2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 16 - Public Service Companies
Chapter 283 - Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies
Section 16-252 - Bonds may be secured by mortgage.
All such bonds may be secured by a mortgage of the property, real, personal or mixed, of the mortgagor, executed by its president, under its corporate seal, to the Treasurer of the state, and his successors in office, in trust, for the holders of such bonds, and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State, and such mortgage shall secure equally all such bonds as may be issued from time to time to the full amount specified in the mortgage, and may include not only the property then owned by the mortgagor but also property to be thereafter acquired by it. In such mortgage deed, it shall be sufficient to describe the lines, wires, poles, conduits, equipment and apparatus of the telephone company, in general terms and by general reference to locality. The provisions of sections 16-218 to 16-227, inclusive, concerning the foreclosure of mortgages of railroad companies, as defined in section 13b-199, shall apply to any mortgages or bonds issued by telephone companies, associations or corporations.
(1949 Rev., S. 5665; P.A. 14-134, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 14-134 made a technical change, effective June 6, 2014.
Cited. 28 CS 459.
