Title 7 — Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-224. Purchase by municipality of plant owned by a corporation. When any municipality decides to establish a plant and any corporation incorporated by the General Assembly for the purpose of furnishing gas or electric light, heat or power is, at the time of the first vote r…

Sec. 7-225. When purchase to embrace entire plant. When a portion only of the gas or electric plant of any corporation would, under section 7-224, be included in a purchase by any municipality, such municipality shall, at the election of the owner or owners of such plant, similar…

Sec. 7-226. Determination of plant value. The price to be paid for such plant, whether gas, electric or both, shall be its fair market value for the purposes of its use, no portion of such plant to be estimated at less than its fair market value for any other purpose, including a…

Sec. 7-227. Valuation of capital paid in property. When any capital has been paid in, in property instead of cash, the valuation placed upon such property, in estimating it as paid-in capital, shall not be conclusive in estimating its value under the foregoing provisions, but may…

Sec. 7-228. Compulsory purchase by municipality. Any corporation desiring to enforce the obligation of any municipality, hereby imposed, to purchase any property shall file with the clerk of such municipality, within thirty days after the passage of the final vote whereby such mu…

Sec. 7-229. Remonstrance to acceptance of report. Any party aggrieved by the doings of the commission may, within fourteen days after its report has been filed with the clerk of said superior court, or such longer time as such court allows, file a remonstrance to such report. Sai…

Sec. 7-230. Appeal. An appeal may be taken from the decision of said court, accepting the report of the commission, to the Appellate Court in the same manner in which appeals are usually taken and with like effect. If the Appellate Court reverses the judgment of the Superior Cour…

Sec. 7-231. Private rights extinguished by municipal purchase. Whenever the existing gas or electric plant of any person or corporation has been acquired by any municipality pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the powers and rights of such person or corporation in relatio…

Sec. 7-232. Damages by reason of operating plant. Any municipality owning or operating a plant or plants for the manufacture and distribution of gas or electricity for furnishing light, by virtue hereof, shall be responsible for any injury or damage to persons or property, happen…

Sec. 7-232a. Information exempt from Freedom of Information Act. A municipal utility established under this chapter, or a municipal electric or gas utility owned, leased, maintained, operated, managed or controlled by any unit of local government under the general statutes or a s…

Sec. 7-233. Applicability of statutes and ordinances. All provisions of the statutes, and all ordinances of any municipality availing itself of the provisions of this chapter, relative to the manufacture, use, generation or distribution of gas or electricity, or the quality there…

Sec. 7-233a. Legislative purpose and finding. The purpose of this chapter is to permit municipal electric utilities in Connecticut to join together and form cooperative public corporations for the financing of the construction and acquisition of facilities for the purpose of furn…

Secs. 7-233aa to 7-233hh. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 7-233b. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context and any use of plural terms herein shall be deemed to refer to the singular thereof: (1) “Area of operation” means…

Sec. 7-233c. Municipal electric energy cooperative membership. Board representatives, appointment, term, removal. Officers. Meetings. Staff. Apportionment of expenses. (a) Any two or more municipal electric utilities may, by concurrent resolutions, duly adopted by the governing b…

Sec. 7-233d. Filings with Secretary of the State. Effect. (a) A certified copy of each concurrent resolution creating a municipal electric energy cooperative, which is adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7-233c, and a certified copy of each of the proceedings of the mun…

Sec. 7-233e. Powers. (a) As used in this section, “person without the state” means a person located outside the state that complies with the standards for interconnection to the transmission or distribution facilities of the public utility to which such person is interconnected. …

Sec. 7-233f. Bonds. (a) A municipal cooperative shall have the power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue revenue bonds in such principal amounts as the cooperative utility board shall deem necessary for any of its corporate purposes as set forth under this chapter…

Sec. 7-233g. Filing of bond resolution. Notice. Action challenging validity of bond resolution to be brought within twenty days or forever barred. Any municipal cooperative may cause a copy of any bond resolution adopted by it to be filed for public inspection in its office and i…

Sec. 7-233h. Trust indenture. In the discretion of the cooperative utility board any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust indenture by way of conveyance, deed of trust or mortgage of any project or any other property of the municipal coopera…

Sec. 7-233i. Bond anticipation notes. A municipal cooperative shall have the power at any time and from time to time after the issuance of bonds thereof shall have been authorized by resolution duly adopted as hereinbefore provided, to borrow money for the purposes for which such…

Sec. 7-233ii. Municipalities authorized to provide telecommunications service. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of a special act or municipal charter to the contrary, any municipality that owns or operates one or more plants for the manufacture or distribution of electricity pur…

Sec. 7-233j. Interconnection of electric system lines. Contracts for sale of electricity. The municipal cooperative is authorized to (1) interconnect the lines of its system with those of other electric systems within or without the state, and to enter into contracts for the sale…

Sec. 7-233k. Eminent domain. If a municipal cooperative is unable to agree with the owner or owners of real or personal property upon the terms for the acquisition of the same for any reason whatsoever, then the municipal cooperative may acquire, and is hereby authorized to acqui…

Sec. 7-233l. Rates. A municipal cooperative is hereby authorized to fix, establish, maintain and collect, or to authorize, by contract, franchise, lease or otherwise, the establishment, levying and collection of, such rates, fees, rental or other charges, including connection cha…

