CGS § 14-52a. Grounds for refusal to grant or renew a dealer or repairer license.

History: P.A. 80-243 required notice and hearing before commissioner refuses to grant or renew license and required applicant or licensee to make full disclosure of conviction of law violation; P.A. 84-374 divided the section into Subsecs. and inserted new language in Subsec. (b), prohibiting the commissioner from refusing to grant or renew a repairer's license where another independently owned business shares the same property; P.A. 96-167 amended Subsec. (a) substituting “recycler” for “junk yard”; P.A. 02-70 allowed commissioner to refuse to grant or renew a dealer or repairer license if the applicant has been convicted of any violation involving fraud, larceny or deprivation or misappropriation of property and deleted Subsec. (a) designator and former Subsec. (b) re prohibiting commissioner from refusing to grant or renew repairer's license where another independently owned business shares the same property; P.A. 14-130 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) prohibiting commissioner from granting or renewing license to an applicant or licensee that is delinquent in payment of sales tax, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 16-55 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing provisions re applicant to make disclosure at time of application for or renewal of license of any conviction within last 5 years with provisions re applicant to submit to state criminal history records check and, upon renewal of license, to make disclosure of any conviction under penalty of false statement, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 21-106 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re civil action for odometer fraud or operating dealer, repairer or motor vehicle recycler business without a license, adding provision re national criminal history records check, adding provision re electronic submission of application and adding provision re full disclosure of civil judgment and made technical changes throughout, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-44 amended Subsec. (a) to add “be fingerprinted and”, delete provision re records checks based on applicant's name and date of birth and make a technical change, effective July 1, 2022; P.A. 24-20 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provision re submission to criminal history records checks not more than 30 days before application is made and provision of results to department and make a technical change.