			 base jurisdiction for purposes of this agreement until such time as the
			 registrant's base jurisdiction becomes a member of this agreement.
(b) Whenever the base jurisdiction of a
			 registrant changes through application of this section, the re-registration of
			 the registrant's vehicles in the new jurisdiction shall be accomplished through
			 orderly and equitable procedures to be established by the commissioners of the
			 two jurisdictions involved.
Article II
Definitions
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Allocated Vehicle
"Allocated vehicle" means a vehicle to which a particular
				jurisdiction's basic registration plate or apportioned registration plate is
				attached upon payment of the jurisdiction's full basic registration fee. A
				portion of each fleet of one-way vehicles is "allocated" to each jurisdiction
				into or through which the fleet travels (each vehicle of the fleet need not
				enter every jurisdiction.)
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Apportionable Fee
"Apportionable fee" means any periodic recurring fee required
				for licensing or registering vehicles, such as, but not limited to,
				registration fees, license or weight fees.
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Apportionable Vehicle
(a) "Apportionable vehicle" means any
			 vehicle, except recreational vehicles, vehicles displaying restricted plates,
			 city pick up and delivery vehicles, buses used in transportation of chartered
			 parties, and Government-owned vehicles, used or intended for use in two or more
			 jurisdictions that allocate or proportionally register vehicles and is used for
			 the transportation of persons for hire or designed, used or maintained
			 primarily for the transportation of property and:
1. is a power unit having two axles and a
			 gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight in excess of 26,000
			 pounds or 11,793.401 kilograms; or
2. is a power unit having three or more
			 axles, regardless of weight; or
3.
			 is used in combination, when the weight of such combination exceeds 26,000
			 pounds or 11,793.401 kilograms gross vehicle weight.
Trucks and truck tractors, and combinations of vehicles having
				a gross vehicle weight of 26,000 pounds or 11,793.401 kilograms or less and
				buses used in transportation of chartered parties may be proportionally
				registered at the option of the registrant.
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Auxiliary Axle
"Auxiliary axle" means an auxiliary undercarriage assembly with
				a fifth wheel and tow bar used to convert a semi-trailer to a full
				trailer.
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Axle
"Axle" means an assembly of a vehicle consisting of two or more
				wheels whose centers are in one horizontal plane, by means of which a portion
				of the weight of a vehicle and its load, if any, is continually transmitted to
				the roadway. For purposes of registration under the IRP, an "axle" is any such
				assembly whether or not it is load-bearing only part of the time.
For example, a single-unit truck with a steering axle and two
				axles in a rear-axle assembly is an apportionable vehicle even though one of
				the rear axles is a so-called "dummy", "drag," "tag" or "pusher" type
				axle.
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Base Jurisdiction
"Base jurisdiction" means, for purposes of fleet registration,
				the jurisdiction where the registrant has an established place of business,
				where mileage is accrued by the fleet and where operational records of such
				fleet are maintained or can be made available in accordance with the provisions
				of Section 1602.
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Base Plate
(a) "Base plate" means the plate issued by
			 the Base Jurisdiction and shall be the only registration identification plate
			 issued for the vehicle by any member jurisdiction.
(b) Base plates shall be identified by having
			 the word "apportioned" or "PRP" and the jurisdiction's name on the plate. The
			 numbering system and color shall be determined by the issuing jurisdiction.
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Chartered Party
"Chartered party" means a group of persons who, pursuant to a
				common purpose and under a single contract, and at a fixed charge for the
				vehicle in accordance with the carrier's tariff, lawfully on file with the
				Interstate Commerce Commission, have acquired the exclusive use of a
				passenger-carrying motor vehicle to travel together as a group to a specified
				destination or for a particular itinerary, either agreed upon in advance or
				modified by the chartered group after having left the place of origin.
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Commissioner
"Commissioner" means the jurisdiction official in charge of
				registration of vehicles.
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Established Place Of Business
(a) "Established Place of Business" means a
			 physical structure owned, leased or rented by the fleet registrant.
(b) The physical structure shall be
			 designated by a street number or road location, be open during normal business
			 hours, and have located within it:
(1) a
			 telephone or telephones publicly listed in the name of the fleet
			 registrant,
(2) a person or persons
			 conducting the fleet registrant's business, and
(3) the operational records of the fleet
			 (unless such records can be made available in accordance with the provisions of
			 section 1602.)
