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Chapter 236 - Definitions and Administration
Section 13a-1. - Definitions. - (a) As used in this title: (1) “Commissioner” means the...
Section 13a-2 to 13a-3a. - Highway Commissioner: Appointment; oath of office; powers and duties. Commuter parking facilities. - Sections 13a-2 to 13a-3a, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-3b. - Entry on private property to repair damage caused by Transportation Department operations. - Notwithstanding any provision of any statute to the contrary, the...
Section 13a-4. - Records. Court copies. Delegation of commissioner's authority to sign documents. - Section 13a-4 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2180; 1955, S....
Section 13a-5. - Construction of roads and bridges for military purposes. - The commissioner, upon request of the Federal Highway Administrator, Federal...
Section 13a-6. - Reimbursement by federal government. - Nothing herein shall authorize the commissioner to proceed under the...
Section 13a-7. - Layout, alteration, grading, discontinuance in cities and boroughs. - In cities and boroughs whose charters do not authorize them...
Section 13a-8. - Appointment and removal of town superintendent of highways and bridges. - Any town adopting the provisions of sections 13a-8 to 13a-11,...
Section 13a-9. - Qualifications; bond; salary. - A superintendent of highways and bridges shall possess practical and...
Section 13a-10. - Powers and duties. Bills. Account. - The superintendent of highways and bridges shall possess the powers...
Section 13a-11. - Adoption of town superintendent provisions. - The provisions of sections 13a-8 to 13a-11, inclusive, may be...
Section 13a-12. - Repair of highways in boroughs. Damages for defects. - Any town having a borough within its limits shall pay...
Section 13a-13. - Layout or repair of highways dividing towns. - A petition for an order for the laying out, repair,...
Section 13a-13a. - Establishment of alternative design standards for roads and bridges. - (a) On or before January 1, 1999, the Commissioner of...
Chapter 237 - State Highway System
Section 13a-14. - State highway system. - There shall be a system of state highways which shall...
Section 13a-15. - Inclusion of interstate highway system in state system. - All sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense...
Section 13a-16. - Official map. Transfers to local jurisdiction. - The state highway system shall be that system of highways...
Section 13a-17. - Arbitration of town grievance. Appointment of arbitrators. - Any town aggrieved by the reclassification of highways as designated...
Section 13a-18. - Alterations in system. - Section 13a-18 is repealed. (1961, P.A. 603, S. 3; 1963,...
Section 13a-19. - Powers of commissioner unaffected. - Nothing in sections 13a-14, 13a-16 and 13a-17 shall be construed...
Section 13a-20. - Definitions. - As used in this part, unless the context indicates a...
Section 13a-21. - Construction of Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike. - (a) The commissioner is authorized and directed to plan and...
Section 13a-22. - Construction of separate expressway. Easterly portion of turnpike. - (a) The commissioner is authorized to plan and construct, under...
Section 13a-23. - Authority of commissioner. - The commissioner may (a) plan, construct, reconstruct, repair, improve, manage,...
Section 13a-24. - General authority of commissioner not limited. - Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to limit,...
Section 13a-25. - Additional referees for land acquisition proceedings. - Whenever the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court finds that...
Section 13a-26. - Parkways and freeways. - (a) Definitions. As used in this section, “parkway” means any...
Section 13a-26a. - Improved height restriction notification on Merritt Parkway. - The Department of Transportation shall investigate and identify methods to...
Section 13a-27. - Wilbur Cross Parkway. Restricted use. - Section 13a-27 is repealed, effective July 13, 2011. (1949 Rev.,...
Section 13a-29. - Hartford bridges part of state highway system. - All rights, funds and properties formerly owned or controlled by...
Section 13a-29a. - Seniority rights of former bridge authority employees. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall add such period of employment...
Section 13a-30. - Founders Bridge named. - The highway bridge across the Connecticut River, between State Street...
Section 13a-31. - Gold Star Memorial Bridge named. - The bridge, with approaches, constructed over the Thames River by...
Section 13a-32. - Thames River Bridge. Location. - The commissioner is authorized and directed, to the full extent...
Section 13a-33. - Powers and duties of commissioner. - Subject to the limitations referred to in section 13a-32, the...
Section 13a-34. - Commissioner to maintain project. - The project and all approach or connecting highways incidental thereto...
Section 13a-35. - Protection of obligation for Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike. - In order to observe or fulfill any obligation of the...
Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance
Section 13a-36. - Milestones to be reset. - The commissioner shall reset any milestone found in the course...
Section 13a-37. - Determination of boundaries. - If, in the opinion of the commissioner, the boundary lines...
Section 13a-38. - Entry on private property to determine boundary. - The commissioner or his agent may enter upon private property...
Section 13a-39. - Selectmen to define bounds of highway. - Whenever the boundaries of any highway have been lost or...
Section 13a-40. - Appeal. - Any person aggrieved by such decision may appeal to the...
Section 13a-41. - Bounds of new highways to be marked and recorded. - Whenever a new highway has been laid out by authority...
Section 13a-42. - Taking of roads into state system. - The commissioner may take into the state highway system any...
Section 13a-43. - Abandonment of state highway. - The commissioner may, in connection with a new highway constructed...
Section 13a-44. - Transfer of state highway to town. - The commissioner may transfer any highway, or section or appurtenance...
