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CT Gen Stat § 16-50f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-50f - Solicitation of insurance applications from employees of public service companies. Payroll deductions.

 (a) Any public service company providing payroll deduction services for its employees for premiums on individual policies of any line of insurance shall permit solicitation of applications for such policies by any licensed insurer or representative of the insurer. Any such insurer or representative of the insurer who claims he has been denied the right to solicit applications for insurance by a public service company in violation of this section shall file a complaint in writing with the Insurance Commissioner who shall cause an investigation to be made, and if the commissioner determines that the public service company has violated this section, he shall so notify the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority which shall make such order as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. This section shall not be construed to invalidate, nor require any public service company to change, a program of payroll deductions for employees' individual insurance policies in existence on October 1, 1969.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a public service company may provide payroll deductions for its employees in connection with premiums for a mass merchandising or group plan of any line of insurance, provided that the group covered by such insurance consists predominantly of employees of the public service company.(1969, P.A. 210, S. 1, 2; 1971, P.A. 761; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 163, 610; P.A. 79-129; P.A. 80-482, S. 86, 348; P.A. 82-150, S. 8; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 1971 act added Subsec. (b) re payroll deductions for group insurance; P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, made insurance department a division of that department and retained insurance commissioner as its head, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-129 removed from Subsec. (b) provision prohibiting sale of insurance on company property during normal working hours; P.A. 80-482 made divisions of public utility control and insurance independent departments and deleted references to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 82-150 made technical changes; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50bb (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50bb - Municipal participation account.

 (a) There is established an account to be known as the “municipal participation account”, within the General Fund, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account. There shall be deposited in the account the municipal participation fees received pursuant to subsection (a) of section 16-50l. The interest derived from the investment of the account shall be credited to the account. Any balance remaining in the account at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in the account for the fiscal year next succeeding.(b) Payments from the account shall be made upon authorization by the State Treasurer. An application for reimbursement shall be submitted not later than sixty days after the conclusion of a certification proceeding, except for a facility described in subdivisions (5) and (6) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i, by each municipality entitled to receive a copy of an application under section 16-50l in order to defray expenses incurred by such municipalities in participating as a party to a certification proceeding, except for a proceeding on an application for a facility described in subdivision (5) or (6) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i. Any moneys remaining after payments to municipalities in accordance with this section shall be refunded to the applicant in even amounts. Where more than one municipality seeks moneys from such account, the council shall evenly distribute such moneys among the municipalities. No municipality may receive moneys from the account in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars. No municipality may receive moneys from the account in excess of the dollar amount such municipality has expended from its own municipal funds.(c) In administering the moneys in the account, the State Treasurer shall verify that the subject municipality (1) actually participated as a party to the subject certification proceeding, and (2) actually spent the money it claims to have spent on participating in the subject certification proceeding.(P.A. 03-140, S. 15; P.A. 04-236, S. 8; P.A. 12-165, S. 3; P.A. 13-5, S. 5; P.A. 14-94, S. 37.)History: P.A. 03-140 effective July 1, 2003, and applicable to applications for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need filed after that date; P.A. 04-236 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change, effective June 8, 2004; P.A. 12-165 amended Subsec. (b) to change deadline for payments from the account from not later than 60 days after receipt of an application to not later than 60 days after the conclusion of a certification proceeding, to replace provision re moneys remaining at end of proceeding with provision re moneys remaining after payments to municipalities and to delete provision re refund of excess moneys to the account, effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-5 amended Subsec. (b) to make a technical change, effective May 8, 2013; P.A. 14-94 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “subdivisions (1) and (3) of” re reference to Sec. 16-50l(a), effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50cc (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50cc - Reconfiguration or burial of electric transmission facility.

 If legislation adopted on or after January 1, 2004, results in the reconfiguration or burial of a proposed facility described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i, all prudent costs incurred by an electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, associated with the reconfiguration or burial shall be deemed to be reasonable pursuant to sections 16-19 and 16-19e and shall be recovered by the electric distribution company in its rates.(P.A. 04-246, S. 11.)History: P.A. 04-246 effective June 3, 2004, and applicable to applications for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need that was originally filed on or after October 1, 2003, for which the Connecticut Siting Council has not rendered a decision upon the record prior to June 3, 2004.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50dd (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50dd - State-wide telecommunications coverage data base.

 On or before January 1, 2006, the Connecticut Siting Council shall develop, maintain and update quarterly a state-wide telecommunications coverage data base that includes the location, type and height of all telecommunications towers and antennas in the state, as well as those towers specified in subdivision (6) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i. Such data base shall be available for inspection by the public in hard copy and shall be accessible electronically by means of the Internet or other media systems available to the public. Upon request of a municipality, the council shall supply any information contained in the data base to the municipality in preparing a plan under section 7-163c.(P.A. 04-226, S. 2.)History: P.A. 04-226 effective June 8, 2004.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50ee (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50ee - State-wide telecommunications coverage plan.

