Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 appr…

Sec. 7-215. Preliminary vote in towns or boroughs. Section 7-215 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 711; 1953, S. 309d; P.A. 76-177, S. 2.)

Sec. 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 co…

Sec. 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 ente…

Sec. 7-217a. Temporary notes. Method of issuance and payment. (a) In addition to its other powers described under this chapter, any municipality operating a plant pursuant to this chapter may issue temporary notes for purposes of financing any capital project related to such plan…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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 o…

Sec. 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, unde…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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 c…

Sec. 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 cooperati…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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 r…

Sec. 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, similar…

Sec. 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 a…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 mu…

Sec. 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. Sai…

Sec. 7-230. Appeal. An appeal may be taken from the decision of said court, accepting the report of the commission, to the Appellate Court in the same manner in which appeals are usually taken and with like effect. If the Appellate Court reverses the judgment of the Superior Cour…

Sec. 7-231. Private rights extinguished by municipal purchase. Whenever the existing gas or electric plant of any person or corporation has been acquired by any municipality pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the powers and rights of such person or corporation in relatio…

Sec. 7-232. Damages by reason of operating plant. Any municipality owning or operating a plant or plants for the manufacture and distribution of gas or electricity for furnishing light, by virtue hereof, shall be responsible for any injury or damage to persons or property, happen…

Sec. 7-232a. Information exempt from Freedom of Information Act. A municipal utility established under this chapter, or a municipal electric or gas utility owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or controlled by any unit of local government under the general statutes or a s…

Sec. 7-233. Applicability of statutes and ordinances. All provisions of the statutes, and all ordinances of any municipality availing itself of the provisions of this chapter, relative to the manufacture, use, generation or distribution of gas or electricity, or the quality there…