Title 13b. Transportation. Chapter 244C. Transportation Network Company Vehicles
§ 13b-119. Transportation network company driver requirements. Adoption of policies re drugs and alcohol and illness and fatigue. Operation as transportation network company driver without authority; penalty. Certification re condition of transportation network company vehicle
Title 46A. Human Rights. Chapter 814B. Mobility Impaired Persons.
§ 46a-42 . "Mobility impaired persons" defined - § 46a-42. Repealed. (2024, P.A. 24-18, § 16, eff. July 1, 2024.)
§ 46a-44 . Access of guide and assistance dogs to modes of public transportation and in places of public accommodation. Intentional interference with guide or assistance dogs or trainers or blind, deaf or mobility impaired persons
Title 46A. Human Rights. Chapter 814C. Human Rights and Opportunities. Part II. Discriminatory Practices.
§ 46a-64 . Discriminatory public accommodations practices prohibited. Penalty
§ 17a-22ee. Animal-assisted therapy. Volunteer canine crisis response team. Crisis response program
§ 14-300. Crosswalks. Pedestrian-control signals. Regulation of pedestrians and motor vehicles at crosswalks. Pedestrians who are blind or have guide dogs
Connecticut General Statutes Annotated. Title 13b. Transportation. Chapter 244C. Transportation Network Company Vehicles
§ 13b-119. Transportation network company driver requirements. Adoption of policies re drugs and alcohol and illness and fatigue. Operation as transportation network company driver without authority; penalty. Certification re condition of transportation network company vehicle
(a) Prior to permitting an individual to act as a transportation network company driver on its digital network, the transportation network company shall: (1) Require the individual to submit an application to the company that includes information regarding the individual's name, address, date of birth, motor vehicle operator's license number and motor vehicle registration; (2) (A) conduct, or have a consumer reporting agency regulated under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act1 conduct, a driving record check and a local, state and national criminal history records check, including a search of state and national sexual offender registry databases provided such databases are accessible to the public, or (B) arrange for the fingerprinting of the individual to be submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check and to the State Police Bureau of Identification for a state criminal history records check conducted in accordance with section 29-17a; and (3) disclose to such individual, electronically or in writing, (A) the insurance coverage, including the types of coverage and any coverage limits, that the company provides while a transportation network company driver is connected to the company's digital network or is engaged in the provision of a prearranged ride, and (B) that a transportation network company driver's personal automobile insurance policy might not provide coverage while such driver is connected to the company's digital network, available to receive a request for a prearranged ride or engaged in the provision of a prearranged ride.
(b) A transportation network company shall conduct, or have a consumer reporting agency regulated under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act conduct, a local, state and national criminal history records check, including a search of state and national sexual offender registry databases, or arrange for the fingerprinting of the individual to be submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check and to the State Police Bureau of Identification for a state criminal history records check conducted in accordance with section 29-17a, at least once every three years after permitting an individual to act as a transportation network company driver.
(c) (1) No transportation network company shall permit an individual to act as a transportation network company driver on its digital network if such individual: (A) Has, during the three years prior to the date of such individual's application to be a transportation network company driver, (i) committed more than three moving violations, as defined in section 14-111g, (ii) committed one serious traffic violation, as defined in section 14-1, or (iii) had his or her motor vehicle operator's license suspended pursuant to section 14-227b; (B) has been convicted, within seven years prior to the date of such individual's application, of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fraud, sexual offenses, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, acts of violence or acts of terror; (C) is included in the state sexual offenders registry or the United States Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Website; (D) does not possess a Connecticut motor vehicle operator's license or a motor vehicle operator's license issued by a reciprocal state; (E) does not possess proof of registration for each motor vehicle such individual proposes to use as a transportation network company vehicle; or (F) is not at least nineteen years of age. For the purposes of this subsection, “reciprocal state” means a state that permits transportation network company drivers who possess a Connecticut motor vehicle operator's license to provide a prearranged ride that originates in such state.
