In CT, don't let your insurance lapse

 There was a note with my registration about the new insurance law in CT.

If you let your insurance lapse, you get hit with a 200 buck fine.  If
you protest it and lose the protest your registration is cancelled and
you are no longer allowed to register _any_ vehicle in CT.

However, if you have a "seasonal vehicle" you can in the off-season
cancel your liability and just keep comprehensive and be legal.

I thought the whole purpose of mandatory insurance was to make sure that
everybody had liability, not that everybody would get their bike fixed
if a tree falls on it, but apparently not.

One wonders how much the various Hartford-based insurance companies
donate to the legislature every year.

 

That's outrageous. We're required to have insurance, and there are
severe penalties if you don't, and we now have a 'continuous insurance'
requirement, but if you declare your vehicle as 'off the road'[1], then
you don't need it - as long as it's not used on the road, of course.

Surely there's some sort of similar provision in CT?


Not quite the same thing as we've got.

[1] My sig is out of date right now. There are10 bikes at the Chateau,
and four are officially 'off the road'.


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 On 24/05/2011 7:52 PM, J. Clarke wrote:

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 actual.rider***r@telus.net says...

You got it.  Ever.

 

Unreal. Land of the free. I mean, is that even *legal*?


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can-do attitude and a set of cheap tools