Title 13a — Title 13a: Highways and Bridges

Sec. 13a-86. Construction of bridges; cost; width. The commissioner may construct or reconstruct any bridge on any highway maintained by him when, in his opinion, public convenience and necessity so require. Any bridge constructed or reconstructed on any such highway with two or …

Sec. 13a-86a. Geometric design standards for bridges, exceptions. Factors re bridge rehabilitation or new construction. Development or construction of projects by municipal governments. Immunity from liability. (a) In the event site conditions, environmental factors, engineering …

Sec. 13a-87. Maintenance of bridges by commissioner. The commissioner shall maintain each bridge on any highway maintained by him, except as otherwise specifically provided by law. Such maintenance shall include the preservation, restoration or replacement of any or all parts of …

Sec. 13a-88. Load capacity. Each highway bridge existing on July 1, 1921, maintained in whole or in part by the state, shall be so maintained as to permit the safe passage of a two-axle vehicle having a gross weight of not less than eight tons, and each bridge constructed thereaf…

Sec. 13a-89. Appeal to commissioner from posted weight restriction. Any person may appeal to the commissioner from the restriction of the use of any bridge imposed by the posting of a maximum weight notice as provided in section 13a-121. Upon such appeal the commissioner shall in…

Sec. 13a-90. Bridge over artificial watercourse. Any bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse, located on a highway which it is the duty of the commissioner to maintain, constructed before May 10, 1957, shall be maintained by the person owning or controlling such wate…

Sec. 13a-91. Sidewalks on bridges. (a) The commissioner may cause to be constructed or reconstructed a sidewalk on any bridge or approaches to any bridge on any state highway when in his opinion public safety so requires. Except as provided in subsection (b), all sidewalks on bri…

Sec. 13a-92. Sidewalks on bridges at Thompsonville and Warehouse Point. The sidewalks on the bridges across the Connecticut River at Thompsonville and Warehouse Point shall be maintained by the commissioner. (1949 Rev., S. 2243; 1958 Rev., S. 13-126; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 92.) Histo…

Sec. 13a-93. Snow removal from state highways. The commissioner shall remove the snow from the traveled portions of any completed state highway when the accumulation thereof renders such highway unsafe for public travel. (1949 Rev., S. 2262; 1958 Rev., S. 13-143; 1963, P.A. 226, …

Sec. 13a-94. Construction over or adjacent to streams. (a) All structures to be built over, or structures or embankments to be built adjacent to, streams in connection with state highway projects shall conform (1) to the requirements of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmenta…

Sec. 13a-95. Submission of bids on state highway construction. The commissioner may, at any time, call for bids to construct, alter, reconstruct, improve, relocate, widen or change the grade of sections of state highways or bridges. All bids shall be submitted on forms provided b…

Sec. 13a-95a. Award of contracts to certain small business concerns and minority business enterprises. The Commissioner of Transportation may, in the performance of his duties under this title and title 13b and notwithstanding the provisions of any general statute to the contrary…

Sec. 13a-95b. Designation of projects using construction-manager-at-risk or design-build contracts. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation may, as an alternative to using a design-bid-build contract, designate specific projects to be completed using a (1) construction-manager-at-…

Sec. 13a-95c. Commissioner's duties re construction-manager-at-risk and design-build contracts. Use of department employees and consultants. (a) For any contract entered into pursuant to section 13a-95b, the Commissioner of Transportation shall: (1) Perform project development se…

Sec. 13a-96. Payment to contractor under highway contract. The commissioner shall pay any sum due any contractor under any contract awarded by him not later than sixty days after its completion and acceptance. After such sixty-day period, interest shall begin to run in favor of t…

Sec. 13a-97. Agreement for town maintenance of state highways. The commissioner and the selectmen of any town, or any other officer thereof having charge of the highways therein, may enter into an agreement, in writing, whereby a designated section of a state highway, other than …

