(a) Any corporation doing a light, heat, gas, power, water, telephone or natural gas transmission business in, or owning property in, more than one town may secure its issue of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness by mortgage or deed of trust of all or any part of its plant and property, real, personal or mixed, wherever the same is situated, including, without limitation, its goods, documents, instruments, general intangibles, chattel paper, accounts, contract rights and franchises, whether owned by it at the time of the mortgage or deed of trust or thereafter to be acquired by it, or both, and the mortgage or deed of trust shall secure equally all such bonds as may be issued from time to time, under and in pursuance of the terms and provisions specified in the mortgage or deed of trust. In the mortgage or deed of trust it is sufficient to describe the plant, equipment, apparatus, transmission or pipe lines, distribution systems and the personal property of such company by general terms.

(b) The mortgage or deed of trust or, if the mortgage or deed of trust has been previously recorded, whether within or without this state, a copy of the record of the mortgage or deed of trust certified by the recording authority, may be recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State and when so recorded need not be recorded or filed in the records of the towns within which the property, plant or transmission or pipe lines or distribution systems included in the mortgage or deed of trust are situated, and shall be valid and effectual as respects all property therein included as aforesaid, provided a certificate shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk of each of such towns setting forth the names of the mortgagor and the mortgagee, the date of the mortgage or deed of trust and the fact that the mortgage or deed of trust is recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State.

(c) The provisions of sections 16-218 to 16-227, inclusive, concerning the foreclosure of mortgages of railroad companies, apply to all mortgages or bonds issued by companies doing a light, heat, gas, power, water, telephone or natural gas transmission business.

(1949 Rev., S. 7097; 1951, 1953, S. 2952d; 1963, P.A. 446; P.A. 73-367; P.A. 79-602, S. 65.)

History: 1963 act specified that corporation's goods, documents, instruments, general intangibles, chattel paper, accounts and contract rights may be mortgaged as security for bonds or other indebtedness; P.A. 73-367 specified that copy of record of previously recorded mortgage or deed of trust may be recorded in office of secretary of the state; P.A. 79-602 divided section into Subsecs. and made minor changes in wording, substituting “the” for “such”, etc.