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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 99 - Municipal Charters and Special Acts › Section 7-197. - Consolidation commission.

If, within thirty days of the adoption of the proposal to consolidate by the initiating legislative body, the legislative body of each other unit of local government included in the proposed consolidation has accepted the proposal, or if a sufficient petition has been certified to the presiding officer of the legislative body of the town, such presiding officer shall call a joint meeting of the legislative bodies of all of the units of local government included in the proposal, designate the time and place, and preside at the joint meeting. Such meeting shall by joint resolution appoint a consolidation commission of not fewer than five nor more than fifteen members. Each political subdivision included in the proposed consolidation and the area of the town, if any, outside the boundaries of any such political subdivision shall be represented on the consolidation commission, as nearly as possible, in proportion to the number of electors residing in each such political subdivision and the number of electors residing outside the boundaries of any such political subdivision; provided there shall be at least one commission member from each political subdivision in the proposed consolidation and one member from the area of the town, if any, outside the boundaries of any such political subdivision.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 11.)
Cited. 152 C. 676; 171 C. 74; 179 C. 589; 184 C. 30; 188 C. 276; 208 C. 543.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 99 - Municipal Charters and Special Acts › Section 7-198. - Duties of commission.

Such consolidation commission shall prepare a consolidation ordinance in which provision shall be made for the allocation of local governmental functions and services to existing offices, departments, boards, commissions or other agencies of the town, city, borough or other unit of local government; the abolition of unnecessary offices, departments, boards, commissions or other agencies; the definition of areas in which services are to be rendered; the establishment of necessary taxing districts to pay the cost of such services; the distribution of assets and liabilities, and such other matters as are required to effectuate such consolidation, including the necessary revision of the charter of any of the units of local government under consolidation so as to eliminate unnecessary offices, departments, boards, commissions or other agencies or to expand existing offices, departments, boards, commissions or other agencies and so to render such charter effective as the charter of the consolidated municipality; provided the terms of the consolidation ordinance shall not, in terms or effect, impair the contractual obligations of the town, city, borough or other unit of local government.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 12; 1963, P.A. 18, S. 1.)
History: 1963 act deleted the word “geographical” before the word “areas” in the phrase “the definition of areas” and specifically provided for necessary charter revision, deleting a prohibition against the establishment of new offices, departments, etc.
“Cost of such services” does not permit charges exceeding cost of acquiring, constructing and operating a sewage system; taxpayer cannot be charged for more than he is actually receiving. 171 C. 74. Cited. 179 C. 589; 188 C. 276; 208 C. 543.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 99 - Municipal Charters and Special Acts › Section 7-199. - Referendum.

Not less than ninety days nor more than eighteen months after the appointment of such consolidation commission, such consolidation ordinance shall be submitted to the town clerk. Such ordinance shall be submitted to the electors of the town at the next general election following submission to the town clerk. A special election may be held before the next general election providing a petition for a special election is filed with the town clerk of such municipality for submission to the legislative body and signed by not less than ten per cent of the electors of such town. The sufficiency of such petition shall be determined in the manner specified in section 7-188. Such consolidation ordinance shall become effective if approved by a majority of the electors of the town voting thereon; provided such majority shall be no less than fifteen per cent of the electors as determined by the last-completed registry list of such town.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 13; P.A. 75-212, S. 1, 2.)
History: P.A. 75-212 required submission of ordinance within 18 months rather than within one year to town clerk (previously to electors) and to voters at next general election following submission to clerk unless special election held.
Cited. 171 C. 74; 179 C. 589; 188 C. 276; 208 C. 543.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 99 - Municipal Charters and Special Acts › Section 7-200. - Consolidation of school districts. Charter revisions in consolidation process.