Sec. 13a-97a. Improvement of state highways by towns in conjunction with redevelopment or utility improvements. The commissioner may enter into an agreement with any town to permit such town to improve a state highway or bridge in conjunction with a redevelopment project or a uti…

Sec. 13a-97b. Adopt a highway program. Regulations. Not later than July 1, 1996, the Commissioner of Transportation shall adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to establish an “adopt a highway program” which will permit business organizations and nonpr…

Sec. 13a-97c. Contracts for repair, improvement and maintenance work on limited access highways or concerning adopt a highway programs. The Commissioner of Transportation may enter into contracts for repair, improvement and maintenance work on any limited access highway, or conce…

Sec. 13a-97d. Required provision on sewer and utility service grates in certain highway project bids and contracts. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any public or special act, charter or ordinance, the Commissioner of Transportation, or the chief executive…

Sec. 13a-97e. Annual report re certain highway project bids and contracts and installation of wrong-way signs. Not later than January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Transportation shall submit a report on compliance with the bidding and contract provisions …

Sec. 13a-98. Authority for additional construction; reimbursement by party requesting. The commissioner shall have authority to build, or to enter into an agreement and issue a permit to build, if requested to do so, such additional section or part of a state highway or bridge as…

Sec. 13a-98a. Construction of frontage roads. When, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Transportation, a frontage road will assist in the proper operation of a limited access highway, said commissioner may agree with authorized officials of the town in which such frontage roa…

Sec. 13a-98b. Construction of urban arterial streets. For the purposes of this section, “urban arterial street” means a street which brings traffic to and from a limited access highway or serves major movements of traffic within or through a municipality not served by a limited a…

Secs. 13a-98c and 13a-98d. Extension of federal-aid primary and secondary systems into urban areas. Agreements with Secretary of Transportation and municipalities. Sections 13a-98c and 13a-98d are repealed. (1969, P.A. 501, S. 1, 2, 4, 5; P.A. 73-425, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-485, S. 7, …

Sec. 13a-98e. Acquisition of land and rights-of-way. The commissioner may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation in the name of the state such real property or rights of access to and egress from land abutting any federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facilit…

Sec. 13a-98f. Regulation of accommodation of utilities to federal surface transportation urban program roadways or facilities. Apportionment of cost of readjusting, relocating or removing facility necessitated by state highway project. The commissioner may adopt such regulations …

Secs. 13a-98g and 13a-98h. Federal aid urban system. Selection of routes to be included in system. Sections 13a-98g and 13a-98h are repealed. (1971, P.A. 584, S. 1, 2; P.A. 75-485, S. 1, 2, 8; P.A. 94-188, S. 29.)

Sec. 13a-98i. Agreements for acceptances and expenditure of funds. (a) The commissioner may enter into agreements for the acceptance and expenditure of funds concerning federal surface transportation urban program roadways or facilities and eligible federal surface transportation…

Sec. 13a-98j. Municipal and state responsibility for streets or roads in the urban program. The municipality shall continue to maintain any local street or road or portion thereof selected to be a federal surface transportation urban program roadway. The state shall continue to m…

Sec. 13a-98k. Use of program roadways or facilities by utility facilities or utilities. The use of federal surface transportation urban program roadways or facilities by “utility facilities or utilities”, as defined in section 13a-98f, and any readjustment, relocation or removal …

Sec. 13a-98l. Specifications to encourage use of recycled materials in projects. The Commissioner of Transportation shall revise the specifications for materials used for projects undertaken by the commissioner to encourage the use of recycled materials to the maximum extent poss…

Sec. 13a-98m. Definition. As used in sections 13a-98e, 13a-98f and 13a-98i to 13a-98k, inclusive, “federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility” means any state or locally maintained roadway or facility that is deemed eligible for surface transportation urban …

Sec. 13a-98n. Local transportation capital program. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a local transportation capital program to provide state funding, in lieu of specific federal funding available, to any municipality or local planning agency for transportati…

