(a) The Secretary of the State may cancel a program participant's certification and invalidate the participant's certification card if:

(1) The program participant changes the participant's name from the name listed on the program application and fails to notify the Secretary of the State in writing of the name change not later than thirty days after the change;

(2) The program participant changes the participant's confidential address from the address listed on the program application and fails to notify the Secretary of the State in writing of the change not later than thirty days after the change;

(3) Mail forwarded to the program participant is returned as nondeliverable;

(4) The term of the program participant's certification has expired and the participant has not applied for renewal; or

(5) The application for program participation or renewal filed by or on behalf of the program participant contains false information.

(b) The Secretary of the State shall send written notice of cancellation to the program participant at the confidential address shown in the Secretary of the State's records regarding the participant. The notice shall specify the reason or reasons for cancellation. The program participant shall have thirty days from the date the notice was mailed by the Secretary of the State to appeal the cancellation in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to section 54-240a.

(c) A person may reapply to the address confidentiality program at any time after such person's certification has been cancelled for any reason.

(d) (1) The Secretary of the State shall notify in writing the authorized personnel of the appropriate agency when a participant's certification in the program has been cancelled. After receipt of such notice, the agency shall not be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the record or address of a program participant whose certification has been cancelled.

(2) If the marriage records of a program participant whose certification has been cancelled were kept confidential pursuant to section 54-240f, the Secretary of the State shall notify in writing the authorized personnel of the appropriate office of the registrar of vital statistics of the cancellation.

(3) If the participant whose certification has been cancelled was listed on a voter registry list without the participant's street and house number pursuant to section 54-240g, the Secretary of the State shall notify in writing the authorized personnel of the appropriate office of the registrar of voters of the cancellation.

(e) A program participant may withdraw from the program by submitting to the Secretary of the State written notice of the participant's withdrawal and the participant's current certification card. The Secretary of the State shall cancel the participant's certification effective on the date of receipt of such notice by the Secretary of the State.

(P.A. 03-200, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 03-200 effective January 1, 2004.