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CT Gen Stat § 16-248 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-248 - Rights of telephone company in operation May 23, 1985.

 Every telephone company organized before May 23, 1985, under special or general law, for the transaction of a telephone exchange business, in whole or in part, is limited in its operation, so far as pertains to the telephone exchange business, to the limits of the town or towns in which the plant and structures of such company, association or corporation actually existed and were in operation, in whole or in part, on such date, except upon a finding that public convenience and necessity require an extension of such limits as hereinafter provided.(1949 Rev., S. 5660; P.A. 85-187, S. 6, 15.)History: P.A. 85-187 applied provisions of section to every telephone company organized before May 23, 1985, instead of to every company, association or corporation organized before May 3, 1899.
CT Gen Stat § 16-250b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-250b - Cellular mobile telephone service. Authority jurisdiction. Regulations.

 (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall have jurisdiction over the provision of cellular mobile telephone service by cellular mobile telephone carriers licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to operate within the state.(b) Not later than six months after July 3, 1985, the authority shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing (1) conditions under which the authority may forbear from regulating such carriers, and (2) standards and procedures for the regulation, on an equal basis with regard to all carriers, of the rates and charges, services, accounting practices, safety and conduct of operations of such carriers if the authority does not forbear from regulating such carriers. Such conditions, standards and procedures shall provide for the public convenience, necessity and welfare.(P.A. 85-552, S. 7, 8; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-251 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-251 - Bonds of telephone company.

 Any telephone company may borrow money, and issue its bonds therefor, under its seal and signed by its president or vice president and by its treasurer or assistant treasurer. The signatures of such officers may be facsimiles thereof and the seal of the company may be a facsimile of such seal.(1949 Rev., S. 5663; 1957, P.A. 84, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-252 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-252 - Bonds may be secured by mortgage.

 All such bonds may be secured by a mortgage of the property, real, personal or mixed, of the mortgagor, executed by its president, under its corporate seal, to the Treasurer of the state, and his successors in office, in trust, for the holders of such bonds, and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State, and such mortgage shall secure equally all such bonds as may be issued from time to time to the full amount specified in the mortgage, and may include not only the property then owned by the mortgagor but also property to be thereafter acquired by it. In such mortgage deed, it shall be sufficient to describe the lines, wires, poles, conduits, equipment and apparatus of the telephone company, in general terms and by general reference to locality. The provisions of sections 16-218 to 16-227, inclusive, concerning the foreclosure of mortgages of railroad companies, as defined in section 13b-199, shall apply to any mortgages or bonds issued by telephone companies, associations or corporations.(1949 Rev., S. 5665; P.A. 14-134, S. 4.)History: P.A. 14-134 made a technical change, effective June 6, 2014.Cited. 28 CS 459.
CT Gen Stat § 16-255 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-255 - General powers.

 All companies, associations or corporations affected by the provisions of sections 16-248 to 16-253, inclusive, shall, subject to the restrictions therein imposed, have all the powers and rights of construction that are or have by law been conferred upon any domestic telephone corporation by special charter or otherwise.(1949 Rev., S. 5668; P.A. 85-187, S. 10, 15; P.A. 02-89, S. 24.)History: P.A. 85-187 deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 16-247, substituting reference to Sec. 16-248; P.A. 02-89 replaced reference to Sec. 16-254 with reference to Sec. 16-253, reflecting repeal of Sec. 16-254 by the same public act.
CT Gen Stat § 16-256 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256 - Notice of offense in party line usage in telephone directory.

 Section 16-256 is repealed, effective May 8, 2013.(1957, P.A. 375, S. 2; P.A. 99-286, S. 9, 19; P.A. 13-5, S. 52.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-256a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256a - Directory assistance charge prohibited.

 Section 16-256a is repealed.(P.A. 79-494; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 95-217, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-256b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256b - Special telecommunications equipment for deaf and hearing impaired persons. Fund. Amplification controls for coin and coinless telephones installed for public or semipublic use.

 Section 16-256b is repealed, effective July 1, 2011.(P.A. 79-156; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 82-254, S. 1, 2; P.A. 83-125, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-228, S. 1, 2; P.A. 86-50, S. 2; P.A. 87-388, S. 1, 3; P.A. 88-158, S. 1, 2; P.A. 92-146, S. 4, 5; P.A. 93-34, S. 1, 2; P.A. 94-74, S. 7, 11; P.A. 99-286, S. 10, 19; P.A. 00-53, S. 6; P.A. 11-44, S. 38; 11-48, S. 306; 11-80, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-256c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256c - Extended local calling criteria. Calling volume. Subscriber survey and vote. Petitions.

