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Statutes > Connecticut > Title54 > Chap968 > Sec54-209Sec. 54-209. Compensation ordered, when. (a) The Office of Victim Services or, on review, a victim compensation commissioner may order the payment of compensation in accordance with the provisions of sections 54-201 to 54-233, inclusive, for personal injury or death which resulted from: (1) An attempt to prevent the commission of crime or to apprehend a suspected criminal or in aiding or attempting to aid a police officer so to do, (2) the commission or attempt to commit by another of any crime as provided in section 53a-24, (3) the operation of a motor vehicle by another person who was subsequently convicted with respect to such operation for a violation of subsection (a) of section 14-224 or of section 14-227a, 53a-56b or 53a-60d, or (4) any crime involving international terrorism as defined in Section 2331 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
(b) In the absence of conviction, as provided in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of this section, the Office of Victim Services or, on review, a victim compensation commissioner may order payment of compensation under this section if, upon consideration of all circumstances determined to be relevant, the Office of Victim Services or a victim compensation commissioner, as the case may be, reasonably concludes that another person has operated a motor vehicle in violation of subsection (a) of section 14-224 or of section 14-227a, 53a-56b or 53a-60d.
(c) Except as provided in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) and subsection (b) of this section, no act involving the operation of a motor vehicle which results in injury shall constitute a crime for the purposes of sections 54-201 to 54-233, inclusive, unless the injuries were intentionally inflicted through the use of the vehicle.
(d) Evidence of an order for the payment of compensation by the Office of Victim Services or a victim compensation commissioner in accordance with the provisions of sections 54-201 to 54-233, inclusive, shall not be admissible in any civil proceeding to prove the liability of any person for such personal injury or death or in any criminal proceeding to prove the guilt or innocence of any person for any crime.
(P.A. 78-261, S. 9, 17; P.A. 85-529, S. 2, 4; P.A. 87-554, S. 8; P.A. 89-49; P.A. 93-310, S. 8, 32; P.A. 95-175, S. 6; P.A. 97-59, S. 1, 4.)
History: P.A. 85-529 inserted Subsec. indicators and added Subsec. (a)(3) and an exception to Subsec. (b) to authorize the board to pay compensation for injury or death resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle by another person subsequently convicted of a violation of Sec. 14-227a, 53a-56b or 53a-60d; P.A. 87-554 changed "board" to "commission"; P.A. 89-49 inserted new Subsec. (b) permitting payment of compensation in absence of conviction if commission reasonably concludes person operated motor vehicle in violation of Sec. 14-227a, 53a-56b or 53a-60d, relettering former Subsec. (b) accordingly, and added Subsec. (d) re inadmissibility of order of compensation in civil or criminal proceeding to prove liability or guilt or innocence of any person; P.A. 93-310 changed "commission" to "office of victim services or, on review, a victim compensation commissioner", effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-175 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) by adding references to Sec. 14-224(a); P.A. 97-59 added Subsec. (a)(4) re crime involving international terrorism, effective May 8, 1997.
