Title 16 — Title 16: Public Service Companies

Sec. 16-333a. Multiunit residential buildings service and wiring. Right to use antenna. Regulations for owner compensation. Civil penalty. (a) No owner of any multiunit residential building shall demand or accept payment, in any form, except as provided in subsection (e) of this …

Sec. 16-333b. Service to franchise area. Underground service lines. (a) No community antenna television company shall refuse to construct that plant necessary to serve any portion of its franchise area on the sole basis that such portion can only be served by underground faciliti…

Sec. 16-333c. Availability of equipment for subscribers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Each community antenna television company shall make available at cost, by a rental, sales or installment sales agreement, to each subscriber who is deaf or hard of hearing, equipment which r…

Sec. 16-333d. Discrimination among subscribers prohibited. The authority may prohibit any community antenna television company from unreasonably discriminating among subscribers of community antenna television service. (P.A. 79-54; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 84-113, S.…

Sec. 16-333e. Credit or refund for interrupted service. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Basic service” means all signals of domestic television broadcast stations provided to any subscriber, except a signal secondarily transmitted by satellite carrier beyond the local service a…

Sec. 16-333f. Programming and rate changes. Regulatory authority. Industry cooperation. (a) Each community antenna television company shall inform the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, each subscriber, the chairpersons of the joint standing committee having cognizance of mat…

Sec. 16-333g. Free basic service for libraries and schools. Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, shall provide any library serving the public and any school system, college or university, located in a part of the company's franchise area where se…

Sec. 16-333h. Extension of service to schools. Instructional channels. (a) Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, shall, not later than the date it extends energized trunk and feeder to all areas within its franchise territory in which there are at…

Sec. 16-333i. Procedures for restoring interrupted service and improving substandard service. (a) Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, for the purpose of restoring interrupted service and improving substandard service, have on call twenty-four ho…

Sec. 16-333j. Community access support. Investigation. Standards. Monitoring by advisory councils. Section 16-333j is repealed, effective October 1, 1998. (P.A. 84-466, S. 1, 2; P.A. 85-292, S. 2; P.A. 98-121, S. 14.)

Sec. 16-333k. Office operating requirements. Office hours. Complaint or dispute procedures. Each community antenna television system shall: (1) Operate a business office in the franchise area or in an immediately adjacent franchise area if approved by the authority that shall be …

Sec. 16-333l. Company offerings and charges. Billing and billing dispute procedures. (a) Each community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, shall provide each subscriber with a description of all premium and basic service offerings, a list of premium and basic…

Sec. 16-333m. Limitations on charges for disconnection or downgrade of service. (a) No charge may be imposed by any community antenna television company or certified competitive video service provider in any case where a video service subscriber of such company or provider, as ap…

Sec. 16-333n. Penalty for reduction of community antenna television service without notice. If a community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, reduces the programming selection of a basic or premium service package, without providing notice to the Public Utili…

Sec. 16-333o. Rate regulation of community antenna television systems. Upon the enactment of federal legislation authorizing rate regulation of community antenna television companies, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall proceed to implement such rate regulation as soo…

Sec. 16-333p. Broadcast television station markets. Request to Federal Communications Commission. On or before July 1, 1993, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall submit in writing to the Federal Communications Commission a request that each Connecticut community locate…

Secs. 16-334 to 16-337a. Declaration of policy. “Person” defined. Transportation authority: Powers and duties. Acquisition of property for rail services. Sections 16-334 to 16-337a, inclusive, are repealed. (1963, P.A. 639, S. 1–5; February, 1965, P.A. 6, S. 1, 3; 487, S. 1, 2; 1…

Sec. 16-338. Bonds authorized or issued prior to July 1, 1974. Legal investments, tax-exempt. All bonds authorized or issued pursuant to this section under or pursuant to proceedings of the State Bond Commission had or taken prior to July 1, 1974, shall be general obligations of …

Secs. 16-339 to 16-341. Tri-State Regional Planning Compact. Sections 16-339 to 16-341, inclusive, are repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 413, S. 1–3; 1967, P.A. 539; 1969, P.A. 39, S. 1; 768, S. 245; 1971, P.A. 450, S. 1; P.A. 73-679, S. 37, 43; P.A. 74-338, S. 31, 94; P.A. 75-537,…

Sec. 16-341a. Revocation of membership on the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission and participation in the Tri-State Regional Planning Compact. Section 16-341a is repealed. (P.A. 81-463, S. 6, 8, 10; P.A. 95-217, S. 9.)

