Sec. 15-115. Failure to report; false statement. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 15-115. Failure to report; false statement. (a) Any owner or operator who knowingly refuses or fails to make any report of an accident as required in section 15-104 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and if any person is killed or injured in such accident, the commissioner shall, in addition, suspend the operating privilege of the person failing to make such report, until such report is filed and for such further period not to exceed thirty days as the commissioner may fix.

      (b) Any owner or operator who knowingly makes a false statement or representation of a material fact in a report to or written instrument filed with the commissioner shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than ninety days or both.

      (1959, P.A. 488, S. 14; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 206; 1972, P.A. 207, S. 9.)

      History: 1969 act replaced "department", i.e. aeronautics department, with "commissioner", i.e. commissioner of transportation; 1972 act deleted references to registrations and nonresidents in Subsec. (a) and deleted Subsec. (c) re penalty for failure to return registrations.