Title 13a — Title 13a: Highways and Bridges

Sec. 13a-100. Expense of bridges between towns. Necessary bridges between towns, except when otherwise specially provided by law, shall be built and kept in repair by such towns, and the expense thereof shall be apportioned between them according to the total revenue received yea…

Sec. 13a-100a. Maintenance of pedestrian walkways on bridges. The person required to maintain any bridge constructed over any section of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways located within this state, which bridge (1) is constructed or undergoes major reconstruc…

Sec. 13a-101. Bridges over artificial watercourses. Any bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse on a highway which it is not the duty of the commissioner to maintain shall be constructed and maintained by the person owning or controlling such watercourse and shall be…

Sec. 13a-102. Court may direct construction or repair of bridge. When any town neglects to construct or repair a bridge across a river in a highway in such town, or when it is necessary to construct or repair any such bridge between towns or judicial districts and the towns liabl…

Sec. 13a-103. Complaint to court for failure of town to maintain highway. Whenever any town fails to keep any highway within such town in good and sufficient repair or whenever the selectmen of any town fail to remove or cause to be removed any encroachments upon any highway in s…

Sec. 13a-104. Proceeding against borough for failure to maintain highway. Whenever any borough has assumed the care of the highways and sidewalks within its limits and the authorities of such borough fail to keep such highways and sidewalks in good and sufficient repair, the same…

Sec. 13a-105. Contracts for highway construction. When any town has determined to construct or reconstruct any highway, section of highway or bridge, which construction or reconstruction is to be paid for from funds allotted to such town under the provisions of sections 13a-175a …

Sec. 13a-106. Competitive bids not required when material available at price acceptable to commissioner. When any town highway is maintained, improved, constructed or reconstructed on a force account basis by expenditure of funds allocated under sections 13a-175a to 13a-175f, inc…

Sec. 13a-107. Selectmen to open highway blocked with snow. Whenever any highway becomes blocked with snow to an extent that renders the same impassable for public travel, the selectmen of the town in which such highway is located shall cause such highway to be opened for public t…

Sec. 13a-108. Rural free delivery route to be opened. If the selectmen of any town fail, for a period of five days, to open, in accordance with the provisions of section 13a-107, any highway which is part of a rural free delivery route, any person or persons residing on such rout…

Sec. 13a-109. Apportionment of cost for work on bridge. The commissioner or any municipality or other person who has performed any work on any bridge for a portion of the cost of which any other municipality or person is liable shall, within thirty days after the completion of su…

Sec. 13a-110. Lighting on bridges, dangerous locations and intersections. (a) The commissioner shall cause to be installed and shall maintain suitable lighting on any bridge or on any dangerous location or intersection on any state highway when he deems such lighting necessary to…

Sec. 13a-110a. Highway and roadway lighting designed to maximize energy conservation and minimize light pollution. State and municipal funds. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Fixture” means the assembly that holds a lamp and may include an assembly housing, a mounting bracket or…

Sec. 13a-111. Railings on bridges and highways. The party bound to maintain any bridge or highway shall erect and maintain a sufficient railing or fence on the sides of such bridge and on the sides of such parts of such road as are so made or raised above the ground as to be unsa…

Sec. 13a-112. Certain bridges to have draws. No bridge without a draw shall be built or maintained across any water navigated by open-deck vessels for business purposes, whose passage would be impeded thereby. If any bridge is so maintained or its construction commenced, the Supe…

Sec. 13a-113. Drawbridges to have gates. The approaches to all drawbridges over which highways pass shall be provided, by the town or towns or owners of such bridges, with gates for the protection of travelers, subject to the approval of the selectmen of the town or towns in whic…

Sec. 13a-114. Traffic control during department operations. The commissioner or his agent may, while engaged in Department of Transportation operations, restrict, control and halt traffic. Anyone who disregards or disobeys the person so restricting, controlling or halting traffic…

Sec. 13a-115. Closing highways under construction, maintenance or repair. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation may close or restrict traffic over any section of any state highway or bridge for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair by posting notices…

Sec. 13a-116. Warning signs. On any road or bridge maintained by the state where repairs or construction are under way or on any road or bridge being constructed or reconstructed under supervision of the commissioner, the display of reflectorized signs erected under the provision…

Sec. 13a-117. Permit to operate truck between parts of industrial plant. The commissioner may, if in his opinion it is equitable, grant a special permit for the operation of industrial trucks, tractors, trailers and semitrailers upon the highways of this state for the purpose of …

Sec. 13a-117a. (Formerly Sec. 13a-28). Permit to operate service car or wrecker on limited access highway. Section 13a-117a is repealed, effective June 29, 1993. (1961, P.A. 46, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 29; 1969, P.A. 553, S. 1; P.A. 73-675, S. 18, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 14, 45; P.A…

Sec. 13a-117b. Soliciting of business by service car and wrecker businesses. No person, firm or corporation engaged in a service car or wrecker business shall solicit customers while on any limited access state highway. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of …

Sec. 13a-118. United States routes to be marked. The commissioner shall on state highways, and may on town highways, mark, with standard shields, as approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials, the portion in this state of any route adopted by said association…

Sec. 13a-119. Warning and directional signs. Control cities. (a) Whenever, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Transportation the same is necessary, said commissioner shall on any state highway, and may on any town highway, erect and maintain suitable warning and directional si…