Sec. 16-342. Prior compact. Section 16-342 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 474; 1969, P.A. 46, S. 3.)

Sec. 16-343. Connecticut-New York Railroad Passenger Transportation Compact. The state of Connecticut hereby agrees with the state of New York, upon enactment by New York of legislation having the same effect as this section, to this compact for the purpose of providing for the c…

Sec. 16-344. Exemption from state regulation and state and local tax. (a) Mass transportation and railroad service operated pursuant to this compact shall be exempt from state regulation. (b) During such time as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency of the sta…

Sec. 16-345. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) “Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association, including a person engaged as a contractor by a public agency but excluding a public agency. (2) “Public agency” means the stat…

Sec. 16-346. Compliance with chapter required prior to excavation, discharge of explosives or demolition. No person, public agency or public utility shall engage in excavation, discharge of explosives or demolition without having first ascertained the location of all underground …

Sec. 16-347. Public utilities to register with central clearinghouse. A public utility shall register with the central clearinghouse the geographic areas in which it owns or operates underground facilities, by reference to a standard mapping system, to be established by the centr…

Sec. 16-348. Central clearinghouse. Apportionment of costs. The public utilities of the state shall, under the direction of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, organize and operate a central clearinghouse within the state for receiving and giving the notices required by se…

Sec. 16-349. Notice of proposed excavation, discharge of explosives or demolition. Except as provided in section 16-352, a person, public agency or public utility responsible for excavating, discharging explosives or demolishing shall notify the central clearinghouse of such prop…

Sec. 16-350. Permits to require compliance with chapter. Evidence re. Any permit issued by a public agency for excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives shall require compliance with this chapter. No such permit shall be issued by any public agency unless such public agen…

Sec. 16-351. Information and assistance re location of underground facilities. A public utility receiving notice pursuant to section 16-349 shall inform the person, public agency or public utility proposing to excavate, discharge explosives or demolish of the approximate location…

Sec. 16-352. Emergency excavation, demolition or discharge of explosives. (a) In case of emergency involving danger to life, health or property or which requires immediate correction to continue the operation of a major industrial plant, or to assure the continuity of public util…

Sec. 16-353. Relation of chapter to permits and other laws. Except as provided in section 16-350 this chapter shall not be construed to affect or impair local ordinances, charters or other provisions of law requiring permits to be obtained before excavating in a public highway or…

Sec. 16-354. Care to be exercised near underground facilities. Notification and abatement of hazards. Power to stop work re. A person, public agency or public utility responsible for excavating, discharging explosives or demolition shall exercise reasonable care when working in p…

Sec. 16-355. Procedure when contact is made with or damage is suspected or done to underground facilities. When any contact is made with or any damage is suspected or done to any underground facility of a public utility, the person, public agency or public utility responsible for…

Sec. 16-356. Civil penalty. Application for hearing. Any person, public agency or public utility which the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority determines, after notice and opportunity for a hearing as provided in section 16-41, to have failed to comply with any provision of thi…

Sec. 16-357. Regulations. The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter. Such regulations shall be designed to protect the public safety and shall …

Secs. 16-358 and 16-359. Underground gas facilities report. Requirements re. Compliance and enforcement report. Sections 16-358 and 16-359 are repealed, effective October 1, 2022. (P.A. 87-71, S. 10–13; P.A. 96-46, S. 4, 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 9, 10, 121; P.A. 11-80, S. …