The Department of Transportation may, without hearing, issue to an applicant for authority to operate a motor vehicle in livery service temporary authority to operate such service, pending hearing upon his application and disposition thereof by the department, but such temporary authority shall not extend over a period of more than one hundred eighty days.
(1959, P.A. 599, S. 2; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-372, S. 3; 80-482, S. 157, 348.)
History: P.A. 75-486 substituted “public utilities control authority” for “commission”, i.e. public utilities commission, and “the authority” for “the commission” thereafter, effective December 1, 1975; P.A. 77-614 replaced “public utilities control authority” with “division of public utility control within the department of business regulation”, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-372 substituted “department of transportation” for foregoing designation and “department” for “division”; P.A. 80-482 would have substituted “department of public utility control” for “division of public utility control within the department of business regulation” but P.A. 80-372 amendments given precedence; in 1981 Sec. 16-326a transferred to Sec. 13b-104.