§ 14-152 — Report by law enforcement agencies of theft or recovery of motor vehicle.

Connecticut § 14-152

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 14: Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway By Vehicles. Gasoline
• Ch. 246: Motor Vehicles

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The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, each municipal police department and each constable of any town, within one week from the receipt of any complaint of the theft within or without this state of any Connecticut motor vehicle or the theft of any other registered motor vehicle within this state, or within one week from the recovery or notification of the recovery of any stolen motor vehicle, shall report such complaint, recovery or notification of recovery to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles and the National Automobile Theft Bureau, upon a blank prepared and furnished by him. Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 2477; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 64; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 80-292, S. 5; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.) History: 1961 act removed obsolete reference to prosecuting grand juror; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-292 required that report be made to National Automobile Theft Bureau as well as to motor vehicles commissioner and included in required reports recovery and notification of recovery of vehicles; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011.