 (a) On or before September 1, 2006, the Connecticut Siting Council shall develop a plan for state-wide telecommunications coverage and annually shall review and revise such plan as necessary. The plan shall be consistent with the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended, with sections 16-247a to 16-247s, inclusive, and with the tower sharing provisions of section 16-50aa. The plan shall contain information on population growth in the state and an analysis of existing and projected demands for telecommunications coverage. On or before November 1, 2006, the Connecticut Siting Council shall supply all information contained in such plan that concerns any municipality and any abutting or adjoining municipalities, to a municipality upon request under section 8-2 or any special act regulating the siting of telecommunications towers.(b) On and after April 1, 2005, each provider of telecommunications services shall file with the Connecticut Siting Council, on a form prescribed by the council, on the non-tower locations of antenna array serving cellular and PCS telephone operations in the state. Such information shall be used solely to prepare the plan required under subsection (a) of this section and disclosure of such information shall not be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200.(P.A. 04-226, S. 4.)History: P.A. 04-226 effective June 8, 2004.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50ff (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50ff - Local telecommunications coverage assessments.

 (a) On or before January 1, 2008, the Connecticut Siting Council, upon the request of a municipality, shall develop a local telecommunications coverage assessment for that municipality. Such assessment shall identify locations within said municipality that provide inconsistent or nonexistent telecommunications coverage and shall contain an analysis of existing and projected demands for telecommunications coverage within said municipality.(b) On or before January 1, 2008, each provider of telecommunications services, upon the request of the Connecticut Siting Council, shall submit to said council all information concerning (1) locations within a particular municipality that provide inconsistent or nonexistent telecommunications coverage, and (2) said provider's existing and projected demands for telecommunications coverage within said municipality. Such information shall be used solely to prepare the assessment required under subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 07-222, S. 1.)History: P.A. 07-222 effective July 6, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50g - Legislative finding and purpose.

 The legislature finds that power generating plants and transmission lines for electricity and fuels, community antenna television towers and telecommunication towers have had a significant impact on the environment and ecology of the state of Connecticut; and that continued operation and development of such power plants, lines and towers, if not properly planned and controlled, could adversely affect the quality of the environment and the ecological, scenic, historic and recreational values of the state. The purposes of this chapter are: To provide for the balancing of the need for adequate and reliable public utility services at the lowest reasonable cost to consumers with the need to protect the environment and ecology of the state and to minimize damage to scenic, historic, and recreational values; to provide environmental quality standards and criteria for the location, design, construction and operation of facilities for the furnishing of public utility services at least as stringent as the federal environmental quality standards and criteria, and technically sufficient to assure the welfare and protection of the people of the state; to encourage research to develop new and improved methods of generating, storing and transmitting electricity and fuel and of transmitting and receiving television and telecommunications with minimal damage to the environment and other values described above; to promote energy security; to promote the sharing of towers for fair consideration wherever technically, legally, environmentally and economically feasible to avoid the unnecessary proliferation of towers in the state particularly where installation of such towers would adversely impact class I and II watershed lands, and aquifers; to require annual forecasts of the demand for electric power, together with identification and advance planning of the facilities needed to supply that demand and to facilitate local, regional, state-wide and interstate planning to implement the foregoing purposes.(1971, P.A. 575, S. 1; P.A. 75-375, S. 1, 12; P.A. 76-359, S. 1, 7; P.A. 77-218, S. 1; P.A. 89-45, S. 1, 4; P.A. 03-140, S. 1; P.A. 04-236, S. 1.)History: P.A. 75-375 deleted “orderly processes” with regard to balancing utility services and environmental concerns and modified reference provision to utility services with “at the lowest reasonable cost to consumers”; P.A. 76-359 included in purposes of chapter provision re forecasts of power demands and advance planning for necessary facilities; P.A. 77-218 included references to community cable television and telecommunications services and facilities; P.A. 89-45 included provision of chapter re promotion of sharing of towers; P.A. 03-140 added promotion of energy security as legislative purpose, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 04-236 made a technical change, effective June 8, 2004.Cited. 180 C. 474.Cited. 20 CA 474.Cited. 35 CS 303.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50gg (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50gg - Municipal location preferences.

 When notifying a municipality pursuant to section 16-50l of an application for a telecommunications tower in said municipality, the Connecticut Siting Council shall request that the municipality provide to said council, within thirty days, any location preferences or criteria for the siting of said telecommunications tower. The council may consider regional location preferences from neighboring municipalities.(P.A. 07-222, S. 2; P.A. 12-165, S. 2.)History: P.A. 07-222 effective July 6, 2007; P.A. 12-165 added provision re location preferences of neighboring municipalities, effective July 1, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50h - Short title.

