Bill Text: CT SB00065 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An Act Requiring State And Municipal Police Officers To Provide Notice Of Inoperative Lights On The State And Local Highways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-09 - Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security [SB00065 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-SB00065-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 65

 

January Session, 2013

 

LCO No. 223

   

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY

 

Introduced by:

 

SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist.

(By Request)

 

AN ACT REQUIRING STATE AND MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICERS TO PROVIDE NOTICE OF INOPERATIVE LIGHTS ON THE STATE AND LOCAL HIGHWAYS.

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

That chapters 236, 243 and 529 of the general statutes be amended to require state and municipal police officers who discover inoperative lights along highways to provide notice of such inoperative lights to the Department of Transportation, if such light is along a state highway, or to the superintendent of highways and bridges or other appropriate official of the town in which such light is located, if such light is along a local street or road.

Statement of Purpose:

To improve safety on Connecticut's highways by facilitating the prompt replacement of inoperative lights that illuminate such highways.

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