Sec. 14-273. Operation of motor vehicles requiring a passenger endorsement or passenger and school endorsement.
Sec. 14-273. Operation of motor vehicles requiring a passenger endorsement
or passenger and school endorsement. (a) No person operating a motor vehicle for
which a passenger endorsement or passenger and school endorsement is required shall
carry any person upon the running board, mudguard, hood, roof or any exterior portion
of such vehicle. No motor bus shall carry more passengers than the seating capacity
thereof, except that, upon application to the Department of Transportation, said department may, after examination of such motor bus, issue to the owner thereof a license to
carry such number of passengers in excess of the seating capacity of such bus as said
department deems reasonable, which license may be issued upon such conditions and for
such additional fee, payable to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, as said department
prescribes. Any such license issued by the Division of Public Utility Control within the
Department of Business Regulation prior to October 1, 1979, shall remain valid as long
as the licensee meets the conditions prescribed by the Department of Transportation. The
total number of persons carried at any time by any motor vehicle for which a passenger
endorsement or passenger and school endorsement is required, other than a motor bus,
shall not exceed the number specified in the certificate of registration. No motor vehicle
used for the transportation of school children shall carry any number of passengers in
excess of the seating capacity specified by the manufacturer of such vehicle. No motor
vehicle used for the transportation of school children shall be equipped with a longitudinal center seat. The commissioner may suspend the registration of any such motor vehicle for a violation of any provision of this section until such time as the requirements
hereof have been complied with.
(b) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be
deemed to have committed an infraction.
(1949 Rev., S. 2423; 1955, S. 1318d; 1957, P.A. 264, S. 1; P.A. 75-486, 43, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 79-610,
S. 6; P.A. 80-25, S. 1; P.A. 82-223, S. 18; P.A. 83-577, S. 23; P.A. 86-85, S. 2, 3; P.A. 90-263, S. 26, 74; P.A. 93-341, S.
23, 38; P.A. 94-189, S. 18, 34.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced
authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979;
P.A. 79-610 replaced division of public utility control with department of transportation and deleted reference to disbanded
department of business regulation; P.A. 80-25 added provision in Subsec. (a) validating licenses issued by division of
public utility control; P.A. 82-223 amended Subsec. (c) by specifying that violation of Subsec. (a) constituted an infraction
and changing the fine from not less than $5 nor more than $25 to $25; P.A. 83-577 amended Subsec. (c) by increasing the
fine to $35; P.A. 86-85 eliminated seventy-two person limit on seating capacity for school buses and prohibited the carrying
of passengers in excess of manufacturer's specifications; P.A. 90-263 amended Subsec. (a) to substitute "person operating
a motor vehicle for which a public passenger transportation permit is required" for public service motor vehicle and to add
"roof or any exterior portion of such vehicle" after "hood", deleted provisions of Subsec. (b) re public service motor
vehicles in entirety, relettering remaining Subsec. as (b) and amended Subsec. (b), formerly (c), to delete $35 fine for each
offense; P.A. 93-341 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to public passenger transportation permits with reference
to passenger endorsement or passenger and school endorsement, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 94-189 amended Subsec. (a)
by deleting the reference to "public passenger transportation permit" and inserting "passenger endorsement or passenger
and school endorsement" in lieu thereof, effective July 1, 1994.
See Sec. 14-250 re required stopping at railroad crossing.