2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline
Chapter 250 - Gasoline and Motor Oil Sales
Section 14-319 - License required for sale of gasoline. Prohibited grounds for refusal to grant or renew license.

(a) No person shall sell or offer for sale any gasoline or other product intended for use in the propelling of motor vehicles using combustion type engines over the highways of this state without having applied for and received from the commissioner a license to sell such gasoline or other product. Each person applying for any such license shall, in such application, state the location of each place or station where such person intends to sell or offer for sale any such gasoline or other product. Each such license shall be renewed annually. A license fee for each such place or station shall be charged as follows: For each station containing one pump, one hundred dollars; and, for each station containing more than one pump, one hundred dollars, plus twenty-eight dollars for each pump in excess of one. The fees shall be paid to the commissioner.

(b) The commissioner shall not refuse to grant or renew any license under this section on the ground that (1) any licensed activity shall be conducted by the licensee on real property on which shall also be located one or more other businesses, enterprises, or activities, whether or not licensed under section 14-52, owned or operated by one or more persons, other than the licensee, or (2) the licensee shall make use of any common areas or facilities together with the owner or operator of any such other business, enterprise or activity.

(c) In determining whether to grant or to renew any license under this section, the commissioner shall consider whether the applicant or licensee has been found in any judicial or administrative proceeding to have violated the requirements of subsection (c) of section 14-332a.

(1949 Rev., S. 2536; 1961, P.A. 581, S. 18; P.A. 83-489, S. 13, 17; P.A. 84-254, S. 52, 62; 84-374, S. 2, 3; 84-391, S. 7, 8; P.A. 94-36, S. 21, 42; P.A. 98-128, S. 3, 10; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 160.)

History: 1961 act increased license fees; P.A. 83-489 increased license fees for each place or station as follows: For each station containing one pump, from $7 to $14; for each station containing more than one pump, from $7 plus $2 for each pump in excess of one to $14 plus $4 for each pump in excess of one; P.A. 84-254 periodically increased the fees scheduling the increases to take effect on July first of the following years: 1985, 1989, 1991 and 1993; P.A. 84-374 divided section into Subsecs. and inserted new language in Subsec. (b), prohibiting the commissioner from refusing to grant or renew a gasoline sales license where another independently owned business shares the same property; P.A. 84-391 provided for the staggered renewal of gasoline sales licenses, deleting provision whereby licenses expired on first day of October following issuance; P.A. 94-36 amended Subsec. (a) by eliminating a staggered schedule of renewing licenses and a prorated license fee and made technical changes, effective January 1, 1995; P.A. 98-128 added Subsec. (c) to require commissioner to consider whether an applicant or licensee has violated the requirements of Sec. 14-332a(c), effective July 1, 1998; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (a) to change $50 to $100 re license fees for stations and to change $14 to $28 re fee for each pump in excess of one.

See Secs. 16a-6 and 16a-22d re information to be submitted by applicant.

See Sec. 21a-10(b) re staggered schedule of license renewals.

History of statutes concerning licensing of gasoline stations. 123 C. 312. Cited. 125 C. 720. Applicant for station in New Haven is not required to comply with Sec. 14-321 before applying to commissioner under this section. 128 C. 701. Cited. 131 C. 715. Does not preclude zoning board from considering size of lot for proposed station in determining whether it will imperil public. 134 C. 155. Cited. 135 C. 709; 138 C. 326. A later decision of zoning appeals board constituted a conclusive determination that there had been a change in conditions and amounted to a revocation of certificate issued 6 years before. 139 C. 677. Cited. Id., 680; 140 C. 622; 142 C. 66; 144 C. 61; 147 C. 517; 149 C. 514.

Cited. 3 CA 556.

Cited. 3 CS 224.