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The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles office in Hamden, Connecticut. The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles is a state agency of Connecticut (in the United States) that manages state driver's licenses and vehicle registration. The agency has its headquarters in Wethersfield.
Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1905, when the state began to issue plates. [1] Since then, Connecticut has used a variety of license plate designs, and has issued different designs for passenger, non-passenger, and, more recently, optional plate types that often require an additional fee.
Real ID Act of 2005; Long title: An Act to establish and rapidly implement regulations for state driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence.
Connecticut's official nickname is "The Constitution State", adopted in 1959 and based on its colonial constitution of 1638–1639 which was the first in America and, arguably, the world. [1] Connecticut is also unofficially known as "The Nutmeg State", [1] whose origin is unknown. It may have come from its sailors returning from voyages with ...
Nineteen of the towns in Connecticut are consolidated city-towns, and one is a consolidated borough-town. City incorporation requires a Special Act by the Connecticut General Assembly . All cities in Connecticut are dependent municipalities, meaning they are located within and subordinate to a town.
The Driver License Compact, a framework setting out the basis of a series of laws within adopting states in the United States (as well as similar reciprocal agreements in adopting provinces of Canada), gives states a simple standard for reporting, tracking, and punishing traffic violations occurring outside of their state, without requiring individual treaties between every pair of states.
This division is also responsible for maintaining governmental records, administering the Seal of Connecticut, and licensing notaries public. [ 1 ] The Commercial Recording Division , which charters corporations and other business entities, registers trademarks , service marks , and liens under the Uniform Commercial Code , and issues apostilles .
Some jurisdictions license non-traditional vehicles, such as golf carts, particularly on-road vehicles, such as this one in Put-in-Bay, Ohio.. A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate (British, Indian and Australian English), license plate (American English) or licence plate (Canadian English), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official ...