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CT Gen Stat § 13a-124a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-124a - Specific information signs on limited access highways. Regulations.

 (a) As used in this section, “specific information sign” means a rectangular sign with the word GAS, FOOD, LODGING, or CAMPING and exit directional information pertaining to the designated motorist service placed at the top of the sign and upon which is mounted separately attached business signs showing the brand, symbol, trademark or name, or any combination of these, for the designated service available on a crossroad at or near an interchange or intersection.(b) The Commissioner of Transportation may issue permits for the erection and maintenance of specific information signs and business signs within the rights-of-way of any portion of a state-maintained limited access highway, except a parkway. The commissioner shall not issue any such permit to any person or company until such person or company files with the commissioner a bond or recognizance to the state, satisfactory to the commissioner and in such amount as the commissioner determines, subject to forfeiture upon failure to comply with (1) the requirements of this section, (2) regulations adopted pursuant to this section, or (3) any orders of the commissioner relating to the erection and maintenance of specific information signs and business signs. Any such bond or recognizance shall remain in full force and effect as long as such person or company is subject to any such requirements, regulations or orders as provided in this section.(c) Any person or company issued a permit in accordance with subsection (b) of this section shall be reimbursed, by subsequent permittees on the same sign, the costs associated with said sign divided by the number of other permittees on said sign.(d) The commissioner shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this section. Such regulations shall include, but not be limited to, establishment of (1) fees for the permits issued under subsection (b) of this section, (2) reimbursements issued pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, and (3) standards for the location, size and maintenance of specific information signs and business signs.(P.A. 83-498; P.A. 84-327, S. 2, 3; P.A. 98-91, S. 2; P.A. 06-196, S. 196.)History: P.A. 84-327 amended Subsec. (b) to delete provision limiting specific information signs to sparsely settled areas; P.A. 98-91 added Subsec. (c) providing costs of the sign to be divided by the number of permittees on the sign, relettering former Subsec. (c) as (d); P.A. 06-196 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 7, 2006.Cited. 41 CS 66.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-124b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-124b - Payment for design and production of signs or notices re Connecticut-made beer facilities.

 The design and production of directional and other official signs or notices pertaining to facilities in this state where Connecticut-made beer is manufactured or sold, pursuant to section 13a-124, may be paid for by private persons or entities affiliated with Connecticut-made beer manufacturers or sellers.(P.A. 11-227, S. 2; P.A. 14-199, S. 14.)History: P.A. 11-227 effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 14-199 replaced “subsection (e) of section 13a-123” with “section 13a-124”, effective June 12, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-125 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-125 - Removal or destruction of signs.

 Section 13a-125 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 2247; 1958 Rev., S. 13-134; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 125; 1971, P.A. 690, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 13a-126a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-126a - Regulation of public service facility installations along state highway rights-of-way for aesthetic purposes.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, the Commissioner of Transportation may, for the purpose of protecting the functional or aesthetic characteristics of any state highway or state highway appurtenance, promulgate regulations for the location and installation of any public service facility within, on, along, over or under the right-of-way of any state highway or state highway appurtenance and, when necessary to insure the protection of the aesthetic characteristics of any state highway, within, on, along, over or under the right-of-way of any other public highway; provided no such regulation shall limit, restrict or derogate from any power, right or authority of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority as provided by statute in respect to the location and installation of such public service facilities. The state shall pay the additional cost of any location, relocation, installation, adjustment or readjustment of any public service facility made necessary by such regulations.(1967, P.A. 686; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 102; P.A. 75-486, S. 32, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 28, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 substituted division of public utility control within the department of business regulation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; 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 § 13a-126b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-126b - Agreements with public service facility operators for revision of plans of proposed installation.

 The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized, when in his opinion it would be in the best interest of the state, to enter into an agreement with the owner or operator of a public service facility, as defined in section 13a-126, for the revision, by the owner or operator, of the plans for any proposed public service facility installation when such installation is to be constructed prior to planned highway construction and readjustment or relocation of such installation would be required by the planned highway construction. The added cost of rights-of-way and construction of the public service facility resulting from such revision in plans shall, if the proposed public service facility would have been located within an existing state highway, be paid in accordance with said section 13a-126, or if the proposed public service facility would not have been located within an existing state highway, be paid from appropriations made to the commissioner.(1967, P.A. 201; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 103.)History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-126c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-126c - Longitudinal use of highway right-of-way by public service facility or company.

 Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Transportation may enter into an agreement with the owner or operator of a public service facility, as defined in section 13a-126, desiring the longitudinal use of the right-of-way of a state highway to accommodate trunkline or transmission-type utility facilities and to fix the terms, conditions and rates and charges for use of such right-of-way; provided, no such agreement shall exempt a public service facility from the provisions of chapter 277a. In the case of public service companies, as defined in section 16-1, such charges or rates shall not exceed the actual administrative, construction, operation and maintenance costs of the department incurred as a result of the public service company's use of a nonlimited access state highway. The department may estimate such charges or rates and require prepayment of such charges or rates, provided any amount in excess of the actual amount shall be refunded to the public service company.(P.A. 78-86; P.A. 04-143, S. 33; P.A. 05-210, S. 29; P.A. 06-196, S. 279; P.A. 14-134, S. 23.)History: P.A. 04-143 changed subject of agreement from use of right-of-way of limited access highway to use of right-of-way of state highway and made a technical change, effective May 21, 2004; P.A. 05-210 added provision specifying that in the case of public service companies, charges or rates shall not exceed actual administrative, construction, operation and maintenance costs of department as result of use by public service company of state highway and that department may estimate charges or rates and require prepayment provided any amount in excess of actual amount is refunded to public service company, effective July 6, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 14-134 made a technical change, effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-126d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-126d - Notification provided to Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and public service companies re highway construction projects.

 The Department of Transportation and any municipality shall notify the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of any pending project involving the construction, alteration, reconstruction, improvement, relocation, widening or changing of the grade of a section of any state highway or any other public highway, that is greater than five miles long or located in a commercial area. The authority, upon determination that such project may provide an opportunity for any public service company, as defined in section 16-1, to install, replace, upgrade or bury any water, sewer or gas line, electric wire or cable or fiber optics, shall notify such company of such project.(P.A. 12-148, S. 10.)History: P.A. 12-148 effective June 15, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-126e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-126e - Easements for public service companies to provide service to Department of Transportation facilities.

 The Commissioner of Transportation may grant easements with respect to land owned by the state to a public service company, as defined in section 16-1, in connection with bringing utility service to a Department of Transportation facility or office, subject to the approval of the State Properties Review Board.(P.A. 13-277, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 13a-127 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-127 - Utility lines on certain bridges.

 The commissioner is authorized to contract with any person, partnership, association or corporation, desiring the use of the project authorized by section 13a-32, the Gold Star Memorial Bridge or the Old Lyme and Old Saybrook Bridge, or the appurtenances and approaches or any part of such project or bridges, for placing thereon water, steam, gas or oil pipelines, telephone, electric light or power lines, or for any other purpose, and to fix the terms, conditions and rates and charges for such use.(1961, P.A. 541, S. 14; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 127; P.A. 14-134, S. 29.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 14-134 deleted reference to telegraph lines, effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-128 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-128 - Discontinuance or alteration of highways in watershed.

 When any municipal or private corporation, engaged in providing or authorized to provide a water supply for any town, city or borough, deems it necessary that any public highway or part thereof shall be discontinued or altered in order to enable it to construct or enlarge a reservoir or to promote or carry out its authorized purposes in other respects in providing a pure and ample supply of water, it may apply to the selectmen of any town in which such part of such highway is located for such discontinuance or alteration. Such municipal or private corporation shall give twelve days' notice of such application by publication in a newspaper published in the town or towns where such highways are located, and shall file, twelve days before such application, with the town clerk, a map showing the highways to be discontinued or altered. If such selectmen or any town denies such application or declines for thirty days to act upon it, such municipal or private corporation may petition the superior court for the judicial district in which such town is located, setting forth the facts in relation thereto and that such discontinuance or alteration is a matter of public convenience and necessity.(1949 Rev., S. 2148; 1958 Rev., S. 13-32; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 128; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.Cited. 132 C. 446.“Public convenience and necessity”, “ample” and “pure” discussed; waiver by highway commissioner. 6 CS 359.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-129 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-129 - Court procedure. Estimate of damages. Appeal.

 Upon twelve days' notice of such petition to such town or towns and to all owners of land abutting on such highways and to such other persons as the court orders, served and returned in the same manner as in civil process, said court shall hear and decide such petition and, upon finding the allegations to be true, shall grant the discontinuance or alteration of such highways, prescribing in its judgment any modifications of such discontinuance or alteration requested in such petition, or any layout of a new highway or highways in lieu thereof, as said court deems to be required by public convenience and necessity. Said court shall, in such judgment, appoint a committee of three disinterested persons to make a survey and layout in accordance with such judgment and, upon such notice to the parties in interest as the court orders, to estimate the damages sustained by any person and to report in writing their actions to said court. Upon acceptance of such report by said court and payment of damages by the petitioner to the parties found to be entitled thereto or deposit of the same in said court for their use, such discontinuance, alteration or new layout shall become effectual, and the applicant shall immediately construct such highway as altered or laid out, at its own expense and in the manner determined by said court, and shall cause a certified copy of such judgment and of the report of such committee as accepted to be recorded in the land records of each town in which any part of such highway so discontinued, altered or laid out is situated. Appeal from the judgment granting such petition or from the judgment of the court accepting such report may be taken by any party in interest in the same manner as is prescribed by law for appeals in civil actions.(1949 Rev., S. 2149; 1958 Rev., S. 13-33; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 129; P.A. 03-115, S. 34.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 03-115 made technical changes.Court may order discontinuance of roads several years before construction of reservoir. 6 CS 359. Cited. 11 CS 429.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-130 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-130 - Bridges over railroad tracks.

