Sec. 16-257. Recording of agreement of consolidation or merger of electric and gas companies.
Sec. 16-257. Recording of agreement of consolidation or merger of electric
and gas companies. Any corporation, incorporated for or engaged in the business of
manufacturing, distributing or using electricity for purposes of light, heat, power or
other lawful purposes, or supplying gas for any or all of said purposes, which has consolidated with or merged into itself, or consolidates with or merges into itself, any other
corporation, in accordance with the provisions of its charter and of the statutes, may
record in the office of the Secretary of the State the agreement of such consolidation or
merger. When such agreement has been so recorded, it shall not be necessary to record
the same in the towns where the property of such consolidating companies or such
companies so being merged is located, but the same shall be valid and effectual notice
of the facts therein set forth, provided a certificate shall be filed in the office of the town
clerk of each town where the property of any such consolidating companies or of such
companies so being merged is located, setting forth the names of the consolidating
company and the companies so consolidated or the name of the company into which
such companies owning such property may have become merged and the names of such
companies, the date of such agreement and the fact that the same has been filed and
recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State. The clerk of any town where any
such certificate is filed shall record the same.
(1949 Rev., S. 5669.)