Sec. 13a-120. Traffic authority to maintain warning signs. The traffic authority of any city, town or borough shall erect and maintain suitable warning signs on highways under the jurisdiction of such traffic authority, legible from a distance of one hundred feet and located at a…

Sec. 13a-121. Notice of load capacity; appeal. When the load-carrying capacity of any bridge on any highway is such that it will not carry safely any vehicle or combination of vehicle and trailer or semitrailer or any other object within the limits of the weights specified in sec…

Sec. 13a-122. Installation of decorations in streets restricted. No person, firm or corporation, or any group or organization of persons, shall install any decorations or cause them to be installed within the limits of any highway without having received a permit to do so from th…

Sec. 13a-123. Restriction of outdoor advertising structures, signs, displays or devices on state property or interstate, federal-aid and other limited access highways. Signs upon or within buildings or personal property. Exceptions. License or permit. Information centers at safet…

Sec. 13a-123a. Church signs on state highways. Section 13a-123a is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (February, 1965, P.A. 430; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 93; P.A. 98-182, S. 21, 22.)

Sec. 13a-123b. Exemption of certain areas. If Congress amends Title I of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 to exempt any area adjacent to any interstate or primary federal-aid highway or any such highway in whole or in part from control of outdoor advertising structures, sig…

Sec. 13a-123c. Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions. As used in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, “highway” means the federal interstate and primary systems and limited access state highways as defined in section 13a-1; “federal interstate s…

Sec. 13a-123d. Regulations. The Commissioner of Transportation may promulgate regulations for effective control of junkyards and scrap metal processing facilities, in accordance with Section 136, Title 23 of the United States Code, situated within one thousand feet of the nearest…

Sec. 13a-123e. Certificate of approval. No person, firm or corporation shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard, or scrap metal processing facility, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled …

Sec. 13a-123f. Screening of certain installations. Acquisition of property by Commissioner of Transportation. (a) Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, lawfully in existence on October 1, 1967, which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way a…

Sec. 13a-123g. Facilities as nuisance. Abatement. Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, established or maintained in violation of sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, or any regulation adopted thereunder, is declared to be a public nuisance and the Commissioner of…

Sec. 13a-123h. Provisions of other statutes, ordinances, etc., not abrogated. Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any statute, ordinance, regulation or resolution which are more restrictive than the provi…

Sec. 13a-123i. Facilities in industrial area not affected. Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall apply to any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility which is located within an area zoned for industrial use or which is within an area not so zoned but whic…

Sec. 13a-123j. Agreements with Secretary of Commerce. The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Commerce of the United States as provided by Section 136 of Title 23 of the United States Code, and to act in the name of the stat…

Sec. 13a-124. Unauthorized signs. No person, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain or cause to be erected or maintained, within three hundred feet of any state highway, any sign which has thereon any of the following words: “Stop”, “caution”, “danger”, “dangerous”, “warning…

Sec. 13a-124a. Specific service sign on limited access highways. Regulations. (a) As used in this section, “specific service sign” means a rectangular sign with the word GAS, FOOD, LODGING, CAMPING or ATTRACTION and exit directional information pertaining to the designated motori…

Sec. 13a-124b. Payment for design and production of signs or notices re Connecticut-made beer facilities. The design and production of directional and other official signs or notices pertaining to facilities in this state where Connecticut-made beer is manufactured or sold, pursu…

Sec. 13a-125. Removal or destruction of signs. Section 13a-125 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2247; 1958 Rev., S. 13-134; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 125; 1971, P.A. 690, S. 2.) PART VIII PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITIES

Sec. 13a-126. Readjustment, relocation or removal of public service facilities for highway construction. As used in this section, “public service facility” includes all privately, publicly or cooperatively owned lines, facilities and systems for producing, transmitting or distrib…

Sec. 13a-126a. Regulation of public service facility installations along state highway rights-of-way for aesthetic purposes. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, the Commissioner of Transportation may, for the purpose of protecting the functional or aesthetic char…

Sec. 13a-126b. Agreements with public service facility operators for revision of plans of proposed installation. The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized, when in his opinion it would be in the best interest of the state, to enter into an agreement with the owner or opera…

Sec. 13a-126c. Longitudinal use of highway right-of-way by public service facility or company. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Transportation may enter into an agreement with the owner or operator of a public service facility, as defined…

Sec. 13a-126d. Notification provided to Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and public service companies re highway construction projects. The Department of Transportation and any municipality shall notify the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of any pending project involvi…

Sec. 13a-126e. Easements for public service companies to provide service to Department of Transportation facilities. The Commissioner of Transportation may grant easements with respect to land owned by the state to a public service company, as defined in section 16-1, in connecti…

Sec. 13a-127. Utility lines on certain bridges. The commissioner is authorized to contract with any person, partnership, association or corporation, desiring the use of the project authorized by section 13a-32, the Gold Star Memorial Bridge or the Old Lyme and Old Saybrook Bridge…

Sec. 13a-128. Discontinuance or alteration of highways in watershed. When any municipal or private corporation, engaged in providing or authorized to provide a water supply for any town, city or borough, deems it necessary that any public highway or part thereof shall be disconti…