Section 13a-45. - Effective date of transfers and abandonments. - Transfers or abandonments under section 13a-42, 13a-43 or 13a-44 shall...
Section 13a-46. - Transfers of rights in lands on transfer of roads. - The commissioner shall transfer all right, title and interest vested...
Section 13a-47. - Powers of commissioner unaffected. - Nothing in sections 13a-42 to 13a-46, inclusive, shall be construed...
Section 13a-48. - Acceptance of highways by municipalities. - Any municipality whose duty it is to maintain the highways...
Section 13a-49. - Discontinuance of highways or private ways. - (a)(1) The selectmen of any town may, subject to approval...
Section 13a-50. - Discontinuance of highway by Superior Court. - The Superior Court, on the application of any person, may...
Section 13a-51. - Discontinued turnpikes remain highways. - All discontinued turnpikes and parts of turnpikes shall remain public...
Section 13a-52. - No assessed damages collected if unopened highway discontinued. - When any highway duly laid out is legally discontinued before...
Section 13a-53. - Discontinuance of highway crossing railroad. - That part of any highway which crosses a railroad, the...
Section 13a-54. - Abandonment of highway for construction of dam. - Any person or corporation engaged in constructing, raising or operating...
Section 13a-55. - Right-of-way of property owners bounding a discontinued or abandoned highway or a highway any portion of which is discontinued or abandoned. - Property owners bounding a discontinued or abandoned highway, or a...
Section 13a-56. - Relocation to straighten or remove dangerous location. - The commissioner may relocate any section of any state highway...
Section 13a-57. - Layout of state highway. - The commissioner may lay out any road as a state...
Section 13a-57a. - Consultation with municipal officers in planning of highway within municipality. - Whenever the Commissioner of Transportation is engaged in the planning...
Section 13a-57b. - Areas for bicycles and pedestrians. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall, whenever possible, encourage the inclusion...
Section 13a-57c. - Model pollinator habitat along state highways. Identification of opportunities for replacement of turf grasses. Report. - The Department of Transportation shall identify opportunities in the state...
Section 13a-57d. - Model pollinator habitat in deforested areas of state highways. Authority. - The Commissioner of Transportation may, to the extent federal funds...
Section 13a-58. - Public hearing on proposed layout. - When the Commissioner of Transportation proposes to build any new...
Section 13a-58a. - Change of zone of property within limits of laid-out highway prohibited. - Notwithstanding any provisions of the general statutes or any special...
Section 13a-60. - Entry upon private property in altering of highways. - The commissioner or his agent may enter upon private property...
Section 13a-60a. - Entry to repair or relocate private driveway. - (a) Whenever a driveway requires repairing, reconstructing or relocating as...
Section 13a-61. - Layout of highways by selectmen. - The selectmen of each town may lay out necessary highways...
Section 13a-62. - Application to Superior Court for relief. - Any person aggrieved by the doings of the selectmen in...
Section 13a-63. - Refusal of selectmen to lay out or alter highway. - When the selectmen of any town refuse to lay out...
Section 13a-64. - Remonstrance. Reestimate of damages and benefits by jury. - All persons interested in laying out or altering such highway...
Section 13a-65. - When jury's doings conclusive. New jury. - The court to which the doings of such jury are...
Section 13a-66. - Costs on application for jury. - If the report of the jury, when accepted, does not...
Section 13a-67. - Committee's accepted report to be recorded. Judgment. - When the report of the committee finds that such highway...
Section 13a-68. - Assessment of benefits limited. Collection. - The benefits assessed for any particular layout or alteration, except...
Section 13a-69. - Proceedings when towns disobey court order. - Section 13a-69 is repealed, effective October 1, 2019. (1949 Rev.,...
Section 13a-70. - Bond to construct highway when application pending in court. - When an application is pending before the Superior Court for...
Section 13a-71. - Layout by individuals. - (a) No person, company or corporation, except the state or...
Section 13a-72. - Alteration or relocation of highway for dam construction. - Any person or corporation engaged in constructing, raising or operating...
Section 13a-73. - Acquisition of real property. Condemnation of land for: State highway, highway maintenance storage area or garage; military purposes; highway drainage or preservation of historical monument; rights of access and egress. State owned... - (a) For the purpose of this section, “real property” means...
Section 13a-74. - Payment of damages. - After the assessment of damages and benefits provided for in...
Section 13a-75. - Determination of value of flood-damaged land. - Whenever the commissioner takes any land he may find necessary...
Section 13a-76. - Reassessment of damages or benefits by judge trial referee or court. - Any person claiming to be aggrieved by the assessment of...
Section 13a-76a. - Additional damages for unreasonable delay in taking. - Whenever a referee, in determining the amount of damages for...
Section 13a-77. - Costs in appeals from awards in highway cases. - In any appeal to the Superior Court taken under and...
Section 13a-78. - Lien for assessed benefits. - The amount of benefits assessed by the commissioner under the...
Section 13a-79. - Interest payable ninety days after acceptance of agreement. - When the commissioner desires to take property for highway purposes...
Section 13a-79a and 13a-79b. - Right-of-way revolving fund; payment of taxes on and lease of property acquired prior to highway construction. Establishment of long-range highway plan. - Sections 13a-79a and 13a-79b are repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 325,...
