Connecticut General Statutes
Title 13a - Highways and Bridges
Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance

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...

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Connecticut General Statutes Title 13a - Highways and Bridges Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance

Connecticut General Statutes
Title 13a - Highways and Bridges
Chapter 238 - Highway Construction and Maintenance