(a) Any person, firm or corporation that engages in rendering motor vehicles immovable through the use of wheel-locking or similar devices and is hired by an owner or lessee of private property to render unauthorized motor vehicles immovable on such owner or lessee’s private property shall, five business days prior to taking such action within a municipality, notify the chief of police of the local police department of such municipality of such activities. Such notification shall be in the form and manner directed by the chief of police.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 14-145d

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Owner: means any person holding title to a motor vehicle, or having the legal right to register the same, including purchasers under conditional bills of sale. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1
  • Person: includes any individual, corporation, limited liability company, association, copartnership, company, firm, business trust or other aggregation of individuals but does not include the state or any political subdivision thereof, unless the context clearly states or requires. See Connecticut General Statutes 14-1

(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, for a first offense, be deemed to have committed an infraction and be fined fifty dollars and, for each subsequent offense, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days or be both fined and imprisoned.

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