Section 13a-79c. - Federal assistance for early acquisition of rights-of-way. - The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to request the United...
Section 13a-80. - Sale or lease of land by commissioner. Auctions. Appraisals. Offer to agencies and abutting landowners. - (a) The Commissioner of Transportation, with the advice and consent...
Section 13a-80a. - Disposition of interests on, above or below state highway rights-of-way. - (a) The Commissioner of Transportation, with the advice and consent...
Section 13a-80b. - Order of priorities. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall give priority in the following...
Section 13a-80c. - Limitation. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall not exercise his authority under...
Section 13a-80d. - Conformation with local zoning regulations and ordinances. - The use of any space on, over or below any...
Section 13a-80e. - Tax assessment. - Any building, land or space sold, leased or used pursuant...
Section 13a-80f. - Acquisition of land or air space. - The Commissioner of Transportation may acquire by purchase or condemnation,...
Section 13a-80g. - Disposition of interest in, above or below municipal highways. - (a) Any municipality may sell, lease or otherwise transfer easements...
Section 13a-80h. - Agreement setting forth responsibilities of municipality and Commissioner of Transportation re acquisition of real property required for certain bridge projects. - At the request of any municipality which is undertaking a...
Section 13a-80i. - Mediation of purchase of state property not required for highway purposes. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Eligible owner” means...
Section 13a-81. - Relocation of persons, businesses and farms displaced by state highway construction. - Section 13a-81 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 601; September, 1957, P.A....
Section 13a-81a to 13a-81l. - Highway relocation assistance. - (a) Sections 13a-81a to 13a-81l, inclusive, are repealed except that...
Section 13a-82. - Damages or benefits by change of grade of municipal highway. Lien. - When the owner of land adjoining a highway, or of...
Section 13a-83. - Assessment of benefits by municipalities. - The proper authorities of any city or borough and the...
Section 13a-84. - Ascertainment of damages or benefits. Remonstrance. - If the selectmen of any town and any person interested...
Section 13a-85. - Assessment on private property, when collectible. - When any assessment has been laid by any town, city,...
Section 13a-85a. - Acquisition of land adjacent to state highways for preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty and development of rest and recreation areas. - The Commissioner of Transportation may acquire in the name of...
Section 13a-85b. - Aquisition of properties situated in right-of-way for limited access highway from Danbury to Norwalk. - Should any properties situated within the existing right-of-way acquired for...
Section 13a-85c. - Sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of excess property obtained in connection with the Route 6 Expressway. - Section 13a-85c is repealed, effective July 1, 2013. (S.A. 07-11,...
Section 13a-86. - Construction of bridges; cost; width. - The commissioner may construct or reconstruct any bridge on any...
Section 13a-86a. - Geometric design standards for bridges, exceptions. Factors re bridge rehabilitation or new construction. Development or construction of projects by municipal governments. Immunity from liability. - (a) In the event site conditions, environmental factors, engineering factors...
Section 13a-87. - Maintenance of bridges by commissioner. - The commissioner shall maintain each bridge on any highway maintained...
Section 13a-88. - Load capacity. - Each highway bridge existing on July 1, 1921, maintained in...
Section 13a-89. - Appeal to commissioner from posted weight restriction. - Any person may appeal to the commissioner from the restriction...
Section 13a-90. - Bridge over artificial watercourse. - Any bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse, located on...
Section 13a-91. - Sidewalks on bridges. - (a) The commissioner may cause to be constructed or reconstructed...
Section 13a-92. - Sidewalks on bridges at Thompsonville and Warehouse Point. - The sidewalks on the bridges across the Connecticut River at...
Section 13a-93. - Snow removal from state highways. - The commissioner shall remove the snow from the traveled portions...
Section 13a-94. - Construction over or adjacent to streams. - (a) All structures to be built over, or structures or...
Section 13a-95. - Submission of bids on state highway construction. - The commissioner may, at any time, call for bids to...
Section 13a-95a. - Award of contracts to certain small business concerns and minority business enterprises. - The Commissioner of Transportation may, in the performance of his...
Section 13a-95b. - Designation of projects using construction-manager-at-risk or design-build contracts. - (a) The Commissioner of Transportation may, as an alternative to...
Section 13a-95c. - Commissioner's duties re construction-manager-at-risk and design-build contracts. Use of department employees and consultants. - (a) For any contract entered into pursuant to section 13a-95b,...
Section 13a-96. - Payment to contractor under highway contract. - The commissioner shall pay any sum due any contractor under...
Section 13a-97. - Agreement for town maintenance of state highways. - The commissioner and the selectmen of any town, or any...
Section 13a-97a. - Improvement of state highways by towns in conjunction with redevelopment or utility improvements. - The commissioner may enter into an agreement with any town...
Section 13a-97b. - Adopt a highway program. Regulations. - Not later than July 1, 1996, the Commissioner of Transportation...
Section 13a-97c. - Contracts for repair, improvement and maintenance work on limited access highways or concerning adopt a highway programs. - The Commissioner of Transportation may enter into contracts for repair,...
Section 13a-97d. - Required provision on sewer and utility service grates in certain highway project bids and contracts. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any public...