(2) An individual who is permitted to act as a transportation network company driver shall report to the transportation network company not later than twenty-four hours after the occurrence of any of the following incidents: (A) The commission of a fourth moving violation, as defined in section 14-111g, during the past three years; (B) the commission of one serious traffic violation, as defined in section 14-1; (C) the suspension of his or her motor vehicle operator's license pursuant to section 14-227b; (D) the conviction of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fraud, sexual offenses, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, acts of violence or acts of terror; (E) inclusion in the state sexual offenders registry or the United States Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Website; (F) failure to possess an operator's license; or (G) failure to possess proof of registration for a transportation network company vehicle. Each transportation network company that receives a report pursuant to this subdivision or becomes aware of such incident shall prohibit the individual from acting as a transportation network company driver on the company's digital network until the individual meets the qualifications of this section to be a transportation network company driver.
(d) (1) A transportation network company shall adopt a policy that a transportation network company driver shall not use or be under the influence of drugs or alcohol while the driver is connected to the company's digital network or engaged in the provision of a prearranged ride. The company shall provide notice of such policy on its Internet web site, and include procedures for a transportation network company rider to report a complaint about a driver whom the rider reasonably suspects was using or under the influence of drugs or alcohol while engaged in the provision of a prearranged ride.
(2) Upon the company's receipt of a complaint by a rider alleging a violation of such policy, the company shall suspend the driver's access to the company's digital network as soon as possible and conduct an investigation into the reported incident. The suspension shall last until completion of the investigation. If the investigation confirms the driver used or was under the influence of drugs or alcohol while engaged in the provision of a prearranged ride or while connected to the company's digital network, the company shall ban the driver's access to the digital network on a permanent basis.
(3) The company shall maintain all records related to the enforcement of such policy for a period of not less than three years from the date that a complaint by a rider is received by the company.
(e) A transportation network company shall adopt a policy that prohibits a transportation network company driver from providing a prearranged ride when such driver's ability to operate a transportation network company motor vehicle is impaired by illness, fatigue or any other condition that would likely preclude safe operation of such vehicle.
(f) A transportation network company driver shall: (1) Comply with all applicable laws regarding nondiscrimination against transportation network company riders or potential transportation network company riders on the basis of age, color, creed, destination, intellectual or physical disability, national origin, race, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity;
(2) comply with all applicable laws relating to the accommodation of service animals and accommodate service animals without imposing additional charges for such accommodation;
(3) comply with the policies adopted by the transportation network company pursuant to subsection (c) of section 13b-118 and subsections (d) and (e) of this section; (4) not impose additional charges for providing prearranged rides to persons with physical disabilities because of such disabilities; and (5) not solicit or accept a request for transportation unless the request is accepted through the transportation network company's digital network. For the purposes of this subsection, “service animal” has the same meaning as provided in section 22-345.
(g) (1) Any person who holds himself or herself out to be a transportation network company driver who is not permitted by a transportation network company to use its digital network shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
(2) The state shall remit to a municipality fifty per cent of the fine amount received for a violation of subdivision (1) of this subsection with respect to each summons issued by such municipality. Each clerk of the Superior Court or the Chief Court Administrator, or any other official of the Superior Court designated by the Chief Court Administrator, shall, on or before the thirtieth day of January, April, July and October in each year, certify to the Comptroller the amount due for the previous quarter under this subsection to each municipality served by the office of the clerk or official.
(h) (1) A transportation network company vehicle shall (A) have four doors; (B) not be older than twelve model years old; and (C) be designed to transport no more than eight passengers, including the driver.