Nothing in sections 7-195 to 7-201, inclusive, shall be construed to prevent the consolidation of school districts as heretofore provided by law. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent a consolidation commission from making revisions in the charter of any of the units of local government in the process of consolidation so as more conveniently and appropriately to effectuate the process of consolidation of that unit of government with the other unit or units of government concerned; nor shall the provisions of sections 7-187 to 7-191, inclusive, apply to any such consolidation commission.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 14; 1963, P.A. 18, S. 2.)
History: 1963 act deleted language re appointment of combined charter and consolidation commission and added provision re charter revisions to facilitate consolidation procedure.
Cited. 179 C. 589; 188 C. 276; 208 C. 543.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 99 - Municipal Charters and Special Acts › Section 7-201. - Receipt of funds. Appropriations.

Any charter commission or consolidation commission appointed under the provisions of this chapter is authorized to receive for its own use and purposes any funds or money from any source, including gifts and contributions, made by any individual, corporation or association. Any unit of local government is authorized to appropriate funds for expenses incurred by any charter commission, consolidation commission or combined charter and consolidation commission in the performance of its purposes. Within the amounts so received such commissions may engage employees and contract for the services of consultants.
(1957, P.A. 465, S. 15.)
Cited. 179 C. 589; 188 C. 276; 208 C. 543.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-202. - Definitions.

When used in this chapter, “parking facilities” means lots, garages, parking terminals or other structures and accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the street or highway and open to public use with or without charge; “parking authority” means a body corporate and politic created by the legislative body of any municipality as hereinafter provided; “parking division” means any existing municipal department, bureau, agency, commission or executive officer designated by any municipality as hereinafter provided; and “municipality” means any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, and any fire district.
(1953, S. 280d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 26.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-203. - Creation of parking authorities.

Any municipality may provide parking facilities and may, by ordinance, create a parking authority or designate a parking division for the purposes of creating and establishing off-street parking facilities. A parking authority created under the provisions of this section shall consist of five members, appointed by the chief executive officer of the municipality, not more than three of whom shall be of the same political party. Those first appointed shall be designated to serve for one, two, three, four and five years respectively and thereafter a member shall be appointed annually to serve for five years, except that any vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term. Such authority shall select from among its members a chairman and may employ necessary personnel. The members of the authority shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for necessary expenses. No action of such authority shall be valid unless authorized by a vote of the majority of its members. Such authority shall maintain proper accounting and financial records and shall make an annual report to the chief executive officer of the municipality.
(1953, S. 281d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 27.)
Parking authority, when created by the municipality, has powers given by this section and Sec. 7-204 to act in “the name of the municipality”. 19 CS 46.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-204. - Powers of parking authority.

Such parking authority or parking division shall have the power, in the name of the municipality, to (1) create, establish, and expand wherever built by such municipality, off-street parking facilities; (2) acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease or condemnation, subject to the provisions of section 48-6, real property or any interest therein necessary for or incidental to the construction, maintenance, operation, or expansion of off-street parking facilities, provided such authority shall not be empowered to take by eminent domain any property from a corporation which has the right of eminent domain, and this chapter shall not affect the powers of eminent domain of any such corporation; prepare necessary plans and drawings; (3) construct or cause to be constructed parking facilities; (4) maintain and operate parking facilities; (5) establish and collect reasonable off-street parking fees; (6) give, grant or sell any real property owned by such parking authority to the municipality; dedicate any real property owned by such parking authority to the public purposes for a street or highway; (7) lease parking facilities or such expanded parking facilities as may be provided, and already subject to lease, to any public agency, individual, firm, corporation or hospital, as defined by subsection (b) of section 19a-490, upon such terms and conditions as the public interest may warrant; and (8) enforce parking regulations in a municipality that has adopted an ordinance under section 7-204a in accordance with the terms of such ordinance.
(1953, S. 282d; 1959, P.A. 242; 1969, P.A. 516; 1971, P.A. 604, S. 1; P.A. 73-614, S. 1, 3; P.A. 03-264, S. 2.)
History: 1959 act authorized authority to give, grant or sell its property to the municipality and to dedicate its property for a street or highway; 1969 act deleted language which, in effect, had made parking authority a lessor of facilities to others, leaving language which implied that the authority itself might lease facilities from others; 1971 act permitted expansion of facilities and specified that authority may lease facilities to public agencies; P.A. 73-614 allowed leasing of facilities to individuals, firms, corporations and hospitals and deleted provision concerning dispensing or furnishing products or services other than parking at parking facilities; P.A. 03-264 added provision re enforcement of municipal parking regulations and inserted numeric subdivision designators.
See Sec. 7-273o re political advertising at parking authority facilities.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-204a. - Enforcement of municipal parking regulations.

