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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-98m. - Definition.

As used in sections 13a-98e, 13a-98f and 13a-98i to 13a-98k, inclusive, “federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility” means any state or locally maintained roadway or facility that is deemed eligible for surface transportation urban program funding in accordance with the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, all amendments to said act and all applicable federal regulations.
(P.A. 94-188, S. 1, 30; P.A. 00-148, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 94-188 effective June 2, 1994; P.A. 00-148 replaced “Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991” with “Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century” and made technical changes.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-98n. - Local transportation capital program.

(a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a local transportation capital program to provide state funding, in lieu of specific federal funding available, to any municipality or local planning agency for transportation improvements to any state or locally maintained roadway or facility that is deemed eligible for federal surface transportation urban program funding.
(b) The commissioner may request the authorization of special tax obligation bonds of the state to establish such state funding. In the absence of state funding in any year, specific and eligible federal transportation funding shall remain available. Such bonds shall mature at such time or times not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates as may be provided in or pursuant to the resolution or resolutions of the State Bond Commission authorizing such bonds.
(c) The Department of Transportation shall accept applications for such state funding from any eligible recipient, based on project priorities, through the appropriate regional council of governments. Any such state funding shall be provided to the recipient through guidelines developed by the Department of Transportation.
(d) Any transportation improvement funded pursuant to the program established in this section will have a service life of approximately twenty years.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, this program, when improvements are on a locally owned roadway or facility, shall not be deemed to be a proposed state action, activity or critical activity for the purposes of sections 25-68b to 25-68h, inclusive.
(P.A. 13-239, S. 74; P.A. 14-139, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 13-239 effective November 1, 2013; P.A. 14-139 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing “regional planning agency” with “regional council of governments”, effective January 1, 2015.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-98o. - Use of coal tar sealants on state and local highways. Prohibition. Enforcement.

No person shall use or apply any sealant that is made from coal tar to any state or local highway. The Commissioner of Transportation, in conjunction with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, may enforce the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 17-113, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-99a. - Town roads lying within, intersecting or crossing state highway rights-of-way.

(a) Whenever a town road or a portion thereof lies within the limits of a state highway right-of-way or passes over or under a state highway right-of-way, such road or portion thereof shall be state highway property subject to an easement to the town for travel. The local traffic authority, as defined in section 14-297, shall have the jurisdiction over any portion of a town road within an easement created by this subsection.
(b) Any portion of a town road lying within the limits of a state highway right-of-way, which town road is no longer maintained or used by such town, shall be deemed legally abandoned as a public highway and title to such portion of such town road shall vest in the state.
(c) When a town road crosses or intersects a state highway right-of-way at grade level, the responsibility for maintenance of that portion of the town road from the edge of the state highway right-of-way to the edge of the traveled portion of the state highway shall remain with the town; and any liability for neglect or default of maintenance of such portion of the town road shall be in accordance with section 13a-149. When a town road passes over or under a state highway right-of-way, the responsibility for maintenance of the road shall remain with the town; and any liability for neglect or default of such maintenance shall be in accordance with section 13a-149.
(1967, P.A. 209, S. 1–3; P.A. 77-78; P.A. 90-342, S. 4, 5.)
History: P.A. 77-78 added the words “or intersects” in Subsec. (c); P.A. 90-342 added provision in Subsec. (a) providing the local traffic authority with jurisdiction over any portion of a town road within an easement.
Cited. 21 CA 633.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-100. - Expense of bridges between towns.

Necessary bridges between towns, except when otherwise specially provided by law, shall be built and kept in repair by such towns, and the expense thereof shall be apportioned between them according to the total revenue received yearly from direct taxation in each of such towns, as averaged for the three fiscal years next preceding.
(1949 Rev., S. 2119; 1958 Rev., S. 13-4; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 100.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
What constitutes a bridge. 26 C. 583; 44 C. 25; 64 C. 568.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-100a. - Maintenance of pedestrian walkways on bridges.

The person required to maintain any bridge constructed over any section of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways located within this state, which bridge (1) is constructed or undergoes major reconstruction, as determined by the Commissioner of Transportation, on or after October 1, 2000, and (2) has a defined pedestrian walkway, shall install and maintain fencing along such walkway to prevent pedestrians from throwing objects from such walkway onto the highway below. The bridge located between the Legislative Office Building and the State Capitol Building shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 00-184, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-101. - Bridges over artificial watercourses.

