Sec. 14-111o. Form and use in evidence of records received from other member jurisdictions. Electronic transmission.
Sec. 14-111o. Form and use in evidence of records received from other member jurisdictions. Electronic transmission. (a) Any notice or copy of a record furnished
to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles by any member jurisdiction in accordance with
the provisions and obligations of the driver license agreement and sections 14-111h to
14-111q, inclusive, concerning any conviction, administrative action, withdrawal and
the status of an operator's license or motor vehicle registration may be transmitted and
received by electronic or documentary means. Any such notice or record shall, when
certified, be admissible in any hearing conducted by the commissioner and in any appeal
taken from a final decision of the commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of
section 4-183. Any such notice or record so transmitted and certified shall be accepted
as proof of the facts contained therein, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
(b) A notice or record as referred to in subsection (a) of this section may be certified
by electronic means in an electronic format and, when so certified, shall be accepted
by the commissioner and by any court of this state as proof of the facts contained therein,
in the absence of evidence to the contrary. As used in this section, the term "record"
includes, but is not limited to, any paper, document, facsimile information, micro-photographically stored information or digitized image maintained, deposited or filed with a
member jurisdiction.
(P.A. 02-70, S. 41.)
History: P.A. 02-70 effective January 1, 2003.