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the “Public Utility Environmental Standards Act”.(1971, P.A. 575, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-50hh (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50hh - Restoration and revegetation of the right-of-way.

 As part of its supervision of construction activity in connection with any transmission line project, the Connecticut Siting Council may order such restoration or revegetation of the right-of-way occupied by the overhead transmission facilities approved with any transmission line project as it deems necessary to promote the long-term restoration of vegetation in portions of the right-of-way in residential areas where there has been a significant and material loss of screening as a result of clearing activities. Such restoration or revegetation orders shall include the requirement to establish vegetation that includes model pollinator habitat, as described in section 22-90b, and shall be consistent with all standards regarding required clearances between energized conductors and vegetation and all standards regarding minimum work distances for those working in proximity to conductors.(P.A. 07-222, S. 4; P.A. 16-17, S. 13.)History: P.A. 07-222 effective July 6, 2007; P.A. 16-17 added provision re restoration or revegetation order to include requirement to establish vegetation that includes model pollinator habitat, effective May 6, 2016.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50ii (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50ii - Electric generating facility: Flammable gas to clean piping prohibited; requirements prior to issuance of certificate to build. Penalty.

 (a) No person shall use flammable gas to clean or blow the gas piping of an electric generating facility.(b) The Connecticut Siting Council shall not issue a certificate to build a facility described in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i unless a person applying for such certificate demonstrates to the satisfaction of the council that such person has:(1) Retained, for the duration of the construction project, at least one special inspector to assist the municipal fire marshal in reviewing construction plans and conducting inspections during construction of the electric generating facility to ensure compliance with the recommended standards; and(2) Paid a fee to be established in accordance with subsection (d) of section 29-251c to be used in the training of local fire marshals on the complex issues of electric generating facility construction. Said fee shall be deposited in the Code Training Fund established in section 29-251c.(c) The special inspector retained under subsection (b) of this section shall have the following duties:(1) To assist the local fire marshal in said fire marshal's review and approval of methods for cleaning the interior of gas piping;(2) To approve an appropriate safety plan for any nonflammable gas blows conducted at the electric generating facility;(3) To observe the actual cleaning procedure in order to assure compliance with the approved methods for cleaning the interior of gas piping; and(4) To conduct inspections during construction of such facility in order to ensure compliance with the approved methods and with the provisions of this section.(d) Any person designated as a special inspector for purposes of this section shall:(1) Be approved by the Connecticut Siting Council and not otherwise employed or financially involved in the construction or operation of the electric generating facility; and(2) Be a licensed professional mechanical engineer pursuant to chapter 391 or a person holding a commission from the National Board of Pressure Vessel Inspectors and have knowledge and field experience in electric generating facility construction.(e) Any person who violates any provision of subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or both, for each offense.(P.A. 11-101, S. 1.)History: P.A. 11-101 effective July 8, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50jj (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50jj - Meeting conducted during construction of electric generating facility.

 At least once during the period of construction of an electric generating facility in this state, the Connecticut Siting Council, the Departments of Administrative Services, Emergency Services and Public Protection and Consumer Protection and the Labor Department shall conduct a meeting to discuss and develop proposed resolutions for any known or potential safety issue at such facility. The council and said departments shall submit any such proposed resolutions to the special inspector provided for such facility, as required pursuant to section 16-50ii.(P.A. 11-51, S. 134; 11-101, S. 3; P.A. 13-247, S. 222.)History: P.A. 11-101 effective July 8, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection”, effective July 1, 2011 (Revisor's note: “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Construction Services” to conform with changes made by P.A. 11-51, S. 90); P.A. 13-247 replaced reference to Department of Construction Services with reference to Department of Administrative Services and deleted reference to Department of Public Works, effective July 1, 2013.
CT Gen Stat § 16-50kk (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act|Section 16-50kk - Regulations re wind-powered generation.

 (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the Connecticut Siting Council, in consultation with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning the siting of wind turbines. Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, (1) a consideration of (A) setbacks, including considerations of tower height and distance from neighboring properties; (B) flicker; (C) a requirement for the developer to decommission the facility at the end of its useful life; (D) ice throw; (E) blade shear; (F) noise; and (G) impact on natural resources; and (2) a requirement for a public hearing for wind turbine projects.(b) The Connecticut Siting Council shall not act on any application or petition for siting of a wind turbine until after the adoption of regulations pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.(P.A. 11-80, S. 1; 11-245, S. 1; P.A. 13-298, S. 44.)History: P.A. 11-245 effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “Department of Environmental Protection” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-298 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to delete former Subpara. (D) re different requirements for projects of different sizes and to redesignate existing Subparas. (E) to (H) as Subparas. (D) to (G), effective July 8, 2013.