Section 13a-97e. - Annual report re certain highway project bids and contracts and installation of wrong-way signs. - Not later than January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the...
Section 13a-98. - Authority for additional construction; reimbursement by party requesting. - The commissioner shall have authority to build, or to enter...
Section 13a-98a. - Construction of frontage roads. - When, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Transportation, a...
Section 13a-98b. - Construction of urban arterial streets. - For the purposes of this section, “urban arterial street” means...
Section 13a-98c and 13a-98d. - Extension of federal-aid primary and secondary systems into urban areas. Agreements with Secretary of Transportation and municipalities. - Sections 13a-98c and 13a-98d are repealed. (1969, P.A. 501, S....
Section 13a-98e. - Acquisition of land and rights-of-way. - The commissioner may acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation in...
Section 13a-98f. - Regulation of accommodation of utilities to federal surface transportation urban program roadways or facilities. Apportionment of cost of readjusting, relocating or removing facility necessitated by state highway project. - The commissioner may adopt such regulations as are required by...
Section 13a-98g and 13a-98h. - Federal aid urban system. Selection of routes to be included in system. - Sections 13a-98g and 13a-98h are repealed. (1971, P.A. 584, S....
Section 13a-98i. - Agreements for acceptances and expenditure of funds. - (a) The commissioner may enter into agreements for the acceptance...
Section 13a-98j. - Municipal and state responsibility for streets or roads in the urban program. - The municipality shall continue to maintain any local street or...
Section 13a-98k. - Use of program roadways or facilities by utility facilities or utilities. - The use of federal surface transportation urban program roadways or...
Section 13a-98l. - Specifications to encourage use of recycled materials in projects. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall revise the specifications for materials...
Section 13a-98m. - Definition. - As used in sections 13a-98e, 13a-98f and 13a-98i to 13a-98k,...
Section 13a-98n. - Local transportation capital program. - (a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall establish a local transportation...
Section 13a-98o. - Use of coal tar sealants on state and local highways. Prohibition. Enforcement. - No person shall use or apply any sealant that is...
Section 13a-99. - Towns to build and repair highways and bridges. - Towns shall, within their respective limits, build and repair all...
Section 13a-99a. - Town roads lying within, intersecting or crossing state highway rights-of-way. - (a) Whenever a town road or a portion thereof lies...
Section 13a-100. - Expense of bridges between towns. - Necessary bridges between towns, except when otherwise specially provided by...
Section 13a-100a. - Maintenance of pedestrian walkways on bridges. - The person required to maintain any bridge constructed over any...
Section 13a-101. - Bridges over artificial watercourses. - Any bridge or passageway over any artificial watercourse on a...
Section 13a-102. - Court may direct construction or repair of bridge. - When any town neglects to construct or repair a bridge...
Section 13a-103. - Complaint to court for failure of town to maintain highway. - Whenever any town fails to keep any highway within such...
Section 13a-104. - Proceeding against borough for failure to maintain highway. - Whenever any borough has assumed the care of the highways...
Section 13a-105. - Contracts for highway construction. - When any town has determined to construct or reconstruct any...
Section 13a-106. - Competitive bids not required when material available at price acceptable to commissioner. - When any town highway is maintained, improved, constructed or reconstructed...
Section 13a-107. - Selectmen to open highway blocked with snow. - Whenever any highway becomes blocked with snow to an extent...
Section 13a-108. - Rural free delivery route to be opened. - If the selectmen of any town fail, for a period...
Section 13a-109. - Apportionment of cost for work on bridge. - The commissioner or any municipality or other person who has...
Section 13a-110. - Lighting on bridges, dangerous locations and intersections. - (a) The commissioner shall cause to be installed and shall...
Section 13a-110a. - Highway and roadway lighting designed to maximize energy conservation and minimize light pollution. State and municipal funds. - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Fixture” means the...
Section 13a-111. - Railings on bridges and highways. - The party bound to maintain any bridge or highway shall...
Section 13a-112. - Certain bridges to have draws. - No bridge without a draw shall be built or maintained...
Section 13a-113. - Drawbridges to have gates. - The approaches to all drawbridges over which highways pass shall...
Section 13a-114. - Traffic control during department operations. - The commissioner or his agent may, while engaged in Department...
Section 13a-115. - Closing highways under construction, maintenance or repair. - (a) The Commissioner of Transportation may close or restrict traffic...
Section 13a-116. - Warning signs. - On any road or bridge maintained by the state where...
Section 13a-117. - Permit to operate truck between parts of industrial plant. - The commissioner may, if in his opinion it is equitable,...
Section 13a-117a. (Formerly Sec. 13a-28). - Permit to operate service car or wrecker on limited access highway. - Section 13a-117a is repealed, effective June 29, 1993. (1961, P.A....
Section 13a-117b. - Soliciting of business by service car and wrecker businesses. - No person, firm or corporation engaged in a service car...
Section 13a-118. - United States routes to be marked. - The commissioner shall on state highways, and may on town...
Section 13a-119. - Warning and directional signs. Control cities. - (a) Whenever, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Transportation...
Section 13a-120. - Traffic authority to maintain warning signs. - The traffic authority of any city, town or borough shall...
Section 13a-121. - Notice of load capacity; appeal. - When the load-carrying capacity of any bridge on any highway...