Sec. 13a-98o. Use of coal tar sealants on state and local highways. Prohibition. Enforcement. No person shall use or apply any sealant that is made from coal tar to any state or local highway. The Commissioner of Transportation, in conjunction with the Commissioner of Energy and …

Sec. 13a-99. Towns to build and repair highways and bridges. Towns shall, within their respective limits, build and repair all necessary highways and bridges, and all highways to ferries as far as the low water mark of the waters over which the ferries pass, except when such duty…

Sec. 13a-99a. Town roads lying within, intersecting or crossing state highway rights-of-way. (a) Whenever a town road or a portion thereof lies within the limits of a state highway right-of-way or passes over or under a state highway right-of-way, such road or portion thereof sha…

Secs. 13a-154 to 13a-156. Tolls on Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways. Registration markers, coupons, tickets and tokens; fees. Toll plates for certain disabled veterans. Toll plates for certain handicapped drivers. Tolls and charges on expressways. Sections 13a-154 to 13a-156, in…

Sec. 13a-157. Bulkeley Bridge and Founders Bridge to be toll-free. Removal of tolls on the Bissell Bridge, Charter Oak Bridge and Putnam Bridge. (a) The commissioner unless and until otherwise directed by act of the General Assembly, shall maintain and operate the Bulkeley Bridge…

Secs. 13a-158 to 13a-162a. Variations in tolls and charges on Putnam Bridge. Tolls on Gold Star Memorial Bridge. Charging of tolls for use of approach route to the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge; protection of Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike obligations. Exemptions from toll payments. …

Sec. 13a-162b. Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund. (a) There is established and created a fund to be known as the “Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund”. Such fund may contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in such fund and shall be held by the S…

Sec. 13a-163. Payment for highway improvements. The Comptroller, upon receipt of a certificate from the Commissioner of Transportation certifying the completion of any improvement, shall draw his order on the Treasurer in payment for the improvement as certified. The Treasurer sh…

Sec. 13a-164. Temporary use of funds by commissioner. Upon application in writing by the Commissioner of Transportation, the Comptroller may authorize the temporary use by the commissioner of any unexpended balance or part thereof of any specific appropriation or any other funds …

Sec. 13a-165. Federal aid for highways. This state having assented to the provisions of the act of the Congress approved July 11, 1916, entitled “An Act to Provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes”, the Co…

Sec. 13a-165a. Acceptance of municipal grants for federal-aid highway projects. In the performance of his powers and duties under section 13a-165, the Commissioner of Transportation may accept on behalf of the state any grant offered or made available to him by any municipality f…

Sec. 13a-166. Federal grants recorded as receivables. In accordance with procedures promulgated by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management for the purpose of supplementing the financing of the aggregate cost of construction of any highway or bridge, including plannin…

Sec. 13a-167. State payment for restoration of flood-damaged municipal highways and bridges. Obsolete. (November, 1955, S. N151-N156; 1958 Rev., S. 13-52; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 167.) PART II TOWN AID

Secs. 13a-168 to 13a-175. Town aid. Sections 13a-168 to 13a-175, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2169–2174, 2176, 2177; 1953, S. 1183d; 1953, June, 1955, S. 1181d; June, 1955, S. 1182d; 1957, P.A. 604, S. 1, 2; 1958 Rev., S. 13-56–13-61, 13-63, 13-64; 1961, P.A. 603, S. 1…

Sec. 13a-175a. Allocation of funds. Approval of use of funds for other purposes. Report by towns and districts. (a) For each fiscal year there shall be allocated twelve million five hundred thousand dollars out of the funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation, or fro…

Secs. 13a-175aa to 13a-175dd. Declaration of policy. Trust fund and separate account established. Trust fund committee established. Investment of funds. Sections 13a-175aa to 13a-175dd, inclusive, are repealed. (July Sp. Sess. P.A. 85-1, S. 1–4, 15; P.A. 86-3, S. 1–3; 86-107, S. …