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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 236 - Definitions and Administration › Section 13a-10. - Powers and duties. Bills. Account.

The superintendent of highways and bridges shall possess the powers and shall perform the duties in and for such town which are conferred and imposed by law upon the selectmen for the care and maintenance of highways, bridges and sidewalks, and all provisions of the general statutes or special acts conferring powers and imposing duties upon the selectmen for the care and maintenance of highways, bridges and sidewalks and the building and opening of new highways, bridges and sidewalks in any such town shall be construed to transfer such powers and duties to such superintendent. In towns having a board of finance he shall make and submit to such board all estimates for such maintenance and repair of highways, bridges and sidewalks and the building and opening of new highways, bridges and sidewalks each year at the time and in the manner provided by law for estimates by the board of selectmen. Such superintendent shall be limited in his expenditures made and liabilities incurred during any fiscal year to the appropriations made by such board of finance and approved by the town, except in case of actual necessity involving the immediate repair of any highway, bridge or sidewalk, and then not more than one thousand dollars. All bills against the town relating to such maintenance and repair of highways, bridges and sidewalks and the building and opening of new highways, bridges and sidewalks shall be certified by such superintendent and approved by the selectmen and, when so certified and approved, shall be paid by the treasurer of the town upon the requisition of the superintendent. No bill for material furnished to the superintendent for the use of the town shall be paid until the same is certified by the person furnishing such material to the effect that the materials called for by such bill have been actually delivered to the town and for the prices therein stated. On or before the first Tuesday of September in each year, the superintendent shall make and file with the board of finance in each town having a board of finance a detailed statement of disbursements made by him during the preceding fiscal year, with vouchers therefor. Such account shall be audited by the board of finance and, when so audited, shall be filed with the selectmen, who shall incorporate the same in their annual report.
(1949 Rev., S. 613; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 34; 1958 Rev., S. 13-53; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 10.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 236 - Definitions and Administration › Section 13a-11. - Adoption of town superintendent provisions.

The provisions of sections 13a-8 to 13a-11, inclusive, may be adopted, in the manner prescribed in section 9-369, at a regular or special meeting in any town. The selectmen of any town, upon the petition of five per cent of its electors, shall include in the warning of such regular or special meeting notice that the question of the approval or disapproval of said sections shall be voted upon. The designation of such question on the voting tabulator ballot shall be “Shall a town Superintendent of Highways and Bridges be appointed?”. If, upon the official determination of the result of such vote, it appears that a majority of all the votes upon said question are in approval of said question, said sections shall take effect from the date of such meeting, and a certificate of such approval signed by the town clerk shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the State, who shall record the same.
(1949 Rev., S. 615; 1953, S. 244d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-55; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 11; P.A. 86-170, S. 11, 13; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 86-170 required that designation on ballot label be in form of question; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” and “ballot label” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” and “ballot”, respectively, effective May 24, 2011.
See Sec. 7-9 re petitions for vote.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 236 - Definitions and Administration › Section 13a-12. - Repair of highways in boroughs. Damages for defects.

Any town having a borough within its limits shall pay to such borough such part of the moneys, collected or appropriated by such town for the repairs of highways, as is agreed upon between the selectmen of such town and an equal number of the burgesses of such borough or, in the event of their disagreement, as is fixed by the casting vote of the Commissioner of Transportation, but no person who is at the same time both a selectman and a burgess shall act in any such matter. After making such payment, such town shall not be liable to repair any highway in such borough or for any damages which occur to any person or his property by reason of any defective highway in such borough, which shall be liable therefor as towns are liable; but such town shall continue to be liable to build and repair all bridges in such borough. All moneys received by any borough for such purpose shall be expended under the direction of its warden and burgesses, who may construct and repair highways therein and make and cause to be executed all proper orders relating thereto. The warden and burgesses may, from time to time, appoint a committee who shall superintend and direct the construction, maintenance and repairs of highways in such borough and execute their orders respecting the same; and such borough shall pay such committee such compensation as such warden and burgesses from time to time determine. The provisions of this section shall not take effect in any town until they have been approved by it; and a certified copy of the warning of the meeting approving the same and of the vote of approval shall, within ten days thereafter, be filed with the Secretary of the State.
(1949 Rev., S. 2130; 1958 Rev., S. 13-14; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 37; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 12; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 74.)
History: 1959 act substituted highway commissioner for local county commissioner to cast determining vote in municipal disputes; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner.
See Sec. 13a-149 re damages for injuries incurred because of defective roads or bridges.
Liability of town for defect in street in borough. 4 C. 205. Approval by town may be shown by conduct of town and borough. 65 C. 312. Borough liable before annual payment made. Id., 313. Cited. 77 C. 308. Right of agents of borough to remove obstruction from highway. 95 C. 325.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 236 - Definitions and Administration › Section 13a-13. - Layout or repair of highways dividing towns.

