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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act › Section 16-50o. - Record of hearing. Rights of parties. Administrative notice re electromagnetic fields.

(a) A record shall be made of the hearing and of all testimony taken and the cross-examinations thereon. Every party or group of parties as provided in section 16-50n shall have the right to present such oral or documentary evidence and to conduct such cross-examination as may be required for a full and true disclosure of the facts.
(b) For an application on a facility described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i, the council shall administratively notice completed and ongoing scientific and medical research on electromagnetic fields.
(c) The applicant shall submit into the record the full text of the terms of any agreement, and a statement of any consideration therefor, if not contained in such agreement, entered into by the applicant and any party to the certification proceeding, or any third party, in connection with the construction or operation of the facility. This provision shall not require the public disclosure of proprietary information or trade secrets.
(d) A copy of the record shall be available at all reasonable times for examination by the public without cost at the principal office of the council. A copy of the transcript of testimony at the hearing shall be filed at an appropriate public office, as determined by the council, in each county in which the facility or any part thereof is proposed to be located.
(1971, P.A. 575, S. 9; P.A. 75-375, S. 6, 12; P.A. 03-140, S. 9; P.A. 04-246, S. 8, 9; P.A. 14-94, S. 30.)
History: P.A. 75-375 included grouped parties in Subsec. (a) and required transcript copy to be filed at designated public office in county rather than municipality where facility to be located; P.A. 03-140 added new Subsec. (b) re submitting into the record terms of agreements, added Subsec. (c) re results of the evaluation process and redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (d), effective October 1, 2004; P.A. 04-246 added new Subsec. (b) re administrative notice of research on electromagnetic fields and redesignated existing Subsecs., effective June 3, 2004, and applicable to applications for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need that was originally filed on or after October 1, 2003, for which the Connecticut Siting Council has not rendered a decision upon the record prior to June 3, 2004; P.A. 14-94 deleted former Subsec. (d) re results of the evaluation process and redesignated existing Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (d), effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act › Section 16-50q. - Judicial review.

Any party may obtain judicial review of an order issued on an application for a certificate or an amendment of a certificate in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183. Any judicial review sought pursuant to this chapter shall be privileged in respect to assignment for trial in the Superior Court.
(1971, P.A. 575, S. 11; 1972, P.A. 108, S. 3; P.A. 73-458, S. 9; P.A. 76-436, S. 360, 681; P.A. 77-603, S. 14, 125.)
History: 1972 act replaced superior court with court of common pleas, effective September 1, 1972, except that courts with cases pending retain jurisdiction; P.A. 73-458 deleted provisions re rehearing on applications as intermediate step to judicial review and deleted provision re finding of facts de novo; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court and added reference to judicial districts, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 77-603 replaced previous provision detailing procedure for judicial review with statement that review to be obtained in accordance with Sec. 4-183.
Since appellate review for both issuance of original certificates and for amendments thereto is provided for, it is not intended that application for amendment opens, for all purposes including appellate review, the previously issued granting of certification. 177 C. 623. Cited. 212 C. 157; 220 C. 516.
Cited. 37 CA 653; judgment reversed, see 238 C. 361. Section does not confer automatic statutory aggrievement on parties to appeal adverse decision of council. 133 CA 851.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act › Section 16-50s. - Expenditures by utilities as consideration in proceedings.

The council may give appropriate consideration in all proceedings to (1) the amounts expended by a utility for research on generation and transmission of the form of energy furnished by it and the environmental effect thereof, (2) the amounts expended by such utility for promotion, including advertising, of the use of the form of energy furnished by it and (3) the relationship between such expenditures.
(1971, P.A. 575, S. 14.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act › Section 16-50u. - Enforcement of certificate and standards requirements.

The council shall take reasonable steps to insure that each facility for which a certificate has been issued is constructed, maintained and operated in compliance with such certificate and any other standards established pursuant to this chapter. Whenever the council deems it necessary to verify such compliance and whenever the meeting of any such other standards involves expenses, the person to whom such certificate has been issued shall be charged with and pay such expenses. The courts are authorized to grant such restraining orders, and such temporary and permanent injunctive relief, as may be necessary to secure compliance with this chapter and with a certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. The courts may assess civil penalties in an amount not less than one thousand dollars per day for each day of construction or operation in material violation of this chapter, or in material violation of any certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. Civil proceedings to enforce this chapter may be brought by the Attorney General in the superior court for any judicial district affected by the violation. The remedies and penalties in this section shall be cumulative and shall be in addition to any other penalties and remedies available at law, or in equity, to any person.
(1971, P.A. 575, S. 16; P.A. 73-458, S. 11; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 73-458 substituted “established pursuant to this chapter” for “applicable to such facility” as phrase modifying “standards”; P.A. 78-280 replaced “county” with “judicial district”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277a - Public Utility Environmental Standards Act › Section 16-50w. - Conflicting provisions.

