2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 53-211. Use of white canes by others than blind persons prohibited. Vehicles to reduce speed, grant right-of-way.

      Sec. 53-211. Use of white canes by others than blind persons prohibited. Vehicles to reduce speed, grant right-of-way. (a) No person, except one wholly or partially blind, shall carry or use on any street or highway, or in any other public place, a cane or walking stick which is white in color or white tipped with red.

      (b) Any driver of a vehicle who approaches or comes into the immediate vicinity of a person wholly or partially blind, carrying a white cane or a white cane tipped with red, or a person being guided by a guide dog, shall reduce speed or stop if necessary to grant the right-of-way to such person.

      (c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

      (1949 Rev., S. 8543; February, 1965, P.A. 448, S. 43.)

      History: 1965 act amended Subsec. (b) to include persons with guide dogs and to change duty of driver from taking "such precautions before proceeding as may be necessary to avoid accident or injury" to reducing speed or stopping as necessary to grant right-of-way to blind or partially blind persons and amended Subsec. (c) to increase maximum fine from twenty-five to one hundred dollars.

      Cited. 196 C. 430, 431.