(2) Before any motor vehicle is used by a transportation network company driver as a transportation network company vehicle, and every two years thereafter, the driver shall certify to the transportation network company that the following equipment is in good working order: (A) Foot brakes; (B) emergency brakes; (C) steering mechanism; (D) windshield; (E) rear window and other glass; (F) windshield wipers; (G) headlights; (H) tail lights; (I) turn indicator lights; (J) brake lights; (K) front seat adjustment mechanism; (L) doors; (M) horn; (N) speedometer; (O) bumpers; (P) muffler and exhaust system; (Q) condition of tires, including tread depth; (R) interior and exterior rearview mirrors; and (S) seat safety belts and air bags for driver and passengers. The transportation network company shall maintain such certification for not less than three years.
Credits
(2017, P.A. 17-140, § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 2018; 2019, P.A. 19-161, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 2019; 2024, P.A. 24-18, § 3, eff. July 1, 2024.)
Footnotes
1 15 U.S.C.A. § 1681 et seq.
Title 46A. Human Rights. Chapter 814B. Mobility Impaired Persons.
§ 46a-42. "Mobility impaired persons" defined- § 46a-42. Repealed. (2024, P.A. 24-18, § 16, eff. July 1, 2024.)
Former text:
For purposes of sections 22-345, 46a-44 and 46a-64: "Mobility impaired person" means any person, regardless of age, who is subject to a physiological defect or deficiency regardless of its cause, nature or extent that renders the person unable to move about without the aid of crutches, a wheelchair or any other form of support, or that limits the person's functional ability to ambulate, climb, descend, sit or rise or to perform any related function.
CREDIT(S)
(1958 Rev., § 22-345a; 1985, P.A. 85-289, § 3; 1988, P.A. 88-364, § 31, eff. June 8, 1988; 1995, P.A. 95-33, § 1.)
§ 46a-44. Access of guide and assistance dogs to modes of public transportation and in places of public accommodation. Intentional interference with guide or assistance dogs or trainers or blind, deaf or mobility impaired persons
(a) As used in this section, (1) “disability” and “service animal” have the same meanings as provided in section 22-345; and (2) “person training an animal as a service animal” means a person who (A) (i) is employed by an organization that trains service animals, (ii) complies with the criteria for membership in a professional association of schools that train service animals, (iii) is authorized to engage in designated training activities, and (iv) carries photographic identification indicating such employment and authorization, or (B) volunteers for an organization that (i) trains service animals, and (ii) authorizes volunteers to raise animals to become service animals.
(b) Any person with a disability or any person training an animal as a service animal to assist a person with a disability may travel on a train or on any other mode of public transportation, and may enter any other place of public accommodation that caters or offers its services or facilities or goods to the general public, including but not limited to, any public building, inn, restaurant, hotel, motel, tourist cabin, place of amusement, resort or any facility of any such public accommodation, accompanied by such person's service animal, and such person may keep such service animal with him or her at all times in any such public accommodation or facility thereof at no extra charge, provided such service animal shall be in the direct custody and control of such person.
(c) Any person with a disability or any person training an animal as a service animal for a person with a disability shall be entitled to visit any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement or a dwelling as a guest of a lawful occupant thereof, accompanied by such person's service animal, and such person may keep such service animal with him or her at all times in such public accommodation, resort, amusement or dwelling at no extra charge, provided such service animal shall be in the direct custody and control of such person. No such person with a disability or person training an animal as a service animal shall be charged any fee not applicable alike to all guests, provided the owner of such service animal shall be liable for any damage done to the premises or facilities by such service animal. For the purposes of this subsection, (1) a “place of public accommodation, resort or amusement” means any establishment which caters or offers its services or facilities or goods to the general public, including, but not limited to, any commercial building lot, on which it is intended that a commercial property or building will be constructed or offered for sale or rent, and (2) “dwelling” means any building, structure, mobile manufactured home park or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure, mobile manufactured home park or portion thereof, provided the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to (A) the rental of a room or rooms in a single-family dwelling unit, if the owner actually maintains and occupies part of such living quarters as the owner's residence, or (B) a unit in a dwelling containing living quarters occupied or intended to be occupied by no more than two families living independently of each other, if the owner actually maintains and occupies the other such living quarters as the owner's residence.