Any bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse on a highway which it is not the duty of the commissioner to maintain shall be constructed and maintained by the person owning or controlling such watercourse and shall be of such width and carrying capacity as are approved by the board of selectmen of the town, provided, if at any time the board of selectmen finds that any such existing bridge or passageway has become insufficient to permit the traveling public to use it with safety, the board of selectmen shall cause such bridge or passageway to be reconstructed so as to make it sufficient or shall cause a new sufficient bridge or passageway to be constructed. The town and the person owning or controlling the watercourse shall each pay an equitable portion of the cost of reconstructing such existing bridge or passageway or of constructing a new sufficient bridge or passageway, which equitable apportionment shall be based upon the respective needs of the town and the person for such change in such bridge or passageway, and the board of selectmen may enter into an agreement with such person determining the portion to be paid by each, provided, if the board of selectmen and such person cannot agree upon an equitable apportionment of such cost, either may apply to the superior court in the judicial district within which such bridge or passageway is situated, or, if said court is not in session, to any judge thereof, for a determination of the portion of the cost to be borne by each, and said court or such judge, after causing notice of the pendency of such application to be given to the other party, shall appoint a state referee to make such determination. Such referee, having given at least ten days' notice to the parties interested of the time and place of the hearing, shall hear both parties, shall view the bridge or passageway and take such testimony as such referee deems material, and shall thereupon determine the portion of the cost to be borne by each and immediately report to the court. If the report is accepted by the court, such determination shall, subject to right of appeal as in civil actions, be conclusive upon both parties.
(1949 Rev., S. 2200; 1951, S. 1192d; 1957, P.A. 211, S. 1; 1958 Rev., S. 13-9; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 101; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 03-115, S. 31.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 03-115 made technical changes.
See Sec. 13a-90 re bridges over artificial watercourses which Transportation Commissioner is responsible for maintaining.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-102. - Court may direct construction or repair of bridge.

When any town neglects to construct or repair a bridge across a river in a highway in such town, or when it is necessary to construct or repair any such bridge between towns or judicial districts and the towns liable therefor neglect, or do not agree, to construct or repair it, the superior court of the judicial district in which either town is situated, on complaint of any person, and legal notice given to the town liable for such construction or repairs, shall inquire by itself or committee into the public necessity and convenience thereof; and, if no sufficient reason is shown to the contrary, and such town or towns do not undertake to construct or repair such bridge within such time as the court directs, it may appoint some suitable person to do the same; and the expense thereof, being allowed by said court, shall be paid by such town or towns. Said court or such committee may estimate the damages, if any, sustained by any person or corporation by the construction of such bridge, due notice having been given to such person or corporation to appear and be heard, and, upon return of the report of any such committee into court, the same proceedings may be had in regard to such report and damages as are provided in sections 13a-52 to 13a-72, inclusive, for persons interested in laying out or altering a highway, in regard to remonstrance and reassessment of damages.
(1949 Rev., S. 2123; 1958 Rev., S. 13-7; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 102; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 4, 127.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district(s)” for “county(ies)”.
State's attorney cannot complain. 9 C. 32.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-104. - Proceeding against borough for failure to maintain highway.

Whenever any borough has assumed the care of the highways and sidewalks within its limits and the authorities of such borough fail to keep such highways and sidewalks in good and sufficient repair, the same proceedings may be had against such borough and the authorities thereof, to secure the repair of such highways and sidewalks, as are provided for in section 13a-103.
(1949 Rev., S. 2128; 1958 Rev., S. 13-12 (b); 1963, P.A. 226, S. 104.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-105. - Contracts for highway construction.