In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any provisions of the general statutes, as amended, or any special act, this chapter shall take precedence.
(1971, P.A. 575, S. 18.)
Cited. 35 CS 303.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277b - Wireless Facilities › Section 16-50bbb. - Processes for siting small wireless facilities on municipal property.

(a) The Office of Policy and Management, in consultation with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Office of Consumer Counsel, the State Broadband Office and the Connecticut Siting Council, shall work with municipalities and representatives of the wireless industry to encourage the establishment of streamlined processes for siting small wireless facilities on municipal property, in accordance with any applicable Federal Communications Commission rules, regulations or orders. For purposes of this section, “small wireless facilities” has the same meaning as provided in 47 CFR 1.6002, as amended from time to time, and “municipal property” means property owned by a municipality, municipal public rights-of-way and buildings, structures and easements owned by municipalities, and does not include real and personal property of a public service company as defined in section 16-1.
(b) Not later than January 30, 2020, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, in accordance with section 11-4a, shall make recommendations concerning the establishment of streamlined processes for siting small wireless facilities on municipal property to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy and technology.
(P.A. 19-163, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 19-163 effective July 1, 2019.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 278 - Railroads and Railways (See Chapter 245) › Section 16-72. - Sunday laws not applicable to electric cars or motor buses.

Section 16-72 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5462; P.A. 76-415, S. 9; 76-435, S. 81, 82.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 280 - Railroad Operations (See Chapter 245b) › Section 16-181. - Sunday trains. Freight. Forfeiture.

Section 16-181 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5563; P.A. 76-415, S. 9; 76-435, S. 81, 82.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 281 - Street Railway Operations (Repealed) › Section 16-191 to 16-203. - Location in highway; payment for certain repairs. Failure to repair or pay costs. Agreements for repairs. Company liable for defects. Notice to commissioner of repairs on highway. Apportionment of expense of repair of highway. Appeal. Liability of railroad companies not affected. Location of tracks and equipment. Company to pay cost of bridge maintenance over amount required for highway traffic. Relocation on private way. Supervision of construction and equipment. Orders on company's application.

Sections 16-191 to 16-203, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5574
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5584, 5590, 5591; February, 1965, P.A. 574, S. 22; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 225
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232; 1971, P.A. 870, S. 107; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 76-436, S. 362, 681; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 88
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94, 348; P.A. 85-246, S. 22.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 281 - Street Railway Operations (Repealed) › Section 16-204 and 16-205. - Right of certain companies to lay tracks to cease. Failure to operate railway.

Sections 16-204 and 16-205 are repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1949 Rev., S. 5594, 5595; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 281 - Street Railway Operations (Repealed) › Section 16-206. - Appeal by adjoining owner.

Section 16-206 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5596; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 233; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 95, 348; P.A. 85-246, S. 22.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 281 - Street Railway Operations (Repealed) › Section 16-207 and 16-208. - May operate motor buses and discontinue cars. Street railway company operating motor buses may change capital structure.

Sections 16-207 and 16-208 are repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1949 Rev., S. 5616, 5617; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 234; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 96, 97, 348; P.A. 85-246, S. 11, 12; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 281 - Street Railway Operations (Repealed) › Section 16-210 to 16-215. - Rights of trustees and others after foreclosure. Court may order sale. Rights and liabilities of reorganized corporation. Certificate of reorganization to be filed. Sale of mortgaged property when electrical operation abandoned and buses substituted. Mortgage of bus lines.

Sections 16-210 to 16-215, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1, 2002.
(1949 Rev., S. 5621
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5626; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 187; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-216. - Issuance of bonds.

