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CT Gen Stat § 13a-80g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-80g - Disposition of interest in, above or below municipal highways.

 (a) Any municipality may sell, lease or otherwise transfer easements or other interests in, above or below any street, highway or other public right-of-way to the centerline thereof, other than the right-of-way of a state highway as defined in section 13a-1, in the same manner that it may dispose of any other interest in real property owned by such municipality; provided that adequate provision is made for the safe and convenient public use of the street, highway or other public right-of-way and for the protection of adjacent land users and that the transferee of said interest restores the street, highway or right-of-way to its condition existing prior to the transfer of said interest and provided further that any sale, lease or transfer of easements or other interests above any street, highway or other public right-of-way is made with the consent of the owner of the real property abutting the portion of the street, highway or other public right-of-way above which such easement or other interest is sold, leased or transferred. The sale, lease or transfer of easements or other interests in, above or below the portion of a street, highway or other public right-of-way lying to one side of the centerline thereof, shall not prevent the sale, lease or transfer of easements or other interests in, above or below the portion lying on the other side of such centerline, unless the terms of the initial sale, lease or transfer so provide.(b) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish or restrict in any way any authority concerning the sale, lease or transfer of any easements or other interests in, above or below any street, highway or other public right-of-way which any municipality or agency thereof may have by virtue of any special act or otherwise.(1972, P.A. 94, S. 1; P.A. 99-181, S. 37, 40; P.A. 00-148, S. 4.)History: P.A. 99-181 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring the transferee to restore the street, highway or right-of-way to its existing condition prior to the transfer of an easement or other interest and requiring the consent of the abutting real property owner for the sale, lease or transfer of certain easements or other interests, effective June 23, 1999; P.A. 00-148 amended Subsec. (a) by making technical changes.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-80h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-80h - Agreement setting forth responsibilities of municipality and Commissioner of Transportation re acquisition of real property required for certain bridge projects.

 At the request of any municipality which is undertaking a project to rehabilitate, replace or demolish a bridge which supports a municipal road using state or federal highway funds, the Commissioner of Transportation may enter into an agreement with such municipality which sets forth the responsibilities of the parties in connection with the acquisition of real property, as defined in subsection (a) of section 13a-73, or rights of ingress to and egress from land, which is required for such project. The commissioner shall exercise his authority pursuant to this section in the same manner as authorized and exercised by the commissioner in acquiring real property for state highway purposes subject to the terms of the agreement between the commissioner and the municipality.(P.A. 95-325, S. 2, 16.)History: P.A. 95-325 effective July 13, 1995.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-81 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-81 - Relocation of persons, businesses and farms displaced by state highway construction.

 Section 13a-81 is repealed.(1957, P.A. 601; September, 1957, P.A. 22; 1958 Rev., S. 13-114; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 81; 1967, P.A. 108, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 503, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 13a-83 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-83 - Assessment of benefits by municipalities.

 The proper authorities of any city or borough and the selectmen of any town, unless otherwise provided in its charter, may assess, or cause to be assessed, the benefits accruing to any person by the layout, grading or alteration of any highway therein, upon giving written notice to the parties to be benefited of the time and place of meeting therefor, and order such benefits to be paid by the parties assessed, respectively, to the town, city or borough, as the case may be, within such time as they appoint. Such benefits may be collected in the same manner as town taxes are collected.(1949 Rev., S. 2145; 1958 Rev., S. 13-29; 1959, P.A. 674, S. 2; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 83.)History: 1959 act added towns to the purview of this section; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.Landowner's special and local benefits from public improvements to be deducted from his damages. 23 C. 189; 32 C. 475. Assessment for benefits must be joint or several as the landed interest assessed is joint or several. 60 C. 112. Does not apply to removal of grade crossing by order of railroad commissioners. 77 C. 500.Cited. 11 CS 429.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-85 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-85 - Assessment on private property, when collectible.

