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

Sec. 14-270. Permits for nonconforming vehicles. Regulations. Penalties. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation or other authority having charge of the repair or maintenance of any highway or bridge is authorized to grant permits for transporting vehicles or combinations of vehic…

Sec. 14-270a. Portable truck weight scales. The Department of Transportation shall purchase a sufficient number of portable scales to implement a concentrated program of truck weight enforcement to comply with federal requirements in order to continue to qualify for federal highw…

Sec. 14-270b. Truck weight enforcement program. The Department of Transportation shall implement a consistent program of truck weight enforcement on that portion of Route I-84 lying within the town of Danbury not later than July 1, 1978. (P.A. 78-356, S. 3, 5.)

Sec. 14-270c. Official weighing areas. Staffing requirements. (a) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall staff, and shall coordinate coverage and hours of operation of, the official weighing areas as follows: (1) Greenwich: Eight work shifts in each seven-day period from Sunday…

Sec. 14-270d. Temporary closing of weigh stations. The Commercial Vehicle Safety Division within the Department of Motor Vehicles shall temporarily close any weigh station located within the state that develops a backlog of traffic entering such weigh station and therefore create…

Sec. 14-270e. Program to implement regularly scheduled and enforced hours of operation for weigh stations. On or before January 1, 2012, the Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and the Department of Motor…

Sec. 14-270f. Weigh station logs. (a) On and after January 1, 2008, logs shall be maintained for each shift at all weigh stations located in the state. Each log shall contain the following information with respect to each weigh station: (1) The location and date of each shift, (2…

Sec. 14-271. Securing of loads. (a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking or otherwise escaping therefrom in such manner or quantity as to constitute a hazar…

Sec. 14-271a. Limits for weakening of vehicle frames. Regulations. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, specifying limits for weakening of vehicle frames or equivalent structures, including weakening through …

Sec. 14-272. Projecting loads. Carrying of animals. Section 14-272 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2512; February, 1965, P.A. 448, S. 34; 1967, P.A. 834, S. 30.)

Sec. 14-272a. Carrying of children in pick-up trucks or open-bed vehicles. Restrictions. (a) No person may operate on any public highway any truck type motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating not exceeding seventy-five hundred pounds having an open rear section or any mo…

Sec. 14-272b. Transport of dogs in pick-up trucks. Restrictions. No person operating a pick-up truck, as defined in section 14-1, on a public highway of this state shall transport a dog in the open rearward compartment of the pick-up truck unless the dog is secured in a cage or o…

Sec. 14-273. Operation of motor vehicles requiring a passenger endorsement or passenger and school endorsement. (a) No person operating a motor vehicle for which a passenger endorsement or passenger and school endorsement is required shall carry any person upon the running board,…

Sec. 14-274. Hours of operators of motor vehicles with commercial registration or requiring a passenger endorsement or a passenger and school endorsement. (a) No person shall operate, nor shall the owner require or permit any person to operate, any motor vehicle with a commercial…

Sec. 14-275. Equipment and color of school buses. Information displayed on school buses and student transportation vehicles. (a) The term “school bus” means any motor bus painted, constructed, equipped and registered as hereinafter provided, which is regularly used for transporti…

Sec. 14-275a. Use of standard school bus required, when. Use of mass transportation permitted, when. Use of certain motor vehicles prohibited. (a) No town or regional school district shall transport or enter into a contract for the transportation of students under the age of twen…

Sec. 14-275b. Transportation of students who have mobility impairments. The provisions of section 14-275 and subsection (b) of section 14-275a shall not apply to any motor vehicle when used exclusively for the transportation of students under the age of twenty-one who have mobili…

Sec. 14-275c. Regulations re school buses and motor vehicles used to transport students. Operators age seventy or older. Penalties. (a) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, make, alter or repeal regulations governing the inspect…

Sec. 14-275d. Program for funding to offset sales tax on purchase of school buses equipped with seat safety belts. (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles shall administer a program to provide funding to offset a portion of sales tax on the purchase of school buses equipped with thr…

Sec. 14-276. School bus operators to hold a valid passenger and school endorsement. Duties of carrier re registration and withdrawal, suspension or revocation of employee's operator's license or endorsement to operate a school bus or student transportation vehicles. Civil penalti…

Sec. 14-276a. School bus operators and operators of student transportation vehicles: Regulations; qualifications; training; drug testing. (a) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing a procedure for …

Sec. 14-276b. School bus driver training re life-threatening allergic reactions and administration of medication. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Carrier” has the same meaning as provided in section 14-212; (2) “School bus driver” means any person who holds a commercial driver'…

Sec. 14-277. Operator's duties on stopping bus. Prohibition on idling of bus. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of section 14-242, the operator of any school bus, when about to bring his bus to a stop to receive or discharge passengers, shal…

Sec. 14-278. Hours of operation. Placement of seats. No extra exemption or authority for operators. The provisions of section 14-274 as to hours of operation of such motor vehicles and of section 14-257 as to placement of seats in such motor vehicles shall apply to the operation …

Sec. 14-279. Vehicles to stop for school bus. Penalties. Written warning or summons. (a) The operator of any vehicle or motor vehicle, including an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined in section 14-1, shall immediately bring such vehicle to a stop not less than ten feet from…

Sec. 14-279a. Operation of school bus monitoring system by board of education or municipality. Vendor agreement. Report. (a) As used in this section and section 14-279b, “live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring system” or “monitoring system” means a system wi…