Each railroad company may borrow money and give its bonds therefor, signed by its president and countersigned by its treasurer, and may dispose thereof as authorized by its stockholders. Any bonds issued by virtue of the general authority conferred by this section shall, before being issued, be registered in the office of the Comptroller, and a certificate of such registration shall appear on each bond so issued. The Comptroller shall cancel any bonds so registered which are brought to him for cancellation and enter a memorandum of such cancellation in his register. No such company, by virtue of the general authority conferred by this section, shall issue any bonds of a lesser denomination than one hundred dollars or have bonds, issued under such authority and without other authority from the General Assembly, outstanding at any one time to a greater amount than one-half the sum which its president, treasurer and an engineer approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority certify under oath has been actually expended upon its railroad, and any false swearing in the matter shall be deemed false statement under section 53a-157b. The Comptroller shall not permit the bonds of any railroad company, issued under authority of this section, registered in his office and uncancelled, to exceed the amount limited in this section.
(1949 Rev., S. 5627; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 91; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 98, 348; P.A. 85-246, S. 13; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: 1971 act made false swearing a violation of provisions re false statement rather than perjury; P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 85-246 deleted references to street railway companies; 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.
Action does not lie on interest warrant annexed to bond, but not containing promise. 26 C. 120. Measure of damages for nonpayment of principal of bonds held to be interest at rate fixed by contract. 29 C. 268.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-217. - Securing of bonds by mortgage.

Any railroad company may secure its lawfully issued bonds by a mortgage of its property, or any part thereof, by deed executed by its president, under the corporate seal, to the Treasurer of the state and his successors in office, or other trustee, in trust for the holders of such bonds. Such mortgage shall be recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State and need not be recorded in the records of towns within which the property so mortgaged is situated.
(1949 Rev., S. 5628; P.A. 85-246, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 85-246 deleted reference to street railway companies.
Mortgage of franchise sustained. 23 C. 435. General railroad mortgage held to cover office furniture; 46 C. 129; to cover property acquired after date of mortgage; Id., 156; not to cover lands outside of layout, subsequently acquired and not needed by company; but to cover lands purchased with company's funds, though title was in names of officers. 50 C. 150. Priorities as between supply and other unsecured creditors and mortgage bond holders. 76 C. 17; 101 C. 13; 108 C. 217. Effect of failure to record. 89 C. 59. Rights of bondholder after foreclosure and under reorganization agreement. 90 C. 34.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-218. - Property subsequently acquired covered by mortgage; foreclosure.

When any railroad company has mortgaged, or mortgages, its railroad, pursuant to law, to secure its bonds, and has included or includes in such mortgage all or any part of its rolling stock, locomotives, cars and other personal property, and of its property, whether real or personal, thereafter to be acquired by it for use upon such railroad, such mortgage shall be deemed valid and effectual as respects all the property therein included as aforesaid and may be foreclosed in the same manner as ordinary mortgages of real estate; and the record thereof in the office of the Secretary of the State shall be sufficient record and notice to protect the title under the mortgage, although such company remains in possession of the mortgaged property.
(1949 Rev., S. 5629; P.A. 85-246, S. 15.)
History: P.A. 85-246 deleted references to street railway companies.
Held that railroad mortgage could only be foreclosed by State Treasurer. 50 C. 159.
Cited. 28 CS 459.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-219. - Surrender of road to mortgage trustee.

When any such company has mortgaged its property or any part thereof to any person, in trust, for the security of its creditors, or any class of them, and has made default in the payment of principal or interest due such creditors, any such creditor may bring his complaint to the superior court, for any judicial district in which such railroad or any part thereof is located, setting forth such fact and claiming that such trustee may be placed in possession of such property, for the benefit of such creditors. Such complaint shall be heard and determined at the first session of the court to which it is returnable, unless continued for reasonable cause; and, if the allegations therein are found true, such court shall decree that such company and its president and directors, under a suitable penalty, shall surrender such mortgaged property to the trustee, for the benefit of such creditors.
(1949 Rev., S. 5630; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 replaced “county” with “judicial district”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-220. - Liability of trustee limited.

When any such trustee has taken possession of any property pursuant to the provisions of section 16-219, or pursuant to any authority contained in the mortgage or deed of trust, he shall take charge of and operate such railroad or railroad property for the benefit of the creditors for whom such trust was created, and shall not be personally liable for any injury arising from the operation of such road, unless resulting from his wilful mismanagement, or for any contracts made by him as such trustee; but all such property shall be liable for the acts and proceedings of such trustee, in the execution of his trust, to the extent of the interest of the creditors for whose benefit he acts, and any proceeding for the purpose of making such property liable shall be brought against such trustee, describing him as such.
(1949 Rev., S. 5631.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-221. - Inventory.

