(a) Any person, including a carrier, shipper, consignee or broker or any officer, employee or agent of such person who knowingly or wilfully causes to be done any act prohibited by this chapter or who knowingly violates or fails to comply with or knowingly procures, aids or abets any violation of this chapter or fails to comply with any order, decision or regulation of the Commissioner of Transportation, or who is guilty of any violation of this chapter for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars for the first offense and shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars for any subsequent offense.
(b) The commissioner, after notice and hearing, may impose a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars for each offense on any person, including a carrier, shipper, consignee or broker or any officer, employee or agent of such person who violates any provision of this chapter. Each day on which the violation occurs shall be deemed a separate offense.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, any person who is alleged to have committed a violation under the provisions of sections 13b-410a to 13b-410c, inclusive, or of any regulation adopted in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of section 13b-410 shall follow the procedures set forth in section 51-164n.
(1949 Rev., S. 5704; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 154, 348; P.A. 88-249, S. 2, 9; P.A. 90-178; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-13, S. 3, 21; P.A. 93-307, S. 23, 34; P.A. 99-181, S. 8, 40.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; 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. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 88-249 transferred powers and duties from public utility control department to transportation department, amending section as required by section 2 of the act (codified as Sec. 13b-387a), effective July 1, 1989. (Revisor's note: Statute published in both Title 16 and Title 13b in the Connecticut General Statutes, Revision of 1958, revised to 1989; Sec. 16-308 transferred to Sec. 13b-414, effective July 1, 1989); P.A. 90-178 increased penalty for subsequent violations of the section; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-13 replaced “infraction” with “violation” and added Subsec. (b) to require violations to follow procedures of the centralized infractions bureau of the superior court established in Sec. 51-164n; P.A. 93-307 deleted references to Secs. 13b-404, 13b-404a and 13b-405, which were repealed by the same act, substituting reference to Secs. 13b-410a to 13b-410c, inclusive, effective June 29, 1993; P.A. 99-181 inserted new provisions re imposition of civil penalties as Subsec. (b), relettering existing Subsec. as (c), and made technical changes, effective June 23, 1999.