A petition for an order for the laying out, repair, resurfacing or other improvement of any highway, which is the dividing line between two towns or adjoins the dividing line between two towns, or is located wholly within one town and land fronting thereon is located in another town, may be brought to a judge of the Superior Court by either of such towns if, in the opinion of the official or officials having charge of the repair or maintenance of highways in either of such towns, any such highway should be laid out, resurfaced or otherwise improved, and such towns are unable to agree as to whether such work should be done or as to the method of payment therefor. Such judge, after reasonable notice to all parties interested, if he finds that such highway should be laid out or such improvement should be made, shall order the layout of such highway or the making of such improvement, as the case may be, and provide in such order which of such towns shall make such layout or improvement and shall fix the proportion of the expense thereof which shall be paid by each of such towns.
(1949 Rev., S. 2142; 1958 Rev., S. 13-26; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 13.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 236 - Definitions and Administration › Section 13a-13a. - Establishment of alternative design standards for roads and bridges.

(a) On or before January 1, 1999, the Commissioner of Transportation shall establish alternative design standards for bridges, principal and minor arterial roads, collector roads and local roads and streets.
(b) In establishing the standards required under subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner shall solicit and consider the views of chief elected officials and organizations, including, but not limited to, the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, regional councils of governments, the Connecticut Council on the Arts, the Federal Highway Administration and the Rural Development Council.
(P.A. 98-118.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-14. - State highway system.

There shall be a system of state highways which shall include (1) state primary highways, which are highways serving the predominant flow of traffic between the principal towns of this state and between such towns and similar towns of the surrounding states; (2) state secondary highways, which are connecting and feeder highways which supplement the state primary system by serving the predominant flow of traffic between the smaller towns of the state and between such towns and other towns in this state and in surrounding states; and (3) state special service highways, which are highways which provide access from the primary and secondary systems of state highways to federal and state facilities.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 2; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 14; P.A. 96-180, S. 32, 166.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 96-180 replaced alphabetic Subdiv. indicators with numeric indicators, effective June 3, 1996.
Cited. 186 C. 300; 228 C. 350.
Cited. 44 CA 651.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-15. - Inclusion of interstate highway system in state system.

All sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in Connecticut, commonly known as the interstate highway system, as provided for in the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, as amended, shall be included in the state highway system.
(1959, P.A. 21, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 15.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
Cited. 228 C. 358.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-16. - Official map. Transfers to local jurisdiction.

The state highway system shall be that system of highways as shown on the official map marked “State of Connecticut, State Highway System, Committee to Reclassify All Public Roads, Edwards and Kelcey–Engineers and Consultants, January 13, 1961” and on file in the office of the commissioner and the Secretary of the State, as the same may be altered from time to time in accordance with the provisions of sections 13a-42, 13a-43, 13a-44, 13a-45 and 13a-56 and any other provisions of the general statutes authorizing or empowering the commissioner to plan, construct, reconstruct, repair, improve, manage, maintain and operate any highway. Before transferring any road from state to local jurisdiction within the time limits described below, the commissioner shall put such road in reasonably good condition and shall be open to negotiation with the selectmen of any town concerning the condition of any such road upon transfer for a period of at least sixty days before such transfer becomes effective. Transfers under this section shall take effect June 22, 1961, or as soon thereafter as it is practicable for the commissioner and the towns to effect the same, but not later than September 30, 1962, except for such transfers as are under arbitration. Any special act inconsistent herewith is repealed.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 16.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
Annotations to former statutes:
What constitutes “trunk line highway”. 125 C. 416.
Unless highway commissioner designates certain street is trunk line route, right to regulate parking belongs to town. 9 CS 107. No highway considered a part of the trunk line system except as established by law. 18 CS 261.
Annotations to present section:
Cited. 186 C. 300; 198 C. 185; 228 C. 358.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-17. - Arbitration of town grievance. Appointment of arbitrators.

