Connecticut 2025 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB01389 Compare Versions

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5	5		General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1389
6	6		January Session, 2025
7	7		LCO No. 5389
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10	10		Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
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13	13		Introduced by:
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18	19		AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN ORDINANCES CONCERNING
19	20		STREET TAKEOVERS.
20	21		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
21	22		Assembly convened:
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23	24		Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2025) (a) For purposes of this 1
24	25		section, "street takeover" has the same meaning as provided in section 2
25	26		14-224 of the general statutes, and "motor vehicle" has the same meaning 3
26	27		as provided in section 14-1 of the general statutes. 4
27	28		(b) Any municipality may, by ordinance, prohibit a person from 5
28	29		organizing, participating in or gathering with intent to observe and 6
29	30		actually observing a street takeover. Such ordinance may provide for 7
30	31		the seizure and forfeiture to the municipality of any motor vehicle 8
31	32		involved in a street takeover for a violation of such ordinance, subject to 9
32	33		any bona fide lien, lease or security interest in the motor vehicle. 10
33	34		(c) No motor vehicle shall be forfeited under an ordinance adopted 11
34	35		pursuant to this section to the extent of the interest of an owner or 12
35	36		lienholder by reason of any act or omission committed by another 13
36	37		person if such owner or lienholder did not know and could not have 14
37		-	reasonably known that such motor vehicle was being used or was 15 Raised Bill No. 1389
	38	+	reasonably known that such motor vehicle was being used or was 15
	39	+	Raised Bill No. 1389
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42	45		intended to be used in violation of a municipal ordinance. 16
43	46		(d) Any motor vehicle ordered forfeited pursuant to such an 17
44	47		ordinance shall be sold at public auction conducted by the municipality. 18
45	48		The proceeds of such sale shall be paid to the treasurer of the 19
46	49		municipality, who shall deposit such proceeds into the general fund of 20
47	50		the municipality or in any special fund designated by the municipality 21
48	51		and use such proceeds to support the municipality's police department 22
49	52		or the resident state trooper serving such municipality. 23
50	53		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
51	54		sections:
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53	56		Section 1 October 1, 2025 New section
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55		-	PS Joint Favorable
	58	+	Statement of Purpose:
	59	+	To permit a municipality, by ordinance, to prohibit the organization of,
	60	+	participation in or observation of a street takeover, and provide for the
	61	+	seizure and forfeiture to the municipality of any motor vehicle involved
	62	+	in a street takeover.
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	64	+	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
	65	+	that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
	66	+	underlined.]
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