2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of The Highway By Vehicles. Gasoline
Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles
Section 14-147 - Improper use of marker, registration or license.
(a) Any person who counterfeits any number plate or marker, or makes any substitute or temporary marker except as provided in section 14-18, or who counterfeits or in any manner alters any motor vehicle registration or operator’s license, and any person who gives, loans or sells any such counterfeited or altered number plate, marker, motor vehicle registration or operator’s license, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.
(b) Any person who loans or sells any operator’s license issued by the commissioner, for use by any person, or any marker or certificate of registration issued by the commissioner, for use on any car, except as provided in sections 14-59 and 14-60, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
(c) No person shall use any motor vehicle registration or operator’s license other than the one issued to him by the commissioner, except as provided in section 14-18; and no person shall use a motor vehicle registration on any motor vehicle other than that for which such registration has been issued. Any person who violates any provision of this subsection shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 2471; 1959, P.A. 176; 1967, P.A. 408.)
History: 1959 act added provision re counterfeiting or altering of operator’s license in Subsec. (a) and increased fine in Subsec. (b); 1967 act made Subsec. (a) applicable to persons who give, loan or sell counterfeited or altered plates, markers, registrations or operator’s licenses to another, raised fine from $100 to $200 maximum and allowed imposition of 30 days imprisonment or both fine and imprisonment and made technical changes.
See Secs. 14-111(b), (h), (k) re suspension or revocation of license.
Cited. 16 CA 272.
Cited. 26 CS 184.
Cited. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 219.
Subsec. (c):
Cited. 200 C. 102.
Cited. 14 CA 309; judgment reversed, see 212 C. 50; 20 CA 336; Id., 521; 32 CA 84; 33 CA 49.
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