The trustee, upon taking possession of such property, shall make, under oath, an inventory of all property which comes into his possession and lodge it for record in the office of the Secretary of the State; and, if any other property afterward is discovered by him, he shall make and lodge a like inventory.
(1949 Rev., S. 5632.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-222. - Accounts. Trustee may complete foreclosure.

The trustee, while operating such road, shall file quarterly, in the office of the Secretary of the State, an account of all moneys received or disbursed by him in the course of his agency; and may proceed at his discretion, in the superior court for any judicial district in which such railroad or any part thereof is located, to foreclose against such company and all subsequent encumbrancers, for the benefit of the bondholders or other creditors for whom he acts; and such court may limit the time for the redemption of the mortgaged property, as in ordinary foreclosure proceedings.
(1949 Rev., S. 5633; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 replaced “county” with “judicial district”.
Trustee represents all bondholders, and they need not be given personal notice of judicial proceedings. 53 C. 349.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-223. - Court may remove trustee and appoint successor.

If such trustee neglects or unnecessarily delays to perform his duties, any creditor represented by such trustee may apply to the superior court for any judicial district in which such railroad or any part thereof is located, for such trustee's removal. Such application shall be privileged in the order of its trial, and, if the allegations therein set forth are found true, such court may remove such trustee from his office and appoint another in his stead.
(1949 Rev., S. 5634; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 replaced “county” with “judicial district”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-224. - Prior encumbrancers not affected.

Nothing in sections 16-219 to 16-223, inclusive, shall affect any mortgage, trust or lien upon the property foreclosed, which was created prior to the mortgage, trust or lien, under which such trustee may act; but the trustees for all such prior encumbrancers may proceed, by foreclosure or otherwise, notwithstanding any act or proceedings by subsequent encumbrancers or their trustees.
(1949 Rev., S. 5635.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-225. - Trustee to have same powers as company.

When any such railroad is in the possession of a trustee, he shall have the same rights, powers and privileges as are conferred upon railroad companies; and all expenses and damages incurred in good faith by such trustee in possession, to improve the lines of the railroad so in his charge, shall be reimbursed to him from the earnings of such railroad while he has the possession thereof.
(1949 Rev., S. 5636.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-226. - Administration expenses.

The expenses of operating such railroad or other property, including repairs and all other reasonable expenses of the trustee, and any damages incurred for any injury sustained during the time of his execution of such trust, and all claims secured by any prior mortgages or encumbrances which have become payable before or during said time, and also a reasonable compensation to be allowed to the trustee by the Superior Court, shall be deducted from the earnings of the road, before any part of such earnings is paid to the creditors.
(1949 Rev., S. 5637.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 282 - Railroad and Railway Bonds and Mortgages › Section 16-227. - Purchasers under foreclosure may reorganize corporation. Certificate.

Whenever the property and franchises of any railroad company have been sold pursuant to a judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, in a suit for the enforcement of foreclosure of a mortgage on such railroad, the purchaser or purchasers at such sale, or his or their grantees and their associates and successors, if they desire to continue the operation of such railroad, shall, upon filing in the office of the Secretary of the State the certificate herein provided for, be a corporation by the name designated in such certificate, with power to hold, use, maintain and operate such railroad, with all the powers enjoyed by railroad companies under the laws of this state. Such certificate shall be signed, sealed and acknowledged by the persons who have acquired such property and franchises, or a majority of them, and shall set forth: (1) The name of the corporation; (2) the names of such persons, not less than twenty-five in number, as have associated themselves together for the organization of such corporation, and the names of the persons who compose the first board of directors; (3) the amount of capital stock and the number of shares into which the same is divided; (4) the owners of such shares at the date of filing such certificate. The amount of such capital stock shall not exceed the total value of the railroad together with its franchises, which value shall be determined by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. The first board of directors shall adopt bylaws relating to the management of the affairs of the corporation, which bylaws may be amended by the stockholders.
(1949 Rev., S. 5638; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 99, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-228. - Telephone lines.

