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Chapter 283

• Sec. 16-228. Telegraph and telephone lines.
• Sec. 16-229. Excavation in highway.
• Sec. 16-230. Bond requirement.
• Sec. 16-231. Appeal.
• Sec. 16-232. Rights of companies organized under general law.
• Sec. 16-233. Municipal and state signal wires.
• Sec. 16-234. Rights of adjoining proprietors.
• Sec. 16-235. Control by local authorities. Orders. Appeals.
• Sec. 16-236. Appraisal of damages; costs.
• Sec. 16-237. No prescriptive right.
• Sec. 16-238. Wires may be cut; notice.
• Sec. 16-239. Dispatches transmitted in order. Exceptions.
• Sec. 16-240. Delivery of messages.
• Sec. 16-241. Mortgage by telegraph company.
• Sec. 16-242. Telephone service to telegraph companies.
• Sec. 16-243. Jurisdiction of department over electricity transmission lines.
• Sec. 16-243a. Private power producers. Purchase and sale of electricity. Avoided costs. Small renewable power projects. Interconnectivity standards.
• Sec. 16-243b. Definitions. Jurisdiction.
• Sec. 16-243c. Electricity transmission and distribution services for electric cooperatives utilizing cogeneration technology and renewable energy resources.
• Sec. 16-243d. Project by private power producer deemed "industrial project".
• Sec. 16-243e. Electric company purchase of electricity generated by municipal resources recovery facilities.
• Sec. 16-243f. Private power providers. Regulations concerning the purchase and sale of electricity.
• Sec. 16-243g. Assignment of electricity purchase agreements.
• Sec. 16-243h. Credit to residential customers who generate electricity; metering.
• Sec. 16-243i. Awards to retail end use electric customers and electric distribution companies re customer-side distributed resources.
• Sec. 16-243j. Long-term financing for customer-side distributed resources and advanced power monitoring and metering equipment.
• Sec. 16-243k. Assessment of customer-side and grid-side distributed resources, effectiveness of award program.
• Sec. 16-243l. Rebate for customer-side distributed resource projects that use natural gas.
• Sec. 16-243m. Measures to reduce federally mandated congestion charges.
• Sec. 16-243n. Time-of-use, mandatory peak, shoulder, off-peak and seasonal rates. Optional interruptible or load response rates.
• Sec. 16-243o. Waiver of back-up power rates.
• Sec. 16-243p. Recovery of costs and investments by an electric distribution company.
• Sec. 16-243q. Class III renewable energy portfolio standards.
• Sec. 16-243r. Customer-side distributed resources and grid-side distributed resources. Qualifications for applicability of certain provisions.
• Sec. 16-243s. Awards to electric distribution companies for programs for load curtailment, demand reduction and retrofit conservation.
• Sec. 16-243t. Class III credits.
• Sec. 16-243u. Plan to build peaking generation.
• Sec. 16-243v. Connecticut electric efficiency partner program.
• Sec. 16-243w. Advanced metering system plan and deployment.
• Sec. 16-244. Electric deregulation; findings and declarations.
• Sec. 16-244a. Rate freeze for electric service.
• Sec. 16-244b. Electric customers to choose electric suppliers. Phase-in of electric deregulation.
• Sec. 16-244c. Standard offer. Transitional standard offer. Standard service. Alternative transitional standard offer and standard service. Supplier of last resort. Back-up generation service. Particip
• Sec. 16-244d. Education outreach program for electric deregulation. Consumer Education Advisory Council established. Determination of environmental costs and benefits of energy sources.
• Sec. 16-244e. Unbundling by electric companies of generation functions from transmission and distribution functions. Plan.
• Sec. 16-244f. Divestiture of nonnuclear electric generation facilities. Plan. Approval of sale by department.
• Sec. 16-244g. Divestiture of nuclear electric generation facilities. Plan. Approval of sale by department.
• Sec. 16-244h. Code of conduct for electric distribution companies, generation entities or affiliates and electric suppliers. Contents of code. Penalties, damages.
• Sec. 16-244i. Duties of electric distribution companies.
• Sec. 16-244j. Electric transmission lines from Bethel to Norwalk. Moratorium. Working group and comprehensive assessment.
• Sec. 16-244k. Allocation of the proceeds of the retail adder.
• Sec. 16-245. Licensing of electric suppliers. Procedures. Penalties. Registration of electric aggregators. Procedures. Penalties.
• Sec. 16-245a. Renewable energy portfolio standards.
• Sec. 16-245b. Municipalities and regional water authorities acting as electric aggregators; registration with department.
• Sec. 16-245c. Municipal electric utilities participating in deregulated environment. Authority to provide generation services outside service area.
• Sec. 16-245d. Billing of electric service; standard format; contents.
• Sec. 16-245e. Stranded costs of electric companies. Definitions. Calculation by department, procedures, adjustments. Mitigation. Defeasance or purchase of rate reduction bonds.
• Sec. 16-245f. Funding of certain disbursements to the General Fund. Funding of stranded costs through rate reduction bonds. Restrictions.
