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Telephone lines.

Excavation in highway.

Bond requirement.

Appeal.

Section
16-231a

Cuts and permanent patches in highway. Inspections. Repairs. Certification.

Rights of companies organized under general law.

Use of gain by town, city, borough, fire district or Department of Transportation.

Conducting vegetation management; notice to abutting and private property owners. Changing location of, erecting or placing wires, conductors, fixtures, structures or apparatus over, on or under any highway or public ground; rights of adjoining proprietors. Objections or requests for modifications. Removal or disposition of debris in utility protection zones. Provision of vegetation management plan to town or borough. Public availability.

Control by local authorities. Orders. Appeals.

Appraisal of damages; costs.

No prescriptive right.

Wires may be cut; notice.

Dispatches transmitted in order. Exceptions.

Sections
16-240 to 16-242

Delivery of messages. Mortgage by telegraph company. Telephone service to telegraph companies.

Jurisdiction of authority over electricity transmission lines.

Section
16-243a

Private power producers. Purchase and sale of electricity. Avoided costs. Small renewable power projects. Interconnectivity standards.

Section
16-243aa

Distribution of electricity across a public highway or street by a municipality or state or federal governmental entity.

Section
16-243b

Definitions. Jurisdiction.

Section
16-243bb

Adjustment of electric distribution company residential fixed charge.

Section
16-243c

Electricity transmission and distribution services for electric cooperatives utilizing cogeneration technology and renewable energy resources.

Section
16-243d

Project by private power producer deemed “industrial project”.

Section
16-243e

Electric distribution company purchase of electricity generated by municipal resources recovery facilities.

Section
16-243f

Private power providers. Regulations concerning the purchase and sale of electricity.

Section
16-243g

Assignment of electricity purchase agreements.

Section
16-243h

Credit to residential customers who generate electricity; metering.

Section
16-243i

Awards to retail end use electric customers and electric distribution companies re customer-side distributed resources.

Section
16-243j

Long-term financing for customer-side distributed resources and advanced power monitoring and metering equipment.

Section
16-243k

Assessment of customer-side and grid-side distributed resources, effectiveness of award program.

Section
16-243l

Rebate for customer-side distributed resource projects that use natural gas.

Section
16-243m

Measures to reduce federally mandated congestion charges.

Section
16-243n

Time-of-use, mandatory peak, shoulder, off-peak and seasonal rates. Optional interruptible or load response rates.

Section
16-243o

Waiver of back-up power rates.

Section
16-243p

Recovery of costs, investments and lost revenues by an electric distribution company.

Section
16-243q

Class III renewable energy portfolio standards.

Section
16-243r

Customer-side distributed resources and grid-side distributed resources. Qualifications for applicability of certain provisions.

Section
16-243s

Awards to electric distribution companies for programs for load curtailment, demand reduction and retrofit conservation.

Section
16-243t

Class III credits.

Section
16-243u

Plan to build peaking generation.

Section
16-243v

Connecticut electric efficiency partner program. Residential furnace or boiler replacement and propane fuel tank purchase program.

Section
16-243w

Advanced metering system plan and deployment.

Section
16-243x

Time-of-use meters. Notice of availability.

Section
16-243y

Microgrid and resilience grant and loan pilot program to support distributed energy generation for critical facilities.

Section
16-243z

Geographic information systems data sharing. Disclosure of locations of medical hardship accounts in emergencies.

Electric deregulation; findings and declarations.

Section
16-244a

Rate freeze for electric service.

Section
16-244aa

Performance-based regulation of electric distribution companies.

Section
16-244b

Electric customers to choose electric suppliers. Phase-in of electric deregulation.

Section
16-244c

Standard service. Alternative standard service. Supplier of last resort. Back-up generation service. Participating electric suppliers.

Section
16-244d

Program for distribution of information re electric suppliers. Rate board Internet web site.

Section
16-244e

Ownership or operation of generation assets. Customer bill.

Section
16-244f

Divestiture of nonnuclear electric generation facilities. Plan. Approval of sale by authority.

Section
16-244g

Divestiture of nuclear electric generation facilities. Plan. Approval of sale by authority.

Section
16-244h

Code of conduct for electric distribution companies, generation entities or affiliates and electric suppliers. Contents of code. Penalties, damages.

Section
16-244i

Duties of electric distribution companies.

