Sec. 13a-32. Thames River Bridge. Location.
Sec. 13a-32. Thames River Bridge. Location. The commissioner is authorized
and directed, to the full extent but only to the extent permitted by moneys, appropriations
and allotments becoming available under sections 13a-239 to 13a-246, inclusive, and
allotments becoming available under any other law, to construct a new state highway,
which is made hereby a part of the state highway system and is hereinafter sometimes
referred to as the "project", as a two-lane facility from a point on the Governor John
Davis Lodge Turnpike northerly of the toll station existing in Montville, prior to 1985,
to a point on Connecticut Route 12 not more than two thousand feet south of Connecticut
Route 27, including and over a new bridge, which is hereinafter sometimes referred to
as the "bridge", across the Thames River from a point northerly of the developed portion
of Fort Shantok State Park in Montville to a point southerly of the Norwich Hospital in
Preston.
(1961, P.A. 541, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 33; 547; P.A. 86-201, S. 2; P.A. 91-407, S. 3, 42.)
History: 1963 acts specified "the developed portion of" Fort Shantok State Park and restated previous provisions: See
title history; P.A. 86-201 changed reference from the Connecticut Turnpike to the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike;
P.A. 91-407 revised site description to acknowledge the removal of toll booths.