Any consolidated town and city which (1) was consolidated in 1896, (2) has a mayor and a court of common council, and (3) has a population of more than one hundred thousand, may, by ordinance adopted by the court of common council, authorize the parking authority of such consolidated town and city to (A) enforce the parking regulations of such consolidated city and town, and (B) receive the amount remitted to the town and city for parking regulations under subsection (b) of section 51-56a.
(P.A. 03-264, S. 1.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-205. - Financing.

Such parking authority or parking division, subject to the specific authorization and approval of the legislative body, may finance the creation and establishment of parking facilities by any one, or any combination, of the following methods: (a) General obligation bonds, including such general obligation bonds as shall mature at such time on a maturity schedule that will substantially equalize the payment of principal and interest annually; (b) revenue bonds as provided in section 7-206; (c) parking fees and special charges derived from the use of parking facilities; (d) general fund appropriations; (e) parking meter revenues; or (f) gifts, bequests, devises, grants-in-aid or otherwise.
(1953, S. 283d; 1971, P.A. 604, S. 3.)
History: 1971 act included general obligation bonds with maturity schedules which equalize principal and interest payments.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-206a. - Bonds and notes not subject to statutory debt limit. Conveyance of title by municipality to public agency lessee.

Bonds and notes issued under the provisions of section 7-206 for the purposes of sections 7-204 and 7-205 shall not be subject to any statutory limitations on the indebtedness of the municipality and such bonds and notes, when issued pursuant to the execution of a lease to a public agency, or an agreement for such lease, shall not be included in computing the aggregate indebtedness of the municipality in respect of any such limitation, and the municipality may convey title to the facility, including the land, to the public agency lessee, without consideration but only after receipt of sufficient funds to pay the principal of and interest on said notes or bonds and only when the terms of the lease agreement shall have been fully performed.
(1971, P.A. 604, S. 2.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-207. - Rates and charges.

The legislative body shall, in the ordinance providing for the issuance of revenue bonds, fix the initial schedule of minimum rates, rentals, fees and other charges for the use of, and for the service and facilities furnished or to be furnished by, each parking facility. After any parking facility has been in operation the legislative body may revise such schedule of rates, rentals, fees and charges from time to time, subject to the provisions of any lease theretofore made by the parking authority or parking division and then in force. The parking authority or parking division shall charge and collect the rates, rentals, fees and charges so fixed or revised. Such rates, rentals, fees and charges shall be so fixed and revised as to provide funds sufficient at all times (a) to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing and operating the parking facility or parking facilities, including reserves for such purpose and for replacements and depreciation, (b) to pay the principal of and the interest on the revenue bonds as the same become due and reserves therefor and (c) to provide a margin of safety for making such payments.
(1953, S. 285d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-207a. - Use of parking meter revenues.

Any municipality may, by ordinance, authorize its parking authority or parking division to collect and receive all revenue from parking meters located on public streets in the municipality or to establish metered on-street parking zones. Any municipality that has adopted an ordinance under section 7-204a may authorize its parking authority to receive the amount remitted to the municipality for parking violations under subsection (b) of section 51-56a. All existing parking meters, upon the adoption of such ordinance, shall become the property of the parking authority or parking division and such authority or division shall succeed to all the obligations of such municipality relative to payment for such meters. The revenues from such meters shall be used by such authority or division for the regulation and control of the parking of vehicles in parking meter on-street and off-street zones, for the cost of purchase, installation, operation, inspection, supervision and maintenance of parking meters, for acquiring, operating and maintaining off-street parking facilities and to fulfill pledges made under the provisions of section 7-206 for the payment of bonds.
(1959, P.A. 558, S. 1; P.A. 03-264, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 03-264 added provision re receipt of fines remitted to municipality for parking violations under Sec. 51-56a(b).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-208. - Rights of bondholders.

