2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 13b-273. (Formerly Sec. 16-101). Elimination of grade crossings by removing railroad.
Sec. 13b-273. (Formerly Sec. 16-101). Elimination of grade crossings by removing railroad. Any railroad company may bring its petition in writing to the Commissioner of Transportation, alleging that public safety requires the elimination of the crossing of its railroad at grade by a highway or highways through the removal of such line
of railroad between any two contiguous stations or any two points between which there
is no station so as to coincide with some other line of railroad owned and operated by
such company between the same two points or stations, and praying that the same may
be ordered; whereupon the commissioner shall appoint a time and place for hearing the
petition and shall give such notice thereof as he judges reasonable to such company and
the municipalities in which such crossing and such two points or stations are situated.
If, upon such hearing, it appears to the commissioner that proper and adequate service
will be afforded to the public in the transportation of passengers and freight within the
towns in which such line of railroad to be moved is located, he shall order the removal,
and such railroad company shall thereupon have the right to remove its line of railroad
to such other line and to abandon such portion of its railroad as may be removed to such
other line and its franchise thereto.
History: P.A. 75-486 substituted "public utilities control authority" for "public utilities commission" and "authority" for "commission" where appearing, effective December 1, 1975; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted "commissioner of transportation" for "public utilities control authority" and "commissioner" for "authority" where appearing, effective January 1, 1979; in 1981 Sec. 16-101 transferred to Sec. 13b-273.
Annotation to former section 16-101:
Cited. 143 C. 109.
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