Within the franchise area of any person, firm, corporation or municipality which is chartered or authorized by the state of Connecticut to transmit or sell gas within such franchise area, no corporation described in section 16-263 shall supply or sell natural, mixed or manufactured gas to any person, firm, corporation or municipality except a person, firm, corporation or municipality authorized to transmit or sell gas within such franchise area without the prior approval of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority after notice and hearing. In determining whether to grant such approval, the authority shall consider, without limitation, the impact of such supply or sale on gas companies and their customers.

(March, 1950, S. 2623d; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 119, 348; P.A. 87-29, S. 1, 2; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 87-29 deleted language permitting gas sales by pipeline companies in gas franchise areas upon consent of the franchise holders, required prior approval of the department of public utility control for all such sales, and directed the department to consider the impact on gas companies and their customers prior to granting such approval; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.