Any holder of revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, except to the extent that the rights herein given may be restricted by the authorizing ordinance, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce all rights under the provisions of the general statutes or under such ordinance, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this chapter or by such ordinance to be performed by the municipality, the legislative body, the parking authority or parking division or any officer thereof, including the fixing, charging and collecting of rates, rentals, fees and charges for the services and facilities furnished by the parking facility or parking facilities.
(1953, S. 286d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-210. - Receipts to be trust funds.

All moneys received under the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to be trust funds, to be held and applied as provided in this chapter. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds shall provide that any officer to whom, or bank, trust company or other fiscal agent to which, such moneys are paid shall act as trustee of such moneys and shall hold and apply the same for the purposes hereof, subject to such regulations as this chapter and such ordinance provide.
(1953, S. 288d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-212. - Parking authorities; tax exemption; investment of funds.

The property of any parking authority created under the authority of any general or special act shall be exempt from taxation, unless otherwise specifically provided in such general or special act or in the ordinance or resolution creating such parking authority. Any such parking authority may invest temporarily in direct obligations of the United States of America such portions of the proceeds received from the sale of bonds or other funds as is deemed available for such purpose.
(1953, S. 290d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 100 - Municipal Parking Authorities › Section 7-212a. - Public parking garages.

Any town, city or borough shall have the power to enter into agreements or contracts with any person or corporation for the erection and construction of public parking garages by such town, city or borough, or by such person or corporation or by the cooperative efforts of such town, city or borough and such person or corporation. Such town, city or borough shall also have the power to lease portions of any parking structure or any portion of its real property rights including air rights above or areas below any such structure, not to be used for public parking purposes, for commercial use where in the opinion of the municipality such leasing is desirable or feasible in order to defray its expenses in connection therewith and to facilitate the erection of off-street parking structures, and such municipality shall have the right to borrow money and to issue its bonds and notes therefor, for the purpose of financing such construction.
(1967, P.A. 687.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-213. - Municipalities may establish plants.

For purposes of this chapter, “municipality” means any town, city or borough. Any municipality may, under the limitations of this chapter, construct, purchase, lease or establish, and maintain one or more plants for the manufacture and distribution of gas or electricity for furnishing light for municipal use and for the use of such of its inhabitants as may require and pay for the same. Such plants may include suitable lands, structures, easements, water privileges, stations, gasometers, boilers, engines, dynamos, tools, machinery, pipes, conduits, poles, conductors, burners, lamps and other apparatus and appliances for making, generating, distributing and using gas or electricity for lighting purposes. Notwithstanding any provision of a special act or municipal charter to the contrary, any municipality that owns or operates one or more plants for the manufacture or distribution of electricity pursuant to this section or any special act may own or operate a community antenna television system, as defined in section 16-1, for the purpose of providing community antenna television service, as defined in said section, for its residents and residents of the municipalities within the franchise area of which it is a part.
(1949 Rev., S. 709; P.A. 73-146, S. 1; P.A. 92-137, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-146 removed restriction that municipal gas or electric utilities must be within the limits of the municipality; P.A. 92-137 amended section to allow certain municipalities to operate a community antenna television company.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-214. - Requirements for exercise of authority.

No municipality shall exercise the authority conferred in section 7-213 until affirmative action for that purpose has been taken by its legislative body by a two-thirds vote of those present at a legal meeting, received the approval of the chief executive officer and thereafter been ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon at the regular municipal election in the manner prescribed by section 9-369 at which not less than fifteen per cent of the electors have voted. When such vote fails to secure ratification, no similar vote shall be submitted for ratification until after the expiration of one year.
(1949 Rev., S. 710; 1953, S. 308d; P.A. 76-177, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 76-177 broadened applicability of statute by replacing “city”, “city council” and “mayor” with “municipality”, “legislative body” and “chief executive officer”, respectively and required ratification at municipal election where at least 15% of electors voted.
See Sec. 9-1 for applicable definitions.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-216. - Board of commissioners.

