Title 13b — Title 13b: Transportation

Sec. 13b-324. (Formerly Sec. 16-140). Compliance with orders re operation of trains. Accident notification requirements. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall investigate the operating and manning of passenger and freight trains and make such orders, regulations or recomme…

Sec. 13b-325. (Formerly Sec. 16-141). Operation of motor buses. Any railroad company operating a railroad in the state may apply to the Department of Transportation for certificates of public convenience and necessity pursuant to the provisions of chapter 244 and, subject to the …

Secs. 13b-326 to 13b-328. (Formerly Secs. 16-142 to 16-144). Operation: Of gasoline cars; by electricity; of aircraft. Sections 13b-326 to 13b-328, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5527–5529; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 610; S.A. …

Sec. 13b-329. (Formerly Sec. 16-145). Audible signals; distance from grade crossing when sounding is to commence; maximum decibel level regulations. (a) Each engine used upon a railroad shall be supplied with an audible signal of sufficient amplification for existing circumstance…

Sec. 13b-330. (Formerly Sec. 16-146). Warning device on gasoline motor car. Any railroad company operating a gasoline motor car upon its railroad shall use on such car such device or devices, for giving warning of the approach of such car to crossings of such railroad by highways…

Sec. 13b-331. (Formerly Sec. 16-147). Engineers to have copies of law and be sworn. No company shall permit any person to drive an engine upon a railroad operated by it, unless he has first received a printed copy of section 13b-329 and of this section and has made oath that he w…

Sec. 13b-332. (Formerly Sec. 16-148). Assistant engineer or fireman may signal. Each engineer in charge of an engine may direct and authorize any fireman or assistant engineer, who is under his authority at the time, to perform the duties imposed upon him as such engineer by sect…

Sec. 13b-333. (Formerly Sec. 16-149). Signal at crossing not at grade. Section 13b-333 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5534; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 13b-334. (Formerly Sec. 16-150). Commissioner of Transportation may regulate signals. When the selectmen of any town, the mayor and common council of any city or the warden and burgesses of any borough bring their petition in writing to the Commissioner of Transportation, re…

Sec. 13b-335. (Formerly Sec. 16-151). Change of signals. Section 13b-335 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5536; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 13b-336. (Formerly Sec. 16-152). Lights on track motor cars. Each person, firm or corporation operating or controlling any railroad running through or within the state shall equip each of its track motor cars, used during the period from thirty minutes before sunset to thirt…

Sec. 13b-337. (Formerly Sec. 16-153). Windshields and tops on track motor cars. (a) Each person, firm or corporation operating or controlling any railroad running through or within this state shall equip each of its track motor cars with (1) a windshield and a device for cleaning…

Sec. 13b-338. (Formerly Sec. 16-154). Obstruction of streets by railroad cars. No railroad corporation or receiver or assignee thereof, or its or his servant or agent, shall wilfully or negligently obstruct or unnecessarily and unreasonably use or occupy any highway or street, or…

Sec. 13b-339. (Formerly Sec. 16-155). Obstruction of highway at crossing. Any person traveling upon any public highway, which is crossed by the tracks of any railroad company, who is obstructed or prevented from crossing such tracks for a longer time than five minutes, by reason …

Sec. 13b-340. (Formerly Sec. 16-156). Use of highway for switching. The Commissioner of Transportation may forbid any railroad company to use for switching purposes or standing trains such portion of its tracks upon or across any highway as in his opinion public convenience requi…

Sec. 13b-341. (Formerly Sec. 16-157). Use for switching regulated on petition. The Commissioner of Transportation, when requested in writing by the selectmen of any town, the mayor of any city or the warden of any borough to forbid the use for switching purposes of the tracks of …

Sec. 13b-342. (Formerly Sec. 16-158). General orders regarding crossings. Forfeiture. The Commissioner of Transportation may make orders for the regulation of the speed at which locomotives and cars shall cross highways and generally may make all orders which he deems necessary t…

Sec. 13b-343. (Formerly Sec. 16-159). Gates, flagmen and signals at grade crossings. Forfeiture. Notice and hearing re reactivation of railroad line. The Commissioner of Transportation, when requested in writing by the selectmen of any town, the mayor and common council of any ci…

Sec. 13b-344. (Formerly Sec. 16-160). Signs at grade crossings. Notification of locations of railroad crossings. Local police or firemen to direct traffic at crossings with malfunctioning gates or signals. (a) Each town, city or borough shall place, inspect and maintain warning s…

Sec. 13b-344a. Person not to cross tracks when warned by signal, gates, flagmen or law enforcement officer of approach of railroad locomotive or equipment on tracks. No person shall cross railroad tracks at a designated railroad grade crossing when warned by an automatic signal, …

Sec. 13b-345. (Formerly Sec. 16-161). Duties of commissioner re grade crossings. Traffic control devices and measures. Signs. Log, investigation and repair of malfunctioning crossing gates or signals. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall investigate conditions surrounding…

Sec. 13b-345a. Towns authorized to petition the department to install a mandatory stop on any municipal or state highway approaching a crossing at grade. Any town, city or borough may petition the Department of Transportation to provide a mandatory stop on any municipal or state …

Sec. 13b-345b. Regulations to ensure safe maintenance, inspection and testing of signal systems and devices at railroad crossings. Section 13b-345b is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (P.A. 90-329, S. 4; P.A. 98-182, S. 21, 22.)