 When any assessment has been laid by any town, city, borough or other municipal corporation upon private property benefited by any public work or improvement, for the expense of such public work or improvement, or for benefits accruing therefrom, and a certificate of lien upon such property has been lodged for record with the town clerk, neither the principal of such assessment nor any interest thereon shall be collectible by such municipality until such public work or improvement has been completed and the fact of such completion recorded on the record books of such municipality by order of the board or officers by whom such work or improvement was ordered.(1949 Rev., S. 2144; 1958 Rev., S. 13-28; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 85.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.See Sec. 7-140 re consideration of assessment as lien.No interest collectible on assessments for benefits without special statutory authority; section gives none. 67 C. 162. Section does not apply to highways laid out by Superior Court. 69 C. 42. Effect as applied to city having special charter. 85 C. 555. Personal obligation for assessment cannot be enforced against one who purchased subsequent to date lien attached. 132 C. 556.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-85a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-85a - Acquisition of land adjacent to state highways for preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty and development of rest and recreation areas.

 The Commissioner of Transportation may acquire in the name of the state by purchase or condemnation, in the same manner and with like powers as authorized and exercised by said commissioner in acquiring real property for state highway purposes, and may accept gifts of interests in strips of land for the improvement of such strips of land necessary for the preservation, restoration and enhancement of scenic beauty adjacent to state highways, and may acquire land in the manner stated above to develop such controlled rest and recreation areas and sanitary and other facilities within or adjacent to state highway rights-of-way as are reasonably necessary to accommodate the traveling public. Said commissioner shall promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of this section, which regulations shall not be less restrictive than the standards promulgated and from time to time amended by the Federal Highway Administrator in respect to federal aid highways.(February, 1965, P.A. 445; 1967, P.A. 564, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 86.)History: 1967 act allowed land acquisition by condemnation, reversing previous provision, allowed land acquisition for development of rest and recreation areas, sanitary and other facilities to accommodate the traveling public and deleted provision prohibiting acquisition or regulations of land strips zoned for industrial or commercial use under local ordinances; 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-85b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-85b - Aquisition of properties situated in right-of-way for limited access highway from Danbury to Norwalk.

 Should any properties situated within the existing right-of-way acquired for potential use as a limited access highway from Danbury to Norwalk which are not currently owned by the Department of Transportation be offered for sale to the state, the Commissioner of Transportation may, within available funds, acquire said properties upon terms and conditions which are equitable to both the property owner and the state. The commissioner may, within available funds, acquire any properties not currently owned by the Department of Transportation that are situated within such right-of-way when such properties come onto the market for sale and if such purchase would (1) alleviate particular hardship to a property owner, on his request, in contrast to others because of an inability to sell his property; or (2) prevent imminent development and increased costs of a parcel which would tend to limit the choice of highway alternatives.(P.A. 93-307, S. 10, 34; P.A. 97-236, S. 22, 27; P.A. 09-186, S. 3.)History: P.A. 93-307 effective June 29, 1993; P.A. 97-236 amended Subsec. (b) to replace provisions re transportation analysis for Route 11 corridor from Route 82 in Salem to I-95 in Waterford with provision prohibiting commissioner from selling or using in any manner incompatible with transportation purposes, any property currently under his control in Danbury adjacent to Route 7 and south of Wooster Heights Road; P.A. 09-186 deleted prohibition on sale or use of right-of-way acquired for potential use as Route 7 from Danbury to Norwalk, deleted former Subsec. (b) prohibiting sale or incompatible use of property under commissioner's control in Danbury adjacent to Route 7 and south of Wooster Heights Road and made conforming changes, effective July 1, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-85c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-85c - Sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of excess property obtained in connection with the Route 6 Expressway.

 Section 13a-85c is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(S.A. 07-11, S. 31; S.A. 08-8, S. 2; P.A. 13-277, S. 81.)
CT Gen Stat § 13a-86 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-86 - Construction of bridges; cost; width.

