Title 16 — Title 16: Public Service Companies

Sec. 16-33. Obstructing authority; false entries and returns to; penalty. Any person who wilfully makes any false return or report to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or to any member thereof, or to any agent or any employee acting therefor, or who testifies falsely to …

Sec. 16-34. Annual reports to Governor. Section 16-34 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 5424; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 81-348, S. 3.)

Sec. 16-34a. Annual report re lost and unaccounted for gas. Docket to investigate. (a) Not later than July 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing …

Sec. 16-35. Appeals to Superior Court. Uncontested proceedings re acquiring electricity products or services. Stays of orders of authority. (a) Any person, including but not limited to a company, town, city, borough or corporation aggrieved by any order, authorization or decision…

Secs. 16-36 to 16-39. Venue. Procedure on appeal. Notice when parties are numerous. Supersedeas. Sections 16-36 to 16-39, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 5426–5429; 1971, P.A. 179, S. 6; 870, S. 43, 106; P.A. 76-436, S. 358, 359, 681; P.A. 77-603, S. 42, 125.)

Sec. 16-3a. Appointment of initial members. Transfer of business between commission and authority. Obsolete. (P.A. 75-486, S. 21, 69; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 75-1, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 79, 136.)

Sec. 16-4. Employees of public service companies, certified telecommunications providers and electric suppliers ineligible to serve on authority or in department. No officer, employee, attorney or agent of any public service company, of any certified telecommunications provider o…

Sec. 16-40. Rights and duties of trustees and receivers. When any company is operated by a trustee or receiver, such trustee or receiver shall have all the powers and shall be subject to all the duties, obligations and penalties which such company would otherwise have or to which…

Sec. 16-41. Imposition of civil penalties by authority. (a) Each (1) public service company and its officers, agents and employees, (2) electric supplier or person providing electric generation services without a license in violation of section 16-245, and its officers, agents an…

Sec. 16-42. Not to affect labor contracts. Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to interfere in any manner with contracts between public service companies and their employees. (1949 Rev., S. 5432; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P…

Sec. 16-43. Merger or sale of public service companies. Issuance and approval of securities. Net proceeds from sale of water company land. Allocation of economic benefits of sale of water company land. (a) A public service company shall obtain the approval of the Public Utilities…

Sec. 16-43a. Validity of securities issued pursuant to order of authority. Any stock, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness or securities of any nature issued or sold pursuant to or in reliance on and in accordance with any order, authorization or decision of the Public…

Sec. 16-43b. Definitions applicable to apportionment of land sales benefits. For purposes of subsection (e) of section 16-43, “open space or recreational purposes” means public parks or forests or natural areas, including, but not limited to, reservoirs and water company land, wh…

Sec. 16-43c. Sale of water company land to certain municipal corporations for construction of a school. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or section 12-217dd, any land acquired from a water company, as defined in section 16-1, by a municipal corporation for the purpo…

Sec. 16-43d. Sale of existing electric generation plants. If any existing electric generation plant within the state is offered for sale, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall authorize the electric distribution companies to purchase and operate such plants if the autho…

Sec. 16-44. Notice of formation, consolidation or discontinuance of public service companies; change of name. Penalty. Whenever any company is organized for the purpose of doing business as a public service company, or whenever any company so organized acquires any plant or any p…

Sec. 16-44a. Disclosure of salaries of directors and officers of public service companies. (a) Each public service company, as defined in section 16-1, regulated pursuant to sections 16-19 and 16-19e and serving more than three thousand three hundred customers shall (1) on each c…

Sec. 16-45. Increase or reduction of capital stock by public service companies. Any public service company which is authorized to increase its authorized capital stock in accordance with the laws applicable to corporations organized under the general law may increase or reduce it…

Sec. 16-46. Dissolution or termination of public service company. Cessation of public service operations. (a) No public service company shall cease operations as a public service company, dissolve or terminate its corporate existence without the consent of the Public Utilities Re…

Sec. 16-47. Holding companies. Approval of authority re exercise of control. Investigation and hearing. Annual reports. Injunctive relief. Exemption. (a) As used in this section and section 16-47a, (1) “holding company” means any corporation, association, partnership, trust or si…

Sec. 16-47a. Code of conduct for gas company transactions with affiliates. (a) As used in this section, “affiliate” means a person, as defined in section 16-1, or class of persons that, with a gas company, as defined in said section 16-1, is under the control of the same holding …

Sec. 16-48. Electricity and gas; transmission between this state and other states. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority is authorized to enter into compacts in the name of the state of Connecticut with the states of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey …

Sec. 16-48a. Consumer Counsel and Public Utility Control Fund established. There is established a fund to be known as the “Consumer Counsel and Public Utility Control Fund”. The fund may contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the fund and shall be held by the Treas…

Sec. 16-49. Expenses of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Bureau of Energy and Technology, the Office of Consumer Counsel, the Office of Policy and Management and the operations of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Assessment of regulated companies.…

Secs. 16-49a to 16-49c. Appropriation. Council on water company lands established. Moratorium on sale of water company lands; duties of council. Sections 16-49a to 16-49c, inclusive, are repealed. (1972, P.A. 138, S. 1; P.A. 75-405, S. 1, 2, 5; 75-486, S. 1, 69; 75-567, S. 55, 80…

