The commissioner may adopt such regulations as are required by the United States Secretary of Transportation to regulate the satisfactory accommodation of utilities on a continuing basis to any federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility. “Utility facilities or utilities” means and includes all privately, publicly or cooperatively owned lines, facilities and systems for producing, transmitting or distributing communications, cable television, power, electricity, light, heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water not connected with highway drainage, and other similar commodities, including fire and police signal systems and street lighting systems, which directly or indirectly serve the public or any part thereof. “Utility” means any person or private or public entity owning or operating utility facilities as defined in this section, including any wholly owned or controlled subsidiary. The municipality or the commissioner shall issue an appropriate order to any utility to readjust or relocate in or remove its utility facility at its own expense from any such federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility as is deemed necessary by the municipality and by the commissioner, provided the cost of readjusting, relocating or removing any municipally-owned utility facility shall be apportioned on the same basis as the cost of constructing such roadway or facility, and provided further, the cost of readjusting, relocating or removing any other utility facility within, on, along, over or under any land comprising the right-of-way of a state highway or any other public highway when necessitated by the construction or reconstruction of a state highway shall be apportioned in accordance with the provisions of section 13a-126.

(1969, P.A. 501, S. 3; P.A. 74-118; P.A. 75-485, S. 6, 8; P.A. 77-203; 77-342, S. 2, 3; P.A. 78-331, S. 7, 58; P.A. 94-188, S. 3, 30.)

History: P.A. 74-118 substituted “utility facility owned or operated by a public entity” for “municipally-owned utility facility”; P.A. 75-485 substituted “federal-aid urban system” for “such extensions to the federal-aid primary and secondary systems”, substituted “shall” for “may” in provision re issuance of orders to relocate or remove utility facilities and restored reference to “municipally-owned” utility facilities; P.A. 77-203 allowed commissioner of transportation to issue order for relocation or removal of utility facility (also enacted by P.A. 77-342), included references to urban system in definition of “utility” and added provision re apportionment of cost of relocating or removing facilities other than municipally-owned facilities; P.A. 78-331 specified “United States Secretary of Transportation” to avoid any confusion with state transportation officials; P.A. 94-188 changed references to “commissioner of transportation” to “the commissioner”, changed “is authorized to promulgate” to “may adopt”, replaced references to “the federal-aid urban system” with references to “federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility”, and inserted “cable television” after “communications”, effective June 2, 1994.

See Sec. 13a-98m for definition of “federal surface transportation urban program roadway or facility”.