Whenever any municipality obtains a plant as provided in section 7-213, a commission shall be appointed, as hereinafter provided, to be known as the board of gas commissioners, board of electrical commissioners or board of gas and electrical commissioners, to whom shall be entrusted, subject to any ordinances established by such municipality, the operation, control, management and repair of plant, and the manufacture, generation and distribution of gas and electricity, including the purchase of supplies and the hiring and discharge of employees and of a suitable clerk and superintendent, and all the business relating to such manufacture, generation and distribution and to the methods, amounts, times, prices and quality of supply to each person and corporation, the collection of bills, the keeping of accounts and the custody of money received for gas or electricity, or otherwise, and the payment of bills incurred in said business. Such commission shall consist of three electors of such municipality, not holding other official positions in such municipality, who shall be appointed by the selectmen if a town, the common council if a city or the warden and burgesses if a borough, one for one year, one for two years and one for three years, and thereafter annually one commissioner shall be appointed to serve for three years. Before entering upon the duties of their office, they shall each give a bond to the municipality for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sum and form and with such sureties as the selectmen, mayor or warden and burgesses approve. The commission shall, on the first day of September of each year, render to the selectmen, common council or warden and burgesses a detailed statement of its doings and of the business and financial matters in its charge. It shall also, at any time required by the selectmen, common council or warden and burgesses, make to them a statement of its doings, business, receipts, disbursements and balances and of the indebtedness of the municipality, in its department, in the detail required, and it shall pay over to the treasurer of the municipality all moneys collected in its department. Any vacancy in such board may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by the appointing authority.
(1949 Rev., S. 716, 717; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 30.)
See Sec. 7-223 re ordinances.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-217. - Issuance of debt.

Any municipality establishing or purchasing a plant as provided by this chapter, reconstructing, extending or enlarging the same, as provided in section 7-218, or paying or liquidating obligations incurred pursuant to any power purchase contract entered into by or on behalf of such municipality, may pay for the same by an issue of bonds, payable in a term not exceeding thirty years, which shall not be disposed of at less than par, but such bonds shall not be issued until a vote authorizing the same has been passed by the town or borough or the common council of the city. No indebtedness shall be incurred by any municipality in connection with such plant except as provided in this section, provided money may be borrowed temporarily to pay the running expenses thereof and may be borrowed in accordance with section 7-217a. All receipts from the sale of gas or electricity shall be paid over to the treasurer of such municipality. The gross expenses of running such plant and conducting such business of supplying gas or electricity, including interest on such bonds and the requirements of the sinking fund, if such a fund has been provided for the payment of such bonds, shall be included in the appropriations made annually or from time to time by such municipality and shall be paid out of the treasury thereof. For the purposes of this chapter, the proceeds of any notes issued pursuant to section 7-217a for the purpose of purchasing capacity or energy shall be considered income of the plant operated pursuant to this chapter by the municipality issuing such notes and shall be applicable against the expenses related to such plant.
(1949 Rev., S. 712; 1969, P.A. 424, S. 3; P.A. 73-146, S. 2; P.A. 86-309, S. 2; P.A. 98-28, S. 51, 117.)
History: 1969 act removed provision limiting interest to 5%; P.A. 73-146 removed provision limiting utilities to plants within limits of municipality; P.A. 86-309 inserted provisions re notes issued pursuant to Sec. 7-217a; P.A. 98-28 added clause regarding paying or liquidating obligations incurred pursuant to a power purchase contract, effective July 1, 1998.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-218. - Reconstruction or enlargement of plant.

Any municipality owning a plant under the authority of this chapter may reconstruct or enlarge the same, but no reconstruction or enlargement, beyond the ordinary and necessary maintenance, repair or replacement thereof, except such increased appliances for the distribution of gas or electricity as may be necessary to furnish the same to new takers, shall be undertaken or made, unless by vote as provided by section 7-217 in case of the issue of bonds.
(1949 Rev., S. 713.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-219. - Assessment for pipes and other appliances.

