No traffic safety measure or traffic control device, sign or marking shall be installed or maintained on any state highway or on any bridge on any such highway or within the right-of-way of any such highway or bridge by the traffic authority of any town, city or borough, except by consent and written approval of the Office of the State Traffic Administration. No rule, regulation, order or ordinance of any town, city or borough relative to or in connection with such safety measure or traffic control device, sign or marking on any such highway or bridge, or within the right-of-way of any such highway or bridge, shall take effect until approved in writing by said office or be effective after such approval has been revoked. Approval of any such traffic control measure may be revoked by said office at any time, if it deems such revocation to be in the interest of public safety.
(1949 Rev., S. 2527; P.A. 12-132, S. 35.)
History: P.A. 12-132 replaced references to State Traffic Commission with references to Office of the State Traffic Administration, effective July 1, 2012.
Cited. 134 C. 636.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline
Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety
Section 14-297. - Definitions.
Section 14-298. - Office of the State Traffic Administration.
Section 14-299. - Traffic control signals. Right turn on red.
Section 14-299a. - Traffic signal preemption devices. Penalty.
Section 14-299b. - Inoperative traffic control signal.
Section 14-300a. - Pedestrian street markings near housing projects for elderly persons.
Section 14-300b. - Pedestrian use of crosswalks and roadways.
Section 14-300c. - Pedestrian use of roads and sidewalks. Required to yield to emergency vehicle.
Section 14-300d. - Operator of a vehicle required to exercise due care to avoid pedestrian.
Section 14-300g. - Operation of golf carts. Equipment. Insurance.
Section 14-301. - Through ways. Stop signs.
Section 14-302. - “Yield” signs.
Section 14-303. - Designation of one-way streets.
Section 14-304. - Safety zones.
Section 14-305. - Bus stops and public service motor vehicle stands.
Section 14-306. - Taxi stands in front of hotels.
Section 14-307. - Parking restrictions. Regulations.
Section 14-307a. - Pedestrian safety zones. Regulations.
Section 14-308. - Loading and unloading.
Section 14-310. - Fraudulent or obstructive signs and signals.
Section 14-311a. - New certificate for increase in parking spaces.
Section 14-311b. - Traffic controls for certain parking areas and commercial establishments.
Section 14-312. - Regulations.
Section 14-314a. - Periodic review of traffic control signals and signs.
Section 14-314b. - Injury to or removal of traffic control devices, signs or lights.
Section 14-316 and 14-317. - Commissioners to serve without compensation; offices. Assistants.