2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 29 - Public Safety and State Police
Chapter 529 - Division of State Police
Section 29-19 - Special policemen for utility and transportation companies.
(a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may, upon the application of any electric distribution, gas, telephone or water company owning, leasing, maintaining, managing or controlling any property, plant or equipment in this state, commission, during his pleasure, one or more persons designated by such company who, having been sworn, may act at the expense of such company as policemen upon the premises used or occupied by such company in its business, or upon any highway adjacent to such premises, for the proper protection of such plant or property, and each policeman so appointed may arrest and take before some proper authority any person in his precinct for any offense committed therein. Said commissioner may exercise such supervision and direction over any policeman appointed as herein provided as he deems necessary. When any such commission is issued or revoked, said commissioner shall notify the clerk of the superior court for each judicial district in which it is intended that such policeman shall act.
(b) Said commissioner may, upon application of any railroad, express company or steamboat company, engaged in the business of transportation in this state, or upon the application of any corporation owning or having control of the roads in any private residence park, commission, during his pleasure, one or more persons designated by such company or by such corporation, who, having been sworn, may act, at the expense of such company or corporation, as policemen upon the premises used by such company in its business, or upon its cars or vessels, or upon the roads and land owned by or under the control of such corporation, and each policeman so appointed may arrest and take before some proper authority any person in his precinct for any offense committed therein. When any such commission is issued or revoked, said commissioner shall notify the clerk of the superior court for each judicial district in which it is intended that such policeman shall act. Each such policeman shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a shield bearing the words “railroad police”, “steamboat police”, “express company police” or “special police”, as the case may be, and the name of the company for which he is commissioned.
(1949 Rev., S. 3661; 1963, P.A. 153; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 610; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 85-246, S. 18; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 14-134, S. 35.)
History: 1963 act authorized appointment of express company police in Subsec. (b); P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 85-246 deleted reference to street railway companies and street railway police in Subsec. (b); pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-134 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to electric company with reference to electric distribution company and deleting reference to telegraph company, effective June 6, 2014.
See Sec. 25-44 re appointment of special police for protection of water supplies.