Section 13a-122. - Installation of decorations in streets restricted. - No person, firm or corporation, or any group or organization...
Section 13a-123. - Restriction of outdoor advertising structures, signs, displays or devices on state property or interstate, federal-aid and other limited access highways. Signs upon or within buildings or personal property. Exceptions. License or p... - (a)(1) The erection of outdoor advertising structures, signs, displays or...
Section 13a-123a. - Church signs on state highways. - Section 13a-123a is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (February, 1965,...
Section 13a-123b. - Exemption of certain areas. - If Congress amends Title I of the Highway Beautification Act...
Section 13a-123c. - Junkyard and scrap metal processing facilities control. Definitions. - As used in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, “highway” means...
Section 13a-123d. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Transportation may promulgate regulations for effective control...
Section 13a-123e. - Certificate of approval. - No person, firm or corporation shall establish, operate or maintain...
Section 13a-123f. - Screening of certain installations. Acquisition of property by Commissioner of Transportation. - (a) Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, lawfully in...
Section 13a-123g. - Facilities as nuisance. Abatement. - Any junkyard or scrap metal processing facility, established or maintained...
Section 13a-123h. - Provisions of other statutes, ordinances, etc., not abrogated. - Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall be construed...
Section 13a-123i. - Facilities in industrial area not affected. - Nothing in sections 13a-123c to 13a-123j, inclusive, shall apply to...
Section 13a-123j. - Agreements with Secretary of Commerce. - The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to enter into agreements...
Section 13a-124. - Unauthorized signs. - No person, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain or...
Section 13a-124a. - Specific service sign on limited access highways. Regulations. - (a) As used in this section, “a specific service sign”...
Section 13a-124b. - Payment for design and production of signs or notices re Connecticut-made beer facilities. - The design and production of directional and other official signs...
Section 13a-125. - Removal or destruction of signs. - Section 13a-125 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2247; 1958 Rev.,...
Section 13a-126. - Readjustment, relocation or removal of public service facilities for highway construction. - As used in this section, “public service facility” includes all...
Section 13a-126a. - Regulation of public service facility installations along state highway rights-of-way for aesthetic purposes. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any other statute, the Commissioner of...
Section 13a-126b. - Agreements with public service facility operators for revision of plans of proposed installation. - The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized, when in his opinion...
Section 13a-126c. - Longitudinal use of highway right-of-way by public service facility or company. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of...
Section 13a-126d. - Notification provided to Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and public service companies re highway construction projects. - The Department of Transportation and any municipality shall notify the...
Section 13a-126e. - Easements for public service companies to provide service to Department of Transportation facilities. - The Commissioner of Transportation may grant easements with respect to...
Section 13a-127. - Utility lines on certain bridges. - The commissioner is authorized to contract with any person, partnership,...
Section 13a-128. - Discontinuance or alteration of highways in watershed. - When any municipal or private corporation, engaged in providing or...
Section 13a-129. - Court procedure. Estimate of damages. Appeal. - Upon twelve days' notice of such petition to such town...
Section 13a-130. - Bridges over railroad tracks. - The bottom timbers of all bridges constructed over any railroad...
Section 13a-131. - Alteration of highway made unsafe by railroad occupation. - The superior court for the judicial district in which is...
Section 13a-132. - Alteration of railroad facilities in construction of highway. - When it is necessary for the commissioner to construct a...
Section 13a-133. - Contracts with railroads where tracks to be altered. Advancement of funds. - The commissioner may enter into agreements with railroad corporations for...
Section 13a-134. - Location of tracks of street railway. - Section 13a-134 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 2232; 1958 Rev.,...
Section 13a-135. - Taking of street railway rails and ties by commissioner. - The commissioner may take, under the provisions of the general...
Section 13a-136. - Benefits assessed where highway is dike against tides. - Whenever any town lays out any public highway, either by...
Section 13a-137. - Material for repair of highway taken from private land. - Whenever necessary material for making or repairing any highway in...
Section 13a-138. - Highways may be drained into private lands. - (a) Persons authorized to construct or to repair highways may...
Section 13a-138a. - Limitation on actions for drainage damage. - No action shall be brought by the owner of land...
Section 13a-139. - Clearing untraveled portion of highway. - When any person owning or occupying land abutting on any...
Section 13a-140. - Removal of trees along state highways. Penalties established by municipalities. - (a) The commissioner may cut, remove or prune any tree,...
Section 13a-141. - Bridle paths; pedestrian walks; bicycle paths. - (a) Upon written application made to the commissioner in such...
Section 13a-141a. - State-wide footpath and bicycle trail plan. - (a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall prepare and, when necessary,...
Section 13a-142. - Bridle paths along Merritt Parkway. - The commissioner may connect the bridle paths established along the...
Section 13a-142a. - Acquisition of land adjacent to highway for environmental protection purposes. - The Commissioner of Transportation may acquire by purchase but not...
Section 13a-142b. - Development of linear parks along state highways. - If requested by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection,...
Section 13a-142c. - Authority of Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. - The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall have the...
Section 13a-142d. - Route 11 linear park. - (a) The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is authorized...
Section 13a-142e. - Route 11 Greenway Authority Commission. Transfer of real property to Commissioner of Transportation. - (a) The towns of East Lyme, Montville, Salem and Waterford...
