Sec. 14-191. Suspension or revocation of certificate. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 14-191. Suspension or revocation of certificate. (a) The commissioner shall suspend or revoke a certificate of title, upon notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard in accordance with section 14-194, if he finds: (1) The certificate of title was fraudulently procured or erroneously issued, or (2) the vehicle has been scrapped, dismantled or destroyed, or (3) the owner or lienholder of record on the certificate of title failed to reply to a notice of a scheduled hearing within thirty days after the notice was mailed by certified bulk mail to his last address of record on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

      (b) Suspension or revocation of a certificate of title does not, in itself, affect the validity of a security interest noted on it.

      (c) When the commissioner suspends or revokes a certificate of title, the owner or person in possession of it shall, immediately upon receiving notice of the suspension or revocation, mail or deliver the certificate to the commissioner.

      (d) The commissioner may seize and impound any certificate of title which has been suspended or revoked.

      (1957, P.A. 607, S. 27; 1967, P.A. 96; P.A. 81-172, S. 12.)

      History: 1967 act added Subsec. (a)(3) re suspension or revocation of title upon failure to reply to notice of hearing; P.A. 81-172 permitted the notices to be sent by bulk certified mail, rather than by "certified or registered" mail; (Revisor's note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes to "Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner" and "Motor Vehicle(s) Department" were replaced editorially by the Revisors with "Commissioner of Motor Vehicles" or "Department of Motor Vehicles", as the case may be, for consistency with customary statutory usage).