2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 14-314. Penalties.
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 five
thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both, and shall be subject
to the provisions of section 14-111. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply
with any traffic control signal, sign, marking or other device placed and maintained
upon the highway, or with any regulation adopted pursuant to any provision of this
chapter, by the State Traffic Commission or the traffic authority of any city, town or
borough shall be deemed to have committed an infraction, if no other penalty is provided
by law. Traveling at a greater rate of speed than is reasonable as provided in section 14-218a shall not be deemed to be a failure to comply with the provisions of this section
but shall be deemed to be the commission of an infraction within the provisions of said
section 14-218a.
History: 1967 act deleted reference to violations of "any provision of this chapter" and added additional fifty dollar maximum penalty for failure to comply with signals, markings, etc.; P.A. 75-577 replaced provision for fifty-dollar maximum fine with statement that violation is an infraction and moved failure to comply with regulations from one-hundred-dollar penalty provision to infraction provision; P.A. 76-381 added provision re traveling at greater than reasonable speed; P.A. 90-342 increased penalty for violations of the chapter from one hundred dollars to five thousand dollars.
See chapter 881b re infractions of the law.
Cited. 131 C. 167.
Cited. 43 CA 52. Section does not provide state with method of charging the driving public with an infraction for failing to obey a warning sign. Regulations of Connecticut state agencies delineate between regulatory signs, warning signs and guide signs, and driver's failure to follow a warning sign's advice does not give rise to an infraction with which driver may be cited. 54 CA 98.
Cited. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 619.
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