• Sec. 16-245g. Competitive transition assessment. Determination by department of amount and how applied to electric customers. Duration.
• Sec. 16-245h. Transition property. Surplus competitive transition assessment. Restrictions on use of transition property by electric or electric distribution companies.
• Sec. 16-245i. Financing orders to sustain funding of Energy Conservation and Load Management Fund and Renewable Energy Investment Fund. Financing orders for recovery of stranded costs.
• Sec. 16-245j. Rate reduction bonds; terms.
• Sec. 16-245k. Security interest in transition property described; creation; perfection. Transferring transition property. Duration of department's authority to issue financing orders.
• Sec. 16-245l. Systems benefits charge. Determination by department of amount and how applied to customers.
• Sec. 16-245m. Conservation and load management program; charge assessed against electric customers to fund program; scope and purpose of program. Deposit of certain moneys from the Energy Conservation
• Sec. 16-245n. Renewable Energy Investment Fund created; charge assessed against electric customers to fund Investment Fund; purpose.
• Sec. 16-245o. Restrictions on use of customer information for marketing. Promotional inserts in electric bills prohibited. Procedures for entering and terminating service contracts. Penalties.
• Sec. 16-245p. Information re electric supplier and electric distribution company to be provided to customers.
• Sec. 16-245q. Changing electric suppliers.
• Sec. 16-245r. Discrimination by electric suppliers prohibited.
• Sec. 16-245s. Switching electric suppliers; procedures; penalties; regulations.
• Sec. 16-245t. Complaints to department re electric suppliers; procedures; remedies.
• Sec. 16-245u. Unfair and discriminatory conduct and unfair trade practices in electric market prohibited. Investigations.
• Sec. 16-245v. List of displaced electric utility employees to be provided to distribution companies and electric suppliers.
• Sec. 16-245w. Fee to be paid by self-generation facilities in lieu of certain assessments; study by department.
• Sec. 16-245x. Monitoring and reporting by department of electric rates of each customer class. Action to minimize rate differential.
• Sec. 16-245y. Annual reporting re status of electric deregulation.
• Sec. 16-245z. Internet links to Energy Star program.
• Sec. 16-245aa. Municipal renewable energy and efficient energy generation grant program.
• Sec. 16-245bb. Bond authorization.
• Sec. 16-245cc. Demand charge waiver for fuel cells.
• Sec. 16-245dd. Residential electric space heating tariff.
• Sec. 16-246. Other companies which may sell electricity.
• Sec. 16-246a. Definitions.
• Secs. 16-246b to 16-246d. Area within which domestic company may generate and transmit electric energy. Area within which foreign electric company may generate and transmit electric energy. Joint owne
• Sec. 16-246e. Procurement and sale by department of electric power capacity and power output from out-of-state producers. Approval by Governor.
• Sec. 16-246f. Electric company emergency assistance.
• Sec. 16-246g. Pilot program for electric generation.
• Sec. 16-247. Foreign telephone companies.
• Sec. 16-247a. Goals of the state. Definitions.
• Sec. 16-247b. Unbundling of telephone company's network, services and functions. Access to telephone company's telecommunications services, functions and unbundled network elements. Rates for
• Sec. 16-247c. Provision of intrastate telecommunications services. Civil penalty. Competition.
• Sec. 16-247d. Biennial reports on competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service. Plan for implementing competition. General Assembly approval required.
• Sec. 16-247e. Basic telecommunications services. Lifeline and telecommunications relay service programs. Universal service program.
• Sec. 16-247f. Regulation of telecommunications services: Initial classifications, reclassifications, tariffs.
• Sec. 16-247g. Certificate of public convenience and necessity for intrastate telecommunications services: Application, requirements, suspension, revocation. Fees. Obligation to serve.
• Sec. 16-247h. Use of public right-of-way for provision of intrastate telecommunications service.
• Sec. 16-247i. Telecommunications service and regulation status report.
• Sec. 16-247j. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-247k. Alternative forms of regulation for telephone companies: Plan requirements, monitoring period, modification.
• Sec. 16-247l. Access by certified telecommunications providers to occupied buildings: Service, wiring, compensation, regulations, civil penalty.
• Sec. 16-247m. Withdrawal by telephone company of retail telecommunications service. Applications.
• Sec. 16-247n. Certification of telephone company's operations support systems interface. Rates. Proceedings.
• Sec. 16-247o. Consultant to test operations support systems interface.
• Sec. 16-247p. Quality-of-service standards. Performance standards.
• Sec. 16-247q. Education outreach program for telecommunications competition, scope. Consumer Education Advisory Council established.
• Sec. 16-247r. Discrimination by telephone companies and certified telecommunications providers prohibited.
• Sec. 16-247s. Directory assistance database. Disclosure and distribution of cellular mobile telephone numbers.
• Sec. 16-247t. Customer inquiries and complaints regarding cellular mobile telephone service.
• Sec. 16-247u. Unauthorized procurement and sale of telephone records. Definitions. Exclusions. Telephone company protection of records. Penalties. Unfair trade practice.
