Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline
163c - Motor Carrier Safety Regulations
Section 14-163c-10 - Exemptions from compliance

(a) The commissioner of motor vehicles may grant variations to or exemptions from, or approve equivalent or alternate compliance with, Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations adopted in accordance with section 14-163c-1 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, when strict compliance with any of such provisions would entail practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship, or would be otherwise adjudged unwarranted.

(b) Any variation, exemption, approved equivalent or alternate compliance with the requirements of section 14-163c-1 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies as provided in subsection (a) of this section shall be requested in writing and addressed to the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, 60 State Street, Wethersfield, CT 06161-4010. Such request shall explain fully how strict compliance with the regulation would not serve the public interest, and how the requested modification or other change would maintain public safety no less secure than the compliance required by the original regulation. No such variation, exemption, approved equivalent or alternate compliance shall be permitted except as authorized in writing by the commissioner.