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Connecticut · Through Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-152h: Ordinances regulating motor vehicle towing or transporting and storage of motor vehicles by wrecker services.

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  1. TITLE 7. MUNICIPALITIES
  2. CHAPTER 98. MUNICIPAL POWERS

(a) For the purposes of this section, (1) “wrecker service” has the same meaning as provided in section 14-1, (2) “nonconsensual towing or transporting” has the same meaning as provided in section 14-66, and (3) “parking facility” and “residential parking facility” have the same meanings as provided in section 14-145e.

(b) A municipality may, by ordinance of its legislative body, regulate the provision of motor vehicle towing or transporting and storage of motor vehicles by wrecker services within such municipality, except motor vehicle towing or transporting performed with the prior consent or authorization of the owner or operator of the motor vehicle or performed due to the repossession of motor vehicles. Any such ordinance may regulate, in a manner not inconsistent with the general statutes, the provision of nonconsensual towing or transporting and the management of parking facilities and residential parking facilities. In the event a motor vehicle is towed from a municipality that adopted an ordinance pursuant to the provisions of this section and subsequently stored at a motor vehicle storage facility located in another municipality that adopted an ordinance, the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the municipality where the motor vehicle is towed from shall control.

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