Sec. 13a-76a. Additional damages for unreasonable delay in taking.

      Sec. 13a-76a. Additional damages for unreasonable delay in taking. Whenever a referee, in determining the amount of damages for the taking of land under this part, finds that there has been unreasonable delay between the filing of a map under the provisions of section 13a-57 and the filing of a certificate of taking under section 13a-73, he may award such additional damages as he may find resulting therefrom.

      (1967, P.A. 597, S. 1.)

      This statute not retroactive in effect as it is substantive in nature imposing a new liability on the highway commissioner. 158 C. 452. Cited. 172 C. 234. Cited. 176 C. 264.

      Damages are appropriate under section. 46 CS 355.