Section 13a-143. - Commercial establishments along limited access highways. - No commercial establishment shall be constructed or located within the...
Section 13a-143a. - Driveway permits. - No person shall construct a new driveway or relocate an...
Section 13a-143b. - Car-wash installation to correct icy highway conditions. - Any person who operates a car-wash installation shall provide means,...
Section 13a-143c. - Regulations establishing minimum requirements re traffic safety for car wash facilities. - Not later than February 1, 1996, the Commissioner of Transportation...
Section 13a-143d. - Floodlights intended for private property illumination located within the state right-of-way on state highways. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Fixture” means...
Section 13a-144. - Damages for injuries sustained on state highways or sidewalks. - Any person injured in person or property through the neglect...
Section 13a-145. - Use of closed highway at user's risk. - Any person using a state highway or bridge which has...
Section 13a-146. - Closing of municipal highway or bridge during expressway construction. Liability for injury. - During the time that any highway or bridge is closed...
Section 13a-147. - Detours to be restored. - Any highway or bridge which has been injured by traffic...
Section 13a-148. - Damage to municipal highway or bridge in state highway construction. - Where any highway or bridge required to be maintained in...
Section 13a-149. - Damages for injuries by means of defective roads and bridges. - Any person injured in person or property by means of...
Section 13a-150. - Obligations of towns. - The obligations for highways constructed under the provisions of part...
Section 13a-151. - Violation of load capacity of bridge. Liability for damages to vehicle not in violation. - (a) The owner of a motor vehicle that crosses or...
Section 13a-152. - Damages for failure to maintain railing or fence. - Any person who suffers damage in his person or property...
Section 13a-153. - State liability for bridle paths, pedestrian walks and bicycle paths and injuries thereon. - (a) No person, firm or corporation performing or engaged in...
Section 13a-153f. - Accomodations and provision of facilities for all users. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Department” means...
Section 13a-153g. - Design standards for roads. - Not later than July 1, 2018, the Commissioner of Transportation...
Chapter 239 - Tolls
Section 13a-154 to 13a-156. - Tolls on Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways. Registration markers, coupons, tickets and tokens; fees. Toll plates for certain disabled veterans. Toll plates for certain handicapped drivers. Tolls and charges on expressway... - Sections 13a-154 to 13a-156, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-157. - Bulkeley Bridge and Founders Bridge to be toll-free. Removal of tolls on the Bissell Bridge, Charter Oak Bridge and Putnam Bridge. - (a) The commissioner unless and until otherwise directed by act...
Section 13a-158 to 13a-162a. - Variations in tolls and charges on Putnam Bridge. Tolls on Gold Star Memorial Bridge. Charging of tolls for use of approach route to the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge; protection of Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike obligation... - Sections 13a-158 to 13a-162a, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-162b. - Special Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways Fund. - (a) There is established and created a fund to be...
Chapter 240 - Highway Financing
Section 13a-163. - Payment for highway improvements. - The Comptroller, upon receipt of a certificate from the Commissioner...
Section 13a-164. - Temporary use of funds by commissioner. - Upon application in writing by the Commissioner of Transportation, the...
Section 13a-165. - Federal aid for highways. - This state having assented to the provisions of the act...
Section 13a-165a. - Acceptance of municipal grants for federal-aid highway projects. - In the performance of his powers and duties under section...
Section 13a-166. - Federal grants recorded as receivables. - In accordance with procedures promulgated by the Secretary of the...
Section 13a-167. - State payment for restoration of flood-damaged municipal highways and bridges. - Obsolete. (November, 1955, S. N151-N156; 1958 Rev., S. 13-52; 1963,...
Section 13a-168 to 13a-175. - Town aid. - Sections 13a-168 to 13a-175, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-175a. - Allocation of funds. Approval of use of funds for other purposes. Report by towns and districts. - (a) For each fiscal year there shall be allocated twelve...
Section 13a-175b. - Distribution to towns. - Said sum shall be distributed to the towns as follows,...
Section 13a-175c. - Allocation of sums from the General Fund to insure that towns receive no less than under prior law. - There shall be allocated from the resources of the General...
Section 13a-175d. - Funds for improvement of dirt and unimproved roads. - There shall be allocated from funds appropriated to the Commissioner...
Section 13a-175e. - Distribution of funds. Agreements for expenditure of funds. - (a) Said sums shall be distributed to each town under...
Section 13a-175f. - Purchase of materials by Transportation Department and towns. Commissioner to test materials. - The Commissioner of Transportation upon reasonable request of the selectmen...
Section 13a-175g. - State funds for mass transportation. - Section 13a-175g is repealed. (September, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 1,...
Section 13a-175h. - Use of mass transportation funds. - Section 13a-175h is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 73-5,...
Section 13a-175i. - Additional appropriations. - (a) In addition to the funds made available to the...
Section 13a-175j. - Emergency aid for roads, bridges, and dams to repair damage resulting from natural disaster. - Any balance of appropriations in excess of that required to...
Section 13a-175k. - Increases in appropriations. - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 13a-175j, the amount of the...
Section 13a-175l - to 13a-175o - . Reserved for future use.
Section 13a-175p. - Definitions. - The following terms, as used in this section and sections...
