General Statutes § 14-12a falls within the matters not covered and expressly left to the states. See 49 U.S.C. § 14501 (a) (2) (Sup. I 1995). Registration of motor vehicles falls within the safety regulatory power of the state in addition to the authority to regulate insurance requirements. “The legislature enacted the statutes governing the operation of motor vehicles . . . for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens of this state.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Swain, 245 Conn. 442, 456, 718 A.2d 1 (1998) (concluding General Statutes § 14-111, governing suspension or revocation of operator’s license, valid exercise of state police power); see also C & H Enterprises, Inc. v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, 167 Conn. 304, 307-308, 355 A.2d 247 (1974) (<HOLDING>). 14 Practice Book § 40-5 provides: “If a party
holding general statutes  1466 a requiring licensing to engage in operating wrecker for purpose of towing valid exercise of police power holding that registration requirements that aid in the collection of taxes are valid exercise of congress power to tax holding that an exercise by the state of its police power is presumed to be valid when it is challenged under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment recognizing power of states to engage in some regulation of interstate commerce holding that the exercise of police power was valid where an owner was prohibited from operating a liveiy stable business that was not a nuisance per se