Any town aggrieved by the reclassification of highways as designated on the original official map marked “State of Connecticut, State Highway System, Committee to Reclassify All Public Roads, Edwards and Kelcey–Engineers and Consultants, January 13, 1961” or by the action taken by the commissioner pursuant to section 13a-42, 13a-43 or 13a-44 may elect to submit the matter to arbitration by a committee of three persons, one to be appointed by such town, one to be appointed by the commissioner and the third to be appointed by the two so appointed by the town and the commissioner. Such election of submission to arbitration shall be made by the town by advising the commissioner in writing within sixty days from the date said commissioner notifies the town of the action taken pursuant to section 13a-42, 13a-43 or 13a-44. The town shall appoint its arbitrator within thirty days after the commissioner advises the town in writing who he has appointed as the state's arbitrator. If the town does not elect to submit the matter to arbitration or appoint its arbitrator within the time hereinabove provided said action of the commissioner will become final. The provisions of chapter 909 shall apply to arbitration proceedings under the provisions of this section, the cost thereof, exclusive of the cost of expert testimony and other evidence offered by the town involved, to be chargeable to the state. The commissioner shall make such changes in said map as may be decided by arbitration or by appeal therefrom. The submission of a matter to arbitration under the provisions of this section shall stay any action of the commissioner under the provisions of section 13a-16.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 4; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 17; 546; 1967, P.A. 235, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 307, S. 1.)
History: 1963 acts provided for charging of costs, exclusive of expert testimony and other evidence offered by town, to state and restated previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act replaced phrase re agreement with commissioner to submit dispute to arbitration with phrase re election to submit dispute to arbitration and included reference to grievances resulting from actions by commissioner pursuant to Sec. 13a-42, 13a-43 or 13a-44; 1971 act added provisions detailing submission to arbitration undertaken by town including pertinent deadlines.
Cited. 186 C. 300.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-18. - Alterations in system.

Section 13a-18 is repealed.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 18; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 263.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-19. - Powers of commissioner unaffected.

Nothing in sections 13a-14, 13a-16 and 13a-17 shall be construed to limit, restrict or derogate from any power, right or authority of the commissioner contained in any other statute.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 11; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 19; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 75.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1969 act deleted reference to repealed Sec. 13a-18.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-21. - Construction of Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike.

(a) The commissioner is authorized and directed to plan and construct, under the provisions of this part, an expressway which is hereby established at the following location or such part or parts thereof as may from time to time, by a bond declaration, or any amendment thereof signed or approved by the commissioner, be determined to be suitable for such expressway: Beginning at a point on the Connecticut-New York state line near the village of Port Chester, New York, and running, with such omissions and for such distance as may from time to time be so determined in such a declaration or amendment thereof, thence in a general northeasterly direction to New Haven, and thence in a general easterly direction via the Baldwin Bridge over the Connecticut River to a point at or near the East Lyme-Waterford town line, and thence in a general northeasterly direction to a point at or near Norwich, and thence in a general northeasterly direction to a point on the Connecticut-Rhode Island state line in Killingly. Such expressway shall be included in the state highway system.
(b) The expressway constructed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be designated as the “Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike”.
(1953, 1955, June, 1955, S. 1209d; 1955, S. 1210d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-159, 13-160; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 21, 22; P.A. 86-201, S. 1; P.A. 97-62, S. 2.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 86-201 amended Subsec. (b) by changing the name of the expressway from the Connecticut Turnpike to the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike; P.A. 97-62 deleted reference to Secs. 13a-199 to 13a-220, inclusive.
Section vested ultimate and exclusive responsibility for planning and constructing expressway in highway commissioner. 204 C. 177.
Cited. 19 CS 497.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-22. - Construction of separate expressway. Easterly portion of turnpike.

