2014 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 15 - Navigation and Aeronautics
Chapter 267 - Uniform Aircraft Financial Responsibility Act
Section 15-115 - Failure to report accident. False statement in report or instrument.

(a) Any owner or operator who knowingly refuses or fails to make any report of an accident as required in section 15-104 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and if any person is killed or injured in such accident, the commissioner shall, in addition, suspend the operating privilege of the person failing to make such report, until such report is filed and for such further period not to exceed thirty days as the commissioner may fix.

(b) Any owner or operator who knowingly makes a false statement or representation of a material fact in a report to or written instrument filed with the commissioner shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

(1959, P.A. 488, S. 14; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 206; 1972, P.A. 207, S. 9; P.A. 12-80, S. 168.)

History: 1969 act replaced “department”, i.e. aeronautics department, with “commissioner”, i.e. commissioner of transportation; 1972 act deleted references to registrations and nonresidents in Subsec. (a) and deleted Subsec. (c) re penalty for failure to return registrations; P.A. 12-80 amended Subsec. (b) to change penalty from a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days or both to a class C misdemeanor.