Sec. 7-273d. Assumption of Transportation Department powers relative to transit system within district. Appeals.
Sec. 7-273d. Assumption of Transportation Department powers relative to
transit system within district. Appeals. Upon written notice to the Department of
Transportation, to the chief executive officer of a private transit system, and to the
elected chief executive officer of each municipality composing the district, the district,
by its board of directors, may assume all powers of the Department of Transportation
to regulate and supervise the operation of any such transit system within the district,
provided that such transit system would be subject to the supervision of the department
except for this section. Upon assuming such supervision the district, by its board of
directors, shall establish passenger fares and any other rates to be charged and shall
establish service standards, may order abandonment of uneconomic routes and shall
exercise all powers of regulation and supervision over such transit system as are conferred on the department by title 16*, in the same manner and under the same standards
as are established by said title 16*. Any company, town, city, borough, corporation or
person aggrieved by any order, authorization or decision of the board of directors, except
an order, authorization or decision approving the taking of land, in any matter to which
he or it was or ought to have been made a party, may appeal therefrom to the department
within thirty days after the filing of such order, authorization or decision. The party so
appealing shall give bond to the state, with sufficient surety, for the benefit of the adverse
party, in such sum as the board of directors fix, to pay all costs in case he or it fails to
sustain such appeal. To the extent applicable, such appeal shall conform to the standards
and procedure for appeals in contested cases under sections 4-176e to 4-182, inclusive.
Where the department determines that the order, authorization or decision of the transit
district would affect state-wide transportation policy adversely, such order, authorization or decision may be modified or overruled. The decision after hearing shall be final
except that the applicant for such hearing, if aggrieved, may appeal therefrom in accordance with section 4-183. The district may use any grants, loans or other revenues for
subsidies to any transit system operating under private ownership within the district in
order to continue the operation of uneconomic routes. Subsidies may be provided for
that portion of such uneconomic routes which operate outside the transit district but
which are integrated into the service provided in the district.
(1961, P.A. 507, S. 3; 1972, P.A. 261, S. 3; P.A. 73-2, S. 9, 11; P.A. 75-486, S. 24, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A.
80-94, S. 1, 3; 80-482, S. 11, 348; P.A. 88-317, S. 49, 107.)
History: 1972 act clarified procedure for transit district takeover of system under control of public utilities commission
and added provisions concerning appeal to commission and subsidies to privately-owned companies; P.A. 73-2 deleted
references to assessments; P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A.
77-614 substituted division of public utility control within the department of business regulation for public utilities control
authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-94 substituted department of transportation for the division and deleted
reference to abolished business regulation department, replaced reference to appeals as provided in Secs. 16-35 to 16-39
with reference to appeals under Secs. 4-177 to 4-182 and added provision for appeal after hearing; technical changes made
in P.A. 80-482 were not enacted; P.A. 88-317 amended reference to Secs. 4-177 to 4-182 to include new sections added
to Ch. 54, effective July 1, 1989, and applicable to all agency proceedings commencing on or after that date; (Revisor's
note: In 1997 the Revisors editorially changed the phrase "in the same manner and under the same standards are established
by said title 16." to "in the same manner and under the same standards as are established in said title 16." thereby correcting
a clerical error in the codification of P.A. 73-2, S. 9).
*See chapter 244 (Sec. 13b-80 et seq.) re motor buses.
See chapter 244a (Sec. 13b-95 et seq.) re taxicabs.
See chapter 244b (Sec. 13b-101 et seq.) re motor vehicles in livery service.
See chapter 245 (Sec. 13b-200 et seq.) re railroads and railways.
See chapter 245a (Sec. 13b-244 et seq.) re railroad construction and location.
See chapter 245b (Sec. 13b-324 et seq.) re railroad operations.
Cited. 235 C. 1.