(a) The commissioner is authorized to plan and construct, under the provisions of this part, a separate expressway which is hereby established at such part or parts of the location of the highway constituting, on January 30, 1957, the expressway mentioned in section 13a-21 as may, from time to time, by a bond declaration or any amendment thereof signed or approved by the commissioner, be determined to be suitable for such expressway or highway. Such expressway or highway shall be included in the state highway system. The commissioner may construct with respect to such highway such related buildings and facilities. Any such highway, if financed by the issuance of expressway bonds described in a bond declaration signed by the commissioner or Treasurer after January 1, 1957, shall become and is hereby established as an expressway without further action of the General Assembly.
(b) The highway constructed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section beginning at the easterly end of approaches to the Raymond E. Baldwin Bridge over the Connecticut River and ending at a point on the Connecticut-Rhode Island state line in Killingly shall be constructed, whether or not as an expressway, as a divided highway with not less than four lanes at all points. Nothing contained herein shall preclude the completion and use of the two-lane and undivided sections planned prior to May 28, 1957, but the commissioner is authorized and directed to add the additional two lanes.
(1955, June, 1955, S. 1236d; 1957, P.A. 2, S. 3; 558, S. 4; 1958 Rev., S. 13-186 (c), (d); 1963, P.A. 226, S. 23; P.A. 81-67, S. 1, 7; P.A. 96-180, S. 139, 166; P.A. 97-62, S. 3.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 81-67 set the tolls at $0.35 for passenger vehicles and $0.30 per axle for commercial vehicles; P.A. 96-180 amended Subsec. (a) to delete provisions re toll highways and collection of tolls, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 97-62 amended Subsec. (a) to delete requirement for written approval of Expressway Bond Committee and to delete reference to Secs. 13a-199 to 13a-220, inclusive.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-23. - Authority of commissioner.

The commissioner may (a) plan, construct, reconstruct, repair, improve, manage, maintain and operate expressways, and reconstruct and relocate existing highways, sections of highways, bridges or structures and incorporate and use the same, whether or not so reconstructed or relocated or otherwise changed or improved, as parts of such expressways; (b) retain and employ consultants and assistants on a contract or other basis for rendering legal, financial, professional, technical or other assistance and advice necessary to carry out the provisions concerning expressways; (c) limit ingress to or egress from, and establish regulations for the use of, any expressways, and (d) do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and exercise the powers expressly given in this part.
(1953, 1955, June, 1955, S. 1211d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-161; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 24; P.A. 96-180, S. 140, 166; P.A. 97-62, S. 4.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 96-180 deleted reference to repealed Secs. 13a-156 and 13a-161, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 97-62 deleted reference to Secs. 13a-199 to 13a-220, inclusive.
Cited. 150 C. 343.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-24. - General authority of commissioner not limited.

Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to limit, restrict or derogate from any power, right or authority of the commissioner existing under or pursuant to any other act of the General Assembly.
(1953, June, 1955, S. 1238d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-188; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 25; P.A. 96-180, S. 141, 166; P.A. 97-62, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 77, 121.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 96-180 deleted reference to repealed Secs. 13a-156 and 13a-161, effective June 3, 1996; P.A. 97-62 deleted reference to Secs. 13a-199 to 13a-220, inclusive; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 removed a comma after “part”, effective June 24, 1998.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-25. - Additional referees for land acquisition proceedings.