 The commissioner may construct or reconstruct any bridge on any highway maintained by him when, in his opinion, public convenience and necessity so require. Any bridge constructed or reconstructed on any such highway with two or more lanes shall have a clear width of roadway of not less than twenty-eight feet exclusive of the width of any sidewalk, unless in the judgment of the commissioner a lesser width is warranted. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the construction or reconstruction of any bridge on any highway maintained by a municipality.(1949 Rev., S. 2270; 1958 Rev., S. 13-125(b); 1963, P.A. 226, S. 86; P.A. 73-675, S. 12, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 8, 45; P.A. 88-16; P.A. 96-222, S. 2.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 73-675 substituted transportation fund for highway fund; P.A. 75-568 deleted provision that cost of work be paid from transportation fund; P.A. 88-16 amended section to apply to any bridge or highway with two or more lanes and provided the commissioner with the discretion to reduce the width of the constructed or reconstructed bridge; P.A. 96-222 made provisions of section inapplicable to construction or reconstruction of bridges on local highways.See Sec. 13a-88 re load capacity of bridges.See Sec. 13a-89 re appeals concerning posted weight restrictions.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-86a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-86a - Geometric design standards for bridges, exceptions. Factors re bridge rehabilitation or new construction. Development or construction of projects by municipal governments. Immunity from liability.

 (a) In the event site conditions, environmental factors, engineering factors or considerations of community standards and custom would reasonably allow for a departure from the standards for geometric design with respect to bridges established by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials or by the Department of Transportation, the department may approve exceptions to such standards without waivers.(b) In choosing between the rehabilitation of an existing bridge and the construction of a new bridge, whether on the existing location or on a new location, the department and any affected municipality shall weigh the following factors: (1) The functional classification of the highway; (2) the load capacity and geometric constraints of the bridge within its existing footprint and the availability of alternative routes; (3) the comparative long-term costs, risks and benefits of rehabilitation and new construction; (4) the requirements of state standards for geometric design; (5) disruption to homes and businesses; (6) environmental impacts; (7) the potential effects on the local and state economies; (8) cost-effectiveness; (9) mobility; (10) safety, as determined by factors such as accident history for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists; and (11) the impact on the historic, scenic and aesthetic values of the municipality in which the bridge is or may be located.(c) The department shall implement policies and programs to allow municipal governments to develop projects or construct projects, or both, in consultation with the department, in accordance with federal laws and regulations if federal funds are used.(d) The state or a municipality, any state or municipal agency or any employee thereof or any engineer retained in connection with a bridge project shall not be liable for any injury or damage to any person or property caused by the selection of design standards that enable an existing bridge, which was initially constructed not less than twenty-five years prior to October 1, 1997, to be repaired or rehabilitated in substantially the same configuration that existed before such repair or rehabilitation, provided nothing in this subsection shall be construed to relieve the state, any municipality or any person from liability under section 13a-144 or 13a-149 arising out of structural or design defects in any such bridge or negligence in the maintenance, repair or rehabilitation of any such bridge.(P.A. 97-214, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 13a-87 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-87 - Maintenance of bridges by commissioner.

 The commissioner shall maintain each bridge on any highway maintained by him, except as otherwise specifically provided by law. Such maintenance shall include the preservation, restoration or replacement of any or all parts of the structure as may be necessary to permit it to be used with safety by the traveling public, subject to such restrictions as may be provided by law, and the use of electric current and the servicing and repair necessary to keep in operation any system of lighting installed on any bridge in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of section 13a-110.(1949 Rev., S. 2269; 1958 Rev., S. 13-125(a); 1963, P.A. 226, S. 87; P.A. 73-675, S. 13, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 9, 45.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 73-675 substituted transportation fund for highway fund; P.A. 75-568 deleted provision that payment of maintenance cost be made from transportation fund.Where state takes over existing highway, it assumes responsibility for its use and maintenance for all purposes incident to vehicular traffic, and it leaves undisturbed existing responsibility of municipalities for sidewalks. 136 C. 346.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-88 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-88 - Load capacity.

 Each highway bridge existing on July 1, 1921, maintained in whole or in part by the state, shall be so maintained as to permit the safe passage of a two-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than eight tons, and each bridge constructed thereafter shall be so built and maintained as to permit the safe passage of a two-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than sixteen tons or a three-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than twenty tons, provided each bridge constructed by the commissioner on a state highway after July 1, 1955, shall be so built and maintained as to permit the safe passage of any vehicle or combination of vehicle and trailer or semitrailer or any other object not exceeding the weights specified in section 14-267a.(1949 Rev., S. 2185; 1955, S. 1188d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-72; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 88; P.A. 79-188, S. 2, 10.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 79-188 substituted reference to Sec. 14-267a for reference to repealed Sec. 14-268.See Sec. 13a-121 re notice of load capacity and appeals concerning weight restrictions.See Sec. 13a-151 re violations of bridge load capacity.Cited. 121 C. 613.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-89 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-89 - Appeal to commissioner from posted weight restriction.

