Title 14 — Title 14: Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway By Vehicles. Gasoline

Sec. 14-212. 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 Assembl…

Sec. 14-212a. Highway and municipal road construction zones, utility work zones, traffic incident management zones and fire station work zones. Fines. (a) The Superior Court shall impose an additional fee equivalent to one hundred per cent of the fine established or imposed for t…

Sec. 14-212b. School zones. Fines doubled. (a) As used in this section, “local highway” means a highway that is under the control of a town, city or borough; and “local traffic authority” means the traffic authority of a town, city or borough. (b) (1) At the request of the legisl…

Sec. 14-212c. Fines doubled for failure to yield right-of-way to person riding bicycle, electric bicycle or electric foot scooter. A surcharge shall be imposed equivalent to one hundred per cent of the fine established or imposed for a violation of subsection (e) of section 14-24…

Sec. 14-212d. Highway work zone. Highway worker. Endangerment of highway worker. Penalties. (a) As used in this section and section 14-212e: (1) “Highway work zone” means an area of a state highway where construction, maintenance or utility work is being performed. Such work zone…

Sec. 14-212e. Highway Work Zone Safety Advisory Council established. Membership, meetings and duties. (a) There is established a Highway Work Zone Safety Advisory Council to make ongoing recommendations to improve safety for workers, public safety officers and motor vehicle opera…

Sec. 14-212f. Training in highway work zone safety. Development of program curriculum by Highway Work Zone Safety Advisory Council. The Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the Police Officer Standards and Training Council es…

Sec. 14-212g. Work zone safety account. (a) There is established an account to be known as the “work zone safety account” which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the Special Transportation Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in …

Sec. 14-213. Operation without carrying operator's license. Each operator of a motor vehicle shall carry his operator's license while operating such vehicle. Failure to carry such operator's license as required by the provisions of this section shall be an infraction. (1949 Rev.,…

Sec. 14-213a. Operation of private passenger motor vehicle when insurance coverage does not meet minimum no-fault security requirements. Penalty. Section 14-213a is repealed. (P.A. 79-577, S. 5, 8; P.A. 80-483, S. 63, 186; P.A. 81-217, S. 7.)

Sec. 14-213b. Operation prohibited when insurance coverage fails to meet minimum requirements. Penalty. Evidence of insurance coverage required to restore suspended license. (a) No owner of any private passenger motor vehicle or a vehicle with a combination or commercial registra…

Sec. 14-214. Instruction of unlicensed person in motor vehicle operation. Any licensed operator, being twenty years of age or older and having had an operator's license to operate a motor vehicle of the same class as the motor vehicle being operated for at least four years preced…

Sec. 14-215. Operation while registration or license is refused, suspended or revoked. Operation in violation of restriction or limitation on operator's license or right to operate motor vehicle that requires use of ignition interlock device. Penalty. (a) No person to whom an ope…

Sec. 14-215a. Operation while license is suspended pursuant to section 14-140. (a) No person whose operator's license or right to operate a motor vehicle in this state has been suspended pursuant to section 14-140 shall operate any motor vehicle during the period of such suspensi…

Sec. 14-215b. Operation after expiration of period of suspension and without obtaining reinstatement of license. Any person whose motor vehicle operator's license has been suspended who operates a motor vehicle after the expiration of such period of suspension without obtaining t…

Sec. 14-216. Operation by persons under eighteen without insurance. No person under the age of eighteen years shall operate any motor vehicle upon the highways of this state, and no person shall cause or permit such operation of any motor vehicle by any such person, unless such m…

Sec. 14-217. Operator to give name and address and show or surrender license, registration and insurance identification card when requested. No person who is operating or in charge of any motor vehicle, when requested by any officer in uniform, by an agent authorized by the commi…

Sec. 14-218. Negligent homicide. Section 14-218 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2415; 1949, S. 1316d; 1971, P.A. 30.)

Sec. 14-218a. Traveling unreasonably fast. Establishment of speed limits. (a)(1) No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any public highway of the state, or road of any specially chartered municipal association or any district organized under the provisions of chapter 105, a…

Sec. 14-219. Speeding. (a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle (1) upon any highway, road or any parking area for ten cars or more, at such a rate of speed as to endanger the life of any occupant of such motor vehicle, but not the life of any other person than such an occup…

Sec. 14-219a. Parking area defined. Section 14-219a is repealed. (1961, P.A. 379, S. 1; P.A. 77-340, S. 5; P.A. 84-429, S. 78.)

Sec. 14-219b. Limitation of municipal liability. Nothing in section 14-218a, subsection (a) of section 14-222 or subsection (a) of section 14-227a shall be construed to impose any liability upon any municipality as a result of its establishing a speed limit upon any private road …

Sec. 14-219c. Use of speed monitoring devices to support a conviction. A prima facie presumption of accuracy sufficient to support a conviction under section 14-219 will be accorded to a radar, speed monitoring laser, vascar device or any other speed monitoring device approved by…

Sec. 14-220. Slow speed. (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle at a speed lower than forty miles per hour on any limited access divided highway and no person shall operate a motor vehicle on any other highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasona…

Sec. 14-221. Low-speed vehicles carrying passengers for hire. No person shall operate on any highway any vehicle which travels at a normal rate of speed of not more than fifteen miles per hour, when transporting persons for hire or when transporting three or more persons for plea…

Sec. 14-222. Reckless driving. (a) No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any public highway of the state, or any road of any specially chartered municipal association or of any district organized under the provisions of chapter 105, a purpose of which is the construction…