Whenever the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court finds that the number of state referees available for the performance of the duties of state referees under subsection (c) of section 13a-73, sections 13a-74 and 13a-76, subsection (d) of section 32-658 and sections 32-659 and 32-660 is not sufficient to consider and act upon the acquisition of land and buildings for a stadium facility and related parking facilities, as defined in section 32-651, with reasonable promptness, said Chief Justice, upon the application of the commissioner or the secretary, as the case may be, may appoint such number of additional state referees as necessary to expedite the performance of such duties. Such appointments may be made from time to time and for such period of time, not more than two months in length, as designated by the Chief Justice. Such additional state referees shall have the same powers and duties as state referees appointed under section 52-434, with respect to the granting of the approvals and the performance of other duties of state referees in the acquisition of land and buildings for such expressway, highway, stadium facility and related parking facilities and shall receive such reasonable compensation as is determined by the Chief Justice, and such compensation and expenses incurred in the conduct of any hearings by such state referees shall be paid as a part of the cost thereof.
(1953, 1955, June, 1955, S. 1230d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-180; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 26; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 93-1, S. 14, 35; P.A. 97-62, S. 6; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 34, 43; P.A. 99-241, S. 58, 66; P.A. 00-140, S. 26, 40; P.A. 02-103, S. 52.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 93-1 added references to acquisition of land and buildings for a stadium facility or practice facility, effective September 28, 1993; P.A. 97-62 deleted reference to any expressway or highway financed under Secs. 13a-199 to 13a-220, inclusive; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 added references to acquisition of land and buildings for the stadium facility and infrastructure improvements and deleted references to repealed Secs. 32-387 to 32-389, inclusive, and the practice facility, effective January 12, 1999; P.A. 99-241 deleted “stadium facility or infrastructure improvements” and added “sportsplex and related parking facilities”, changing corresponding statutory references accordingly, effective July 1, 1999; P.A. 00-140 updated certain statutory references consistent with changes in said act, made technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality and replaced reference to the former Hartford sportsplex with reference to the stadium facility defined in Sec. 32-651, effective May 2, 2000; P.A. 02-103 made a technical change.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-26a. - Improved height restriction notification on Merritt Parkway.

The Department of Transportation shall investigate and identify methods to improve notification of height restrictions on the Merritt Parkway. In conducting such investigation, the department shall focus on limited access highway entrances to such parkway and electronic methods for notification of height restrictions on such entrances. Not later than January 1, 2018, the department shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, of the department's findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to transportation.
(P.A. 13-277, S. 52; P.A. 17-230, S. 10.)
History: P.A. 13-277 effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 17-230 added provisions re focus of investigation and report, effective July 11, 2017.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-27. - Wilbur Cross Parkway. Restricted use.

Section 13a-27 is repealed, effective July 13, 2011.
(1949 Rev., S. 2274, 2275; 1955, S. 1203d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-152, 13-153; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 28; P.A. 11-256, S. 57.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-29. - Hartford bridges part of state highway system.

All rights, funds and properties formerly owned or controlled by the Greater Hartford Bridge Authority, together with all bridges or other properties operated by it or under its jurisdiction or control, shall continue to be vested in the state, and all such bridges and all approach or connecting highways incidental thereto shall be maintained by the Commissioner of Transportation and continue to be a part of the state highway system.
(1959, P.A. 132, S. 11; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 30; 1967, P.A. 604, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 182, S. 1; 768, S. 76; 1972, P.A. 294, S. 13; P.A. 73-675, S. 8, 44; P.A. 74-342, S. 15, 43.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act revised provision re toll charges to provide that tolls be the highest charge possible without reducing revenues by discouraging use of bridges rather than to provide that they be sufficient to cover maintenance and operation costs of bridges and to cover various bonds; 1969 acts amended Subdiv. (2) re cutoff for tolls on bridges and substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; 1972 act made technical correction; P.A. 73-675 substituted transportation fund for highway fund; P.A. 74-342 deleted provisions re collection of various tolls and re employment of officers, agents, consultants, etc.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-29a. - Seniority rights of former bridge authority employees.

The Commissioner of Transportation shall add such period of employment as any employee of the Department of Transportation previously had in the employ of the Greater Hartford Bridge Authority to the time such employee has accrued as an employee of said department for the purpose of determining such employee's seniority for any reason which may be required by law, rule or regulation.
(February, 1965, P.A. 560; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 77.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner and department of transportation for highway commissioner and department.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-30. - Founders Bridge named.

The highway bridge across the Connecticut River, between State Street in Hartford and the dike in East Hartford, is designated as “Founders Bridge”.
(1955, S. 1261d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-235; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 31.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-31. - Gold Star Memorial Bridge named.

