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      Sec. 38a-343a. Notification of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the cancellation of private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policies. When. (a) Each insurance company which issues private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policies in this state shall, each month, on a date specified by the commissioner, notify the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the cancellation by the insurance company of all such policies which occurred during the preceding month. The notice required shall include the name of the named insured in the policy, the policy number, the vehicle identification number of each automobile covered by the policy and the effective date of the policy's cancellation. The commissioner shall specify an acceptable method of notification. The method of notification specified may include computer tapes or electronic transmission. The failure of an insurance company to comply with the requirements of this section shall not affect the cancellation of any private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policy.

      (b) The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall receive or accept all notices of policy cancellation from private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance companies, as required pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. The commissioner shall review and analyze the cancellation data submitted, together with such other information as he may obtain from the private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance companies, from the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, or from any other public or private agency or firm in possession of relevant information, for the purpose of determining whether any registered owner identified in any such notice has failed to continuously maintain insurance coverage in violation of sections 14-12c and 38a-371. In conducting such an inquiry to determine insured status, the commissioner may contact registered vehicle owners by mail and require that such mail inquiries be answered in not less than thirty days, in a satisfactory manner containing such information and verification of insurance coverage as the commissioner shall deem necessary and acceptable.

      (P.A. 93-298, S. 2, 11; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3, S. 2.)

      History: P.A. 93-298 effective January 1, 1994; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-3 amended Subsec. (a) to eliminate proviso that no notification shall be made for any cancellation of any policy of commercial insurance, effective January 1, 2006.

      See Sec. 14-12g re cancellation of motor vehicle registrations by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

      See Sec. 14-12h re record of motor vehicle registrations cancelled by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

      Cited. 234 C. 182.