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Senate Bill 921, An
Act Concerning The Operation Of Motorcycles And Imposing Limitations
On Licensed Motor Vehicles And Motorcycle Operators Who Are Sixteen
Or Seventeen Years Of Age, would stipulate numerous changes to
Connecticut's motor vehicle laws. Such changes would include:
- Eliminates the requirement
that a person holding a learner's permit cannot operate on
a highway until after 60 days from obtaining the permit, or
30 days if the person is being trained by a driving school,
- Increases the mandatory "safe
driving practices" component of classroom instruction
from five to eight hours, increasing the alcohol and drug segment
from two to four hours,
- Eliminates the four
month duration of holding a learner's permit for persons attending
a full course of instruction, and requiring all 16 and 17-year-olds
to hold the permit for six months,
- Establishes certain
new restriction on 16 and 17-year-old drivers,
- Establishes the penalty
of an infraction for driving in violation of graduated license
restrictions, and allows the Commissioner to suspend the license
of a person who gets two or more infractions, until such person
is 18-years-old, and;
- Allows the Commissioner
to adopt regulations, or to amend existing regulations, concerning
driver training and licensing procedures.
" This legislation would ensure that for a period of three months after
the date of issuances of a license, a 16 or 17-year-old cannot transport more
than one passenger, who has to be the driver's parent or legal guardian, who
also holds a motor vehicles operator's license and is at least 25 years of age,
or a driving instructor licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles," said
Ciotto. "In addition, the driver must wait six months until they may transport
any additional member or members of their immediate family, and for the period
of one year may not be able to operate a motor vehicle in the course of their
duties of any position of employment."
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