The Department of Transportation may issue to an applicant for authority to operate motor bus service, temporary authority to operate such service, pending disposition of his application by the department, but such temporary authority shall not extend over a period of more than one hundred eighty days.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 13b-81
(1967, P.A. 90; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 79-610, S. 10; P.A. 97-304, S. 8, 31.)