• Sec. 16-248. Rights of telephone company in operation May 23, 1985.
• Sec. 16-249. Department to authorize extension of operations of telephone companies.
• Sec. 16-250. Determination of public convenience and necessity for extension.
• Sec. 16-250a. Reselling or sharing of line purchased or leased from telephone company.
• Sec. 16-250b. Cellular mobile telephone service. Department jurisdiction over. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-251. Bonds of telephone company.
• Sec. 16-252. Bonds may be secured by mortgage.
• Secs. 16-253 and 16-254. Amount of capital to be paid in. Subscriptions for cash.
• Sec. 16-255. General powers.
• Secs. 16-255a to 16-255i. Acquisition of control of domestic telephone companies limited; statement; expenses of department. Form of statement. Hearing re department approval of acquisition; standard
• Sec. 16-256. Notice of offense in party line usage in telephone directory.
• Sec. 16-256a. Directory assistance charge prohibited.
• Sec. 16-256b. Special telecommunications equipment for deaf and hearing impaired persons. Fund. Amplification controls for coin and coinless telephones installed for public or semipublic use.
• Sec. 16-256c. Extended local calling criteria. Calling volume. Subscriber survey and vote. Petitions.
• Sec. 16-256d. Itemized telephone bills for business customers.
• Sec. 16-256e. Recorded telephone message devices prohibited.
• Sec. 16-256f. Blocking service available to customers.
• Sec. 16-256g. Proceeding to determine monthly subscriber fee. Assessment of subscribers for Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund.
• Sec. 16-256h. Business to residential pricing ratio for basic exchange service.
• Sec. 16-256i. Primary local or intrastate interexchange carrier orders. Unauthorized switching. Penalty.
• Sec. 16-256j. Billing for telecommunications services. Information re carriers, basic, local service and taxes.
• Sec. 16-256k. Disclosure for removal or change in telecommunications service. Disclosure for promotional offerings.
• Sec. 16-257. Recording of agreement of consolidation or merger of electric and gas companies.
• Sec. 16-258. Standards concerning electricity and gas.
• Sec. 16-258a. Registration of natural gas sellers. Procedures. Penalties.
• Sec. 16-258b. Registration of electric generating facilities.
• Sec. 16-258c. Dual-fuel capability requirements for electric generating facilities.
• Sec. 16-259. Inspection of meters.
• Sec. 16-259a. Inaccurate billing. Financial liability of customer. Payment plan.
• Sec. 16-260. Water meters may be required.
• Sec. 16-261. Extension of electric lines to unserved areas. Determination of rates.
• Sec. 16-261a. Interagency electric and magnetic fields task force; composition; study. Assessment of electric public service companies for specified expenses of task force.
• Sec. 16-262. Gas companies authorized to deal in natural gas.
• Sec. 16-262a. Water company to have area resident as director or advisory council of area residents.
• Sec. 16-262b. Notice of discharge of explosives or highway excavation to gas companies.
• Sec. 16-262c. Termination of utility service for nonpayment, when prohibited. Amortization agreements. Moneys allowed to be deducted from customers' accounts and moneys to be included in rates as
• Sec. 16-262d. Termination of residential utility service on account of nonpayment. Notice. Nontermination in event of illness during pendency of customer complaint or investigation. Amortization agree
• Sec. 16-262e. Notice furnished tenants re intended termination of utility service. Assumption by tenants of liability for future service. Liability of landlords for certain utility services. Deduction
• Sec. 16-262f. Action for receivership of rents and common expenses by electric, electric distribution, gas and telephone companies; petition; hearing; appointment; duties; termination.
• Sec. 16-262g. Penalty.
• Sec. 16-262h. Nonexclusivity of remedy.
• Sec. 16-262i. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-262j. Refusal of residential utility service. Regulations. Refusal of telecommunications service to a candidate or committee. Interest on customer security deposits. Deposit index.
• Sec. 16-262k. Interconnection of public water supply systems to relieve site-specific water shortages.
• Sec. 16-262l. Receivership of water companies for failure to provide adequate service. Personal liability of directors, officers and managers.
• Sec. 16-262m. Construction specifications for water companies.
• Sec. 16-262n. Definition. Economic viability of water companies. Reviews. Failure to comply with orders. Hearings.
• Sec. 16-262o. Acquisition of water company ordered by department. Rates and charges. Recovery of acquisition costs.
• Sec. 16-262p. Improvements by acquiring entity.
• Sec. 16-262q. Compensation for acquisition of water company.
• Sec. 16-262r. Satellite management of water companies. Expedited rate proceedings.
• Sec. 16-262s. Voluntary acquisition of water company. Surcharges.
• Sec. 16-262t. Action for receivership of rent and common expenses by water companies; petition; hearing; appointment; duties; termination.
• Sec. 16-262u. Replacement and repair of water service connections.
• Sec. 16-262v. Water company infrastructure projects: Definitions.
• Sec. 16-262w. Water company rate adjustment mechanisms.