(d) Any person who intentionally interferes with the use of a service animal by a person with a disability, including, but not limited to, any action intended to harass or annoy the person with a disability or the person training an animal as a service animal, or who denies the rights afforded to a person with a disability or person training an animal as a service animal under subsection (b) or (c) of this section shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor, provided such person with a disability or person training an animal as a service animal complies with the applicable provisions of subsection (b) or (c) of this section.
Credits
(1958 Rev., § 22-346a; 1963, P.A. 641, § 1; 1973, P.A. 73-279, § 3; 1976, P.A. 76-49, § 2; 1985, P.A. 85-289, § 6; 1989, P.A. 89-21, § 1; 1992, P.A. 92-257, § 5; 1997, P.A. 97-141, § 1; 2004, P.A. 04-71, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2005; 2017, P.A. 17-102, § 1; 2024, P.A. 24-18, § 11, eff. July 1, 2024.)
Title 46A. Human Rights. Chapter 814C. Human Rights and Opportunities. Part II. Discriminatory Practices.
§ 46a-64. Discriminatory public accommodations practices prohibited. Penalty
(a) It shall be a discriminatory practice in violation of this section: (1) To deny any person within the jurisdiction of this state full and equal accommodations in any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, lawful source of income, intellectual disability, mental disability, physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness or deafness, status as a veteran or status as a victim of domestic violence, of the applicant, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons; (2) to discriminate, segregate or separate on account of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, lawful source of income, intellectual disability, mental disability, learning disability, physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness or deafness, status as a veteran or status as a victim of domestic violence; (3) for a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement to restrict or limit the right of a mother to breast-feed her child; (4) for a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement to refuse entry to a person with a disability who is accompanied by a service animal; or (5) to deny any person with a disability or any person training an animal as a service animal to assist a person with a disability, accompanied by such service animal, full and equal access to any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement. Any person with a disability or any person training an animal as a service animal may keep such service animal at all times in such place of public accommodation, resort or amusement at no extra charge, provided such service animal is in the direct custody and control of such person. When it is not obvious what service an animal provides, staff of a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement may inquire of the owner or keeper whether such animal is a service animal required because of a disability and what work or task the animal has been trained to perform. Nothing in this subsection shall preclude a business owner's ability to recover for damage caused to a person or property by a service animal. For the purposes of this subsection, “disability” and “service animal” have the same meanings as provided in section 22-345 and “place of public accommodation, resort or amusement” has the same meaning as provided in section 46a-44.
(b) (1) The provisions of this section with respect to the prohibition of sex discrimination shall not apply to (A) the rental of sleeping accommodations provided by associations and organizations which rent all such sleeping accommodations on a temporary or permanent basis for the exclusive use of persons of the same sex or (B) separate bathrooms or locker rooms based on sex. (2) The provisions of this section with respect to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of age shall not apply to minors or to special discount or other public or private programs to assist persons sixty years of age and older. (3) The provisions of this section with respect to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of physical disability shall not require any person to modify his property in any way or provide a higher degree of care for a physically disabled person, including, but not limited to blind or deaf persons, than for a person not physically disabled. (4) The provisions of this section with respect to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of creed shall not apply to the practice of granting preference in admission of residents into a nursing home as defined in section 19a-490, if (A) the nursing home is owned, operated by or affiliated with a religious organization, exempt from taxation for federal income tax purposes and (B) the class of persons granted preference in admission is consistent with the religious mission of the nursing home. (5) The provisions of this section with respect to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of lawful source of income shall not prohibit the denial of full and equal accommodations solely on the basis of insufficient income.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.
