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      Sec. 14-69. License to conduct school. Financial responsibility. No person shall engage in the business of conducting a drivers' school without being licensed therefor by the commissioner. Application therefor shall be in writing and shall contain such information as the commissioner requires. Each applicant shall be fingerprinted before such application is approved. If the application is approved, the applicant shall be granted a license upon the payment of a fee of three hundred fifty dollars and a deposit with the commissioner of cash or a bond of a surety company authorized to do business in this state, conditioned on the faithful performance by the applicant of any contract to furnish instruction, in either case in such amount as the commissioner may require, such cash or bond to be held by the commissioner to satisfy any execution issued against such school in a cause arising out of failure of such school to perform such contract. For each additional place of business of such school, the commissioner shall charge a fee of eighty-eight dollars. No license shall be required in the case of any board of education, or any public, private or parochial school, which conducts a course in driver education established in accordance with sections 14-36e and 14-36f. A license so issued shall be valid during the calendar year. The annual fee for renewal shall be the same amount and the same deposit of security shall be required. The commissioner shall issue a license certificate or certificates to each licensee, one of which shall be displayed in each place of business of the licensee. In case of the loss, mutilation or destruction of a certificate, the commissioner shall issue a duplicate upon proof of the facts and the payment of a fee of twenty dollars.

      (1957, P.A. 507, S. 2; 1967, P.A. 406; 531, S. 2; 778; 1971, P.A. 95; P.A. 84-254, S. 45, 62; P.A. 03-265, S. 10; P.A. 04-143, S. 21; 04-182, S. 9.)

      History: 1967 acts provided for charge of $25 for each additional place of business, excluded from license requirements persons or schools providing instruction in operation of vehicles other than passenger vehicles and under the jurisdiction of the state board of education pursuant to Sec. 10-8, and added provision re cash or bond security; 1971 act raised cost of duplicate certificate from $1 to $2; P.A. 84-254 increased the fees, scheduling the increases to take effect as of July first of 1985, 1989, 1991 and 1993; P.A. 03-265 deleted provisions re fees applicable before July 1, 1993, and replaced provisions re waiver of license for board of education or school conducting driver education course approved by the State Board of Education or person or school under jurisdiction of said board with provisions re waiver of license for board of education or school conducting driver education course "established in accordance with sections 14-36e and 14-36f"; P.A. 04-143 provided that fee for license to conduct a drivers' school is $350 and fee for replacement license is $7, effective May 21, 2004; P.A. 04-182 increased fee for duplicate certificate to $20, effective July 1, 2004.

      See Secs. 14-36e and 14-36f re driver education programs in secondary schools.

      See Sec. 14-292 re identifying markers for vehicles operated by student drivers.