Bill Text: CT HB05461 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Certificate Of Title For Older Model Motor Vehicles.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-30 - File Number 282 [HB05461 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05461-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5461
February Session, 2016		LCO No. 1737
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Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
(TRA)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CERTIFICATE OF TITLE FOR OLDER MODEL MOTOR VEHICLES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 14-166 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):

(a) The acquisition of a certificate of title shall not be required and the issuance of a certificate of title by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall not be required for the following: (1) A vehicle owned by the United States, unless it is registered in this state; (2) a vehicle owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration; or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing; (3) a vehicle owned by a nonresident of this state and not required by law to be registered in this state; (4) a vehicle regularly engaged in the interstate transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in another state; (5) a vehicle moved solely by animal power; (6) an implement of husbandry; (7) special mobile equipment; (8) a self-propelled wheel chair or invalid tricycle; (9) any trailer having a gross weight not in excess of three thousand pounds; (10) any vehicle for which a temporary registration has been issued pursuant to section 14-12 for the purpose of permitting a nonresident owner who purchases a vehicle in Connecticut to transport such vehicle to such owner's home state; (11) a motor vehicle owned by the state or any town, city or borough within the state; (12) a motor vehicle registered temporarily for inspection purposes pursuant to section 14-12. [; (13) a motor vehicle older than twenty model years old, for which the commissioner may issue a certificate of title in said commissioner's discretion.]

(b) The acquisition of a certificate of title for any motor vehicle older than twenty model years old shall not be required. The commissioner shall issue such certificate of title for such a motor vehicle at the request of the owner and may charge such owner the administrative cost of issuing such certificate of title.

[(b)] (c) Part III of this chapter does not apply to: (1) A vehicle moved solely by animal power; (2) an implement of husbandry; (3) special mobile equipment; (4) a self-propelled wheel chair or invalid tricycle; (5) any trailer having a gross weight not in excess of three thousand pounds.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2016	14-166

TRA

Joint Favorable