When any town has determined to construct or reconstruct any highway, section of highway or bridge, which construction or reconstruction is to be paid for from funds allotted to such town under the provisions of sections 13a-175a to 13a-175f, inclusive, and the commissioner has entered into an agreement with the selectmen of such town, as provided by sections 13a-175e and 13a-175f, said commissioner shall call for bids and award a contract for such construction or reconstruction in the manner provided by section 13a-95, except that, if, in the opinion of said commissioner, it is to the best interest of the state and such town, the commissioner may award to such town a contract for such construction or reconstruction upon such terms and conditions as the commissioner determines, provided the estimated unit prices under any contract so awarded shall not be in excess of ten per cent more than the average unit prices prevailing during the preceding twelve months for similar work in the state and provided such town shall have authorized the selectmen to enter into such contract in the name and on behalf of such town. Nothing in this section shall be construed to eliminate the use of force account work for the repair of town aid highways. The commissioner may, subject to the approval of the selectmen or legislative body of such town, enter into an agreement with a third party for additional construction or reconstruction works when requested to do so by such third party, provided such third party shall, immediately upon certification by the commissioner, pay to the State Treasurer the full cost to the state of such additional construction or reconstruction works. If under such agreement such additional construction or reconstruction works are carried out by such third party, they shall conform with all requirements and regulations of such town and such as may be prescribed by the commissioner.
(1949 Rev., S. 2178; 1958 Rev., S. 13-65; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 105; 1967, P.A. 701, S. 11; 1971, P.A. 582, S. 1; P.A. 02-89, S. 16.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act corrected obsolete statutory references; 1971 act added provisions re agreements between commissioner and third party for additional construction or reconstruction work; P.A. 02-89 replaced reference to Sec. 13a-175h with reference to Sec. 13a-175f, reflecting the repeal of Sec. 13a-175h by the same public act, and made technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-106. - Competitive bids not required when material available at price acceptable to commissioner.

When any town highway is maintained, improved, constructed or reconstructed on a force account basis by expenditure of funds allocated under sections 13a-175a to 13a-175f, inclusive, the furnishing of gravel, sand or wood posts by competitive bids under section 4a-57 shall not be required when suitable material, meeting Department of Transportation specifications, is available to the town at a unit price acceptable to the commissioner.
(1953, S. 1184d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-66; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 106; 1967, P.A. 701, S. 12; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 89; P.A. 02-89, S. 17.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act changed obsolete statutory references; 1969 act substituted commissioner and department of transportation for highway commissioner and department; P.A. 02-89 replaced reference to Sec. 13a-175h with reference to Sec. 13a-175f, reflecting the repeal of Sec. 13a-175h by the same public act.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-107. - Selectmen to open highway blocked with snow.

Whenever any highway becomes blocked with snow to an extent that renders the same impassable for public travel, the selectmen of the town in which such highway is located shall cause such highway to be opened for public travel at the expense of such town within a reasonable time thereafter, if they find the same to be required for public convenience and necessity. Any selectman who fails to open any highway so blocked, when requested in writing so to do by six taxpayers residing on or near such highway, shall be fined ten dollars. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any highway within the limits of any city or borough, unless the town has the supervision of the highways in such city or borough.
(1949 Rev., S. 2132; 1958 Rev., S. 13-16; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 107.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-108. - Rural free delivery route to be opened.

If the selectmen of any town fail, for a period of five days, to open, in accordance with the provisions of section 13a-107, any highway which is part of a rural free delivery route, any person or persons residing on such route may open such highway and shall be paid therefor by the town compensation at the prevailing rate of wages for such services; provided, if the selectmen have contracted with any other person to open such road, the amount paid by the town as compensation as herein provided may be recovered by such town from such contractor, unless otherwise expressly provided in such contract.
(1949 Rev., S. 2133; 1958 Rev., S. 13-17; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 108.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-109. - Apportionment of cost for work on bridge.

The commissioner or any municipality or other person who has performed any work on any bridge for a portion of the cost of which any other municipality or person is liable shall, within thirty days after the completion of such work, mail to each person liable for a portion of the cost of such work a statement of the total cost of such work, showing the proportionate share assessed against each interested party, and such amount assessed against each interested party shall thereupon become due and, if not paid within thirty days, shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum and shall be collectible in an action at law brought to the superior court for the judicial district wherein such bridge is located.
(1949 Rev., S. 2273; 1958 Rev., S. 13-129; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 109; P.A. 78-280, S. 24, 127.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 78-280 substituted superior court for “any court of competent jurisdiction” and “judicial district” for “county”.
That county or town has no money in its treasury, no defense against action to recover amount due. 70 C. 437.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-110. - Lighting on bridges, dangerous locations and intersections.