Sec. 16-49d. Applications for sales of water company lands submitted prior to June 25, 1975. Section 16-49d is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 75-405, S. 5; P.A. 83-487, S. 7, 33; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 16-49e. Public service company may request identification from person opening an account. Telecommunications company may request identification prior to providing service. (a) As used in this section, “identification” means a Social Security number, the number of an identity…

Sec. 16-49f. Verification of Social Security number prior to opening new account. Minor not liable for services fraudulently obtained using minor's Social Security number. (a) A public service company, as defined in section 16-1, that requires the disclosure of a potential custom…

Sec. 16-5. Removal. Misconduct, material neglect of duty, incompetence in the conduct of his office or active participation in political management or campaigns by any commissioner shall constitute cause for removal. Such removal shall be made only after judgment of the Superior …

Sec. 16-50. Employees. Consultants. Section 16-50 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 5396; June, 1955, S. 2608d; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-367; 77-614, S. 162, 587, 610; P.A. 82-150, S. 9.)

Sec. 16-50a. Local filing of maps on acquisition of property. Any public service company which acquires land or any easement or right-of-way therein for any of its purposes shall, if it has prepared a map or maps in connection with such acquisition, file, in the clerk's office in…

Sec. 16-50b. Declaration of policy. It is found and declared that conservation of undeveloped lands and preservation of open spaces, together with orderly control and development of remaining natural resources is the settled public policy of Connecticut and bears a substantial re…

Sec. 16-50c. Notification of intent to dispose of unimproved real property. Approval or disapproval by authority. Hearing. (a) Whenever any public service company, as defined in section 16-1, except a water company, owning any contiguous area of unimproved real property containin…

Sec. 16-50d. Action to acquire property. (a) Within one hundred eighty days after approval by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of the sale, lease or other disposition of land owned by a public service company, except a water company, the recipient of a notice provided pu…

Sec. 16-50e. Notices to town clerk. A copy of each notice required by sections 16-50c and 16-50d shall be sent by the party giving such notice to the town clerk of the municipality in which the land is situated and such town clerk shall make all such notices part of the appropria…

Sec. 16-50f. Solicitation of insurance applications from employees of public service companies. Payroll deductions. (a) Any public service company providing payroll deduction services for its employees for premiums on individual policies of any line of insurance shall permit soli…

Sec. 16-6. Office and records. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall keep its office open during the usual business hours and shall keep all of its records in such office. The authority shall keep a record of all communications addressed to it, or to any of its members …

Sec. 16-6a. Participation in proceedings before federal agencies and federal courts. Expenses. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and the Office of Consumer Counsel are authorized to participate in proceedings before agencies of the federal government and the federal c…

Sec. 16-6b. Regulations. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may, in accordance with chapter 54, adopt such regulations with respect to: (1) Rates and charges, services, accounting practices, safety and the conduct of operations generally of public service companies subject…

Sec. 16-6c. Power to delay implementation of electric suppliers' generation portfolio standards. Section 16-6c is repealed, effective July 1, 2003. (P.A. 99-225, S. 19, 33; P.A. 03-135, S. 24.)

Sec. 16-7. Right of entry. Penalty. The utility commissioners of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or their designees, while engaged in the performance of their duties may, at all reasonable times, enter any premises, buildings, cars, plants or other places belonging to …

Sec. 16-7a. Power to stop work. The utility commissioners, as defined in section 16-1, or their designees, shall have the authority to cause any work performed by any person involved in the transportation of gas, as such terms are defined in section 16-280a, to cease immediately …

Sec. 16-8. Examination of witnesses and documents. Hearing officers. Management audits. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may, in its discretion, delegate its powers, in specific cases, to one or more of its directors or to a hearing officer to ascertain the facts and…

Sec. 16-8a. Protection of employee of public service company, person involved in the transportation of gas, contractor or Nuclear Regulatory Commission from retaliation. Procedures. Regulations. (a) No public service company, as defined in section 16-1, holding company, as define…

Sec. 16-8b. Labor disputes at public service companies. Determination of unreasonable profits during dispute. Refunds. Whenever a labor dispute at a public service company, as defined in section 16-1, results in a work stoppage for a period of more than seven days, the Public Uti…

Sec. 16-8c. Examination of witnesses and documents. Audits. Relationship between public service companies and subsidiaries. (a) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority or any director or any hearing officer thereof may exercise the powers provided under subsection (a) of sectio…

Sec. 16-8d. Recovery of costs, expenses, judgments or attorney's fees for an action brought under section 16-8a. (a) No costs, expenses or judgments associated with any action brought under the provisions of section 16-8a may be included in the rates or charge of any public servi…

Sec. 16-9. Orders. All decisions, orders and authorizations of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall be in writing and shall specify the reasons therefor, shall be filed and kept in the office of the authority and recorded in a book kept by it for that purpose and shall…

Sec. 16-9a. Party status in proceedings before authority. In a proceeding before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the authority shall give special consideration to a request for party status from a person whose interests are not otherwise adequately represented by anoth…

Sec. 16-9b. Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to be party to proceedings before authority. The Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall be a party to each proceeding before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and may participate in any suc…