 Any person may appeal to the commissioner from the restriction of the use of any bridge imposed by the posting of a maximum weight notice as provided in section 13a-121. Upon such appeal the commissioner shall inspect such bridge and may, after due notice thereof to all parties in interest and hearing thereon, order the authority having control of such bridge to increase its capacity to such extent as he finds public convenience and necessity require. If such authority fails to make such repairs or reconstruction as are necessary so to increase the capacity of such bridge within sixty days after receiving notice from the commissioner to do so, the commissioner may so repair or reconstruct such bridge and the authority having control of such bridge shall be liable for the cost of such repair or reconstruction.(1949 Rev., S. 2187; 1958 Rev., S. 13-74; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 89.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-90 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-90 - Bridge over artificial watercourse.

 Any bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse, located on a highway which it is the duty of the commissioner to maintain, constructed before May 10, 1957, shall be maintained by the person owning or controlling such watercourse. If any highway which it is the duty of the commissioner to maintain is to be constructed, reconstructed or relocated, and a bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse on such highway requires expansion, relocation or reconstruction, the cost of such expansion, relocation or reconstruction shall be borne by the state and thereafter such structure shall be maintained by the commissioner.(1949 Rev., S. 2200; 1951, S. 1192d; 1957, P.A. 211, S. 2; 1958 Rev., S. 13-86; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 90.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.See Sec. 13a-101 re bridges over artificial watercourses not maintained by Transportation Commissioner.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-91 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-91 - Sidewalks on bridges.

 (a) The commissioner may cause to be constructed or reconstructed a sidewalk on any bridge or approaches to any bridge on any state highway when in his opinion public safety so requires. Except as provided in subsection (b), all sidewalks on bridges or approaches to bridges maintained by the commissioner shall be maintained by said commissioner, and such maintenance shall include responsibility for the removal of snow and ice from such sidewalks. As used herein, “approaches” includes the highway adjoining such bridge to the next side road or to a point where access may be attained by the adjoining property owner, whichever distance is less.(b) In the case of any footpath or sidewalk constructed or reconstructed in accordance with section 2242 of the general statutes, revision of 1949, by agreement between the commissioner and the authorized official or officials of a town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough, which footpath or sidewalk is maintained by the commissioner, the removal of snow and ice therefrom shall be the responsibility of the town, city, borough, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough.(1949 Rev., S. 2242; 1955, S. 1202d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-125 (a), (c); 1963, P.A. 226, S. 91; 548; P.A. 73-675, S. 14, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 10, 45.)History: 1963 acts added definition of approaches in Subsec. (a) and restated provisions: See title history; P.A. 73-675 substituted transportation fund for highway fund(s); P.A. 75-568 deleted references to payment of costs from transportation fund.See Sec. 13a-144 re damages for injuries sustained on state highways or sidewalks.Cited. 124 C. 677. Town not responsible for snow removal where state had not constructed walk on shoulders used by public as path. 130 C. 88. Cited. 135 C. 621.Cited. 44 CA 651.Cited. 8 CS 450. Complaint in action against highway commissioner for defective sidewalk demurrable where no allegation it was constructed entirely from trunk line funds. 19 CS 101. Cited. 44 CS 389.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-92 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-92 - Sidewalks on bridges at Thompsonville and Warehouse Point.

 The sidewalks on the bridges across the Connecticut River at Thompsonville and Warehouse Point shall be maintained by the commissioner.(1949 Rev., S. 2243; 1958 Rev., S. 13-126; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 92.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.Cited. 44 CA 651.Cited. 44 CS 389.
CT Gen Stat § 13a-93 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 13a - Highways and Bridges|Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance|Section 13a-93 - Snow removal from state highways.

 The commissioner shall remove the snow from the traveled portions of any completed state highway when the accumulation thereof renders such highway unsafe for public travel.(1949 Rev., S. 2262; 1958 Rev., S. 13-143; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 93; P.A. 85-246, S. 3.)History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 85-246 deleted provision re street railway companies' responsibility for the removal of snow.Cited. 130 C. 86; 162 C. 295.