(a) Each commercial driver's license shall be renewed quadrennially on the date of the operator's birthday. If the applicant has held a license in another state at any time during the preceding ten years, the commissioner shall request the driving history record or records from the state or states in which the applicant has been licensed. If the commissioner receives a request for a driving history record from another state regarding the holder of a commercial driver's license, the commissioner shall provide such record within thirty days, as required by the provisions of 49 CFR 384.206, as amended.

(b) A commercial driver's license shall expire within a period not exceeding four years following the date of the operator's next birthday. The fee for such original license shall be seventeen dollars and fifty cents per year. Any previously licensed operator who fails to renew a commercial driver's license in accordance with this subsection shall be charged a late fee of twenty-five dollars upon renewal of such commercial driver's license.

(c) The commissioner shall, at least fifteen days before the date on which each commercial driver's license expires, notify the operator of the expiration date in a manner determined by the commissioner. The commissioner shall not provide such notification by mail to any such licensee if the United States Postal Service has determined that mail is undeliverable to the address for such person that is documented in the records of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Any previously licensed operator who operates a commercial motor vehicle within sixty days after the expiration date of such operator license without obtaining a renewal of such license shall be deemed to have failed to renew a motor vehicle operator's license and shall be fined in accordance with the amount designated for the infraction of failure to renew a motor vehicle operator's license. Any operator so charged shall not be prosecuted under section 14-36 for the same act constituting a violation under this section but said section 14-36 shall apply after the sixty-day period.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1-3a, if the expiration date of any commercial driver's license falls on any day when offices of the commissioner are closed for business or are open for less than a full business day, the license shall be deemed valid until midnight of the next day on which offices of the commissioner are open for a full day of business.

(P.A. 90-263, S. 9, 74; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-6, S. 76, 85; P.A. 03-171, S. 8; P.A. 04-199, S. 24; 04-217, S. 10; P.A. 05-218, S. 7; P.A. 11-6, S. 138; 11-213, S. 20; P.A. 14-130, S. 12.)

History: (Revisor's note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes to “Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner” and “Motor Vehicle(s) Department” were replaced editorially by the Revisors with “Commissioner of Motor Vehicles” or “Department of Motor Vehicles”, as the case may be, for consistency with customary statutory usage); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-6 amended Subsecs. (a), (b) and (c) to provide for a license period of 6 years and to modify fees and renewal license periods accordingly, amended Subsec. (d) to make technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality and deleted former Subsec. (f) re obsolete provision, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-171 amended Subsec. (d) to delete references to Sec. 14-40a; P.A. 04-199 amended Subsec. (a) to require renewal of commercial driver's license quadrennially, amended Subsec. (b) to require expiration of license within 4 years of operator's next birthday and to establish fee for original license at rate of $15 per year or any part of a year, deleted former Subsec. (c) re date and year of operator's birth and redesignated existing Subsecs. (d) and (e) as new Subsecs. (c) and (d), effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-217 amended Subsec. (a) to require license renewal quadrennially, rather than every 6 years, and to add requirements that applicant provide, at time of first renewal, names of all states in which applicant has ever held motor vehicle operator's license, that commissioner request driving history record from each state in which applicant licensed during preceding 10 years and that commissioner provide driving history record of holder of commercial driver's license to other states, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-218 amended Subsec. (a) by changing “January” to “September”, effective July 6, 2005; P.A. 11-6 amended Subsec. (b) by increasing license fee from $15 to $17.50 per year and imposing a late fee of $25 for failure to renew license, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-213 amended Subsec. (c) to add provision re notification in a manner determined by commissioner and to prohibit notification by mail if mail determined to be undeliverable, effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 14-130 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision re applicant to provide states in which applicant was issued an operator's license and amended Subsec. (b) to eliminate provision re computing rate of license fee.