Sec. 14-222a. Negligent homicide with a motor vehicle. Any person who, in consequence of the negligent operation of a motor vehicle, causes the death of another person shall be fined not more than three thousand five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than three years, or bot…

Sec. 14-223. Failing to stop when signaled or disobeying direction of officer. Increasing speed in attempt to escape or elude officer. (a) Whenever the operator of any motor vehicle fails promptly to bring his motor vehicle to a full stop upon the signal of any officer in uniform…

Sec. 14-223a. Striking an officer with a motor vehicle. Penalties. Any operator of a motor vehicle who strikes any officer, as defined in section 14-1, or any fire police officer, appointed in accordance with section 7-313a, with such motor vehicle while such officer or fire poli…

Sec. 14-224. Evasion of responsibility in operation of motor vehicles. Racing, contests, demonstrations of speed or skill or street takeovers. Required removal of motor vehicle from traveled portion of highway. Penalties. (a) Each operator of a motor vehicle who is knowingly invo…

Sec. 14-225. Evading responsibility in operation of other vehicles. Any person riding on, propelling, driving or directing any vehicle, except a motor vehicle, on a public street or highway or on any parking area for ten cars or more or on any school property, who has knowledge o…

Sec. 14-225a. Operation of motor vehicles in parking areas. Section 14-225a is repealed. (1969, P.A. 736, S. 1, 2; P.A. 84-429, S. 78.)

Sec. 14-226. Operator to report injury to dog. Any person who has knowledge of causing, by the operation of a motor vehicle, injury or death to a dog shall at once stop and render such assistance as may be possible, shall immediately report such injury or death to such dog's owne…

Sec. 14-227. Operation while intoxicated. Section 14-227 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2412; 1963, P.A. 616, S. 3.)

Sec. 14-227a. Operation while under the influence of liquor or drug or while having an elevated blood alcohol content. (a) Operation while under the influence or while having an elevated blood alcohol content. Definitions. No person shall operate a motor vehicle while under the i…

Sec. 14-227b. Implied consent to test operator's blood, breath or urine and to nontestimonial portion of drug influence evaluation. Testing procedures. License suspension. Hearing. (a) Any person who operates a motor vehicle in this state shall be deemed to have given such person…

Sec. 14-227c. Blood, breath or urine sample and drug influence evaluation required following accident resulting in death or serious physical injury. (a) As part of the investigation of any motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of a person, the Chief Medical Examiner, Depu…

Sec. 14-227d. Pilot program permitting issuance of warning to and twenty-four-hour revocation of license of certain alleged offenders. Section 14-227d is repealed. (P.A. 82-408, S. 3; P.A. 83-534, S. 11.)

Sec. 14-227e. Community service for persons convicted of operation while under the influence of liquor or drug. (a) As used in this section, subsection (g) of section 14-227a, subsection (c) of section 14-227m and subsection (c) of section 14-227n: (1) “Community service” means t…

Sec. 14-227f. Alcohol and drug addiction treatment program. Waiver. Appeal. Regulations. Section 14-227f is repealed, effective January 1, 2012. (P.A. 95-314, S. 5; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1, S. 112; P.A. 03-244, S. 10; 03-265, S. 12, 21; P.A. 09-140, S. 3; 09-187, S. 6; P.A. 11-…

Sec. 14-227g. Operation by person under twenty-one years of age while blood alcohol content exceeds two-hundredths of one per cent. Procedures. Penalties. (a) No person who is less than twenty-one years of age shall operate a motor vehicle while the ratio of alcohol in the blood …

Sec. 14-227h. Impoundment of motor vehicle operated by certain persons arrested for operating while under the influence of liquor or drug. Any police officer who arrests a person for a violation of section 14-227a or 14-227m or subdivision (1) or (2) of subsection (a) of section …

Sec. 14-227i. Records of police investigation of defendant re operation of motor vehicle while under influence of, or impaired by, intoxicating liquor or drugs. Copies. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the investigating police department shall maintain a…

Sec. 14-227j. Court order prohibiting operation of motor vehicle not equipped with ignition interlock device. (a) For the purposes of this section and section 14-227k: “Ignition interlock device” means a device installed in a motor vehicle that measures the blood alcohol content …

Sec. 14-227k. Avoidance of, tampering with or failure to install ignition interlock device. (a) No person whose right to operate a motor vehicle has been restricted pursuant to an order of the court under subsection (b) of section 14-227j, by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or…

Sec. 14-227l. Completion of participation in alcohol and drug addiction treatment program. Reinstatement of operator's license or nonresident operating privilege. Any person whose motor vehicle operator's license or nonresident operating privilege was suspended on or before Decem…

Sec. 14-227m. Operation of motor vehicle with a child passenger while under the influence of liquor or drug or while having an elevated blood alcohol content. Procedures. Penalties. (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle in which a child under eighteen years of age is a pass…

Sec. 14-227n. Operation of a school bus, student transportation vehicle or vehicle specifically designated to carry children by person under the influence of liquor or drug or while having an elevated blood alcohol content. Procedures. Penalties. (a)(1) No person shall operate a …

Sec. 14-227o. Ignition interlock device services. Discount re for indigent persons. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes requiring a person subject to an order to install and maintain an ignition interlock device to bear all costs associated with such installatio…

Sec. 14-227p. Educational materials and programs re drug recognition experts and drug influence evaluations. The state Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the state-wide drug recognition expe…