Title 13b — Title 13b: Transportation

Sec. 13b-212d. Agreement re voting representation for state on Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro-North Commuter Railroad. Reporting requirements. (a) The Governor may enter into an agreement with the state of New York that provides voting representation for the state o…

Sec. 13b-212e. Automated renewal of monthly student passes. On or before December 1, 2012, the Department of Transportation shall, in consultation with Metro North Railroad, provide automated renewal of monthly student passes. (P.A. 12-132, S. 50.) History: P.A. 12-132 effective …

Sec. 13b-213. (Formerly Sec. 16-62). Roads intersecting trunk line to have equal facilities. When the trunk line of any railroad company, at or near the same place, connects with or is intersected by two or more other railroads, which are competing lines for the business to or fr…

Sec. 13b-214. (Formerly Sec. 16-63). Aggrieved company may apply to Commissioner of Transportation. If any such competing company at any time deems itself aggrieved in reference to such facilities, it may complain to the Commissioner of Transportation, who, after notice and heari…

Secs. 13b-215 to 13b-220. (Formerly Secs. 16-64 to 16-69). Order as to connections; penalty. Facilities for connecting roads; penalty. Through routes or transportation. Condemnation of corporate stock. Stockholder may begin proceedings. Freight charges; penalty. Sections 13b-215 …

Sec. 13b-221. (Formerly Sec. 16-70). Deposit of snow or ice on state highways. No public service company having a track in, over, above, under, parallel to or adjacent to any state highway shall, in the removal of snow or ice from so much of the right-of-way of any such company a…

Sec. 13b-222. (Formerly Sec. 16-71). Payment of fare not to be evaded. No person shall fraudulently evade or attempt to evade the payment of any fare lawfully established by a railroad company. No person who does not, upon demand, pay such fare, shall be entitled to be transporte…

Sec. 13b-223. (Formerly Sec. 16-73). Recovery of forfeitures to state. All forfeitures, not otherwise provided for, accruing to the state from any railroad company by reason of its neglect or refusal to comply with the orders of the Commissioner of Transportation, shall be recove…

Sec. 13b-224. (Formerly Sec. 16-74). General penalty. Section 13b-224 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1949 Rev., S. 5464; P.A. 02-89, S. 90.)

Sec. 13b-225. (Formerly Sec. 16-75). Record of acquisition, consolidation or merger of railroad or railway companies. Whenever any railroad or railway company, pursuant to any authority contained in its charter, has acquired any of the franchises of any other corporation or conso…

Sec. 13b-226. (Formerly Sec. 16-75a). Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared that the improvement of railroads transporting freight or passengers within this state or between this state and other states is a public purpose in furtherance whereof the tax exemptions provided …

Sec. 13b-227. (Formerly Sec. 16-75b). Railroad preservation and improvement projects. (a) On or before November first of each year, railroads transporting freight or passengers within this state or between this state and other states and seeking the tax exemption provided in sect…

Sec. 13b-228. (Formerly Sec. 16-75c). Tax exemption projects. To effectuate the policy of the state declared in section 13b-226, such tax exemption projects shall specify for each such railroad those measures which the Commissioner of Transportation deems necessary in the public …

Sec. 13b-229. (Formerly Sec. 16-75d). Modification of tax exemption projects. From time to time during the calendar year following the issuance of final tax exemption projects the Commissioner of Transportation may modify such projects to reflect any material changes in data prev…

Sec. 13b-230. (Formerly Sec. 16-75e). Inspection for compliance. The Commissioner of Transportation shall make periodic inspections to determine the degree of compliance with tax exemption projects issued in accordance with sections 13b-226 to 13b-233, inclusive, and shall report…

Sec. 13b-231. (Formerly Sec. 16-75f). Powers of Commissioner of Transportation. For the purpose of establishing tax exemption projects and determining the degree of compliance therewith, the Commissioner of Transportation may examine the accounts, books, and documents of each rai…

Sec. 13b-232. (Formerly Sec. 16-75g). Certification of eligibility. On or before March 1, 1980, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Transportation shall certify to the Governor as eligible to receive the exemption provided by section 12-251, any railroad transporting fre…

Sec. 13b-233. (Formerly Sec. 16-75h). Report of commissioner. On or before March 1, 1980, and annually, thereafter, the Commissioner of Transportation shall submit to the Governor and the chairmen of the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matte…

Sec. 13b-234. (Formerly Sec. 16-75i). Rights and benefits of on-train employees on acquisition of railroad. When the facilities of a railroad are acquired, and operation of such railroad is continued, by any person, trustee, receiver, railroad company, public authority or other a…

Sec. 13b-235. 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-236. Bond issue for grants for commercial rail freight lines. (a) For the purposes described in subsection (b) of this section, the State Bond Commission shall have the power, from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more series and in …

Sec. 13b-237. Procedure for disposal of surplus rail material. (a)(1) The Commissioner of Transportation shall not, directly or indirectly, sell, transfer, salvage or otherwise dispose of any surplus rail material, including, but not limited to, rail sections having a maximum len…

Secs. 13b-238 to 13b-243. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 13b-244. (Formerly Sec. 16-76). Powers. Each railroad company may hold such real estate as may be convenient for accomplishing the objects of its organization; may by its agents enter such places as may be designated by its directors for the purpose of making surveys and det…

Sec. 13b-245. (Formerly Sec. 16-77). Right to take land limited; land of infants and others. No land shall be taken without the consent of its owner, except within two years after the approval of the location of the route by the Commissioner of Transportation. When the land of an…

Sec. 13b-246. (Formerly Sec. 16-78). Notice concerning layout and real estate. Before the Commissioner of Transportation approves the layout of any railroad or the taking of any real estate for the purposes of such road or any change or alteration of the same, he shall give reaso…

Sec. 13b-247. (Formerly Sec. 16-79). Approval for taking of land. Section 13b-247 is repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 5468; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 610; P.A. 00-148, S. 39.)

