Sec. 13a-126a. Regulation of public service facility installations along state highway rights-of-way for aesthetic purposes.
Sec. 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 Transportation may, for the purpose of protecting
the functional or aesthetic characteristics of any state highway or state highway appurtenance, promulgate regulations for the location and installation of any public service
facility within, on, along, over or under the right-of-way of any state highway or state
highway appurtenance and, when necessary to insure the protection of the aesthetic
characteristics of any state highway, within, on, along, over or under the right-of-way
of any other public highway; provided no such regulation shall limit, restrict or derogate
from any power, right or authority of the Department of Public Utility Control as provided by statute in respect to the location and installation of such public service facilities.
The state shall pay the additional cost of any location, relocation, installation, adjustment
or readjustment of any public service facility made necessary by such regulations.
(1967, P.A. 686; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 102; P.A. 75-486, S. 32, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 28, 348.)
History: 1969 act substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; P.A. 75-486 substituted public
utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 substituted division of public utility control within
the department of business regulation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made
division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation.