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

Sec. 14-297. 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. 14-298. Office of the State Traffic Administration. There shall be within the Department of Transportation the Office of the State Traffic Administration, which shall constitute a successor to the State Traffic Commission, in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d,…

Sec. 14-298a. Operation of motor vehicle exceeding posted clearance, load or weight limit prohibited. (a) No person shall operate or move a motor vehicle over, on, through, or under any bridge or structure on any highway (1) if the height of such vehicle or the load exceeds the h…

Sec. 14-299. Traffic control signals. Right turn on red. (a) For the purpose of standardization and uniformity, no installation of or revision to any traffic control signal light shall be made by any town, city or borough until the same has been approved by the Office of the Stat…

Sec. 14-299a. Traffic signal preemption devices. Penalty. (a) As used in this section, “traffic signal preemption device” means a device capable of altering the timing or phasing of a traffic control signal. (b) No person shall use a traffic signal preemption device unless such p…

Sec. 14-299b. Inoperative traffic control signal. The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal that is inoperative shall stop such vehicle and proceed in the same manner as though a stop sign were facing in each direction at the inter…

Sec. 14-300. Crosswalks. Pedestrian-control signals. Regulation of pedestrians and motor vehicles at crosswalks. Pedestrians who are blind or have guide dogs. (a) The traffic authority may designate, by appropriate official traffic control devices, as defined in section 14-297, o…

Sec. 14-300a. Pedestrian street markings near housing projects for elderly persons. The Office of the State Traffic Administration and each municipal traffic authority shall, on highways under their respective jurisdictions and subject to the provisions of section 14-298, provide…

Sec. 14-300b. Pedestrian use of crosswalks and roadways. (a) Each pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a crosswalk marked as provided in subsection (a) of section 14-300 or any unmarked crosswalk or at a location controlled by police officers shall yield t…

Sec. 14-300c. Pedestrian use of roads and sidewalks. Required to yield to emergency vehicle. (a) No pedestrian shall walk along and upon a roadway where a sidewalk adjacent to such roadway is provided and the use thereof is practicable. Where a sidewalk is not provided adjacent t…

Sec. 14-300d. Operator of a vehicle required to exercise due care to avoid pedestrian. Notwithstanding any provisions of the general statutes or any regulations issued thereunder, sections 14-299, 14-300, 14-300b to 14-300e, inclusive, or any local ordinance to the contrary, each…

Sec. 14-300e. Application of pedestrian rights to solicitation of rides in a motor vehicle and walking on limited access highways. Nothing contained in sections 14-299, 14-300 or 14-300b to 14-300d, inclusive, shall be construed to limit the provisions of section 53-181 or to per…

Sec. 14-300f. Vehicles to stop for school crossing guard. Penalties. Issuance of warning or summons upon report of school crossing guard. (a) The operator of a motor vehicle shall immediately bring the motor vehicle to a stop not less than ten feet from a location on any highway …

Sec. 14-300g. Operation of golf carts. Equipment. Insurance. (a) The traffic authority of any city, town or borough is authorized to permit the operation of golf carts, during daylight hours only, on any street or highway within the limits of, and under the jurisdiction of, such …

Sec. 14-300h. Special event permit for fire department to use state highway to collect charitable donations. Notwithstanding any provision of section 14-298 or any regulation adopted thereunder, the Office of the State Traffic Administration shall, at the request of a local traff…

Sec. 14-300i. Vehicle operator to exercise reasonable care when near vulnerable user on a public way. (a) As used in 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 elec…

Sec. 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 high…

Sec. 14-301. Through ways. Stop signs. (a) The Office of the State Traffic Administration may designate any state highway or part thereof or any bridge upon any such highway as a through way, and may, after notice, revoke any such designation. The traffic authority of any town, c…

Sec. 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 approachi…

Sec. 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 pro…

Sec. 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 establish…

Sec. 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 us…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 14-307. Parking restrictions. Regulations. (a) The traffic authority of any city, town or borough shall have power to prohibit, limit or restrict the parking of vehicles and to erect and maintain signs in each block designating the time or terms of such prohibition or restri…

Sec. 14-307a. Pedestrian safety zones. Regulations. (a) The traffic authority of any town, city or borough may establish a pedestrian safety zone on any street, highway and bridge or in any parking area for ten cars or more or on any private road wholly within the municipality un…

Sec. 14-307b. Definitions. For the purposes of this section and sections 14-307c to 14-307h, inclusive: (1) “Automated traffic enforcement safety device” means a device designed to detect and collect evidence of alleged violations of an ordinance adopted under section 14-307c by …

Sec. 14-307c. Municipal use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices. Agreements re design, installation, operation or maintenance. Ordinance. Requirements. Citations. Defenses. (a) Any municipality may authorize the use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices at l…

Sec. 14-307d. Guidelines issued by Department of Transportation re municipal plan on use and locations of automated traffic enforcement safety devices and re effectiveness of municipal plan. (a) Not later than January 1, 2024, the Department of Transportation shall issue written …

Sec. 14-307e. Municipal plan re use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices. Approval. Modification. Subsequent plans. (a)(1) A municipality's plan concerning the use of automated traffic enforcement safety devices in the municipality shall identify the proposed locations…

Sec. 14-307f. Disclosure, storage, retention and destruction of personally identifiable information. Disclosure of other information and data gathered from automated traffic enforcement safety devices. (a) No personally identifiable information shall be disclosed by the municipal…

Sec. 14-307g. Initial and annual reports by municipality. (a) Not later than eighteen months following the date an automated traffic enforcement safety device becomes operational in a municipality pursuant to section 14-307c, the municipality shall submit a report to the Departme…

Sec. 14-307h. Annual report re status of municipal plans submitted to Department of Transportation. Not later than February 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Department of Transportation shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint s…

Sec. 14-307i. Definitions. As used in this section and sections 14-307j to 14-307l, inclusive: (1) “Photo noise violation monitoring device” means one or more mobile or fixed vehicle sensors that (A) are installed to work in conjunction with one or more noise measuring apparatuse…

Sec. 14-307j. Municipal use of photo noise violation monitoring devices. Ordinance. Agreements re installation, operation or maintenance. Requirements. Citations. Defenses. (a) Any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize the use of photo noise violation monitoring devices at lo…

Sec. 14-307k. Disclosure, storage, retention and destruction of personally identifiable information. Disclosure of other information and data gathered from photo noise violation monitoring device. (a) No personally identifiable information shall be disclosed by the municipality o…

Sec. 14-307l. Annual report by municipality re operational photo noise violation monitoring device. Commencing one year from the date a photo noise violation monitoring device is operational in a municipality, and every year thereafter until a photo noise violation monitoring dev…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 traf…

Sec. 14-311. Open air theaters, shopping centers and certain other developments affecting state highway traffic. (a) No person, firm, corporation, state agency or municipal agency, or any combination thereof, shall build, expand, establish or operate any open air theater, shoppin…

Sec. 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.)

Sec. 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 establis…

Sec. 14-311c. Developed parcels of land separately owned and utilized together for a single development purpose which affects state highway traffic. (a) No person, firm, corporation, state agency or municipal agency, or any combination thereof, shall build, expand, establish or o…

Sec. 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 per…

Sec. 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.

Sec. 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 load…

Sec. 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 ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both, and shall be subject to the provisions of sec…

Sec. 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.)

Sec. 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 lig…

Sec. 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 b…