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CT Gen Stat § 13b-3 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-3 - Department of Transportation. Appointment of commissioner.

 There shall be a Department of Transportation which shall be responsible for all aspects of the planning, development, maintenance and improvement of transportation in the state. The department head shall be the Commissioner of Transportation, who shall be appointed by the Governor in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-5 to 4-8, inclusive, with the powers and duties therein prescribed.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-4a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-4a - Certifications to enable nonprofit corporations and associations to participate in the Urban Mass Transportation Act; regulations.

 The Commissioner of Transportation may, at the request of any nonprofit corporation or association providing transportation services to persons who are elderly or persons with disabilities in this state, certify, to the extent necessary for such corporation or association to apply for and receive federal funds for the purchase and maintenance of buses, vans and radio dispatch equipment under the provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Act, that such nonprofit corporation or association is providing transportation services for persons who are elderly and persons with disabilities in this state. Said commissioner may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the purposes of this section.(P.A. 77-207; 17-202, S. 39.)History: P.A. 17-202 replaced references to the elderly and handicapped with references to persons who are elderly and persons with disabilities and made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-4b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-4b - Commissioner's duties and responsibilities re railroads.

 Wherever the term “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” occurs or is referred to in chapters 245, 245a and 245b relating to the duties and responsibilities of said authority, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to the Commissioner of Transportation.(P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 610; P.A. 80-483, S. 61, 186; P.A. 11-80, S. 10.)History: P.A. 80-483 deleted “with the exception of section 16-141”; P.A. 11-80 changed “Public Utilities Control Authority” to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.See chapter 245 re railroads and railways.See chapter 245a re railroad construction and location.See chapter 245b re railroad operations.See Sec. 23-42 et seq. re railroad fire hazards.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-4c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-4c - Certifications re transportation programs for persons who are elderly or persons with disabilities.

 Notwithstanding any section of the general statutes to the contrary, no state agency, other than the Department of Transportation, shall expend funds in support of, or make state property available for use in, any transportation program for persons who are elderly or persons with disabilities unless the Commissioner of Transportation certifies, in writing, that: (1) The commissioner has reviewed and concurs in such expenditure or use; (2) such expenditure or use is consistent with the transportation policies of the state; and (3) such expenditure or use will not result in the unnecessary duplication of service. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any transportation service not available to the general public that is provided by any such program.(P.A. 85-428, S. 7, 10; P.A. 02-123, S. 3; P.A. 17-202, S. 40.)History: P.A. 02-123 made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality and exempted from provisions of section any transportation service not available to the general public, effective June 7, 2002; P.A. 17-202 replaced “the elderly or the handicapped” with “persons who are elderly or persons with disabilities”.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-4d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-4d - Commissioner's power to declare a state of emergency.

 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Transportation may declare a state of emergency and may employ, in any manner, such assistance as he may require to restore any railroad owned by the state or any of its subdivisions or the facilities, equipment or service of such railroad, or any transit system or its facilities, equipment or service, or any airport when: (1) A railroad system owned by the state or any of its subdivisions or any of the facilities or equipment of such railroad system is deemed by the commissioner to be in an unsafe condition or when there is an interruption of essential railroad services, whether or not such system or any of its facilities or equipment is physically damaged; (2) a transit facility owned by the state or any of its subdivisions or the equipment of such facility is damaged as a result of a natural disaster or incurs substantial casualty loss which results in what is deemed by the commissioner to be an unsafe condition or when there is an interruption of essential transit services; or (3) an airport owned or operated by the state or any of its subdivisions or the equipment of such airport is damaged as a result of a natural disaster or incurs substantial casualty loss which results in what is deemed by the commissioner to be an unsafe condition or when there is an interruption of essential transit services.(b) When a privately-owned railroad system, its facility or equipment is damaged as a result of a natural disaster or incurs substantial casualty loss which results in an unsafe condition or the interruption of essential railroad service, the railroad company may request the commissioner to declare a state of emergency, and said commissioner may comply with such request and may provide assistance to such railroad company in any manner he deems necessary to restore said railroad system, facility, equipment or service.(P.A. 94-188, S. 23, 30; P.A. 07-232, S. 8.)History: P.A. 94-188, Sec. 23, effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 07-232 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provisions re declaration of state of emergency with respect to airports, effective July 11, 2007.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-10 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-10 - Employees.

 The commissioner may, subject to the provisions of chapter 67, employ such agents, assistants and employees as he deems necessary to carry out his duties and responsibilities. He may retain and employ other consultants and assistants on a contract or other basis for rendering legal, financial, technical or other assistance and advice.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-10a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-10a - Transfer of employees connected with livery service.

 The employees formerly assigned duties connected with livery service under chapter 244b shall be transferred from the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to the Department of Transportation pursuant to section 4-38d.(P.A. 80-372, S. 6; 80-482, S. 3, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 80-482 deleted “division of public utility control within the department of business regulation” and substituted “department of public utility control”; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-11 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-11 - Connecticut Transportation Authority.