(a) The commissioner shall cause to be installed and shall maintain suitable lighting on any bridge or on any dangerous location or intersection on any state highway when he deems such lighting necessary to the safety of the public.
(b) The commissioner may provide, at the request of any interested town, person or company, a system of street lighting on any bridge on any state highway, under the provisions of section 13a-87, provided the state shall be reimbursed for the entire cost thereof by such town, person or company.
(c) The commissioner, upon request of any municipality, may enter into a written agreement with the municipality to reimburse it or any municipal district therein for twenty-five per cent of the cost of new highway lighting installations and the annual cost of operation thereof on agreed portions of unlimited access state-maintained highways, when he deems that such lighting will contribute to the safety of the public and the need for such lighting meets the requirements established by the commissioner.
(1949 Rev., S. 2241, 2271; 1957, P.A. 609; 1958 Rev., S. 13-122, 13-123, 13-127; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 76; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 110; P.A. 73-675, S. 17, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 13, 45.)
History: 1961 act removed obsolete reference to requests by counties in Subsec. (b), county government having been abolished in 1959; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 73-675 substituted transportation fund for highway fund in Subsec. (a); P.A. 75-568 deleted provision re payment of costs from transportation fund in Subsec. (a).
Cited. 198 C. 413.
Cited. 39 CS 234.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-111. - Railings on bridges and highways.

The party bound to maintain any bridge or highway shall erect and maintain a sufficient railing or fence on the sides of such bridge and on the sides of such parts of such road as are so made or raised above the ground as to be unsafe for travel. The specifications for railings or fences on state highways or bridges required to be erected and maintained pursuant to this section shall be constructed equal to, or better than, the current specifications and policies approved by the Commissioner of Transportation for the installation and maintenance of roadside appurtenances. A railing or fence that is reasonably maintained under said specifications shall be deemed sufficient under the provisions of this section.
(1961, P.A. 43; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 111; P.A. 98-182, S. 14, 22.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 98-182 deleted the requirement for the commissioner to promulgate regulations, required the specifications for railings or fences to be constructed equal to or better than current specifications and policies, effective July 1, 1998.
See Sec. 13a-152 re damages for failure to maintain railing or fence.
Annotations to former statute:
Proof of compliance with former provision deemed to raise conclusive presumption defendant discharged duty. 122 C. 99. Standard not generally applicable; applies only to highways specified. 129 C. 700.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-112. - Certain bridges to have draws.

No bridge without a draw shall be built or maintained across any water navigated by open-deck vessels for business purposes, whose passage would be impeded thereby. If any bridge is so maintained or its construction commenced, the Superior Court, or any judge thereof in vacation, upon the complaint of any party aggrieved, may enjoin the maintenance or construction of such bridge, and may order its removal at the expense of the respondent and that a suitable bridge be built, and may establish the width of the draw therein, but, whenever any highway is laid out over any navigable water, the committee of the Superior Court appointed with power to lay out such highway or a committee appointed by the Superior Court upon the application of the selectmen of the town which has laid out such highway may inquire, after due and reasonable notice to all parties interested, whether the building, construction or maintenance of a bridge without a draw will materially interfere with the navigation of such water by open-deck vessels for business purposes. If such committee finds that the construction or maintenance of such a bridge without a draw will not materially interfere with the navigation of such water, such committee, after giving at least five days' notice in the manner prescribed for the service of legal process to all persons owning wharves, docks or wharf privileges above such bridge, may assess the damages which the construction of such bridge without a draw will cause to the owners of such wharf or wharf privileges and, if the committee finds that the total amount of such damages, if paid by the town in which such bridge is located, will be more economical for such town than the construction or maintenance of such bridge with a draw, such bridge may be maintained, built or constructed without a draw, after the amount of damages so found has been paid to the parties entitled to the same or has been deposited in the town treasury subject to their order; and the amount of such damages shall be paid by the town in which the bridge is located, as a part of the expense of building or maintaining such highway or bridge. All persons interested in such wharves or wharf privileges shall be entitled to all of the privileges by way of remonstrance and reestimate of damages which are provided in part III of this chapter for persons interested in laying out or altering a highway. This section shall not be construed to authorize the construction of a bridge without a draw over Branford River below Hobart's Bridge.
(1949 Rev., S. 2120; 1958 Rev., S. 13-5; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 112.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; (Revisor's note: In 2003 a reference to “chapter 238” was changed editorally by the Revisors to “this chapter”).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-113. - Drawbridges to have gates.

