2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 13b-280. (Formerly Sec. 16-108). Assessment of damages.
Sec. 13b-280. (Formerly Sec. 16-108). Assessment of damages. If the party by
whom such changes in the highway are to be made cannot agree with the owner of land
or other property to be taken or removed under such decision of the Commissioner of
Transportation, the damages shall be assessed in the same manner as is provided in case
of land taken by railroad companies and the expense of such assessment shall be paid
in the same manner as the expense of the alterations.
History: P.A. 75-486 substituted "public utilities control authority" for "public utilities commission", effective December 1, 1975; P.A. 77-614 substituted "commissioner of transportation" for "public utilities control authority", effective January 1, 1979; in 1981 Sec. 16-108 transferred to Sec. 13b-280.
Annotations to former section 16-108:
This section gives town power to take land for change in highway. 57 C. 102. See 66 C. 222; note to section 13b-270.
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