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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6599
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING PO LICE REPORTS FOR MOT OR VEHICLE
ACCIDENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 14-108a of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from 2
passage): 3
(a) (1) The Commissioner of Transportation shall prescribe for the 4
Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services 5
and Public Protection and for each police department and officer and 6
other suitable agencies or individuals a uniform investigation of 7
accident report, in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe, which 8
form shall be followed in filing all such reports. 9
(2) Not later than September 30, 2021, the Departm ent of 10
Transportation, the Division of State Police and the Police Officer 11
Standards and Training Council, established under section 7-294b, shall 12
jointly revise the uniform investigation of accident report form 13
prescribed under subdivision (1) of this subsection. The revised form 14
shall not exceed four pages in length, unless the police officer, agency or 15
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individual investigating the accident determines additional pages are 16
necessary. On and after October 1, 2021, the revised form shall be used 17
by the Division of State Police and each police department and officer 18
and other suitable agencies or individuals in filing all such reports. 19
[(2)] (3) In each motor vehicle accident in which any person is killed 20
or injured or in which damage to the property of any one individual, 21
including the operator, in excess of one thousand dollars is sustained, 22
the police officer, agency or individual who, in the regular course of 23
duty, investigates such accident, either at the time of or at the scene of 24
the accident or thereafter, by interviewing the participants or witnesses, 25
shall, not later than five days after completing such investigation, 26
complete and forward one copy of such report to the Commissioner of 27
Transportation. Such report shall contain all available information 28
relating to the location and cause of the accident, the conditions then 29
existing, the persons and vehicles involved and the names of the 30
insurance companies issuing their automobile liability policies, as well 31
as the enforcement action taken, if any, and, in the case of a motor 32
vehicle accident in which any person is killed, such report shall, if 33
possible and practicable, reach a conclusion as to the cause of the 34
accident. If such a conclusion cannot be reached, the investigating 35
officer, agency or individual shall refer the case to the state's attorney 36
for the judicial district in which the accident occurred, who may refer 37
the case to the Division of State Police within the Department of 38
Emergency Services and Public Protection for review and further 39
investigation. The Commissioner of Transportation shall forward to the 40
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles one copy of each report of any accident 41
involving a school bus. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may 42
inquire into or investigate any accident reported pursuant to this 43
subsection and may request the assistance of the Division of State Police 44
within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for 45
such purposes. 46
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Section 1 from passage 14-108a(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Transportation, the Division of State
Police and the Police Officer Standards and Training Council to jointly
revise the uniform investigation of accident report form.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]