Subject to the restrictions of sections 16-18 and 16-248, each telephone company may construct and maintain telephone lines, upon any highway or across any waters in this state, by the erection and maintenance of the necessary fixtures, including posts, piers or abutments, for sustaining wires; but the same shall not be so constructed as to incommode public travel or navigation or injure any tree without the consent of the owner, nor shall such company construct any bridge across any waters. Such lines shall be personal property.
(1949 Rev., S. 5639; P.A. 85-187, S. 9, 15; P.A. 13-5, S. 6; P.A. 14-134, S. 127.)
History: P.A. 85-187 deleted obsolete reference to Sec. 16-247; P.A. 13-5 deleted provision re telegraph company and telegraph lines, effective May 8, 2013; P.A. 14-134 deleted references to Secs. 16-249 and 16-250, effective June 6, 2014.
See Sec. 16-236 re appraisal of damages and assessment of costs.
Selectmen's permission does not justify telephone company in cutting trees on highway. 66 C. 559. Right of nonresident telegraph company to enter state and use highways. 91 C. 38. Cited. 235 C. 408.
Cited. 44 CS 45.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-229. - Excavation in highway.

Any public service company incorporated under the provisions of the statutes or by special act for the purpose of transmitting or distributing gas, water or electricity or for telephone purposes, desiring to open or make any excavation in a portion of any public highway for the carrying out of any purpose for which it may be organized other than the placing or replacing of a pole or of a curb box, shall, if required by the authority having jurisdiction over the maintenance of such highway, make application to such authority, which may, in writing, grant a permit for such opening or excavation upon such terms and conditions as to the manner in which such work shall be carried on as may be reasonable.
(1949 Rev., S. 5640; 1959, P.A. 262.)
History: 1959 act added water companies to scope of section.
Cited. 162 C. 53.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-230. - Bond requirement.

Before any such public service company makes any such application, it shall file with the Secretary of the State a bond, with surety, in form and amount satisfactory to and approved by him, to save harmless any person or corporation which may be injured by the negligent carrying on of such work, which bond may be a continuing bond to cover all of such work conducted by such public service company in this state during the term of such bond, but said Secretary may dispense with the filing of any such bond upon the furnishing to him of satisfactory proof of the solvency and the financial ability of such public service company to pay any damages resulting from such negligent carrying on of such work, and said Secretary shall issue to such company his certificate that such bond has been filed or proof of solvency furnished. No such bond or further proof of solvency and financial ability shall be required by the Secretary of the State, or by any other authority, of any such public service company which has, within the preceding twelve months, filed with the Secretary of the State a certification, attested by the secretary of such company, that the combined paid-in capital and surplus of such company is not less than five hundred thousand dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 5641; 1957, P.A. 85; 1971, P.A. 367.)
History: 1971 act made waiver of bond applicable to companies with capital and surplus of $500,000 or more rather than $150,000 or more.
Cited. 162 C. 53.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-231. - Appeal.

Any such company aggrieved by the neglect or refusal of the authority having such jurisdiction to grant such permit, or by the terms and conditions therein imposed, may appeal to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, which may, upon giving reasonable notice of such appeal and of the time and place where it will be heard, determine whether such permit ought to be granted, or such terms and conditions altered, and may, subject to such right of appeal to the Superior Court as provided in the case of other orders, authorizations and decisions of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, grant such permit in writing upon such terms and conditions as to the carrying on of such work as it finds just and reasonable.
(1949 Rev., S. 5642; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 100, 348; P.A. 11-80, S.1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
Cited. 162 C. 53.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-231a. - Cuts and permanent patches in highway. Inspections. Repairs. Certification.

A public service company, as defined in section 16-1, a municipal waterworks system established under chapter 102, a district, metropolitan district, municipal district or special services district established under chapter 105 or 105a, any other general statute or any public or special act, which is authorized to supply water, or any other waterworks system owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or controlled by any unit of local government under any general statute or any public or special act, or a contractor of such entity, that cuts and permanently patches a public highway in the course of repairs or installations shall, one year after such permanent patch is made, (1) inspect such permanent patch, (2) make any additional repairs as may be necessary, and (3) certify to the municipality in which such patch is located that such patch meets generally accepted standards of repair. Any municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, elect not to enforce the requirements of this section.
(P.A. 11-80, S. 95.)
History: P.A. 11-80 effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-232. - Rights of companies organized under general law.