 Section 13b-11 is repealed.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 9; P.A. 75-572, S. 1, 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-11a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-11a - Connecticut Public Transportation Commission.

 Section 13b-11a is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(P.A. 75-572, S. 2, 5; P.A. 77-7; 77-33, S. 1; 77-35; 77-208; 77-614, S. 551, 610; P.A. 79-226; P.A. 83-487, S. 2, 33; P.A. 85-317, S. 1; P.A. 86-235; P.A. 90-219, S. 16; P.A. 98-222, S. 1; P.A. 99-265, S. 3; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-4, S. 8; P.A. 11-61, S. 20; 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-299, S. 95.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-11b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-11b - State-wide transportation goals. Report.

 (a) It shall be the state-wide goal: (1) To increase passenger vehicle occupancy levels and the use of public transportation, (2) to increase average occupancy levels to one and two-tenths persons per car by the year 2000, and (3) to increase the use of public transportation and ride sharing so that at least ten per cent of all trips between home and places of employment occur in vehicles occupied by more than one person by the year 2000.(b) On or before January 1, 1991, the Department of Transportation shall report to the General Assembly on a strategy necessary to increase passenger vehicle occupancy levels to one and one-quarter persons per car by the year 2010.(P.A. 90-219, S. 17; P.A. 13-277, S. 68; 13-299, S. 10; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 110.)History: P.A. 13-277 restored former Subsec. (b) re monitoring of progress by Connecticut Public Transportation Commission and restored former designation of Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 13-299 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), deleted former Subsec. (b) re monitoring of progress by Connecticut Public Transportation Commission and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2013; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 deleted former Subsec. (b) re monitoring of progress by Connecticut Public Transportation Commission and redesignated existing Subsec. (c) re report to General Assembly as Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2016.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-11c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-11c - Connecticut Public Transportation Commission.

 Section 13b-11c is repealed, effective July 1, 2016.(P.A. 13-277, S. 74; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 209.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-14 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-14 - Long-range planning.

 Comprehensive long-range planning concerning the future transportation needs of the state shall be coordinated and performed by the department under the direction and supervision of the commissioner, shall be directed to all available and future modes of transportation including but not limited to transportation by highway, air, water and rail, and shall be designed to assure a modern, safe and efficient system of transportation facilities and services.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-14a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-14a - Funding for hazard elimination activities.

 The Department of Transportation shall allocate annually any amount transferred to the Section 402 Highway Safety Grant Program, under the provisions of 23 USC 154, for hazard elimination activities eligible for funding under 23 USC 152. Two hundred thousand dollars of such amount shall be allocated by said department during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, for system hardware, software licenses and configuration and installation costs for a video incident responder system to disseminate video transmissions from the Interstate 95 video camera network to authorized law enforcement and emergency service personnel to better coordinate responses to highway incidents.(P.A. 04-143, S. 34.)History: P.A. 04-143 effective July 1, 2004.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-14b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-14b - Approval of studies, plans, programs, materials or activities re mileage-based user fee on motor vehicles.

 (a) The Department of Transportation shall not expend any state funds for any studies, plans, programs, materials or activities regarding a mileage-based user fee on motor vehicles operated on state highways, unless such expenditure is approved by the General Assembly in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.(b) The department shall file a request for approval of the proposed expenditure with the clerks of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The General Assembly may approve the proposed expenditure by a majority vote of each house or may reject the proposed expenditure by a majority vote of either house. If the General Assembly is in session, it shall vote to approve or reject the proposed expenditure not later than thirty days after the department files the request for approval with the clerks. If the General Assembly is not in session when the request for approval is filed, it shall be submitted to the General Assembly not later than ten days after the first day of the next regular session or special session called for such purpose. The proposed expenditure shall be deemed rejected if the General Assembly fails to vote to approve or reject such proposed expenditure not later than thirty days after the department files the request for approval with the clerks. Such thirty-day period shall not begin or expire unless the General Assembly is in regular session. For the purposes of this subsection, any request for approval of a proposed expenditure filed with the clerks within thirty days before the commencement of a regular session of the General Assembly shall be deemed to be filed on the first day of such session.(P.A. 17-174, S. 1.)History: P.A. 17-174 effective July 11, 2017.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-15 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-15 - Master transportation plan.

 Section 13b-15 is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 17; P.A. 73-451, S. 2, 3; P.A. 79-23; 79-449, S. 5, 7; P.A. 88-297, S. 15; P.A. 90-230, S. 19, 101; P.A. 91-216, S. 1; P.A. 92-204, S. 1; P.A. 96-222, S. 3; P.A. 98-222, S. 2; P.A. 00-148, S. 6; P.A. 10-159, S. 1; P.A. 13-277, S. 81.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-15a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-15a - Hartford-New Britain busway project.

