Sec. 7-213. Municipalities may establish plants.
Sec. 7-213. Municipalities may establish plants. For purposes of this chapter,
"municipality" means any town, city or borough. Any municipality may, under the
limitations of this chapter, construct, purchase, lease or establish, and maintain one or
more plants for the manufacture and distribution of gas or electricity for furnishing light
for municipal use and for the use of such of its inhabitants as may require and pay for the
same. Such plants may include suitable lands, structures, easements, water privileges,
stations, gasometers, boilers, engines, dynamos, tools, machinery, pipes, conduits,
poles, conductors, burners, lamps and other apparatus and appliances for making, generating, distributing and using gas or electricity for lighting purposes. Notwithstanding
any provision of a special act or municipal charter to the contrary, any municipality that
owns or operates one or more plants for the manufacture or distribution of electricity
pursuant to this section or any special act may own or operate a community antenna
television system, as defined in section 16-1, for the purpose of providing community
antenna television service, as defined in said section, for its residents and residents of
the municipalities within the franchise area of which it is a part.
(1949 Rev., S. 709; P.A. 73-146, S. 1; P.A. 92-137, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 73-146 removed restriction that municipal gas or electric utilities must be within the limits of the municipality; P.A. 92-137 amended section to allow certain municipalities to operate a community antenna television company.