Any municipality may provide by ordinances for the equitable assessment upon the owner or occupant of real estate of any part or the whole of the cost of furnishing, laying and maintaining upon the premises of such owner or occupant pipes, conduits, conductors or other appliances for the distribution of gas or electricity to such premises. Payment of such assessment shall not be obligatory but shall be made a condition precedent to the supplying of gas or electricity to the occupants of such premises and may be exacted before providing any such appliances for such distribution.
(1949 Rev., S. 714; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 29.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-220. - Manufacture and distribution.

Any municipality having obtained a plant for the purpose, under the authority of this chapter, may manufacture, generate and distribute gas or electricity for furnishing light for municipal purposes or for the use of the inhabitants, under such regulations and conditions as it establishes, but no municipality shall be compelled to furnish gas or electricity to any person or corporation, except by order of the commissioners mentioned in section 7-216, after payment of any assessment provided for in section 7-219. Any person or corporation aggrieved by the refusal of any municipality acting under the authority of this chapter to supply gas or electricity may appeal to such commissioners, setting forth in such appeal what is asked of such municipality in such detail as the commissioners require. If it appears that additional cost to the municipality for plant is likely to be necessary, the commissioners may require the municipality forthwith to cause to be made the assessments, if any, provided for in section 7-219, upon the owners or occupants of the premises to which the gas or electricity applied for is required to be supplied, and the municipality shall at once comply with the request. The commissioners shall then hear all the parties interested, and judge whether, under the circumstances of the case, it is reasonable to require such municipality to furnish gas or electricity in any manner covered by the claims in the appeal. In making their decision, they may take into consideration the extra cost to the municipality, with any other peculiar circumstances of the case, and whether, after the amount of all the other assessments is paid, the extra supply required can be furnished without incurring an expense beyond the appropriation for gas or electrical purposes for that year. Unless it is made to appear that the expense cannot be so met, they may, if they find it reasonable, make an order in which they may define the amount, quality, manner, locality and times of supplying gas or electricity, and may require the municipality to furnish the same to the party applying, as directed in the order, and such municipality shall, without delay, after the payment of the assessments, comply with the order. Any order or request made to any town under this section shall be transmitted to the selectmen, to any city to the mayor and to any borough to the warden of the borough. The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce compliance with any order or request made under this section, by appropriate process.
(1949 Rev., S. 715.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-221. - Keeping of accounts.

The books and accounts pertaining to the business authorized by this chapter shall be kept in a form to be prescribed by the board of commissioners, and the accounts shall be closed on the last day of July in each year, so that a balance sheet of that date can be taken therefrom and included in the report of such board, as provided in section 7-216, which report shall further contain an account of the financial condition of such business, the amount of indebtedness authorized or existing on account thereof and a list of the salaried officers employed therein and the amount of salary paid to each, and shall be accompanied with a statement, to be signed and sworn to by the clerk and superintendent mentioned in section 7-216, of the income and expenses of such business, in such detail as the board of commissioners requires. The selectmen of a town, the mayor of a city or the warden and burgesses of a borough may direct any additional returns to be made by the board of commissioners or by the superintendent and clerk at such times and in such detail as they order.
(1949 Rev., S. 718.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-222. - Price.

(a) The price to be charged to persons or corporations for gas or electricity shall be fixed and shall not be changed more often than once in three months. Any change shall take effect on the first day of the month, and the new price adopted shall, before the change takes effect, be advertised at least one month in some newspaper published in the municipality where the plant is located and, if none is published therein, in some newspaper published in the county where the plant is situated. Such price shall be fixed on a basis of not less than a net profit per year of five per cent on the cost of the investment in plant made by the municipality and also depreciation of the plant at not less than five per cent per annum of its cost, and the price shall not be greater than to allow a net profit of eight per cent per annum to the municipality on such cost. In fixing such basis on which to establish the price to be charged to persons and corporations, the gas and electricity used by the municipality shall be charged to it at cost. A sufficient deposit to cover the payment for gas or electricity for three months may be required in advance from any taker, and the supply may be shut off from any premises until all arrearages for gas or electricity furnished thereon are paid. Such deposit may be made by cash, letter of credit or surety bond. After three months' default in payment of such arrearages, all appliances for distribution on such premises belonging to the municipality may be removed and after such removal shall not be restored, except on payment of all such arrearages and a sufficient sum to cover all expenses incurred by the removal and restoration, with the penalty which the municipality may impose in such cases.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale of compressed natural gas.
(c) Each member municipal electric utility of a municipal electric energy cooperative, as defined in section 7-233b, may return fifty per cent of the deposit, as described in subsection (a) of this section, to each nonresidential electric customer if such customer's account remains in good standing for two years.
(1949 Rev., S. 719; P.A. 90-271, S. 4, 24; P.A. 99-286, S. 18, 19; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 109.)
History: P.A. 90-271 made a technical change; P.A. 99-286 designated existing language as Subsec. (a) and inserted new Subsec. (b) re exemption for sale of compressed natural gas, effective July 19, 1999; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re deposit made by cash, letter of credit or surety bond and added Subsec. (c) re return of 50 per cent of deposit by member utility of a municipal electric energy cooperative.
See Sec. 16-19f re rate design standards.
Cited. 95 C. 549.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-222a. - Rate for interconnection of generation facilities.