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Fleet
"Fleet" means one or more apportionable vehicles.
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In-Jurisdiction Miles Or Kilometers
"In-jurisdiction miles or kilometers" means the total distance
				operated by a fleet of apportioned vehicles in a jurisdiction during the
				preceding year. In those cases where the registrant operated a fleet of
				apportioned vehicles in jurisdictions that require no apportionment and grant
				reciprocity, the base jurisdiction may add such miles or kilometers to the
				in-jurisdiction miles or kilometers.
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Interjurisdiction Movement
"Interjurisdiction movement" means vehicle movement between or
				through two or more jurisdictions.
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Intrajurisdiction movement
"Intrajurisdiction movement" means vehicle movement from one
				point within a jurisdiction to another point within the same
				jurisdiction.
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Jurisdiction
"Jurisdiction" means a state, territory or possession of the
				United States, the District of Columbia, or a state, province, or territory of
				a country.
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Long Term
"Long term" means any period of time exceeding 29 days.
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Operational Records
"Operational records" means documents supporting the total
				distance traveled in each jurisdiction and total miles or kilometers traveled
				such as fuel reports, trip sheets and logs.
234
Owner-Operator
"Owner-operator" means an equipment lessor who leases his
				vehicular equipment with driver to a carrier.
236
Pool Fleet
"Pool fleet" means a fleet of rental company trailers and
				semi-trailers having a gross weight in excess of 6,000 pounds or 2,721.554
				kilograms, and used solely in pool operation, with no permanent base.
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Preceding Year
"Preceding year" means the period of twelve consecutive months
				immediately prior to July 1st of the year immediately preceding the
				commencement of the registration or license year for which apportioned
				registration is sought.
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Reciprocity
"Reciprocity" means that an apportionable vehicle properly
				registered hereunder shall be exempt from further registration by any other
				member jurisdiction.
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Reciprocity Agreement
"Reciprocity agreement" means an agreement, arrangement or
				understanding governing the reciprocal grant of rights and/or privileges to
				vehicles which are based in and properly registered under the applicable laws
				of the jurisdictions which are parties to such an agreement, arrangement or
				understanding.
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Recreational Vehicle
"Recreational vehicle" as used in this agreement is one used
				for personal pleasure or travel by an individual or his family.
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Registrant
"Registrant" means a person, firm or corporation in whose name
				or names a vehicle is properly registered.
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Registration Year
"Registration year" means the twelve-month period during which
				the registration plates issued by the base jurisdiction are valid according to
				the laws of the base jurisdiction.
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Restricted Plate
"Restricted plate" means one that has time (less than a
				registration year), geographic area, mileage or commodity restrictions.
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Semi-Trailer
"Semi-trailer" means every vehicle without motive power
				designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor
				vehicle and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load
				rests upon or is carried by the towing vehicle.
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Service Representative
"Service representative" means one who furnishes facilities and
				services including sales, warehousing, motorized equipment and drivers under
				contract other arrangements to a carrier for transportation of property by a
				household goods carrier.
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Staggered Registration
"Staggered registration" means a method of distributing fleet
				registration so that credentials expire in different months during the same
				registration year.
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Total Distance
"Total distance" means the total number of miles or kilometers
				operated by a fleet of apportioned vehicles in all jurisdictions during the
				preceding year. For purposes of motor bus apportionment, total distance shall
				be calculated as provided in Article XIII. For purposes of reduced operations
				total distance shall be reduced by the actual miles or kilometers traveled in
				the eliminated jurisdictions. When a jurisdiction needs to be added back during
				the registration year, the carrier must use as a minimum the number of miles or
				kilometers traveled in that state in the preceding year; the original
				application percentages that were established will not reflect these
				changes.
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Trailer
"Trailer" means every vehicle without motive power, designed
				for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so
				constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
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Trip Lease
"Trip lease" means a lease of vehicular equipment to a carrier
				(lessee) for a single interjurisdictional movement. The term may also include a
				similar movement intrajurisdictional where such movement is authorized under
				the laws of the jurisdiction.
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Motor Carrier Audit
"Motor carrier audit" means a physical examination of a motor
				carrier's operational records including source documentation to verity fleet
				mileage and accuracy of a carrier's record keeping system.