Credits
(1949 Rev., § 8375; 1949, Supp. § 691a; 1953, Supp. § 2464c; 1955, Supp. § 3267d; 1958 Rev., § 53-35; 1959, P.A. 113; 1961, P.A. 472, §§ 1, 2; 1963, P.A. 594; 1965, Feb.Sp.Sess., P.A. 141; 1967, P.A. 177, § 1; 1972, P.A. 186, § 15; 1973, P.A. 73-119; 1973, P.A. 73-279, § 6; 1974, P.A. 74-205; 1975, P.A. 75-323; 1976, P.A. 76-49, § 3; 1977, P.A. 77-604, § 37, eff. July 6, 1977; 1978, P.A. 78-148, § 12; 1979, P.A. 79-186; 1980, P.A. 80-422, § 12; 1980, P.A. 80-483, § 135, eff. June 6, 1980; 1985, P.A. 85-289, § 7; 1985, P.A. 85-512, § 5; 1988, P.A. 88-114; 1988, P.A. 88-288; 1989, P.A. 89-21, § 2; 1989, P.A. 89-288, § 2; 1990, P.A. 90-230, § 63, eff. June 8, 1990; 1990, P.A. 90-246, § 3; 1990, P.A. 90-330, § 4, eff. July 1, 1990; 1994, P.A. 94-238, § 4, eff. July 1, 1994; 1997, P.A. 97-141, § 2; 1997, P.A. 97-210, § 1; 2007, P.A. 07-217, § 167, eff. July 12, 2007; 2011, P.A. 11-55, § 25; 2011, P.A. 11-129, § 20; 2012, P.A. 12-80, § 94; 2017, P.A. 17-127, § 5; 2022, P.A. 22-82, § 13, eff. Oct. 1, 2022; 2024, P.A. 24-18, § 12, eff. July 1, 2024.)
(b) Any person who denies the rights afforded to active individual members of a volunteer canine search and rescue team under subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor, provided such individual member complies with the applicable provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
CREDIT(S)
(2004, P.A. 04-241, § 5.)
(1949 Rev., § 3391; 1953 Supp. §§ 1387c, 1829d; 1963, P.A. 613, § 16; 1976, P.A. 76-49, § 1; 1985, P.A. 85-289, § 5; 1989, P.A. 89-161, § 5; 1993, P.A. 93-435, § 50, eff. June 28, 1993; 2001, P.A. 01-62, § 6; 2022, P.A. 22-54, § 5, eff. June 1, 2023; 2024, P.A. 24-18, § 6, eff. July 1, 2024.)
Title 22. Agriculture. Domestic Animals. Chapter 435. Dogs and Other Companion Animals. Kennels and Pet Shops
(1996, P.A. 96-243, § 9, eff. June 6, 1996; 1998, P.A. 98-61, § 1; 2023, P.A. 23-17, § 9, eff. June 7, 2023; 2024, P.A. 24-18, § 10, eff. July 1, 2024; 2024, P.A. 24-108, § 41, eff. Oct. 1, 2024.)
(a) For purposes of this section:
(2013, P.A. 13-114, § 1; 2015, P.A. 15-208, § 1, eff. July 6, 2015.)
1 C.G.S.A. § 20-8a et seq.
2 C.G.S.A. § 20-186 et seq.
3 C.G.S.A. § 20-195a et seq.
4 C.G.S.A. § 20-195m et seq.
(1949 Rev., § 2519; 1955, Supp. § 1403d; 1967, P.A. 639; 1978, P.A. 78-309, § 2; 1994, P.A. 94-189, § 33, eff. July 1, 1994; 2000, P.A. 00-196, § 13; 2007, P.A. 07-167, § 26, eff. July 1, 2007; 2008, P.A. 08-150, § 32; 2010, P.A. 10-159, § 9; 2012, P.A. 12-132, § 30, eff. July 1, 2012; 2016, P.A. 16-54, § 1; 2021, P.A. 21-28, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2021; 2023, P.A. 23-135, § 2, eff. July 1, 2023; 2024, P.A. 24-18, § 4, eff. July 1, 2024.)