The approaches to all drawbridges over which highways pass shall be provided, by the town or towns or owners of such bridges, with gates for the protection of travelers, subject to the approval of the selectmen of the town or towns in which such bridge or bridges may be located. Each bridge tender shall insure closure of such gates before the draw is opened. Any bridge tender who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 2121; 1958 Rev., S. 13-6; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 113.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-114. - Traffic control during department operations.

The commissioner or his agent may, while engaged in Department of Transportation operations, restrict, control and halt traffic. Anyone who disregards or disobeys the person so restricting, controlling or halting traffic shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 2238; 1958 Rev., S. 13-119; 1961, P.A. 206; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 114; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 90.)
History: 1961 act added provisions of this section to 1958 Rev., S. 13-119, other provisions of which are found in Secs. 13a-115 and 13a-145; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1969 act substituted department of transportation for highway department.
Cited. 39 CS 234.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-115. - Closing highways under construction, maintenance or repair.

(a) The Commissioner of Transportation may close or restrict traffic over any section of any state highway or bridge for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair by posting notices at each end of such section of highway or at each end of such bridge. Any person who, without a permit from the commissioner, closes any state highway or bridge shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.
(b) If in the course of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of any state highway, the commissioner finds it necessary to close a highway or bridge of any town, city, borough or municipal corporation, he shall have the authority to do so in the manner provided in subsection (a) of this section and the provisions of said subsection and section 13a-145 shall be applicable thereto.
(1949 Rev., S. 2238; 1957, P.A. 611, S. 2; 1958 Rev., S. 13-119, 13-192; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 115; 1967, P.A. 45, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 91; P.A. 75-248, S. 1, 2.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act included “reconstruction or repair” in Subsec. (b) and replaced “expressway” with “state highway”; 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; P.A. 75-248 included references to “maintenance” of highways.
See Sec. 13a-145 re use of closed highway at user's risk.
See Sec. 13a-257 re contractors' liability.
Cited. 27 CA 734.
Cited. 39 CS 234.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-116. - Warning signs.

On any road or bridge maintained by the state where repairs or construction are under way or on any road or bridge being constructed or reconstructed under supervision of the commissioner, the display of reflectorized signs erected under the provisions of sections 13a-115 and 13a-119 shall be deemed adequate warning, provided there are no openings or obstructions within the traveled portion of the road or adjacent thereto.
(1949, S. 1200d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-133; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 116.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
Cited. 193 C. 413.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-117. - Permit to operate truck between parts of industrial plant.

The commissioner may, if in his opinion it is equitable, grant a special permit for the operation of industrial trucks, tractors, trailers and semitrailers upon the highways of this state for the purpose of transporting goods, property or merchandise to and between buildings of the same industrial plant, provided the maximum distance on the highways over which such vehicle may be operated under such permit shall not exceed fifteen hundred feet, and may make necessary regulations as to their use thereon.
(1949 Rev., S. 2198; 1958 Rev., S. 13-84; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 117.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
See Sec. 14-24 re special registrations for heavy duty trailers, heavy construction equipment, etc.
See Sec. 14-49(l) re fee for registration of trucks used between parts of industrial plants.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-117a. (Formerly Sec. 13a-28). - Permit to operate service car or wrecker on limited access highway.

Section 13a-117a is repealed, effective June 29, 1993.
(1961, P.A. 46, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 29; 1969, P.A. 553, S. 1; P.A. 73-675, S. 18, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 14, 45; P.A. 84-429, S. 52; P.A. 93-307, S. 32, 34.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-117b. - Soliciting of business by service car and wrecker businesses.

No person, firm or corporation engaged in a service car or wrecker business shall solicit customers while on any limited access state highway. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
(1969, P.A. 553, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-118. - United States routes to be marked.

The commissioner shall on state highways, and may on town highways, mark, with standard shields, as approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials, the portion in this state of any route adopted by said association as a United States route. Such marking shall not be construed as approval of such route by said commissioner.
(1949 Rev., S. 2199; 1958 Rev., S. 13-85; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 118.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-119. - Warning and directional signs. Control cities.

