Connecticut State Libran 3 0231 00095 5539 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lawsconcerningmo1911conn STATE OF eoNNEeneuT LAWS CONCERNINC^ Motor Vehicles :^ AND List of Automobiles SHOWING Taxable Horse-power Ratings Also Table of Fees AND List of Registered Motor Vehicles 1911 SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT HARTFORD: PUBLISHED BY THE STATE sl911 1^ i MARtGOl-0 PR BRIDGEPORT. TABLE OF eONTENTS PART 1 Motor Vehicle Law .... Page 3 i. PART II Rules of the Road .^) .... Page 14 PART III Digest of Law Page 15 PART IV List of Automobiles Giving Taxable Horsepower Ratings . Page 17 -) PART V Fees,—Annual and Short Term . Page G3 PART VI List of Owners . Page 67 : : PUBLIC ACTS OF 1909. Chapter 211. An Act concerning the Registration, Numbering, Use, and Speed of ^ Motor Vehicles and the Licensing of Operators of such Vehicles. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ho of Representatives in General Assembly convened Section 1. Terms used in this chapter Terms, 'dealer/ shall be construed as follows, unless other rly apparent from language * liveryman/ or context, or unless such construction ' intersecting high- consistent i 'ith_ the manifest intention of the per way/ * motor cycle/ legislature shall include every of buying, ' motor vehicle/ selling, or exchanging motor vehicles and every * nonresident/ person who maintains for hire not more than vehicles, shall in- * number plate/ two motor "Liveryman" every person who, whether engaged in * * operator/ person/ l^y-^g selling, or exchanging motor vehicles 'police officer/ -- --* maintains for hire more than two * register number/ motor vehicles or who maintains for hire one or more taxicabs. "Intersecting highway" * secretary/ defined, shall mean any highway which joins another at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other. "Motor cycle" shall apply only to motor vehicles having but two wheels in contact with the ground. "Motor vehicles" when used in this act, except When otherwise expressly provided, shall include all vehicles propelled by any power other than muscular, except road rollers, street sprinklers, fire engines and fire department apparatus, police patrol wagons, ambulances, and such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks. "Non-resident" shall apply to residents of states or countries who have no regular place of abode or business in this state for a period of more than three months in the calendar year. "Num- ber plate" shall mean the sign or marker furnished by the secretary of the state on which is displayed the register number or mark of a motor vehicle assigned to such motor vehicle by said secretary. "Oper- ator" shall mean any person who operates a motor vehicle. "Per- son," wherever used in connection with the registration of a motor vehicle, shall include any corporation, association, co-partnership, com- pany, firm, or other aggregation of individuals which owns or controls any such vehicle as owner, or for the purpose of sale, or for renting as agent, salesman, or otherwise. "Police officer" or "officer" shall include any constable or other officer authorized to make arrest or to serve process, provided he is in uniform or displays his badge of office. "Register number" shall apply to the number or mark assigned by said secretary to a motor vehicle, whether or not such number or mark includes a letter or letters. "Secretary" shall include the sec- retary of the state and the supervisor of motor vehicles. Sec. 2. Every owner of one or more mo- Statement to be tor vehicles shall file annually in the office of the secretary, on a blank furnished by made in application said secretary, a statement of his name, res- and certificate. idence, postofhce address, and a description of each motor vehicle owned or controlled by him, including the name of the maker, the number, if any, af- fixed by the maker, tht; character of the motor power, and such other 4 PUBLIC ACTS OF 1909. information as shall be required by said secretary; and said secretary, or his duly authorized agent, shall register such motor vehicle, as- signing to it a distinguishine number or mark, and shall thereupon issue to the owner thereof ~a certificate of registration which shall contain the amount of the motor power of such motor vehicle stated in figures of horse power, such horse power, in the case of internal combustion engines, to be determined in accordance with the formula adopted by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, vehicles, I and in the case of steam and electric cars and motor the ^ amount of such hor^e power to be taken as advertised by the maker I thereof, and if such motor vehicles has two ratings of horse power, the registration to be based upon the higher rating, the name, place of residence, and post office address of the owner, and the number or mark assigned to such motor vehicle, and shall be in such form and contain such further information as said secretary may determine. certificate shall at all times be carried upon such motor vehicle Such j and shall be subject to examination upon demand by any proper ^f officer. An applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle who does not file his application therefor until after the first day of June in any year shall be entitled to a pro rata reduction in the fee for such registration calculated to the first day of the month in which the application is made. Upon the Transfer of owner- transfer of ownership 9f any motor vehicle • L* J CI* r its registration shall expire, and the person in i ship and tiling of a * whose name such vehicle is registered shall new application. return forthwith the certificate of registration to the secretary with a written notice con- taining the date of such transfer of ownership, and the name, place of residence, and post-office address of the new owner. A person wno transfers to another the ownership of a registered motor vehicle owned by him, upon the filing of a new application and upon the of proper fee, have registered in his name another payment the may ^ motor vehicle for the remainder of the calendar year, provided the horse power of such motor vehicle is the same or less than that of the motor vehicle next preceding registered by him; but if the horse power of the motor vehicle is greater than that of the motor vehicle next preceding registered by him, the applicant shall pay, in addition to said fee, the difference between the fee paid by him for the motor vehicle next preceding registered by him and the fee for the registra- tion of the motor vehicle of the higher horse power. The registration of every motor vehicle shall expire at midnight on the thirty-first day of December in each year. Sec 3. Every dealer, liveryman, or man- r\ 1^ »» i: ufacturer of motor vehicles may, instead Dealers, livery- ^f registering each motor vehicle owned man s and manu- or controlled by him, make application to facturer*8 applica- said secretary for a general distinguishing .• _ number or mark, and the secretary may, "*'"• if satisfied as to the facts stated in said application, issue to the applicant a certi- ficate of registration containing the name, place of residence, and bus- iness address of the applicant, and the general distingushing number { or mark assigned to him, and made in such form and containing such further information as said secretary may determine, and every motor } vehicle owned or controlled by such manufacturer, dealer, or livery- man shall, until sold or loaned for a period of more than five succes- sive days, be regarded as registered under, and have assigned to it, such distinguishing number or mark. Manufacturers, dealers, or liv- erymen shall not be required to carry such certificates upon the ve- hicles registered urder the provisions of this section, but every per- son operating a motor vehicle registered under the provisions of this section shall display on such vehicle, in such manner as said secre- tary may prescribe, the operator's license number assigned to such person. The registration of every motor vehicle registered under the provisions of this section shall expire at midnight on the thirty- first day of December in each year. : REUTIVE TO OPERATORS' MARKERS In pursuance of the provisions of Section 3 of this Act, the Secretary hereby prescribes the following method for the display of operators' license numbers on motor vehicles registered under the provisions of said section The number shall be painted or enameled on a stifi metal plate, the figures thereon shall not be less than four inches high and each stroke thereon shall be not less than one-half inch wide and the figures shall be three-quarters inch apart. The color of the figures shall be bright yellow and the background black. The plates or markers shall be securely fastened to the back of the seat on unfinished or test cars, and on finished motor vehicles they shall be securely fastened, so as not to swing, on the rear of the motor vehicle in some position as conspicuous as is required for the marker on which is displayed the register number of the car. PUBLIC ACTS OF 1909. 5 Sec. 4. Every motor vehicle, except mo- tor cycles, shall, at all times while in use Markers, to be dis- or operation upon the public highways of this displayed in a conspicuous played on front . state, have and rear of motgr place, at the front and rear, the registered number plates or markers furnished by vehicles. the secretary.