Not later than October 1, 2004, each municipal electric utility, including any participating municipal electric utility, as defined in section 16-1, shall, in consultation with the municipal electric energy cooperative established under chapter 101a, set, pursuant to section 7-222, a rate for the interconnection of generation facilities into its transmission and distribution system, which generation facilities are located in the service territory of the municipal electric utility and began operations after June 26, 2003.
(P.A. 03-135, S. 16.)
History: P.A. 03-135 effective June 26, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-223. - Ordinances.

If any municipality operates a plant under the provisions of this chapter, such municipality may adopt ordinances regulating the production, control and use of its plant, fixtures and appurtenances; the character and quality of, and the method and plan of installing, piping, wiring and fixtures; the use and inspection of the same, including the use of the product of such plant for the protection of persons and property and the appointment, term and salary of an inspector or inspectors, as the case may be, of gas and electric piping, wiring, fixtures and appliances, which inspector or inspectors shall be appointed by a board of gas commissioners, board of electrical commissioners or board of gas and electrical commissioners, as the case may be, as provided in section 7-216, which ordinances may provide a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for any violation thereof. No provision hereof shall affect the authority of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority over such plants.
(1949 Rev., S. 720; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 31; P.A. 75-486, S. 23, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 9, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 substituted division of public utility control within the department of business regulation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 substituted department of public utility control for the division 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.
See Sec. 16-29 re reports concerning municipally owned, leased, operated or managed public utility plants required by Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-224. - Purchase by municipality of plant owned by a corporation.

When any municipality decides to establish a plant and any corporation incorporated by the General Assembly for the purpose of furnishing gas or electric light, heat or power is, at the time of the first vote required for such decision, engaged in the business of making, generating or distributing gas or electricity, for sale for lighting purposes to consumers in such municipality, such municipality shall, if such corporation elects to sell and comply with the provisions of this chapter, before establishing its plant, purchase of such corporation such portion of its gas plant and property suitable and used for such business or in connection therewith, if the municipality has decided to establish a gas plant, or of its plant for electric lighting, and property suitable and used for such business or in connection therewith, if such municipality has decided to establish an electric lighting plant, as has, at the time of the first vote, been in use in or acquired for such business in such municipality. If, in any such municipality, a single corporation owns or operates both a gas plant and an electric plant, such purchase shall include both of such plants. For the purposes of this chapter, such municipality may purchase such gas plant or electric plant or both, whether the same is located within or without the limits of such municipality, provided such plant is being used for the purpose of making, generating or distributing gas or electricity for sale for lighting purposes in such municipality.
(1949 Rev., S. 721.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-225. - When purchase to embrace entire plant.