Section 13a-175q. - Local bridge program. - The establishment of a program for the removal, replacement, reconstruction,...
Section 13a-175r. - Local Bridge Revolving Fund. - There is established and created a fund to be known...
Section 13a-175s. - Procedure for grants under local bridge program. - (a) The commissioner shall maintain a list of eligible bridges...
Section 13a-175t. - Issuance of supplemental project obligations by municipality. - (a) A municipality may authorize the issuance and sale of...
Section 13a-175u. - Regulations. - The commissioner shall adopt such regulations in accordance with the...
Section 13a-175v. - Interlocal agreements. - If an eligible bridge is owned or maintained by more...
Section 13a-175w. - Grant to municipality which enters into interlocal agreement. - In any case in which an eligible bridge is owned...
Section 13a-175aa to 13a-175dd. - Declaration of policy. Trust fund and separate account established. Trust fund committee established. Investment of funds. - Sections 13a-175aa to 13a-175dd, inclusive, are repealed. (July Sp. Sess....
Section 13a-175ee. - Definitions. Allocation of funds to municipalities. Allocation formulas. Grants. - Section 13a-175ee is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (July Sp....
Section 13a-175ff. - Report of Secretary of Office of Policy and Management. Books and records. - Section 13a-175ff is repealed, effective June 3, 1996. (July Sp....
Section 13a-176. - Bonds to finance highway and bridge authority obligations and transportation costs. - (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, in accordance...
Section 13a-177. - Bonds to be general obligations. - Said bonds issued pursuant to sections 13a-176 to 13a-183, inclusive,...
Section 13a-178. - Request for authorization. Determination of Bond Commission. - None of said bonds shall be authorized except upon a...
Section 13a-179. - Place of payment of bonds. Maturity. Interest. - All of said bonds shall be payable at such place...
Section 13a-180. - Issuance of bonds. - Any of said bonds authorized pursuant to sections 13a-176 to...
Section 13a-181. - Sale of bonds. Use of proceeds. - Except as otherwise expressly provided in sections 13a-176 to 13a-183,...
Section 13a-182. - Authorization of bonds deemed appropriation of principal. - By the filing, as provided in section 13a-178, of a...
Section 13a-183. - Certificate of use of proceeds. - For the purposes of this section, “state moneys” means the...
Section 13a-184. - Notes. Bonds. - (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, in accordance...
Section 13a-185. - Projects included. - (a) The proceeds of the sale of said securities referred...
Section 13a-186. - Authorization for issuance. - None of said securities shall be authorized except upon a...
Section 13a-187. - Terms of bonds. Sale. - (a) All of said securities of any such series shall...
Section 13a-188. - Securities subject to general provisions re bond issues. Issuance of temporary notes. - All provisions of section 3-20 which are not inconsistent with...
Section 13a-189. - Filing of determination as appropriation. - By the filing as provided in section 13a-186 of a...
Section 13a-190. - Certificate identifying projects and available federal funds to accompany authorization request. Use of federal funds. - For the purposes of sections 13a-184 to 13a-197, inclusive, “state...
Section 13a-191. - Application of earnings on investment of proceeds from securities. - Net earnings on investments of proceeds, accrued interest and premiums...
Section 13a-192. - Securities issued pursuant to section 13a-184 to be general obligations of the state. - All of the securities referred to in section 13a-184 shall...
Section 13a-193 to 13a-196. - Highway Debt Service Fund. State Bond Commission may vary use of bond proceeds. Treasurer may determine method of revenue bond sale; negotiable instruments. Pledges to bondholders; binding nature of pledges. - Sections 13a-193 to 13a-196, inclusive, are repealed. (1961, P.A. 605,...
Section 13a-197. - Securities issued pursuant to section 13a-184 considered as legal investments, exempt from state taxes. - The securities referred to in section 13a-184 are made and...
Section 13a-198. - Right to repeal certain statutes reserved. - Section 13a-198 is repealed. (1961, P.A. 605, S. 25; 1963,...
Section 13a-198a. - Bonds. - The State Bond Commission shall have power in accordance with...
Section 13a-198b. - Use of proceeds for certain projects. - The proceeds of the sale of said bonds and any...
Section 13a-198c. - Commissioner to proceed with projects. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall, subject to approval by the...
Section 13a-198d. - Duties and powers of commissioner. - Subject to the limitations referred to in section 13a-198c and...
Section 13a-198e. - Authorizations for issuance. - None of the bonds referred to in section 13a-198a shall...
Section 13a-198f. - Terms of bonds. Sale. - (a) All of said bonds of any such series shall...
Section 13a-198g. - Filing of determination as appropriation. - By filing as provided in section 13a-198e of a determination...
Section 13a-198h. - Certificate identifying projects and available federal funds to accompany authorization request. Use of federal funds. - For the purposes of sections 13a-198a and 13a-198i “state moneys”...
Section 13a-198i. - Application of net earnings on investment of proceeds of such bonds. - Net earnings on investments of proceeds, accrued interest and premiums...
Section 13a-198j. - Pledge to bondholders. - All of said bonds shall be general obligations of the...
Section 13a-198k. - Request for authorization of securities. - Section 13a-198k is repealed. (P.A. 73-157, S. 8, 11; S.A....
Section 13a-198l. - Use of proceeds for certain projects. - (a) The proceeds of the sale of said bonds, the...