The bridge, with approaches, constructed over the Thames River by the Groton-New London Bridge Commission, shall be designated as the “Gold Star Memorial Bridge” in honor of those members of the armed forces of the United States from Groton, New London and Waterford, who lost their lives during World War I, World War II and the war in Korea. The commissioner shall erect suitable plaques on each end of said bridge.
(1951, S. 1252d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-193; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 32.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-32. - Thames River Bridge. Location.

The commissioner is authorized and directed, to the full extent but only to the extent permitted by moneys, appropriations and allotments becoming available under sections 13a-239 to 13a-246, inclusive, and allotments becoming available under any other law, to construct a new state highway, which is made hereby a part of the state highway system and is hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “project”, as a two-lane facility from a point on the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike northerly of the toll station existing in Montville, prior to 1985, to a point on Connecticut Route 12 not more than two thousand feet south of Connecticut Route 27, including and over a new bridge, which is hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “bridge”, across the Thames River from a point northerly of the developed portion of Fort Shantok State Park in Montville to a point southerly of the Norwich Hospital in Preston.
(1961, P.A. 541, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 33; 547; P.A. 86-201, S. 2; P.A. 91-407, S. 3, 42.)
History: 1963 acts specified “the developed portion of” Fort Shantok State Park and restated previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 86-201 changed reference from the Connecticut Turnpike to the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike; P.A. 91-407 revised site description to acknowledge the removal of toll booths.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-33. - Powers and duties of commissioner.

Subject to the limitations referred to in section 13a-32, the commissioner is authorized (a) to plan, design, lay out, construct, reconstruct, relocate, improve, maintain and operate the project, and reconstruct and relocate existing highways, sections of highways, bridges or structures and incorporate or use the same, whether or not so reconstructed or relocated or otherwise changed or improved, as parts of the project, and, to that end, to do and perform with respect to the project any act or thing which is mentioned or referred to in subsection (a) of section 13a-239; (b) to retain and employ consultants and assistants on a contract or other basis for rendering professional, legal, fiscal, engineering, technical or other assistance and advice; (c) to limit ingress to or egress from, and establish regulations for the use of, the project; and (d) to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes and duties and exercise the powers expressly given in sections 13a-32 to 13a-35, inclusive, 13a-127, 13a-160 and 13a-239 to 13a-246, inclusive. Except as otherwise stated in section 13a-32, nothing contained in sections 13a-33, 13a-34, 13a-35, 13a-127, 13a-160 and 13a-239 to 13a-246, inclusive, shall be construed to limit or restrict, with respect to the project, any power, right or authority of the commissioner existing under or pursuant to any other law.
(1961, P.A. 541, S. 4; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 34.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-34. - Commissioner to maintain project.

The project and all approach or connecting highways incidental thereto shall be maintained by the commissioner and be part of the state highway system.
(1961, P.A. 541, S. 12; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 35; P.A. 73-675, S. 9, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 6, 45.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 73-675 substituted transportation fund for highway fund; P.A. 75-568 deleted reference to transportation fund in view of its incorporation into general fund.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 237 - State Highway System › Section 13a-35. - Protection of obligation for Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike.

In order to observe or fulfill any obligation of the state created by or pursuant to part IV of chapter 234 of the 1958 revision of the general statutes, as amended, prior to June 13, 1961, or to permit certain vehicular passage between the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike and the project without violation of any such obligation, the commissioner is specifically empowered at any time to prohibit or otherwise restrict, or on behalf of the state to agree to prohibit or otherwise restrict, the passage of all or any motor vehicles to said project from Connecticut Route 32 or any route generally parallel thereto west of the Thames River and east of the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike or from the project to any such route.
(1961, P.A. 541, S. 15; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 36; P.A. 86-201, S. 3.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 86-201 changed reference from the Connecticut Turnpike to the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-36. - Milestones to be reset.

The commissioner shall reset any milestone found in the course of the construction by him of any highway which follows approximately the route of an ancient turnpike or highway.
(1949 Rev., S. 2249; 1958 Rev., S. 13-136; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 37.)
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-38. - Entry on private property to determine boundary.

