Connecticut General Statutes 14-44c – Application for commercial driver’s license or commercial driver’s instruction permit. Penalty
(a) The application for a commercial driver‘s license or commercial driver’s instruction permit, shall include the following:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 14-44c
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Commercial motor vehicle: means a vehicle designed or used to transport passengers or property, except a vehicle used for farming purposes in accordance with 49 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Commissioner: includes the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and any assistant to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles who is designated and authorized by, and who is acting for, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles under a designation. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Disqualification: means a withdrawal of the privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle, which occurs as a result of (A) any suspension, revocation, or cancellation by the commissioner of the privilege to operate a motor vehicle. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Drive: means to drive, operate or be in physical control of a motor vehicle, including a motor vehicle being towed by another. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Driver: means any person who drives, operates or is in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle, or who is required to hold a commercial driver's license. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Motor vehicle: means any vehicle propelled or drawn by any nonmuscular power, except aircraft, motor boats, road rollers, baggage trucks used about railroad stations or other mass transit facilities, electric battery-operated wheel chairs when operated by persons with physical disabilities at speeds not exceeding fifteen miles per hour, golf carts operated on highways solely for the purpose of crossing from one part of the golf course to another, golf-cart-type vehicles operated on roads or highways on the grounds of state institutions by state employees, agricultural tractors, farm implements, such vehicles as run only on rails or tracks, self-propelled snow plows, snow blowers and lawn mowers, when used for the purposes for which they were designed and operated at speeds not exceeding four miles per hour, whether or not the operator rides on or walks behind such equipment, motor-driven cycles, as defined in section 14-286, special mobile equipment, as defined in section 14-165, mini-motorcycles, as defined in section 14-289j, electric bicycles, electric foot scooters and any other vehicle not suitable for operation on a highway. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
- oath: shall include affirmations in cases where by law an affirmation may be used for an oath, and, in like cases, the word "swear" shall include the word "affirm". See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Operator: means any person who operates a motor vehicle or who steers or directs the course of a motor vehicle being towed by another motor vehicle and includes a driver. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Person: includes any individual, corporation, limited liability company, association, copartnership, company, firm, business trust or other aggregation of individuals but does not include the state or any political subdivision thereof, unless the context clearly states or requires. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- State: means any state of the United States and the District of Columbia unless the context indicates a more specific reference to the state of Connecticut. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Vehicle: includes any device suitable for the conveyance, drawing or other transportation of persons or property, whether operated on wheels, runners, a cushion of air or by any other means. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
(1) The full name and current mailing and residence address of the person;
(2) A physical description of the person, including gender, height and eye color;
(3) Date of birth;
(4) The applicant’s Social Security number;
(5) The person’s statement, under oath, that such person meets the physical qualification standards set forth in 49 C.F.R. § part 391, as amended from time to time;
(6) The person’s statement, under oath, that the type of vehicle in which the person has taken or intends to take the driving skills test is representative of the type of motor vehicle the person operates or intends to operate;
(7) The person’s statement, under oath, that such person is not subject to disqualification, suspension, revocation or cancellation of operating privileges in any state, and that he or she does not hold an operator‘s license in any other state;
(8) The person’s identification of all states in which such person has been licensed to drive any type of motor vehicle during the last ten years, and the person’s statement, under oath that he or she does not hold an operator’s license in any other state; and
(9) The person’s signature, and certification of the accuracy and completeness of the application, subject to the penalties of false statement under section 53a-157b. The application shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed in section 14-44h.
(b) No person who has been a resident of this state for thirty days may drive a commercial motor vehicle under the authority of a commercial driver’s license issued by another jurisdiction.
(c) At the time of application for a commercial driver’s license, the applicant shall make the applicable certification, as required by 49 C.F.R. § 383.71(b), regarding the type of commerce in which such person shall engage. No commercial driver’s license shall be issued to a person who fails to make such certification.
(d) On and after November 18, 2024, the commissioner shall request a driver’s record from the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, in accordance with 49 C.F.R. § 382.725, as amended from time to time, for any person who applies for, renews, transfers or upgrades a commercial driver’s license or a commercial driver’s instruction permit. The commissioner shall use information obtained from the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse solely for the purpose of determining whether such person is qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle and shall not disclose such information to any other person or entity not directly involved in determining whether such person is qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle. If the commissioner receives notification pursuant to 49 C.F.R. § 382.501(a), as amended from time to time, that such person is prohibited from operating a commercial motor vehicle, the commissioner shall not issue, renew or upgrade the commercial driver’s license or commercial driver’s instruction permit. If such person currently holds a commercial driver’s license or commercial driver’s instruction permit, the commissioner shall, not later than sixty days after the date the commissioner receives such notification: (1) Downgrade the commercial driver’s license to a Class D operator’s license, or (2) cancel the commercial driver’s instruction permit. Any person who is denied a commercial driver’s license or a commercial driver’s instruction permit, or whose license or permit is downgraded or cancelled pursuant to this subsection, shall be granted an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
(e) In addition to other penalties provided by law, any person who knowingly falsifies information or certifications required under subsection (a) of this section shall have such person’s operator’s license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this state suspended for sixty days.