Connecticut General Statutes 14-67s – Ordinances creating restricted districts
For the purpose of promoting the health, safety and general welfare of municipalities and governmental subdivisions in the state; for the purpose of conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land; for the purpose of providing for the public health, comfort and general welfare in living and working conditions; for the purpose of facilitating highway development and transportation and for the purpose of regulating and restricting unsightly and detrimental developments tending to depreciate the value of property and obstruct progressive improvements in such municipalities and governmental subdivisions, the legislative body of any town, city or borough, in addition to powers conferred by the statutes or special acts upon such towns, cities or boroughs or the respective officials thereof, may enact ordinances creating restricted districts within which any motor vehicle recycler’s yard or motor vehicle recycler’s business shall not be permitted to be established; provided, in any town, city or borough having a zoning commission or town or city planning commission or board, such zoning commission, planning commission or board shall have the authority to create such restricted districts by the adoption of appropriate rules, orders or regulations, and provided any ordinances, bylaws or regulations adopted prior to October 1, 1957, under the provisions of section 4654 of the general statutes, revision of 1949, otherwise valid except that they were not adopted pursuant to the procedure provided in this section, shall remain valid until altered or repealed under the provisions of this section.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 14-67s
- Highway: includes any state or other public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, driveway, parkway, place or dedicated roadway for bus rapid transit service, under the control of the state or any political subdivision of the state, dedicated, appropriated or opened to public travel or other use. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- legislative body: means : (1) As applied to unconsolidated towns, the town meeting. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Motor vehicle: means any vehicle propelled or drawn by any nonmuscular power, except aircraft, motor boats, road rollers, baggage trucks used about railroad stations or other mass transit facilities, electric battery-operated wheel chairs when operated by persons with physical disabilities at speeds not exceeding fifteen miles per hour, golf carts operated on highways solely for the purpose of crossing from one part of the golf course to another, golf-cart-type vehicles operated on roads or highways on the grounds of state institutions by state employees, agricultural tractors, farm implements, such vehicles as run only on rails or tracks, self-propelled snow plows, snow blowers and lawn mowers, when used for the purposes for which they were designed and operated at speeds not exceeding four miles per hour, whether or not the operator rides on or walks behind such equipment, motor-driven cycles, as defined in §. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- State: means any state of the United States and the District of Columbia unless the context indicates a more specific reference to the state of Connecticut. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
- Vehicle: includes any device suitable for the conveyance, drawing or other transportation of persons or property, whether operated on wheels, runners, a cushion of air or by any other means. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1