(a) Whenever, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Transportation the same is necessary, said commissioner shall on any state highway, and may on any town highway, erect and maintain suitable warning and directional signs for the guidance of persons traveling thereon and may erect and maintain traffic control signals, devices, signs and markings on state highways, as approved by the Office of the State Traffic Administration. All of such signs and devices shall conform to the specifications of the manual of uniform traffic control devices as approved and revised by the Office of the State Traffic Administration.
(b) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, that set forth the criteria used for the designation of control cities in accordance with the standards established by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
(1949 Rev., S. 2246; 1958 Rev., S. 13-132; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 119; 523; P.A. 09-186, S. 53; P.A. 12-132, S. 7.)
History: 1963 acts added “devices” and requirement of conformance to specifications of uniform traffic control devices manual rather than standards of American association of state highway officials and restated previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 09-186 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), made technical changes therein and added Subsec. (b) re designation of control cities, effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 12-132 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-120. - Traffic authority to maintain warning signs.

The traffic authority of any city, town or borough shall erect and maintain suitable warning signs on highways under the jurisdiction of such traffic authority, legible from a distance of one hundred feet and located at a reasonable distance in each direction from schoolhouses or at a reasonable distance from the ends of hard surfaced highways, which signs shall designate the proximity of such schoolhouses or the ends of such hard surfaced highways; and such traffic authority shall erect and maintain similar warning signs in respect to bridges, dangerous curves and intersecting highways. All new and replacement signs, signals or markings erected in accordance with the requirements of this section shall conform to the specifications of the manual on uniform traffic control devices as approved and revised by the Office of the State Traffic Administration.
(1949 Rev., S. 2137; 1958 Rev., S. 13-21; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 120; 337; P.A. 12-132, S. 8.)
History: 1963 acts added mandatory requirement of maintenance of signs in re bridges, curves and intersections required that new and replacement signs, signals, etc. conform to specifications in manual on uniform traffic control devices and restated previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 12-132 replaced “State Traffic Commission” with “Office of the State Traffic Administration”, effective July 1, 2012.
Cited. 225 C. 217.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-121. - Notice of load capacity; appeal.

When the load-carrying capacity of any bridge on any highway is such that it will not carry safely any vehicle or combination of vehicle and trailer or semitrailer or any other object within the limits of the weights specified in section 14-267a, the authority having control of such bridge shall maintain notice at each end of such bridge legible at a distance of fifty feet, stating the maximum weight of vehicle which such bridge will carry safely. Any person may appeal from the restriction of the use of such bridge under the provisions of section 13a-89.
(1949 Rev., S. 2186; 1955, S. 1189d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-73; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 121; P.A. 79-188, S. 3, 10.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 79-188 substituted Sec. 14-267a for reference to repealed Sec. 14-268.
See Sec. 13a-88 re load capacity of bridges.
See Sec. 13a-151 re violation of load capacity of bridge.
See Sec. 14-269 re exemptions from weight restrictions for certain vehicles engaged in construction work.
When read with Sec. 14-222, amounts to a penal statute; where there was no evidence that the sign on the bridge was legible for 50 feet, defendants were not proved guilty of reckless driving beyond a reasonable doubt. 24 CS 155.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-122. - Installation of decorations in streets restricted.

No person, firm or corporation, or any group or organization of persons, shall install any decorations or cause them to be installed within the limits of any highway without having received a permit to do so from the traffic authority having control of such highway. No decorations shall be so installed as to obstruct a clear view by any motor vehicle operator or pedestrian of any traffic control signal and, if such decorations include colored lights, no red, green or amber light shall be so placed as to be mistaken for a traffic control signal.
(1959, P.A. 153; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 122.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123a. - Church signs on state highways.

Section 13a-123a is repealed, effective July 1, 1998.
(February, 1965, P.A. 430; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 93; P.A. 98-182, S. 21, 22.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123b. - Exemption of certain areas.

If Congress amends Title I of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 to exempt any area adjacent to any interstate or primary federal-aid highway or any such highway in whole or in part from control of outdoor advertising structures, signs, displays or devices, then such area, or highway or portion thereof, shall be excluded from any regulations by the Commissioner of Transportation for the control of outdoor advertising structures, signs, displays and devices along the interstate and primary systems of federal-aid highways.
(1967, P.A. 632, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 94.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123c. - Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions.