Sec. 13b-346. (Formerly Sec. 16-162). Penalty. Section 13b-346 is repealed, effective October 1, 2012. (1949 Rev., S. 5544; P.A. 12-80, S. 193.)

Sec. 13b-347. (Formerly Sec. 16-163). Warnings at grade crossings. Section 13b-347 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5545; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 610; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 13b-348. (Formerly Sec. 16-164). Speed of trains in cities and boroughs. The power to regulate the speed of railroad trains within the limits of cities and boroughs shall be vested exclusively in the Commissioner of Transportation. (1949 Rev., S. 5546; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69;…

Sec. 13b-349. (Formerly Sec. 16-165). Cars at rear of locomotive. No railroad company shall operate any regularly scheduled train for the transportation of passengers which is propelled by a locomotive attached to the cars in any other manner than at the rear of such locomotive, …

Sec. 13b-350. (Formerly Sec. 16-166). Standard time. Section 13b-350 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5548; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 13b-351. (Formerly Sec. 16-167). Approach to station. Forfeiture. Each railroad company shall maintain a convenient and safe approach for vehicles to each of its passenger stations from the highway and, for a reasonable time before and after the arrival of any passenger trai…

Sec. 13b-352. (Formerly Sec. 16-168). Platforms; hand cars; water; baggage checks; stations posted. Section 13b-352 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5550; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 610; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 13b-353. (Formerly Sec. 16-169). Water closets at stations. Each company operating a railroad shall maintain at each regular passenger station such suitable water closets as in the judgment of the Commissioner of Transportation the public convenience may require. The commiss…

Sec. 13b-354. (Formerly Sec. 16-169a). Maintenance of station and working yard areas. As used in this section “working yard area” means the area used for the classification and storage of passenger and freight cars. Each railroad company shall maintain its station and working yar…

Sec. 13b-354a. Maintenance of margins alongside tracks and rights-of-way. Filing complaint by railroad labor representative. Regulations. (a) Every railroad shall maintain and keep clear of debris the margins alongside their tracks on their right-of-way and alongside their yard t…

Sec. 13b-354b. Maintenance of way crews or employees working in area of double or multiple railroad tracks. Whenever maintenance of way crews or employees are working in the area of double or multiple railroad tracks the following safety precautions are required: (1) All trains s…

Sec. 13b-355. (Formerly Sec. 16-170). Bulletin of late trains. Forfeiture. The Commissioner of Transportation, whenever requested by twenty electors residing within two miles of any station on a railroad in this state, or by the first selectman of the town, the mayor of the city …

Secs. 13b-356 to 13b-359. (Formerly Secs. 16-171 to 16-174). Transportation of explosives; forfeiture. Charge for storage; forfeiture. Lien for transportation charges. Receipt; forfeiture. Sections 13b-356 to 13b-359, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev.…

Sec. 13b-360. (Formerly Sec. 16-175). Fire caused by engine; insurable interest. When property is injured by fire communicated by an engine of a railroad company, without contributory negligence on the part of the person entitled to the care and possession of such property, such …

Sec. 13b-361. (Formerly Sec. 16-176). Notice of claim. No action shall be brought under section 13b-360 unless written notice of the claim is given to such company within twenty days after the fire, specifying the day of the fire, giving a general description of the property inju…

Sec. 13b-362. (Formerly Sec. 16-177). Fire communicated by railway engine. In an action to recover for any injury occasioned by fire communicated by any railroad locomotive engine in this state, the fact that such fire was so communicated shall be prima facie evidence of negligen…

Secs. 13b-363 and 13b-364. (Formerly Secs. 16-178 and 16-179). Clearing land adjacent to railroad right-of-way. Land damages not affected by fire risk. Sections 13b-363 and 13b-364 are repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5560, 5561; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 13b-365. (Formerly Sec. 16-180). Certain employees to wear badges. All the conductors, brakemen and baggagemen employed upon the passenger trains of any company, when on duty, shall wear, in a conspicuous place, a badge showing their respective duties and the name of such co…

Secs. 13b-366 to 13b-374. (Formerly Secs. 16-182 to 16-190). Trains to stop before crossing drawbridge or railroad. Interference with navigation. Drawbridges. Passing switches, stations and crossings without stopping; forfeiture. Platforms for shipment of livestock. Hospital stre…

Sec. 13b-375. Enforcement of statutory provisions and orders of commissioner. On application of the Commissioner of Transportation or of the Attorney General, the superior court for the judicial district of Hartford may enforce, by appropriate decree or process, any provision of …

Sec. 13b-376. Operation lifesaver program. Operation Lifesaver Committee. Grants. Regulations. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish and operate an operation lifesaver program designed to reduce the number of accidents at railway crossings and to increase the pub…

Secs. 13b-377 to 13b-386. Reserved for future use.