Sec. 7-233m. Sufficiency of rate schedule. Public hearing. Public inspection. A municipal cooperative shall prescribe and from time to time when necessary revise a schedule of all of its rates, fees, rentals or other charges, which shall comply with the terms of any resolution, c…

Sec. 7-233n. Dissolution of cooperative. The governing bodies of two or more municipal electric utilities which have created a municipal electric energy cooperative pursuant to section 7-233c may, by concurrent resolutions duly adopted by each of such governing bodies within any …

Sec. 7-233o. Conflict of interest. No representative, officer or employee of a municipal electric energy cooperative shall have or acquire any personal interest, direct or indirect, in any project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project or in any cont…

Sec. 7-233p. Representative compensation. If the members of a municipal electric energy cooperative and the legislative bodies of the municipalities are not paying compensation to the representatives they each appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of section 7-233c, such municipal…

Sec. 7-233q. Competitive bidding. Contracts. (a) All purchases for supplies, materials or equipment to be made in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be submitted for competitive bid provided that more than one source of such supplies, materials or equipment is available…

Sec. 7-233r. Cooperative bonds and notes deemed legal investment. To the extent permitted by law, the state and all public officers, governmental units and agencies thereof, all banks, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, savings and loan associations, investment comp…

Sec. 7-233s. Taxation. The creation of a municipal electric energy cooperative pursuant to the provisions of this chapter is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort and security, and its purposes…

Sec. 7-233t. Exemption from jurisdiction of Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. A municipal electric energy cooperative created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be exempt from the jurisdiction and control of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of this sta…

Sec. 7-233u. Severability of provisions. The respective words, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this chapter are severable, and the declaration of invalidity of any such word, clause, sentence, paragraph or section shall not invalidate the remaining portions of the …

Sec. 7-233v. Liberal construction. This chapter shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes of this chapter as complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every act and thing herein authorized and all authority herein …

Sec. 7-233w. Controlling provisions in case of conflict. Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, general, special or local, or any limitation imposed by a corporate or municipal charter, the provisions of this chapter shall…

Sec. 7-233x. Power supply contracts between cooperatives and municipal electric utilities. Any municipal electric utility, as defined in section 7-233b, shall have power, acting on behalf of the municipality with respect to which such municipal electric utility is a department, a…

Sec. 7-233y. Municipal energy conservation and load management fund. (a) Each municipal electric utility created pursuant to chapter 101 or by special act shall, for investment in renewable energy sources and for conservation and load management programs pursuant to this section,…

Sec. 7-233z. Comprehensive report. (a) A municipal electric energy cooperative, created pursuant to this chapter, shall submit a comprehensive report on the activities of the municipal electric utilities with regard to promotion of renewable energy resources. Such report shall id…

Sec. 7-234. Operation of system, when. Payment of expenses. Waiver of acquisition rights. Any town, city or borough or district organized for municipal purposes may acquire, construct and operate a municipal water supply system where (1) there is no existing private waterworks sy…

Sec. 7-235. Revenue bonds. The legislative body of any municipality described in section 7-234, which municipality has voted to construct, enlarge or maintain a waterworks system, shall cause an estimate to be made of the cost of such construction and may issue, in the name of su…

Sec. 7-236. Issuance of bonds. The legislative body shall determine the form of such bonds, whether registered or coupon, the rate and the dates of payment of interest thereon and the time or times, not more than thirty years from their date, at which they shall mature, the manne…

Sec. 7-237. Sinking fund. The legislative body shall provide for the establishment, from the net revenues of such waterworks system, of a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds and interest thereon and any charges connected therewith, plus ten per cent of the amount required f…

Sec. 7-238. Trust indenture. In the discretion of the legislative body, such bonds may be secured by a trust indenture between the municipality and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company in the state, but no such trust ind…

Sec. 7-239. Rates for use. Liens. Assignment of liens. Powers and rights of assignee. Contract to memorialize assignment required. Notice of assignment. Notice prior to commencing an action to foreclose lien. (a) The legislative body shall establish just and equitable rates or ch…

Sec. 7-240. Separate accounts. A separate account shall be kept by the municipality of the funds derived from such waterworks system and of their disposition, which account shall be audited annually by a competent auditor, and a report of such audit shall be open to public inspec…

Sec. 7-241. Additional bonds. Additional bonds may be issued in the discretion of the legislative body, to provide for the amount of any deficit found in the proceeds of the bonds herein authorized, which additional bonds shall be subject to the same conditions as, and shall be e…

Sec. 7-242. Issuance of refunding bonds. Refunding revenue bonds may be issued in the same manner as the bonds which they are to refund, in the discretion of the legislative body, upon written request of all the holders of unpaid certificates of a particular issue payable from th…

Sec. 7-243. Receiver. If there is a default in the payment of the principal or interest upon any of such bonds, any court having jurisdiction may, upon application and for cause shown, appoint a receiver to administer such waterworks system on behalf of the municipality. (1949 Re…

Sec. 7-244. Sales at less than par. Tax exemption. Such bonds may be sold at not less than ninety per cent of their par value and shall be exempt from taxation. (1949 Rev., S. 763.)