 (a) In establishing criteria for the granting of extended local calling service to a telephone exchange, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may consider the volume of calls made by such exchange to other exchanges; provided, in considering whether to grant extended local calling service to a telephone exchange within the lowest exchange classification, the calling volume of such exchange shall not be the exclusive or determinative factor.(b) In any survey of the subscribers of a telephone exchange subject to reclassification which is conducted by a telephone company in response to a petition for extended local calling telephone service, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall approve and order such extended local calling if, after a hearing, the authority finds that more than fifty per cent of the responding subscribers in each exchange required to be surveyed vote in favor of the additional extended local calling route and at least fifty per cent of all subscribers in each exchange required to be surveyed respond to the survey; provided, only validly completed and signed ballots shall be used in computing the required percentages.(c) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall consider a petition for extended local calling when (1) the petition is from an exchange which serves less than thirty-eight thousand equivalent main stations, (2) the petition is sponsored by the chief administrative officer of a distressed municipality, as defined in section 32-9p, which municipality is within the petitioning exchange, (3) the toll messages on the route requested average greater than or equal to four calls per customer per month from the petitioning exchange over a six-month period, and (4) the petitioning exchange has extended local calling to a contiguous exchange which has extended local calling to the exchange to which extended local calling is sought.(P.A. 79-330; P.A. 80-242; 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 85-36; 85-187, S. 14, 15; P.A. 95-217, S. 8; P.A. 96-266, S. 2; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 80-242 added Subsec. (b) re extension of local calling through survey of subscribers; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 85-36 changed, from at least 51% to more than 50%, the favorable vote necessary to require department order for extended local calling; P.A. 85-187 changed effective date of P.A. 85-36 from October 1, 1985 to June 1, 1985; P.A. 95-217 added new Subsec. (c) re requirements to petition for extended local calling; P.A. 96-266 amended Subsec. (c)(1) to increase to 38,000 the maximum number of equivalent main stations; 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 § 16-256d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256d - Itemized telephone bills for business customers.

 Each telephone company, as defined in section 16-1, shall, upon request of any business customer, provide the customer with an itemization of tariffed equipment and associated charges, indicating the number of telephones and lines and the types of service the customer is being billed for and the charge for each such telephone, line and service. Each such company shall, on a quarterly basis, notify its business customers of the availability of such itemizations.(P.A. 83-172.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-256e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256e - Recorded telephone message devices prohibited. Blocking devices or services prohibited: Class A misdemeanor.

 (a) No person may use any device which transmits an unsolicited recorded telephone message for any commercial, business or advertising purpose to any telephone customer in the state and which continues the call and message after the customer hangs up the receiver. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.(b) Any person who violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section while intentionally using a blocking device or service to circumvent a telephone customer's use of a caller identification service or device shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.(P.A. 83-419; P.A. 99-286, S. 11, 19; P.A. 14-14, S. 1; P.A. 18-135, S. 1.)History: P.A. 99-286 made technical changes, effective July 19, 1999; P.A. 14-14 increased fine from $500 to $1,000; P.A. 18-135 designated existing provisions re device which transmits unsolicited recorded telephone message as Subsec. (a), and added Subsec. (b) establishing use of blocking devices or services as a class A misdemeanor.
CT Gen Stat § 16-256f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256f - Blocking service available to customers.

 Each telephone company and each certified telecommunications provider may make blocking service available to its customers and may charge the customer for providing such service.(P.A. 89-259, S. 4, 5; P.A. 94-74, S. 8, 11; P.A. 99-286, S. 12, 19.)History: P.A. 94-74 added provision re persons, firms or corporations certified to provide intrastate telecommunication service, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 99-286 changed reference to person, firm or corporation certified to provide intrastate telecommunications service to “certified telecommunications provider” and made a technical change, effective July 19, 1999.
CT Gen Stat § 16-256h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256h - Business to residential pricing ratio for basic exchange service.

 In a proceeding under subsection (a) of section 16-19, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may approve a modification of the existing business to residential pricing ratio for basic exchange service of a telephone company toward the then-current national average business to residential pricing ratio, as determined by the authority, but shall not approve a modification which brings such ratio below two and seven-tenths to one prior to June 30, 1994, and shall not approve a modification which brings such ratio below two and five-tenths to one or the then-current national average business to residential pricing ratio, as determined by the authority, whichever is higher, prior to June 30, 1995.(P.A. 93-330, S. 8, 9; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 93-330 effective July 2, 1993; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-256j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256j - Billing for telecommunications services. Information re carriers, basic, local service and taxes.

 All bills for telecommunications services, whether issued by a telecommunications company or by a billing service, shall (1) contain the name of each carrier providing service as well as a toll-free number for customer complaints for each such carrier printed clearly and conspicuously on the portion of the bill relating to each carrier; (2) clearly and conspicuously identify on the bill those charges for which nonpayment will not result in disconnection of basic, local service; and (3) only label a charge as a tax if such tax is directly assessed by the taxing entity on the customer through the telecommunications company, which tax shall appear as a separate charge on such bill.(P.A. 98-148, S. 2; P.A. 02-32, S. 1.)History: P.A. 02-32 added provisions as Subdivs. (2) and (3) re charges that do not relate to basic, local service and re labeling of charges as taxes on bills, and inserted Subdiv. (1) designator.
CT Gen Stat § 16-256k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-256k - Disclosure for removal or change in telecommunications service. Disclosure for promotional offerings.

