2009 Connecticut Code
Title 16 Public Service Companies
Chapter 284 Department Of Public Utility Control: Natural Gas Pipelines
Sec. 16-265. Certain property exempted from eminent domain.

      Sec. 16-265. Certain property exempted from eminent domain. No lands or rights-of-way or easements therein shall be taken by eminent domain under the provisions of sections 16-263 to 16-269, inclusive, in any public street or highway, public park or reservation or other public property, or within the location of any railroad company or other public utility company; provided such pipeline or pipelines may be constructed under or through any public highway or street, public park or reservation or other public property if the method of such construction and the plans and specifications therefor have been approved by the authority having jurisdiction over the maintenance of such public highway or street, public park or reservation or other public property; and provided such pipeline or pipelines may be constructed over or across the location of any railroad company or other public utility company by agreement with such railroad company or other public utility company or, in the event of failure so to agree, then with the approval of and in such manner as may be determined by the Department of Public Utility Control.

      (March, 1950, S. 2619d; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 118, 348; P.A. 85-246, S. 16.)

      History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 85-246 deleted references to street railway companies.

      Cited. 138 C. 370. Act held constitutional. Taking of a temporary interest in land is authorized. Id., 582.

      Constitutionality upheld; immediate entry onto property upon deposit of sum with court to cover damages. 17 CS 327.