The commissioner or his agent may enter upon private property for the purpose of surveying or examining such property for the determination of the boundary line of any highway under his control. He shall use care so that no unnecessary damage shall result, and the state shall be liable to the owner of any property for any damage he causes such owner.
(1949 Rev., S. 2194; 1958 Rev., S. 13-79; 1961, P.A. 137, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 39.)
History: 1961 act removed provision re commissioner's power to lay out, alter, construct, reconstruct, etc. highways whenever “interest of the state so requires”; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
See Sec. 13a-60 re entry upon private property necessitated by alteration of highways.
Cited. 125 C. 413; 129 C. 83. Does not imply consent on the part of the state to be sued. 146 C. 316.
Cited. 6 CS 5. Complaint alleging that highway commissioner unnecessarily discharged surface water onto plaintiff's land is good against demurrer. Id., 485. Commissioner not authorized by section to condemn property or to enter into contracts. 18 CS 264. Requires allegation that damage complained of was unnecessary. 20 CS 142.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-40. - Appeal.

Any person aggrieved by such decision may appeal to the superior court for the judicial district where such highway is situated within ten days after notice of such decision has been given, which appeal shall be in writing, containing a brief statement of the facts and reasons of appeal and a citation to such selectmen and all adjoining proprietors on such highway to appear before said court, and said court, or any judge thereof, may direct the time of appearance and the manner of service. Said court may review the doings of such selectmen, examine the questions in issue by itself or by a committee, confirm, change or set aside the doings of such selectmen, and make such orders in the premises, including orders as to costs, as it finds to be equitable. The clerk of said court shall cause a certified copy of the final decree of said court to be recorded in the records of the town in which such highway is located, and, if such decree changes the bounds defined and established by the decision of such selectmen, the bounds defined and established by such decree shall be the bounds of such highway.
(1949 Rev., S. 2167; 1958 Rev., S. 13-50; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 41; P.A. 76-436, S. 330, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas and added reference to judicial districts, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to counties.
Cited. 14 CA 521, 523. Superior Court, in its review of a determination by town's board of selectmen, may conduct a trial de novo. 131 CA 24; judgment affirmed, see 309 C. 608.
Cited. 11 CS 429; 27 CS 472.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-41. - Bounds of new highways to be marked and recorded.

Whenever a new highway has been laid out by authority of any town or city, such highway shall be marked or defined in the following manner: At the beginning and termination by stone, steel or iron bounds on each side, and a stone, steel or iron bound at each angle or deflection between the beginning and termination. Stone bounds shall be not less than four inches square by two feet in length, with a mark on the top. Steel or iron bounds shall be not less than one inch in diameter if round, or not less than one inch square, and shall be two and one-half feet in length. No new highway shall be deemed legally located, or a legal highway, until so marked or defined. The authorities of towns or cities making the layout shall at least once in five years personally examine such bounds and renew all lost or misplaced ones. Any person owning land bounded in part or wholly by a highway may make application in writing to the authorities of the town or city in which such land is located for bounds to be placed on such described land. Such authorities shall thereupon place on the lines of the highway on such described lands bounds as hereinbefore described, provided the cost of procuring and the estimated cost of placing the same shall be first paid to such authorities by the applicant. The authorities of towns and cities making such layout shall have an adequate description of such bounds recorded in towns in the town clerk's office and in cities in the office in which records of streets or highways are made.
(1949 Rev., S. 2168; 1958 Rev., S. 13-51; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 42.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.
Where committee cannot find original street lines, city may make new layout of street according to charter. 69 C. 558. Section does not empower municipality to fix disputed boundaries, but only permanently to mark undisputed lines. 73 C. 575.
When roadway leading to cemetery deemed dedicated to public use. 11 CS 429. When monuments are required. 13 CS 70.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-42. - Taking of roads into state system.

The commissioner may take into the state highway system any highway, section of highway or appurtenances thereto when said commissioner finds that it is in the best interest of the state to do so, and such highway, section of highway or appurtenances thereto conform to the definitions set out in section 13a-14. Any town may petition the commissioner to take a road of such town into such state system whenever it considers such road as conforming to the definitions set out in section 13a-14. Said commissioner shall act upon the petition within three months after receipt thereof. Any town aggrieved by the action of the commissioner may elect to submit the matter to arbitration in the manner provided in section 13a-17.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 6; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 43; 1967, P.A. 236.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act added provisions re town's petition for commissioner to take town road into state system.
See Sec. 13a-45 re effective date of transfers or abandonments.
See Sec. 13a-46 re transfer of rights in lands as part of transfer of roads.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-43. - Abandonment of state highway.