Sec. 14-279b. Review of evidence file. Summons. Defenses. (a) Whenever a violation of section 14-279 is detected and recorded by a live digital video school bus violation detection monitoring system operated pursuant to section 14-279a, a state or municipal police officer shall r…

Sec. 14-279c. Ordinance re illegally passing a school bus and municipal school bus violation enforcement system. (a) As used in this section, “municipal school bus violation enforcement system” means a system with one or more camera sensors and computers that produce: (1) Digital…

Sec. 14-280. Display of signs and signals by school bus and student transportation vehicle. Portable signs. Penalty. (a)(1) When a school bus is used for any purpose other than the transportation of children to and from schools or school activities, private or public camps or any…

Sec. 14-281. Penalties. Any person who violates any provision of sections 14-275 to 14-280, inclusive, for which no other penalty is provided shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and not less than one hundred dol…

Sec. 14-281a. Speed of school buses. Display of head lamps. (a) Every school bus shall be operated at a safe rate of speed, consistent with the volume of traffic, intersections, curves, railway crossings and any other condition requiring special caution. The maximum speed shall n…

Sec. 14-281b. Summons issued to holder of license endorsement while operating school bus or student transportation vehicles; copy to be sent to employer and local board of education; notification of disposition of case. (a) Within two days after a summons is issued to a holder of…

Sec. 14-281c. Report of serious accidents involving school buses or student transportation vehicles. In each serious accident involving a school bus or a student transportation vehicle as defined in section 14-212, the police officer who, in the regular course of duty, investigat…

Sec. 14-281d. Duties of operators of student transportation vehicles re receipt or discharge of school children. No operator of a student transportation vehicle, as defined in section 14-212, while engaged in the transportation of school children to and from school or school acti…

Sec. 14-282. Vehicle formerly used as a school bus to be repainted. Penalty. (a) Any person who is the owner or becomes the owner of a motor vehicle formerly used as a school bus who discontinues the use of such vehicle for the transportation of school children as stated in secti…

Sec. 14-282a. School bus and student transportation vehicle inspectors. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall assign the necessary number of inspectors for the purpose of maintaining a system of continuing inspection of school buses and student transportation vehicles, investi…

Sec. 14-283. Rights and duties re emergency vehicles. Obstruction of emergency vehicle. (a) As used in this section, “emergency vehicle” means (1) any ambulance or vehicle operated by a member of an emergency medical service organization responding to an emergency call or taking …

Sec. 14-283a. Pursuits by police officers. State-wide policy. Prohibitions. Reports. (a) As used in this section, “police officer” and “law enforcement unit” have the same meanings as provided in section 7-294a, and “pursuit” means an attempt by a police officer in an authorized …

Sec. 14-283b. Motor vehicle operator required to move over or reduce speed when approaching emergency vehicle that is stationary or traveling significantly below speed limit and nonemergency vehicle that is stationary and located on shoulder. (a) For the purpose of this section, …

Sec. 14-283c. Definitions. For the purposes of this section and sections 14-283d to 14-283h, inclusive: (1) “Frozen dessert truck” means a motor vehicle in which frozen desserts are carried for purposes of retail sale on the highway; (2) “Vend” means offering frozen desserts for …

Sec. 14-283d. Motor vehicle operator required to stop when approaching frozen dessert truck with flashing red signal lights and extended arms. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the operator of a vehicle shall stop such vehicle not less than ten feet from t…

Sec. 14-283e. Equipment of frozen dessert truck. Penalty. (a) On and after May 1, 2022, each frozen dessert truck shall be equipped in the following manner: (1) Signal lamps mounted at the same level and as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable. The signal lamps shal…

Sec. 14-283f. Operation of frozen dessert truck. Penalty. (a) On and after May 1, 2022, or when a frozen dessert truck is equipped as required by subsection (a) of section 14-283e, whichever is earlier, the operator of any frozen dessert truck shall display flashing red signal li…

Sec. 14-283g. Restrictions on vending from frozen dessert truck. Penalty. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no person shall vend from a frozen dessert truck that is stopped or parked on any highway: (1) When the posted speed limit on such highway is greate…

Sec. 14-283h. Information concerning equipment and operation of frozen dessert truck. Not later than July 1, 2021, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall publish on the Internet web site of the Department of Motor Vehicles information concerning (1) the equipment required of a …

Sec. 14-284. Use of restricted highway by livery service vehicles. The restriction of any highway to use by passenger motor vehicles shall not prohibit the use thereof by motor vehicles in livery service as defined in chapter 244b, provided such vehicles comply with the regulatio…

Sec. 14-285. Use of mirrors by vehicles other than motor vehicles. Each vehicle, except a motor vehicle, which is so constructed or which is so loaded that the driver is prevented from having a free and unobstructed view of the highway immediately to the rear and at the sides of …

Sec. 14-286. Use of bicycles, electric bicycles, electric foot scooter, motor-driven cycles and high-mileage vehicles. (a) Each person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric foot scooter upon and along a sidewalk or across any roadway upon and along a crosswalk s…

Sec. 14-286a. Rights and duties of person riding bicycle, electric bicycle or electric foot scooter. Regulation of use of bicycle, electric bicycle and electric foot scooter. (a) Every person riding a bicycle, as defined in section 14-286, an electric bicycle or an electric foot …

Sec. 14-286b. Operation of bicycles, electric bicycles and electric foot scooters on roadways. Prohibitions re attaching to moving vehicle. Penalty. (a) Any person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric foot scooter upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of…