 Each telephone company, as defined in section 16-1, and each certified telecommunications provider, as defined in said section 16-1, shall clearly and conspicuously disclose, in writing, to customers, upon subscription and annually thereafter, (1) whether the removal or change in any telecommunications service will result in the loss of a discount or other change in the rate charged for any telecommunications service subscribed to or used by the customer; and (2) for any promotional offering filed on and after October 1, 2002, with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority pursuant to subsection (e) of section 16-247f, that the offering is a promotion and will be in effect for a limited period of time.(P.A. 02-32, S. 2; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 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 § 16-257 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-257 - Recording of agreement of consolidation or merger of electric and gas companies.

 Any corporation, incorporated for or engaged in the business of manufacturing, distributing or using electricity for purposes of light, heat, power or other lawful purposes, or supplying gas for any or all of said purposes, which has consolidated with or merged into itself, or consolidates with or merges into itself, any other corporation, in accordance with the provisions of its charter and of the statutes, may record in the office of the Secretary of the State the agreement of such consolidation or merger. When such agreement has been so recorded, it shall not be necessary to record the same in the towns where the property of such consolidating companies or such companies so being merged is located, but the same shall be valid and effectual notice of the facts therein set forth, provided a certificate shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of each town where the property of any such consolidating companies or of such companies so being merged is located, setting forth the names of the consolidating company and the companies so consolidated or the name of the company into which such companies owning such property may have become merged and the names of such companies, the date of such agreement and the fact that the same has been filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State. The clerk of any town where any such certificate is filed shall record the same.(1949 Rev., S. 5669.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-258 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-258 - Standards concerning electricity and gas.

 Section 16-258 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 5670; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 112, 348; P.A. 95-217, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-258b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-258b - Registration of electric generating facilities.

 Each person, as defined in section 16-1, operating an electric generating facility in this state shall register with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Not later than January 1, 2001, the authority shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to establish standards and procedures for the registration of electric generators pursuant to this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any (1) hydroelectric generating facility, or (2) electric generating device (A) with a generating capacity of four megawatts or less, or (B) that is owned and operated by an electric distribution company or gas company, as defined in section 16-1.(P.A. 00-186, S. 2; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: 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 § 16-258c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-258c - Dual fuel capability requirements for electric generating facilities.

 Section 16-258c is repealed, effective June 6, 2014.(P.A. 07-242, S. 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 130.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-258d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies|Section 16-258d - District heating systems incentive program.

 (a) As used in this section:(1) “District heating system” means a thermal loop natural gas demand reduction system that is located in a designated area and is designed to capture an annual minimum of thirty million British thermal units of waste heat and transmits and distributes at least seventy-five per cent of such waste heat directly to the premises of end use customers that are located in such system's service area.(2) “Gas company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.(b) After July 1, 2015, each gas company shall develop an incentive program for district heating systems for the purpose of reducing natural gas demand in the state. As part of the conservation and load management plan, pursuant to section 16-245m, each gas company shall submit such program plan for approval to the Energy Conservation Management Board and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Said board and department have discretion to jointly approve or disapprove such plan. Such program shall, on or after March 1, 2016, provide an incentive payment to end use customers who connect on or after March 1, 2016, to a district heating system for heating purposes. Such incentive payment shall be based on such customer's projected natural gas demand reduction for the period of time that such customer commits to utilize the services of such heating system. The projected natural gas demand reduction shall be based on such customer's weather-adjusted historical usage data from the previous three years. The amount of the incentive payment made to such end use customer shall not exceed the incentive payment made for equivalent natural gas demand reductions through the state's conservation and load management plan.(c) An owner or operator of a district heating system may charge each end use customer a connection charge up to an amount equal to the incentive payment received by such end use customer.(d) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall ensure that the revenues required to fund such incentive payments made pursuant to this section are provided through a fully reconciling conservation adjustment mechanism, which shall not exceed more than nine million dollars in total for the program established under this section, provided (1) such revenues shall be in addition to the revenues authorized to fund the Conservation and Load Management Plan pursuant to section 16-245m, and (2) such revenues exceeding two million dollars required to fund such incentive payments shall be paid over a period of not less than two years. Such revenues shall only be collected from the gas customers of the company in whose service area such district heating system is located.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 242; P.A. 18-50, S. 24.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 18-50 amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “conservation and load management fund” with “Conservation and Load Management Plan”, effective January 1, 2020.