 The bottom timbers of all bridges constructed over any railroad track shall be not less than eighteen feet above the rails, unless the Commissioner of Transportation requires a lesser height and prescribes the same in writing.(1949 Rev., S. 2124; 1958 Rev., S. 13-8; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 130; P.A. 75-486, S. 33, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of transportation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-131 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-131 - Alteration of highway made unsafe by railroad occupation.

 The superior court for the judicial district in which is located any highway, or any portion thereof, taken for railroad purposes by any corporation, unless such highway or portion thereof is in a city or borough which has control of its highways, or has been constructed since such railroad, may, upon the petition of any party interested, served upon such company as other civil process, appoint a committee of three to inquire whether such highway or portion thereof is unsafe for travel by reason of such railroad, or whether any alteration of such highway or the construction of a new highway is thereby rendered necessary for the public safety and convenience. Such committee shall hear the parties and report its opinion thereon to said court, which may make any requisite order in the premises; and, if it orders any such alteration or construction and such company refuses to comply with such order, such town shall alter or construct such highway and may recover the expense thereof from such company.(1949 Rev., S. 2153; 1958 Rev., 13-39; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 131; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 85-246, S. 4.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 85-246 deleted reference to street railway companies.Cited. 11 CS 429.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-132 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-132 - Alteration of railroad facilities in construction of highway.

 When it is necessary for the commissioner to construct a highway which intersects or crosses over or under any railroad, said commissioner may order any railroad company to change or alter its existing facilities as required by such construction. The cost of such change or alteration shall be included in the construction costs of such highway.(1959, P.A. 46, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 132; P.A. 73-675, S. 19, 44; P.A. 75-486, S. 34, 69; 75-568, S. 15, 45; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 73-675 replaced highway fund with transportation fund; P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 75-568 deleted reference to payments made from transportation fund; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 allowed deletion of reference to approval of public utilities control authority since P.A. 77-614 replaced authority with transportation commissioner and it would be nonsensical for commissioner to approve his own orders.See Sec. 13b-271 re temporary grade crossings.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-133 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-133 - Contracts with railroads where tracks to be altered. Advancement of funds.

 The commissioner may enter into agreements with railroad corporations for the purpose of performing any work which may be necessary in connection with the construction of highways, bridges and other public works undertaken by the Department of Transportation whenever such construction or work would entail relocation, alteration or other work on the tracks, bridges or other property of such corporations. Any such agreement, subject to the approval of the State Treasurer, may provide for the monthly advancement of funds to a special bank account administered jointly by the railroad corporations and the State Treasurer, for the purpose of covering the cost of such work, whenever it appears that otherwise delay would result in the reasonable progress of such work which would unreasonably obstruct and impede the construction of highways and disrupt the free flow of public transportation.(1961, P.A. 551; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 133; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 104; P.A. 03-115, S. 35.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1969 act substituted commissioner and department of transportation for references to highway department; P.A. 03-115 made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-134 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-134 - Location of tracks of street railway.

 Section 13a-134 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 2232; 1958 Rev., S. 13-115; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 134; P.A. 85-246, S. 22.)
CT Gen Stat § 13a-135 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-135 - Taking of street railway rails and ties by commissioner.

 The commissioner may take, under the provisions of the general statutes relating to the taking of land for highway purposes, the ties, track appurtenances and rails of any disbanded or defunct street railway company, as defined in section 16-1, in state highways or bridges or, by agreement with any operating street railway company, take title to and possession of, on behalf of the state, any ties, rails or other track appurtenances in such highways or bridges, and thereupon such street railway company shall be relieved of all obligations with respect to construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of any part of such highways or bridges or with respect to the removal of such ties, rails and other track appurtenances.(1949 Rev., S. 2256; 1958 Rev., S. 13-138; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 135; P.A. 85-246, S. 5; P.A. 03-115, S. 36.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 85-246 added definitional reference to Sec. 16-1; P.A. 03-115 made technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-136 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-136 - Benefits assessed where highway is dike against tides.

 Whenever any town lays out any public highway, either by action of its selectmen or by a decree of the Superior Court, across any meadow or lowlands, and such meadow or lowlands are open to the overflow of the tides, and such highway is capable of being used as a dike to prevent such overflow, the selectmen of such town may assess or cause to be assessed the benefits accruing to any owner of such lowlands, by reason of the same being protected from the overflow of the tides, on account of the construction of such highway and the construction of proper tide gates at suitable points, to permit the egress of water; provided not more than one-half the cost of opening and constructing such highway over such lowlands shall be assessed upon the owners of such lands. The cost of constructing gates to prevent the ingress of water may be included as a part of the cost of such highway for the purposes of this section. If the selectmen of any town and the owners of such lowlands cannot agree concerning the benefits accruing to such owners severally, the same proceedings may be had as are provided in section 13a-84, and any town constructing a highway across lowlands under the provisions of this section shall construct the necessary dams and tide gates across streams and watercourses and shall maintain the same at the expense of such town.(1949 Rev., S. 2151; 1958 Rev., S. 13-37; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 136.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.