No electric distribution company organized under any former joint stock law of this state shall use or occupy any highway or public grounds or be entitled to the powers or privileges enumerated in this chapter, without special authority from the General Assembly.
(1949 Rev., S. 5643; P.A. 14-134, S. 72.)
History: P.A. 14-134 replaced “electric light or electric power company” with “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.
Electric light and power company is a public service corporation. 84 C. 312.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-233. - Use of gain by town, city, borough, fire district or Department of Transportation.

Each town, city, borough, fire district or the Department of Transportation shall have the right to occupy and use for any purpose, without payment therefor, one gain upon each public utility pole or in each underground communications duct system installed by a public service company within the limits of any such town, city, borough or district. The location or relocation of any such gain shall be prescribed by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Any such gain shall be reserved for use by the town, city, borough, fire district or the Department of Transportation.
(1949 Rev., S. 5644; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 101, 348; P.A. 94-188, S. 14; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-247, S. 62.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 94-188 granted the department of transportation the right to occupy and use for state signal wires, without payment therefor, one gain upon each public utility pole or in each underground communications duct system installed by a public service company and added a provision that any such gain would be reserved for use by the town, city, borough, fire district or the department of transportation; 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; P.A. 13-247 replaced “municipal and state signal wires” with “any purpose”, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-236. - Appraisal of damages; costs.

Any judge of the Superior Court may, upon the application of any party interested, and after notice, unless the application has been unreasonably delayed, appoint three disinterested persons to make a written appraisal of all damages due any person by reason of anything done under any provision of section 16-228 or 16-234 or which is in violation of any order made under section 16-235. Such appraisal, when approved by such judge, shall be returned to and recorded by the clerk of the superior court for the judicial district where the cause of action arose, and thereupon the sum specified therein shall be paid immediately by the company to the party entitled to the same, or the judge may order the same to be paid immediately into the hands of such clerk, to be delivered by him on demand to such party. The costs of such proceedings shall be taxed by such judge and paid by such company, and he may issue execution therefor and for such damages.
(1949 Rev., S. 5647; 1963, P.A. 349; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: 1963 act added “violations of orders under” Sec. 16-235 to first sentence; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.
Section valid; taking of land is not for private purpose. 90 C. 179; 92 C. 635. Cited. 149 C. 100. Legislative history. Id., 102. Indicates legislative intent to depart from strict eminent domain principles as basis for damages and to provide for payment, to any party interested, of damages for anything done under or by authority of Sec. 16-235. Id., 104. Claim that plaintiff asking for damages under section is required first to appeal to commission from the granting of the permit is without merit; claim that phrase “anything done” under Sec. 16-235 is restricted to case where there has been a physical invasion of plaintiff's property is without merit. 152 C. 690. Whether plaintiff's application has been unreasonably delayed is an issue of fact, dependent upon the surrounding circumstances. Id., 691.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-237. - No prescriptive right.

No person or corporation building and maintaining telephone or electric light or power wires or fixtures, or electrical wires, conductors or fixtures of any kind shall, by reason of any occupation or use of any buildings or lands for the support of the wires of such person or corporation, or by reason of such wires passing over or through any buildings or lands, acquire by the continuance of such use or occupation any prescriptive right to so occupy or use the same. No length of possession, user or occupancy of any buildings or land, or adverse to any easement therein or right thereto belonging to a telephone or electric distribution company, and used or acquired for use for its corporate purposes, shall create or continue any right in or to such land, or adverse to any such easement.
(1949 Rev., S. 5648; P.A. 14-134, S. 31.)
History: P.A. 14-134 deleted references to telegraph and changed “electric light or power corporation” to “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.
Trial court properly determined that statute precluded defendants from invoking the law of adverse possession to justify their continued unauthorized use of plainitff utility company's property; defendants' claim that statute was inapplicable because waters of lake were not “buildings or land” was unavailing given that dock was attached to land owned by plaintiff. 92 CA 753.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-238. - Wires may be cut; notice.

When it is deemed necessary to cut or otherwise disconnect the wires or fixtures of any telephone, electric distribution company or other company or association hereinbefore referred to, or to remove such wires from the poles or fixtures to which they are attached, for the transportation of any object on the highway or upon any waterway, any person or corporation may do so, exercising reasonable care therein, after obtaining written consent of the municipality or other authority having control over such highway or waterway and the public service company or companies affected, which consent may be granted under such reasonable conditions as such municipality or other authority having such control and such company or companies may impose. If such consent cannot be secured, or if any of such conditions is not acceptable to the person or corporation seeking such consent, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall, upon written application by such person or corporation and after notice to all parties affected, determine the necessity of such disconnection or removal and order the terms and conditions under which it shall be made.
(1949 Rev., S. 5649; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 104, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 32.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-134 deleted reference to telegraph company and changed “electric light or power company” to “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-240 to 16-242. - Delivery of messages. Mortgage by telegraph company. Telephone service to telegraph companies.