Sec. 13b-248. (Formerly Sec. 16-80). Alteration of location. Each company, after its line of road has been located, approved and established, may so far alter such location as to change the radius of its curves, the width of its layout, the extent of depot grounds or its slopes a…

Sec. 13b-249. (Formerly Sec. 16-81). Alteration of grades. Each company, after its line of road has been located, approved and established, may alter its grades and raise any highway bridges that pass over its tracks to such height as may be approved by the Commissioner of Transp…

Sec. 13b-250. (Formerly Sec. 16-82). Land for additional tracks. Any company may so alter the location of its road as to add to the number of its main tracks and, for that purpose, with the approval of the Commissioner of Transportation, may take additional land; but, when an add…

Sec. 13b-251. (Formerly Sec. 16-82a). Overhead clearances for railroad tracks. Approval by legislature. (a) The minimum overhead clearance for any structure crossing over railroad tracks for which construction is begun on or after October 1, 1986, shall be twenty feet, six inches…

Sec. 13b-252. (Formerly Sec. 16-82b). Structures exempted from overhead clearance requirement. The provisions of section 13b-251 shall not apply to any structure for which construction is authorized by or begun pursuant to any special act. (P.A. 78-28, S. 2; P.A. 03-115, S. 70.) …

Sec. 13b-253. (Formerly Sec. 16-83). Land cut off from access to highway. When any company takes land for railroad purposes and the effect of such taking is to cut off other land from practical access to the highway, such company may, with the approval of the Commissioner of Tran…

Sec. 13b-254. (Formerly Sec. 16-84). Layout through cemetery. No company shall lay out or locate its road, or any part thereof, through any cemetery or any approach in common use from the highway thereto, and within one-quarter of a mile thereof, unless the Commissioner of Transp…

Secs. 13b-255 to 13b-259. (Formerly Secs. 16-85 to 16-89). Land for electrification of railroad. Procedure for appraisal of land taken. Land in highway or private way. Abandonment of road; damages. Owner may require description of land. Sections 13b-255 to 13b-259, inclusive, are…

Sec. 13b-260. (Formerly Sec. 16-90). Plan of road to be deposited with town clerk. Within ninety days after the railroad of any company has been laid out in any town and approved by the Commissioner of Transportation, such company shall deposit with the town clerk a correct plan,…

Sec. 13b-261. (Formerly Sec. 16-91). Statement of location filed with secretary. Each company shall, within six months after the final location of its road, file with the Secretary of the State a statement of such location, defining the courses and distances. (1949 Rev., S. 5480.…

Sec. 13b-262. (Formerly Sec. 16-92). Security from contractors for labor; liability of company. Each company, in making contracts for the building of its road, shall require sufficient security from the contractors for the payment for all labor thereafter to be performed in const…

Sec. 13b-263. (Formerly Sec. 16-93). Crossing of one railroad by another. Any company may, in the construction of its railroad, cross the railroad of any other company or connect with the same. If it cannot agree with such other company as to such crossing or connection, the Comm…

Sec. 13b-264. (Formerly Sec. 16-94). Branch lines. Any company may build branches from its main line or from any of its leased lines, provided the construction of such branches is found by the Commissioner of Transportation, upon application, after such reasonable public notice a…

Sec. 13b-265. (Formerly Sec. 16-95). Crossing highway or watercourse. When it is necessary for the construction of a railroad to intersect or cross any watercourse not navigable or any public highway, the company may construct such railroad across or upon the same if the Commissi…

Sec. 13b-266. (Formerly Sec. 16-96). Land for change of highway. Section 13b-266 is repealed, effective October 1, 2000. (1949 Rev., S. 5485; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 610; P.A. 00-148, S. 39.)

Sec. 13b-267. (Formerly Sec. 16-97). Construction over highway at grade restricted. Each company which locates and constructs a railroad across any highway shall construct it so as to cross over or under the same and may, under the direction of the Commissioner of Transportation,…

Sec. 13b-268. (Formerly Sec. 16-98). Construction of new highway across railroad. Construction of railroad crossing at grade. (a) When a new highway is constructed across a railroad, such highway shall pass over or under the railroad as the Commissioner of Transportation directs.…

Sec. 13b-269. (Formerly Sec. 16-99). Bridge over railroad. When a highway is laid out or ordered to be laid out across a railroad and the Commissioner of Transportation directs such highway to be carried over the railroad, he shall determine the length, width and material of the …

Sec. 13b-270. (Formerly Sec. 16-100). Removal of grade crossings. The selectmen of any town, the mayor and common council of any city or the warden and burgesses of any borough, within which a highway crosses or is crossed by a railroad, or the directors of any railroad company w…

Sec. 13b-271. (Formerly Sec. 16-100a). Temporary grade crossings. The Commissioner of Transportation, on the application in writing of the selectmen of any town, the mayor and common council of any city or the warden and burgesses of any borough or on the commissioner's own motio…

Sec. 13b-272. (Formerly Sec. 16-100b). Relocation of grade crossing. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Transportation, on the application in writing of the selectmen of any town, the mayor and common council of any city or the warden…

Sec. 13b-273. (Formerly Sec. 16-101). Elimination of grade crossings by removing railroad. Any railroad company may bring its petition in writing to the Commissioner of Transportation, alleging that public safety requires the elimination of the crossing of its railroad at grade b…

Sec. 13b-274. (Formerly Sec. 16-102). Commissioner of Transportation may order removal of crossings. Land to be taken limited. The Commissioner of Transportation may, in the absence of any application therefor, when in the commissioner's opinion public safety requires an alterati…