2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of The Highway By Vehicles. Gasoline
Chapter 246 - Motor Vehicles
Section 14-42 - Application for operator’s license or identity card. Anatomical gift.

(a) An application for an operator’s license or identity card shall be made on forms furnished by the commissioner. The applications shall be in such form and contain such provisions and information as the commissioner may determine.

(b) The application for an operator’s license and the application for an identity card shall include the opportunity for the applicant to make an anatomical gift through inclusion in the state donor registry maintained pursuant to section 14-42a. An operator’s license issued to a person who has authorized inclusion on such donor registry shall have a donor symbol imprinted on such license or identity card.

(1949 Rev., S. 2382; P.A. 75-579; P.A. 84-429, S. 23; P.A. 85-190; P.A. 98-172, S. 3, 4; P.A. 06-130, S. 4; P.A. 09-187, S. 13; P.A. 10-123, S. 24.)

History: P.A. 75-579 added Subsec. (b) re inclusion of body organ donation line on license applications and licenses; P.A. 84-429 rephrased provisions, transferred provisions re motor vehicle registrations to Sec. 14-12(b), transferred provisions re assignment of registration and license numbers to Sec. 14-10(a) and made other technical changes; P.A. 85-190 amended Subsec. (b), requiring an operator’s license to indicate provision for organ donation in a conspicuous manner determined by the commissioner to assure immediate identification; P.A. 98-172 amended Subsec. (b) replacing the requirement that the application contain a line for indicating that applicant has made provisions for organ donation with a requirement that the application include the opportunity to complete an organ donor card and replacing requirement that operator’s license indicate whether one is an organ donor with requirement that license have donor card imprinted on it, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 06-130 replaced “blanks” with “forms” and “application blanks” with “applications” in Subsec. (a) and added provisions re identity cards in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective June 2, 2006; P.A. 09-187 amended Subsec. (b) to replace provisions re issuance of donor card with provisions re registration as organ and tissue donor, effective July 8, 2009; P.A. 10-123 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing provision re registration as organ and tissue donor with provision re making an anatomical gift through inclusion in state donor registry, by replacing “elected to be included in” with “authorized inclusion on” re donor registry and by replacing “designation of such person’s donor status” with “donor symbol” re imprint on license or identity card.

See Sec. 14-10 re record-keeping with respect to operator’s licenses and registrations.