As used in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, “highway” means the federal interstate and primary systems and limited access state highways as defined in section 13a-1; “federal interstate system” means that portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways located within this state, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the Commissioner of Transportation and approved by the Secretary of Commerce, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code; “federal primary system” means that portion of connected main highways, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the commissioner and approved by the Secretary of Commerce, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23, United States Code; “junk” means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material; “automobile graveyard” means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts; “junkyard” means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, garbage dumps and sanitary fills; “scrap metal processing facility” means an establishment having facilities for processing iron, steel or nonferrous scrap and whose principal produce is scrap iron, steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes only; and “effective control” means that, by January 1, 1968, junkyards, and scrap metal processing facilities, existing in violation of sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall be screened by natural objects, plantings, fences or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of any highway, as hereinafter defined, or shall be removed from sight.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 95.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
See Sec. 14-67g et seq. re motor vehicle junk yards.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123d. - Regulations.

The Commissioner of Transportation may promulgate regulations for effective control of junkyards and scrap metal processing facilities, in accordance with Section 136, Title 23 of the United States Code, situated within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of a highway.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 96.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123e. - Certificate of approval.

No person, firm or corporation shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard, or scrap metal processing facility, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of a highway without obtaining a certificate of approval from the Commissioner of Transportation that such junkyard or scrap metal processing facility may be effectively controlled as required by sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive. No license shall be issued under chapter 405 or 406 if any portion of the business requiring such license is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of any highway, as defined in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, unless such certificate of approval has been obtained from the commissioner.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 97.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner and deleted obsolete reference to applicability “on and after October 1, 1967”.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123f. - Screening of certain installations. Acquisition of property by Commissioner of Transportation.

(a) Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, lawfully in existence on October 1, 1967, which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled way of any highway, as herein defined, and any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, which is at any time lawfully established within one thousand feet of such edge and visible from the main traveled way of any highway which at any time after October 1, 1967, is made a part of the interstate or primary system, shall be screened, if feasible, by the Commissioner of Transportation at locations within the highway right-of-way or in areas acquired for such purposes outside the right-of-way so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of such highways.
(b) When the commissioner determines that the topography of the land adjoining the highway will not permit adequate screening of such junkyards or scrap metal processing facilities, or the screening of such junkyards or scrap metal processing facilities would not be economically feasible, the commissioner may acquire by gift, purchase, exchange or condemnation such interests in lands on which the junkyard or scrap metal processing facility is located as may be necessary to secure the removal or disposal of the junkyards or scrap metal processing facilities, and pay for the costs of removal or disposal thereof. When the commissioner determines that it is in the best interest of the state, he may acquire by purchase, gift, exchange or condemnation such lands, or interests in lands, of the junkyard owner or scrap metal processing facility owner as may be necessary to provide adequate screening of such junkyards or scrap metal processing facilities, and he may purchase land or interests in land from owners other than the junkyard owner or scrap metal processing facility owner for the purpose of providing adequate screening of such junkyards or scrap metal processing facilities.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 4; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 98; P.A. 02-89, S. 18.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; P.A. 02-89 deleted as obsolete Subsec. (c) providing that a nonconforming junkyard or scrap metal processing facility in existence on October 22, 1965, which cannot be screened shall not be required to be removed until July 1, 1970.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123g. - Facilities as nuisance. Abatement.

Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, established or maintained in violation of sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, or any regulation adopted thereunder, is declared to be a public nuisance and the Commissioner of Transportation may request the Attorney General to initiate proceedings at law or in equity to abate the nuisance, if, after said commissioner has given thirty days' notice, by certified mail, to the owner of the property on which such junkyard or scrap metal processing facility is located, such owner has not removed the same.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 5; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 99.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123h. - Provisions of other statutes, ordinances, etc., not abrogated.

Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any statute, ordinance, regulation or resolution which are more restrictive than the provisions of said sections.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 6.)
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123i. - Facilities in industrial area not affected.

Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall apply to any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility which is located within an area zoned for industrial use or which is within an area not so zoned but which is used for industrial activities as determined from actual land uses as defined by regulations of the Commissioner of Transportation.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 7; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 100.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
Cited. 41 CS 66.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-123j. - Agreements with Secretary of Commerce.

The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Commerce of the United States as provided by Section 136 of Title 23 of the United States Code, and to act in the name of the state to comply with the terms of such agreement.
(1967, P.A. 688, S. 8; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 101.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
Cited. 212 C. 176.
Cited. 41 CS 66.