The commissioner may, in connection with a new highway constructed in a town, abandon any highway, or section or appurtenance thereof, in the state highway system no longer conforming with the definitions set out in section 13a-14 or no longer serving the best interest of the state as a part of the state highway system, upon notice to the board of selectmen of the town wherein such highway, or section or appurtenance thereof, is located, and such highway, or section or appurtenance thereof, shall revert to the town unless legally abandoned by it. Before abandonment of any part of the state highway system, the commissioner shall put the same in reasonably good condition, except where the same is no longer useful or necessary for highway purposes. Any town aggrieved by the abandonment of any part of any road, or section or appurtenance thereof, may elect to submit the matter to arbitration as provided in section 13a-17.
(1949 Rev., S. 2231; 1953, S. 1198d; 1958 Rev., S. 13-111; 1961, P.A. 603, S. 7; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 44; 1967, P.A. 235, S. 2.)
History: 1961 act made certain technical changes to conform to creation of the state highway system and allowed abandonment of part of highway system without putting road “in reasonable good condition” when road is “no longer useful or necessary for highway purposes”; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act linked abandonment with new highway construction, replacing provision allowing abandonment with town's consent and provision re town submitting grievance to arbitration.
See Sec. 13a-45 re effective date of transfers and abandonments.
See Sec. 13b-205 re railroad company's authority to take land in discontinued highways.
Cited. 129 C. 83.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-44. - Transfer of state highway to town.

The commissioner may transfer any highway, or section or appurtenance thereof, in the state highway system to the town or towns through which such highway, or section or appurtenance thereof, runs when it does not conform with the definitions set out in section 13a-14 or no longer serves the best interest of the state as a part of the state highway system, provided the commissioner shall put the same in reasonably good condition. Any town aggrieved by the transfer of any highway, or section or appurtenance thereof, may elect to submit the matter to arbitration as provided in section 13a-17.
(1949 Rev., S. 2234; 1958 Rev., S. 13-116; 1961, P.A. 603, S. 8; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 45; 1967, P.A. 235, S. 3.)
History: 1961 act removed provision for state to accept part of town highway system as state road on transfers of state highways to towns, made technical changes to conform to the creation of the state highway system and added proviso re putting roads to be transferred “in reasonably good condition”; 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act deleted requirement that towns consent to transfer of roads but added provision for aggrieved town's submission of a transfer decision to arbitration.
See Sec. 13a-45 re effective date of transfers and abandonments.
See Sec. 13a-46 re transfer of rights in lands as part of transfer of roads.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance › Section 13a-45. - Effective date of transfers and abandonments.

Transfers or abandonments under section 13a-42, 13a-43 or 13a-44 shall be effective sixty days after notice thereof has been given by the commissioner to the selectmen of the town involved, provided notice of any such transfer or abandonment and a description of the highway, or portion or appurtenance thereof, so transferred or abandoned have been filed in the office of the town clerk of the town within which such highway, or portion or appurtenance thereof, lies within such sixty days.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 9; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 46.)
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-46. - Transfers of rights in lands on transfer of roads.

The commissioner shall transfer all right, title and interest vested in the state with the transfer of any highway, or portion or appurtenance thereof, to a town and shall assume all right, title and interest in or to lands previously vested in such town upon accepting any highway, or portion or appurtenance thereof, as part of the state highway system. Upon any such transfer or acceptance of a highway, or portion or appurtenance thereof, by the commissioner or the town, the commissioner or the town, as the case may be, shall assume full responsibility, authority, liability and jurisdiction over such highway, or portion or appurtenance thereof, as of the effective date of such transfer or acceptance.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 12; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 47.)
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-47. - Powers of commissioner unaffected.

Nothing in sections 13a-42 to 13a-46, inclusive, shall be construed to limit, restrict or derogate from any power, right or authority of the commissioner contained in any other statute.
(1961, P.A. 603, S. 11; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 47a.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history.