When a portion only of the gas or electric plant of any corporation would, under section 7-224, be included in a purchase by any municipality, such municipality shall, at the election of the owner or owners of such plant, similarly purchase all of such plant, instead of only the portion thereof employed as aforesaid in such business, for the benefit of consumers in such municipality. If such municipality believes the election of the owner of such plant last above provided for to be unreasonable, such municipality may, within thirty days after such election has been communicated to it, petition the superior court for the judicial district in which such municipality is located, for relief, and said court may, upon due hearing, if it finds such election unreasonable, modify such election and make such orders in the premises, including orders relative to the amount of property to be purchased, as it deems reasonable, and such municipality shall comply with such orders before establishing its plant for electric or gas lighting under the provisions of this chapter. Such municipality, upon such a purchase hereunder of the whole of any such existing plant, may thereafter continue to employ such remaining portion thereof, then used for the benefit of consumers, without such municipality, for its former uses and purposes, under the same powers, rights and liabilities with respect thereto as its previous owner enjoyed and was subject to.
(1949 Rev., S. 722; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-226. - Determination of plant value.

The price to be paid for such plant, whether gas, electric or both, shall be its fair market value for the purposes of its use, no portion of such plant to be estimated at less than its fair market value for any other purpose, including as an element of value the earning capacity of such plant, based upon the actual earnings being derived from such use at the time of the final vote of such municipality to establish a plant, and also including the market value of any other locations or similar rights acquired by the owners of such plant or plants, intended and adapted for use in connection with such plant or plants, to be sold less the amount of any mortgage or other encumbrance or lien to which such plant or plants or any part thereof may be subject at the time of the transfer of title; but such municipality may require that such plant or property shall be transferred to it free and clear of any mortgage or lien, unless the Superior Court, through its special commission as provided in section 7-228, otherwise determines.
(1949 Rev., S. 723.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-227. - Valuation of capital paid in property.

When any capital has been paid in, in property instead of cash, the valuation placed upon such property, in estimating it as paid-in capital, shall not be conclusive in estimating its value under the foregoing provisions, but may be disputed by the municipality and, if shown to have been excessive, may be reduced by the authority fixing the price of the plant and property as hereinafter provided. No municipality shall be obliged by the provisions of this section to buy any apparatus or appliances covered by letters patent of the United States or embodying a patentable invention, unless the complete right to use the same and all other apparatus and appliances necessary for such use is assigned or granted to such municipality at a cost as low as the cost of such right would be to the corporation whose plant is purchased.
(1949 Rev., S. 724.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-228. - Compulsory purchase by municipality.

Any corporation desiring to enforce the obligation of any municipality, hereby imposed, to purchase any property shall file with the clerk of such municipality, within thirty days after the passage of the final vote whereby such municipality has decided to establish a plant, a detailed schedule, describing such property and stating the terms of sale proposed. If the parties fail to agree as to what shall be sold or what the terms of sale or delivery shall be, either party may, after thirty days after filing the schedule, apply by petition to the superior court for the judicial district in which such plant is located, or to any judge thereof in vacation, setting forth the facts and praying an adjudication between the parties, and thereafter such court or judge shall, after notice and hearing, appoint a special commission of one or three persons, who shall give the parties an opportunity to be heard and shall thereafter adjudicate whether the property contained in such schedule, real or personal, including rights and easements, properly belongs to such plant and should be sold by the one and purchased by the other and what the time, price and other conditions of sale and delivery thereof shall be. Such commission shall report its doings to the superior court for the judicial district in which the plant is located, for confirmation by said court.
(1949 Rev., S. 725; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127.)
History: P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 7 - Municipalities › Chapter 101 - Municipal Gas and Electric Plants › Section 7-229. - Remonstrance to acceptance of report.

Any party aggrieved by the doings of the commission may, within fourteen days after its report has been filed with the clerk of said superior court, or such longer time as such court allows, file a remonstrance to such report. Said court shall hear the questions arising on such remonstrance, and, if the matters of the remonstrance are found true and sufficient, said court may set aside the report in whole or in part, as the justice of the case requires, and appoint another special commission to rehear the case, in whole or in part, as the justice of the case requires. Such special commission shall make report of its doings in the premises to said court, which shall be subject to remonstrance in like manner as the original report and, if such remonstrance is sustained, the court shall likewise send the case to another commission for action, and like proceedings shall be had until the report of such commission or commissioners, covering all the questions involved, has been accepted by said court.
(1949 Rev., S. 726.)