Sections 16-240 to 16-242, inclusive, are repealed, effective May 8, 2013.
(1949 Rev., S. 5652
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5654; P.A. 13-5, S. 52.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-243. - Jurisdiction of authority over electricity transmission lines.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall have exclusive jurisdiction and direction over the method of construction or reconstruction in whole or in part of each system used for the transmission or distribution of electricity, with the kind, quality and finish of all materials, wires, poles, conductors and fixtures to be used in the construction and operation thereof, and the method of their use, including all plants and apparatus used for generating electricity located upon private property upon which there are conductors capable of transmitting electricity to other premises in such manner as to endanger any person or property. The authority may make any order necessary to the exercise of such power and direction, which order shall be in writing and entered in the records of the authority. Each person or corporation operating any such system or generating plant shall, at its expense, comply with such order. Any person violating any provision of any such order shall be subject to the penalty prescribed in section 16-41.
(1949 Rev., S. 5655; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 105, 348; P.A. 98-28, S. 101, 117; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 98-28 added the distribution of electricity, effective July 1, 1998; 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.
See Sec. 16-235 re control of placing, erection and maintenance of wires and other fixtures by local authorities.
Cited. 140 C. 650. Exclusive jurisdiction over direction of power line on private land is within the commission. 161 C. 430. Cited. 162 C. 89. Contains constitutionally adequate standards. 165 C. 687. Cited. 168 C. 478.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-243aa. - Distribution of electricity across a public highway or street by a municipality or state or federal governmental entity.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall authorize any municipality or state or federal governmental entity that owns, operates or leases any Class I renewable energy source, as defined in section 16-1, Class III source, as defined in section 16-1, or generation source under five megawatts, to independently distribute electricity generated from any such source across a public highway or street, provided (1) any such source is connected to a municipal microgrid, as defined in subdivision (5) of subsection (a) of section 16-243y, and (2) to ensure the reliability and availability of the microgrid delivery system and the safety of the public, such municipality or state or federal governmental entity shall engage the applicable electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, to complete the interconnection of such microgrid to the electric grid in accordance with the authority's interconnection standards. For purposes of this section, any such municipality or governmental entity shall not be considered an electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1.
(P.A. 13-298, S. 39; P.A. 14-134, S. 80.)
History: P.A. 13-298 effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-134 replaced “electric company” with “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-243bb. - Adjustment of electric distribution company residential fixed charge.

(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Residential fixed charge” means any fixed fee charged to residential electric customers, including, but not limited to, (A) a fixed charge for distribution basic service, (B) a distribution customer service charge, (C) a customer charge, or (D) a basic service fee which is separate and distinct from any distribution charge per kilowatt-hour.
(2) “Electric distribution company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.
(b) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall adjust each electric distribution company's residential fixed charge upon such company's filing with the authority an amendment of rate schedules pursuant to section 16-19 to recover only the fixed costs and operation and maintenance expenses directly related to metering, billing, service connections and the provision of customer service.
(c) The provisions in subsection (b) of this section shall not permit or enable the authority to cause a cost shift to other rate classes.
(d) This section shall not apply to electric customers that subscribe to a residential electric heating service rate class.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 105.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies › Section 16-243c. - Electricity transmission and distribution services for electric cooperatives utilizing cogeneration technology and renewable energy resources.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may issue orders requiring electric distribution companies to provide, within their service areas, electricity transmission and distribution services between a generating facility operated by an electric cooperative under subsection (b) of section 33-219 and those members of the cooperative operating the facility to whom the cooperative is authorized to furnish electricity under subsection (d) of section 33-221 and governing the rates for the service. The authority may not issue any order under this subsection which would significantly impair the ability of an electric distribution company to perform its responsibilities to the public or would otherwise be contrary to the purposes of this title.
(P.A. 81-439, S. 11, 14; P.A. 84-512, S. 15, 30; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 75.)
History: P.A. 84-512 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 16a-35; 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; P.A. 14-134 replaced references to electric company with references to electric distribution company, effective June 6, 2014.