Title 13a — Title 13a: Highways and Bridges

Sec. 13a-110. Lighting on bridges, dangerous locations and intersections. (a) The commissioner shall cause to be installed and shall maintain suitable lighting on any bridge or on any dangerous location or intersection on any state highway when he deems such lighting necessary to…

Sec. 13a-110a. Highway and roadway lighting designed to maximize energy conservation and minimize light pollution. State and municipal funds. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Fixture” means the assembly that holds a lamp and may include an assembly housing, a mounting bracket or…

Sec. 13a-111. Railings on bridges and highways. The party bound to maintain any bridge or highway shall erect and maintain a sufficient railing or fence on the sides of such bridge and on the sides of such parts of such road as are so made or raised above the ground as to be unsa…

Sec. 13a-112. Certain bridges to have draws. No bridge without a draw shall be built or maintained across any water navigated by open-deck vessels for business purposes, whose passage would be impeded thereby. If any bridge is so maintained or its construction commenced, the Supe…

Sec. 13a-113. Drawbridges to have gates. The approaches to all drawbridges over which highways pass shall be provided, by the town or towns or owners of such bridges, with gates for the protection of travelers, subject to the approval of the selectmen of the town or towns in whic…

Sec. 13a-114. Traffic control during department operations. The commissioner or his agent may, while engaged in Department of Transportation operations, restrict, control and halt traffic. Anyone who disregards or disobeys the person so restricting, controlling or halting traffic…

Sec. 13a-115. Closing highways under construction, maintenance or repair. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation may close or restrict traffic over any section of any state highway or bridge for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair by posting notices…

Sec. 13a-116. Warning signs. On any road or bridge maintained by the state where repairs or construction are under way or on any road or bridge being constructed or reconstructed under supervision of the commissioner, the display of reflectorized signs erected under the provision…

Sec. 13a-117. Permit to operate truck between parts of industrial plant. The commissioner may, if in his opinion it is equitable, grant a special permit for the operation of industrial trucks, tractors, trailers and semitrailers upon the highways of this state for the purpose of …

Sec. 13a-117a. (Formerly Sec. 13a-28). Permit to operate service car or wrecker on limited access highway. Section 13a-117a is repealed, effective June 29, 1993. (1961, P.A. 46, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 29; 1969, P.A. 553, S. 1; P.A. 73-675, S. 18, 44; P.A. 75-568, S. 14, 45; P.A…

Sec. 13a-117b. Soliciting of business by service car and wrecker businesses. No person, firm or corporation engaged in a service car or wrecker business shall solicit customers while on any limited access state highway. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of …

Sec. 13a-118. United States routes to be marked. The commissioner shall on state highways, and may on town highways, mark, with standard shields, as approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials, the portion in this state of any route adopted by said association…

Sec. 13a-119. Warning and directional signs. Control cities. (a) Whenever, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Transportation the same is necessary, said commissioner shall on any state highway, and may on any town highway, erect and maintain suitable warning and directional si…

Sec. 13a-120. Traffic authority to maintain warning signs. The traffic authority of any city, town or borough shall erect and maintain suitable warning signs on highways under the jurisdiction of such traffic authority, legible from a distance of one hundred feet and located at a…

Sec. 13a-121. Notice of load capacity; appeal. When the load-carrying capacity of any bridge on any highway is such that it will not carry safely any vehicle or combination of vehicle and trailer or semitrailer or any other object within the limits of the weights specified in sec…

Sec. 13a-122. Installation of decorations in streets restricted. No person, firm or corporation, or any group or organization of persons, shall install any decorations or cause them to be installed within the limits of any highway without having received a permit to do so from th…

Sec. 13a-123. Restriction of outdoor advertising structures, signs, displays or devices on state property or interstate, federal-aid and other limited access highways. Signs upon or within buildings or personal property. Exceptions. License or permit. Information centers at safet…

Sec. 13a-123a. Church signs on state highways. Section 13a-123a is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (February, 1965, P.A. 430; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 93; P.A. 98-182, S. 21, 22.)

Sec. 13a-123b. Exemption of certain areas. If Congress amends Title I of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 to exempt any area adjacent to any interstate or primary federal-aid highway or any such highway in whole or in part from control of outdoor advertising structures, sig…

Sec. 13a-123c. Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions. As used in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, “highway” means the federal interstate and primary systems and limited access state highways as defined in section 13a-1; “federal interstate s…

Sec. 13a-123d. Regulations. The Commissioner of Transportation may promulgate regulations for effective control of junkyards and scrap metal processing facilities, in accordance with Section 136, Title 23 of the United States Code, situated within one thousand feet of the nearest…

Sec. 13a-123e. Certificate of approval. No person, firm or corporation shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard, or scrap metal processing facility, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled …

Sec. 13a-123f. Screening of certain installations. Acquisition of property by Commissioner of Transportation. (a) Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, lawfully in existence on October 1, 1967, which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way a…

Sec. 13a-123g. Facilities as nuisance. Abatement. Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, established or maintained in violation of sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, or any regulation adopted thereunder, is declared to be a public nuisance and the Commissioner of…

Sec. 13a-123h. Provisions of other statutes, ordinances, etc., not abrogated. Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any statute, ordinance, regulation or resolution which are more restrictive than the provi…

