Sec. 14-270c. Official weighing areas. Staffing requirements. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 14-270c. Official weighing areas. Staffing requirements. (a) The Commissioners of Public Safety and Motor Vehicles shall staff the official weighing areas as follows:

      (1) Greenwich: Eight work shifts in each seven-day period from Sunday through Saturday. No such shifts shall be worked consecutively, except that two shifts may be worked consecutively on not more than three days;

      (2) Danbury: Three work shifts in each seven-day period from Sunday through Saturday. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall, whenever possible, coordinate coverage between this official weighing area and the official weighing area in Greenwich in order to ensure concurrent coverage;

      (3) Union: Between five and eight work shifts in each seven-day period from Sunday through Saturday. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall coordinate the hours of operation of this official weighing area; and

      (4) Portable scale locations: Ten shifts in each seven-day period from Sunday through Saturday which shall be staggered throughout the four geographical areas established by the Commissioner of Public Safety with concentration in areas that have fewer hours of operation for the permanent weighing areas.

      (b) The Commissioners of Public Safety and Motor Vehicles shall adjust the work shifts required in subsection (a) of this section on a daily basis in order to effectuate an unpredictable schedule.

      (c) The Commissioner of Public Safety may assign any remaining personnel in the traffic unit to the permanent weighing areas in Waterford and Middletown or to the portable scale operations.

      (d) The Commissioner of Public Safety shall assign personnel from the traffic unit to work between nine and twelve shifts in each seven-day period from Sunday through Saturday to patrol and enforce laws relative to the safe movement of all vehicles on the highways of the state.

      (e) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Commissioner of Public Safety from reassigning personnel in the traffic unit as he deems necessary in order to ensure public safety.

      (P.A. 98-248, S. 1.)