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2009 Connecticut Code
Title 16 Public Service Companies
Chapter 277 Department Of Public Utility Control. Office Of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 16-22. Rates; transfer of assets or franchise; burden of proof.
Sec. 16-22. Rates; transfer of assets or franchise; burden of proof. At any hearing involving a rate or the transfer of ownership of assets or a franchise of a public
service company, the burden of proving that said rate under consideration is just and
reasonable or that said transfer of assets or franchise is in the public interest shall be on the
public service company. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the regulation
of a telecommunications service which is a competitive service, as defined in section
16-247a.(1949 Rev., S. 5412; P.A. 75-486, S. 13, 69; P.A. 94-83, S. 14, 16.)
History: P.A. 75-486 made section applicable to transfers of asset ownership or franchise; P.A. 94-83 added provision re applicability to competitive telecommunications service, effective July 1, 1994.
Cited. 158 C. 626. Cited. 183 C. 128.
Cited. 24 CS 446. Cited. 29 CS 253; Id., 379. Cited. 30 CS 36; Id., 149.
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