2011 Connecticut Code
Title 17a Social and Human Services and Resources
Chapter 319 Department of Children and Families
Sec. 17a-24. (Formerly Sec. 17-428). Regulation of motor vehicles and roadways by superintendents of institutions.

      Sec. 17a-24. (Formerly Sec. 17-428). Regulation of motor vehicles and roadways by superintendents of institutions. The superintendent of any institution in the Department of Children and Families, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Children and Families and the State Traffic Commission, may prohibit, limit, restrict or regulate the parking of vehicles, may determine speed limits, may restrict roads or portions thereof to one-way traffic and may designate the location of crosswalks on any portion of any road or highway upon the grounds of the respective institutions, and may erect and maintain signs designating such prohibitions or restrictions. Security officers or institutional patrolmen appointed to act as state policemen on state institution grounds under the provisions of section 29-18, may arrest or issue summons for violation of such regulations, restrictions or prohibitions. Any person who fails to comply with any such prohibition or restriction shall be fined not more than five dollars, and the court or traffic or parking authority having jurisdiction of traffic or parking violations in the town in which the institution is located shall have jurisdiction of violations of this section.

      (P.A. 75-524, S. 17, 30; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2.)

      History: Sec. 17-428 transferred to Sec. 17a-24 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993.

      Cited. 221 C. 447.