 The Commissioner of Transportation may designate the Hartford-New Britain busway project to be accomplished on a total cost basis. If the commissioner designates the Hartford-New Britain busway project as a total cost basis project, the commissioner may enter into a single contract with a private developer, which includes such project elements as engineering design and construction. The contract for said project shall be based on competitive proposals received by the commissioner, who shall give notice of the project and specifications for the project, by advertising, at least once, in a newspaper having a substantial circulation in the Hartford-New Britain area. Award of the total cost contract shall be based on qualifications, technical merit of the proposals and cost. The commissioner shall determine all criteria, requirements and conditions for such proposals and award and shall have sole responsibility for all other aspects of the contract. If applicable, the contract shall state clearly the responsibilities of the developer to deliver a completed and acceptable project on a date certain and the maximum cost of the project.(P.A. 01-105, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-16a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-16a - Definitions. Public transportation analysis.

 (a) As used in this section:(1) “Public transportation” includes, but is not limited to, rail service and fixed route bus service;(2) “Paratransit” includes, but is not limited to, carpooling and vanpooling; and(3) “Traffic management program” includes, but is not limited to, employer incentives to promote carpooling, vanpooling and public transportation.(b) The Department of Transportation shall include, as part of its alternative analysis for all new multilaned expressways on new locations, an analysis of public transportation, paratransit or traffic management program options as part of each alternative.(P.A. 90-219, S. 15; P.A. 03-115, S. 49.)History: P.A. 03-115 added new Subsec. (a) re definitions, designated existing provisions as Subsec. (b) and amended same to make a technical change and delete former definitions.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-16b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-16b - Southwest Corridor Action Council.

 Section 13b-16b is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(P.A. 98-119, S. 2; P.A. 13-299, S. 95.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-16c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-16c - Commissioner's power to sit on a consortium or trade organization board.

 (a) The Commissioner of Transportation, or his designee, may sit as a member of the board of a consortium or trade organization organized as a nonstock, nonprofit corporation pursuant to chapter 602 or any similar law of another state, for the purpose of coordinating public or private sector transportation systems to provide: (1) The highest possible quality of transportation services at the lowest practicable cost to all persons needing such services; (2) the most advanced coordinated programs possible in transportation services; (3) the coordination of transportation services to eliminate duplication and incomplete coverage in the provision of such services; (4) the greatest possible state-wide, regional or national integration of transportation service programs; and (5) the education of the public of the transportation needs of the state and the goals of the consortium or trade organization which address such transportation needs.(b) The commissioner, or his designee, may enter into such contracts and other agreements to further the purposes of each consortium or trade organization organized in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, and as contained in each consortium's or trade organization's certificate of incorporation, provided nothing contained in the certificate of incorporation of each such consortium or trade organization shall obligate the commissioner, or his designee, sitting as a member of the board of the consortium or trade organization, to undertake, or participate in, any activity which the commissioner, or his designee, acting in his sole discretion, determines to be in violation of the general statutes.(P.A. 98-91, S. 1, 9.)History: P.A. 98-91 effective May 22, 1998.
CT Gen Stat § 13b-18 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-18 - Investigations, inquiries and hearings.

 The commissioner may hold investigations, inquiries and hearings concerning all matters within the jurisdiction of the department. The commissioner may administer oaths and affirmations, certify to all official acts, issue subpoenas and compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of papers, records, books and documents. If any person refuses to attend, testify or produce papers, records, books or documents as ordered, a judge of the Superior Court, upon application of the commissioner, may make such order as may be appropriate to aid in the enforcement of this section.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 13b-19 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13b - Transportation|Chapter 242 - Department of Transportation|Section 13b-19 - Cooperation with agencies and persons. Bonds for rail freight support facilities.

 The commissioner shall cooperate with agencies and persons, governmental or private, charged with or having a substantial interest in (1) planning and developing a sound state transportation system, (2) regulation of transportation facilities and services and (3) solving problems connected with transportation. The commissioner may use any proceeds from the sale of state bonds allocated by the State Bond Commission under subsection (e) of section 2 of special act 76-84, as amended by special act 78-64, special act 79-3 and section 2 of public act 80-350*, to fund no more than ninety per cent of the cost of the rehabilitation, expansion or construction of rail freight support facilities, including, but not limited to, public loading platforms, docks and sidings, ramps, storage areas and access roads, located on public or private property, provided no such project shall receive more than seventy-five thousand dollars. The commissioner shall develop and maintain liaison with the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission established by chapter 291.(1969, P.A. 768, S. 19; P.A. 79-631, S. 31, 111; P.A. 80-350, S. 1.)*Note: Section 2 of public act 80-350 is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.History: P.A. 79-631 substituted in Tri-State Regional Planning Commission “regional planning” for “transportation”; P.A. 80-350 provided in Subdiv. (3) for use of proceeds from sale of state bonds to fund not more than 90%, and not to exceed $75,000, for rail freight support facilities.