2009 Connecticut Code
Title 16 Public Service Companies
Chapter 284 Department Of Public Utility Control: Natural Gas Pipelines
Sec. 16-275. Submission of plans to department.

      Sec. 16-275. Submission of plans to department. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of actual construction or installation, any such corporation shall submit to the Department of Public Utility Control information concerning the engineering design of its pipeline and the standards of construction which it proposes to follow and any other such information as the department deems necessary, so that it may determine whether the public safety and the safety of the employees of such company are being protected. If the department finds as a result of its investigation that any part of the engineering design does not conform to the minimum standards of the American Standard Code for Pressure Piping, promulgated by the American Standards Association of New York, New York, or that the condition of any part of the equipment or the manner of operation thereof is such that it is dangerous to the public safety or the safety of the employees, it shall make such order as may be necessary to remedy the same and shall furnish a copy of such order to the company.

      (1951, S. 2629d; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 124, 348.)

      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.