Sec. 13a-123i. Facilities in industrial area not affected. Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall apply to any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility which is located within an area zoned for industrial use or which is within an area not so zoned but whic…

Sec. 13a-123j. Agreements with Secretary of Commerce. The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Commerce of the United States as provided by Section 136 of Title 23 of the United States Code, and to act in the name of the stat…

Sec. 13a-124. Unauthorized signs. No person, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain or cause to be erected or maintained, within three hundred feet of any state highway, any sign which has thereon any of the following words: “Stop”, “caution”, “danger”, “dangerous”, “warning…

Sec. 13a-124a. Specific service sign on limited access highways. Regulations. (a) As used in this section, “specific service sign” means a rectangular sign with the word GAS, FOOD, LODGING, CAMPING or ATTRACTION and exit directional information pertaining to the designated motori…

Sec. 13a-124b. Payment for design and production of signs or notices re Connecticut-made beer facilities. The design and production of directional and other official signs or notices pertaining to facilities in this state where Connecticut-made beer is manufactured or sold, pursu…

Sec. 13a-125. Removal or destruction of signs. Section 13a-125 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2247; 1958 Rev., S. 13-134; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 125; 1971, P.A. 690, S. 2.) PART VIII PUBLIC SERVICE FACILITIES

Sec. 13a-126. Readjustment, relocation or removal of public service facilities for highway construction. As used in this section, “public service facility” includes all privately, publicly or cooperatively owned lines, facilities and systems for producing, transmitting or distrib…

Sec. 13a-126a. Regulation of public service facility installations along state highway rights-of-way for aesthetic purposes. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, the Commissioner of Transportation may, for the purpose of protecting the functional or aesthetic char…

Sec. 13a-126b. Agreements with public service facility operators for revision of plans of proposed installation. The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized, when in his opinion it would be in the best interest of the state, to enter into an agreement with the owner or opera…

Sec. 13a-126c. Longitudinal use of highway right-of-way by public service facility or company. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Transportation may enter into an agreement with the owner or operator of a public service facility, as defined…

Sec. 13a-126d. Notification provided to Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and public service companies re highway construction projects. The Department of Transportation and any municipality shall notify the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of any pending project involvi…

Sec. 13a-126e. Easements for public service companies to provide service to Department of Transportation facilities. The Commissioner of Transportation may grant easements with respect to land owned by the state to a public service company, as defined in section 16-1, in connecti…

Sec. 13a-127. Utility lines on certain bridges. The commissioner is authorized to contract with any person, partnership, association or corporation, desiring the use of the project authorized by section 13a-32, the Gold Star Memorial Bridge or the Old Lyme and Old Saybrook Bridge…

Sec. 13a-128. Discontinuance or alteration of highways in watershed. When any municipal or private corporation, engaged in providing or authorized to provide a water supply for any town, city or borough, deems it necessary that any public highway or part thereof shall be disconti…

Sec. 13a-129. Court procedure. Estimate of damages. Appeal. Upon twelve days' notice of such petition to such town or towns and to all owners of land abutting on such highways and to such other persons as the court orders, served and returned in the same manner as in civil proces…

Sec. 13a-130. Bridges over railroad tracks. The bottom timbers of all bridges constructed over any railroad track shall be not less than eighteen feet above the rails, unless the Commissioner of Transportation requires a lesser height and prescribes the same in writing. (1949 Rev…

Sec. 13a-131. Alteration of highway made unsafe by railroad occupation. The superior court for the judicial district in which is located any highway, or any portion thereof, taken for railroad purposes by any corporation, unless such highway or portion thereof is in a city or bor…

Sec. 13a-132. Alteration of railroad facilities in construction of highway. When it is necessary for the commissioner to construct a highway which intersects or crosses over or under any railroad, said commissioner may order any railroad company to change or alter its existing fa…

Sec. 13a-133. Contracts with railroads where tracks to be altered. Advancement of funds. The commissioner may enter into agreements with railroad corporations for the purpose of performing any work which may be necessary in connection with the construction of highways, bridges an…

Sec. 13a-134. Location of tracks of street railway. Section 13a-134 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2232; 1958 Rev., S. 13-115; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 134; P.A. 85-246, S. 22.)

Sec. 13a-135. Taking of street railway rails and ties by commissioner. The commissioner may take, under the provisions of the general statutes relating to the taking of land for highway purposes, the ties, track appurtenances and rails of any disbanded or defunct street railway c…

Sec. 13a-136. Benefits assessed where highway is dike against tides. Whenever any town lays out any public highway, either by action of its selectmen or by a decree of the Superior Court, across any meadow or lowlands, and such meadow or lowlands are open to the overflow of the t…

Sec. 13a-137. Material for repair of highway taken from private land. Whenever necessary material for making or repairing any highway in any town cannot be obtained without great inconvenience from land sequestered for highways but may be found on land abutting on the highway, ot…

Sec. 13a-138. Highways may be drained into private lands. (a) Persons authorized to construct or to repair highways may make or clear any watercourse or place for draining off the water therefrom into or through any person's land so far as necessary to drain off such water and, w…

Sec. 13a-138a. Limitation on actions for drainage damage. No action shall be brought by the owner of land adjoining a public highway, or of any interest in such land, for recovery of damage to such property or interest by reason of any draining of water into or through such land …