Title 16 — Title 16: Public Service Companies

Sec. 16-50aa. Tower sharing: Policy, requests, feasibility proceeding, compensation, expenses. (a) The General Assembly finds that the sharing of towers for fair consideration whenever technically, legally, environmentally and economically feasible, and whenever such sharing meet…

Sec. 16-50bb. Municipal participation account. (a) There is established an account to be known as the “municipal participation account”, within the General Fund, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account. There shall be deposited in the account the municipal participation fee…

Sec. 16-50cc. Reconfiguration or burial of electric transmission facility. If legislation adopted on or after January 1, 2004, results in the reconfiguration or burial of a proposed facility described in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-50i, all prudent costs incur…

Sec. 16-50dd. State-wide telecommunications coverage data base. On or before January 1, 2006, the Connecticut Siting Council shall develop, maintain and update quarterly a state-wide telecommunications coverage data base that includes the location, type and height of all telecomm…

Sec. 16-50ee. State-wide telecommunications coverage plan. (a) On or before September 1, 2006, the Connecticut Siting Council shall develop a plan for state-wide telecommunications coverage and annually shall review and revise such plan as necessary. The plan shall be consistent …

Sec. 16-50ff. Local telecommunications coverage assessments. (a) On or before January 1, 2008, the Connecticut Siting Council, upon the request of a municipality, shall develop a local telecommunications coverage assessment for that municipality. Such assessment shall identify lo…

Sec. 16-50g. Legislative finding and purpose. The legislature finds that power generating plants and transmission lines for electricity and fuels, community antenna television towers and telecommunication towers have had a significant impact on the environment and ecology of the …

Sec. 16-50gg. Municipal location preferences. When notifying a municipality pursuant to section 16-50l of an application for a telecommunications tower or a proposed transmission line in such municipality, the Connecticut Siting Council shall request that the municipality provide…

Sec. 16-50h. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the “Public Utility Environmental Standards Act”. (1971, P.A. 575, S. 2.)

Sec. 16-50hh. Restoration and revegetation of the right-of-way. As part of its supervision of construction activity in connection with any transmission line project, the Connecticut Siting Council may order such restoration or revegetation of the right-of-way occupied by the over…

Sec. 16-50i. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (a) “Facility” means: (1) An electric transmission line of a design capacity of sixty-nine kilovolts or more, including associated equipment but not including a transmission line tap, as defined in subsection (e) of this section;…

Sec. 16-50ii. Electric generating facility: Flammable gas to clean piping prohibited; requirements prior to issuance of certificate to build. Penalty. (a) No person shall use flammable gas to clean or blow the gas piping of an electric generating facility. (b) The Connecticut Sit…

Sec. 16-50j. Connecticut Siting Council. Membership. Regulations. Consultation with state agencies. (a) There is established the Connecticut Siting Council, hereinafter referred to in this title as the “council”, which shall be within the Department of Energy and Environmental Pr…

Sec. 16-50jj. Meeting conducted during construction of electric generating facility. At least once during the period of construction of an electric generating facility in this state, the Connecticut Siting Council, the Departments of Administrative Services, Emergency Services an…

Sec. 16-50k. Certificate of environmental compatibility and public need. Transfer. Amendment. Excepted matters. Waiver. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of section 16-50z, no person shall exercise any right of eminent domain in contemplation of, commence the preparation o…

Sec. 16-50kk. Regulations re wind-powered generation. (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the Connecticut Siting Council, in consultation with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning th…

Sec. 16-50l. Application for certificate. Notice. Application or resolution for amendment of certificate. Consultation with municipality. (a) To initiate a certification proceeding, an applicant for a certificate shall file with the council an application, in such form as the cou…

Sec. 16-50ll. Annual report re backup power for telecommunications towers and antennas during electric service outages. Study re feasibility of backup power requirements. (a) On or before October 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, each provider of mobile radio service, as defined …

Sec. 16-50m. Public hearing. Notice. (a) The council shall promptly fix a commencement date and location for a public hearing on an application for a certificate complying with section 16-50l not less than thirty days after receipt of an application or more than one hundred fifty…

Secs. 16-50mm to 16-50zz. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 16-50n. Parties to a certification or amendment proceeding or a declaratory ruling. Grouping of parties. Intervenors. Counsel and consultant to council. Limited appearances. (a) The parties to a certification or amendment proceeding or to a declaratory ruling proceeding shal…

Sec. 16-50o. Record of hearing. Rights of parties. Administrative notice re electromagnetic fields. (a) A record shall be made of the hearing and of all testimony taken and the cross-examinations thereon. Every party or group of parties as provided in section 16-50n shall have th…

Sec. 16-50p. Certification proceeding decisions: Timing, opinion, factors considered. Telecommunications and community antenna television facilities: Additional factors considered, conditions. Modification of location. Amendment proceeding decisions. Service and notice. “Public n…

Sec. 16-50q. Judicial review. (a) Any party may obtain judicial review of an order issued on an application for a certificate or an amendment of a certificate in accordance with the provisions of section 4-183. Any judicial review sought pursuant to this chapter shall be privileg…

Sec. 16-50r. Report of forecast of loads and resources. Confidential information. Regulations. Investigation of life-cycle costs for overhead and underground transmission lines: Scope, hearings, consultants, assessment. (a) Every person engaged in electric transmission services, …

Sec. 16-50s. Expenditures by utilities as consideration in proceedings. (a) From October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025, inclusive, council may give appropriate consideration in all proceedings to (1) the amounts expended by a utility for research on generation and transmission o…

Sec. 16-50t. Regulations and standards. Hearing. Certain expenditures excluded in computation of fair net return. (a) The council shall prescribe and establish such reasonable regulations and standards in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 as it deems necessary and in t…

Sec. 16-50u. Enforcement of certificate and other requirements. Imposition of civil penalties by council. (a) Each holder of a certificate issued by the council shall comply with such certificate, any condition of such certificate and any other requirements of this chapter. The c…

Sec. 16-50v. Administration expenses. Assessments. Fees. Staff. Consultants. Late fees. (a) All expenses of administering this chapter, including the functions of the council and its staff, shall be financed as provided in this section. (b) (1) Before December thirty-first of eac…

Sec. 16-50w. Conflicting provisions. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any provisions of the general statutes, as amended, or any special act, this chapter shall take precedence. (1971, P.A. 575, S. 18.) Cited. 35 CS 303.

Sec. 16-50x. Exclusive jurisdiction of council; exception. Eminent domain after certification. Municipal regulation of proposed location. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, except as provided in section 16-243, the council shall have exclusive jurisd…

Sec. 16-50y. Location application for electric generating facilities. Section 16-50y is repealed. (P.A. 73-458, S. 14; P.A. 76-359, S. 5, 7.)

Sec. 16-50z. Acquisition of real property for transmission facility. Regulations. Public service company acquisition of residential real property by condemnation. (a) No person engaged in the transmission of electric power or fuel in the state shall acquire real property in conte…