Section 13a-198m. - Authority of commissioner to proceed with projects. - The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized and directed, subject to...
Section 13a-198n. - The Route 2-3 access road in East Hartford. - Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any regulation...
Section 13a-199 to 13a-210. - Definitions. Bonds. Preliminary requirements for issuance of bonds. Highway Commissioner may issue contracts. Issuance of bonds. Bond declaration. Treasurer to make bond declarations; general powers. Additional expresswa... - Sections 13a-199 to 13a-210, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1,...
Section 13a-211 to 13a-214. - Anticipation notes. Use of receipts from tolls and charges. Additional Expressway Construction Fund. Expressway Reserve Fund. - Sections 13a-211 to 13a-214, inclusive, are repealed. (1953, 1955, June,...
Section 13a-215 to 13a-220. - Investment of funds. Pledges binding. Tax exemption. Agreement with bond holders. Committee to receive no compensation; majority action required. Prior covenants and contracts not affected. - Sections 13a-215 to 13a-220, inclusive, are repealed, effective October 1,...
Section 13a-221 to 13a-228. - Gold Star Memorial Bridge. - Sections 13a-221 to 13a-228, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-229 to 13a-234. - Hartford and East Hartford Bridge. - Sections 13a-229 to 13a-234, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-235 to 13a-238. - Use of tolls. Bonds to be legal investments. Payment of bonds. Not to be affected by other acts. - Sections 13a-235 to 13a-238, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S....
Section 13a-239. - Bond issue. - (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, in accordance...
Section 13a-240. - Request for bond authorization. - None of said bonds shall be authorized except upon a...
Section 13a-241. - Payment, maturity, interest. - All of said bonds of any such series shall be...
Section 13a-242. - Sale of bonds. Use of proceeds. - Except as otherwise expressly provided in sections 13a-239 to 13a-246,...
Section 13a-243. - Appropriation of bond proceeds. Action of Transportation Commissioner. - By the filing as provided in section 13a-240 of a...
Section 13a-244. - Federal aid. - For the purposes of sections 13a-239 to 13a-246, inclusive, “state...
Section 13a-245. - Excess funds. - Any balance of proceeds of sale of said bonds and...
Section 13a-246. - Utilization of other funds. - Subject to the limitations referred to in section 13a-32, nothing...
Chapter 241 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 13a-247. - Excavations, obstructions and subtractions. - (a) No person, firm, corporation or utility company shall excavate...
Section 13a-248. - Payments to volunteer fire companies for calls on limited access highways, Berlin Turnpike and South Meadows Expressway and Route 8 in the Naugatuck State Forest. - Section 13a-248 is repealed, effective August 20, 2003. (1959, P.A....
Section 13a-249. - Erection of temporary buildings for purposes incidental to the construction and maintenance of highways. - The commissioner may erect temporary buildings upon land owned by...
Section 13a-250. - Use of labor of correctional institution inmates. - The warden of the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers, the warden...
Section 13a-251. - Maintenance of James H. MacDonald Memorial Park. - The commissioner may maintain, from funds available to the Department...
Section 13a-252. - Certain ferries to be operated by state. Fees. Rocky Hill ferry deemed a state historic structure. - (a) The ferries crossing the Connecticut River, known as the...
Section 13a-253. - State dock at East Haddam. - (a) The commissioner may repair, maintain and operate the dock...
Section 13a-254. - Renaming of memorial highways. - When a state highway which has been given a name...
Section 13a-254a. - Ella T. Grasso Turnpike named. - The portion of the state highway designated as Connecticut Route...
Section 13a-255. - Establishment of a Connecticut coordinate system. - (a) Designation of systems. Publication of descriptions. The systems of...
Section 13a-256. - Highway research program. - For each fiscal year, there may be allocated two hundred...
Section 13a-257. - Contractor not immune from liability. - The immunity of the state from liability for damage or...
Section 13a-258. - Maintenance of sidewalks pending completion of highway project. - The Commissioner of Transportation shall maintain any sidewalk, including the...
Section 13a-259. - Permits for filming on highways and property of the Department of Transportation. Liability. - The Commissioner of Transportation, following the presentment of a state...
Section 13a-260. - Pilot program to test fully autonomous vehicles. - (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Fully autonomous...
Section 13a-261. - Definitions. - For the purposes of this section and sections 13a-262 to...
Section 13a-262. - Pilot program re work zone speed control systems in highway work zone. - (a) The department may establish a pilot program to operate...
Section 13a-263. - Exceeding speed limit in highway work zone detected by work zone speed control system. Penalty. - (a) No person operating a motor vehicle shall exceed the...
Section 13a-264. - Review of recorded images. Notice of violation. Defenses. - (a)(1) Whenever a work zone speed control system detects and...
Section 13a-265. - Information to Department of Transportation and vendor. - The Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide the Department of...
Section 13a-266. - Motor vehicle registration where penalty for exceeding speed limit in highway work zone detected by work zone speed control system is unpaid. - If an owner does not pay the fine imposed for...
Section 13a-267. - Personally identifiable information. - (a) No personally identifiable information shall be sold or disclosed...
Section 13a-268. - Regulations. - The Commissioner of Transportation may adopt regulations, in accordance with...