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Statutes > Connecticut > Title29 > Chap541 > Sec29-339

      Sec. 29-339. (Formerly Sec. 29-80). Inspection of cargo tank motor vehicle used for transportation of hazardous chemicals. No person shall operate, and no owner shall permit the operation of, a cargo tank motor vehicle, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations Title 49, Section 171.8, as amended from time to time, used for the transportation of hazardous chemicals until such vehicle has been inspected in accordance with the provisions of this section. The local fire marshal of each town, city and borough shall inspect once annually, and more often as necessary, all storage plants and equipment and cargo tank motor vehicles at bulk storage plant installations in his jurisdiction and utilized for the storage and transportation of hazardous chemicals, and shall promptly report to the Commissioner of Public Safety each hazard found in such inspection. Such inspections shall be in accordance with the regulations issued under the provisions of section 29-337. The local fire marshal of the city, town or borough in which any such vehicle is registered by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall issue for each vehicle inspected and approved a certificate furnished by the Commissioner of Public Safety which shall be carried in the vehicle and kept with the certificate of registration for such vehicle at all times. No municipality other than the one in which such vehicle is so registered shall require any further inspection or cause any further inspection to be made or exact any license fees for such inspection or exact any license fees for the transportation of chemicals into or out of such municipality.

      (1957, P.A. 353, S. 4; 1959, P.A. 371; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 79-512, S. 10, 13; P.A. 93-73, S. 3; P.A. 97-162, S. 3.)

      History: 1959 act prohibited operation of vehicle used to transport hazardous chemicals until it has been inspected and removed requirement of fixing sticker to lower right-hand corner of windshield; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-512 added Subsec. (b) re procedure required when hazardous chemicals leak or are discharged from storage facility or transport vehicle; Sec. 29-80 transferred to Sec. 29-339 in 1983; P.A. 93-73 amended Subsec. (a) to limit applicability of section to cargo tank motor vehicles, as defined in CFR Title 49, Section 171.8, as amended, require local fire marshal to issue a certificate in lieu of a sticker for each vehicle inspected and approved and require certificate to be carried in vehicle and kept with registration certificate at all times; P.A. 97-162 deleted former Subsec. (b) re reports of leaks or discharges to state police and deleted Subsec. (a) designation.