Section
16-244j

Electric transmission lines from Bethel to Norwalk. Moratorium. Working group and comprehensive assessment.

Section
16-244k

Allocation of the proceeds of the retail adder.

Section
16-244l

Modification of fuel cell electricity purchase agreements.

Section
16-244m

Procurement Plan re standard service.

Section
16-244n

Standard service contract buydown.

Section
16-244o

Generation evaluation and procurement process.

Section
16-244p

Transmission line project review.

Section
16-244q

Request for proposal re reliability concerns.

Section
16-244r

Long-term contracts re zero emission generation projects. Solicitation of Class I generation projects. Renewable energy credits.

Section
16-244s

Zero emission generation projects solicitation plan. Procurement plan. Noncompliance fee.

Section
16-244t

Power purchase contracts re low-emission generation projects. Renewable energy credits.

Section
16-244u

Virtual net metering.

Section
16-244v

Renewable energy sources generation. Proposals to build, own or operate facilities.

Section
16-244w

Grid-side system enhancements pilot program.

Section
16-244x

Shared clean energy facility pilot program.

Section
16-244y

Fuel cell electricity generation. Proposals to acquire, enter into power purchase agreements or provide financial incentives.

Section
16-244z

Renewable energy tariffs.

Licensing of electric suppliers. Procedures. Penalties. Registration of electric aggregators. Procedures. Penalties.

Section
16-245a

Renewable portfolio standards.

Section
16-245aa

Renewable energy and efficient energy finance program.

Section
16-245b

Municipalities and regional water authorities acting as electric aggregators; registration with Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

Section
16-245bb

Bond authorization.

Section
16-245c

Municipal electric utilities participating in deregulated environment. Authority to provide generation services outside service area.

Section
16-245cc

Demand charge waiver for fuel cells.

Section
16-245d

Billing of electric service. Standard format. Contents. Bill inserts and mailings. Electronic bill payment confirmation.

Section
16-245dd

Residential electric space heating tariff.

Section
16-245e

Stranded costs of electric distribution companies. Definitions. Calculation by authority. Procedures. Adjustments. Mitigation.

Section
16-245ee

Energy conservation and load management and renewable energy projects in lower income communities. Requirements for approval.

Section
16-245f

Funding of certain disbursements to the General Fund. Funding of stranded costs through rate reduction bonds. Funding of economic recovery transfer through economic recovery revenue bonds. Assessment.

Section
16-245ff

Residential solar investment program.

Section
16-245g

Competitive transition assessment. Determination by authority of amount and how applied to electric customers. Duration.

Section
16-245gg

Master purchase agreement for solar home renewable energy credits.

Section
16-245h

Transition property. Surplus competitive transition assessment. Restrictions on use of transition property by electric distribution companies.

Section
16-245hh

Condominium renewable energy grant program.

Section
16-245i

Financing orders re the economic recovery transfer, the Energy Conservation and Load Management Fund, the Clean Energy Fund and stranded costs.

Section
16-245ii

Energy consumption data of nonresidential buildings.

Section
16-245j

Rate reduction bonds and economic recovery revenue bonds; terms.

Section
16-245jj

Town customer electricity and gas usage information.

Section
16-245k

Security interest in transition property; creation; perfection. Transferring transition property. Duration of authority to issue financing orders.

Section
16-245kk

Issuance of bonds, notes and other obligations by the Connecticut Green Bank.

Section
16-245l

Systems benefits charge. Determination by authority of amount and how applied to customers.

Section
16-245ll

Clean energy bonds.

Section
16-245m

Energy Conservation Management Board. Conservation and Load Management Plan.

Section
16-245mm

Special capital reserve funds.

Section
16-245n

Connecticut Green Bank. Charge assessed against electric customers. Clean Energy Fund.

Section
16-245nn

Residential solar photovoltaic system permit.

Section
16-245o

Use of customer information. Promotional inserts in electric bills prohibited. Standard form re contract terms and conditions. Procedures for entering, renewing and terminating service contracts. Rate increase disclosures. Marketing and advertising disclosures. Penalties. Solicitation standards. Customer placement on standard services. Generation services rates. Report.

Section
16-245p

Information re electric supplier and electric distribution company to be provided to customers.

Section
16-245q

Changing electric suppliers.

Section
16-245r

Discrimination by electric suppliers prohibited.

Section
16-245s

Switching electric suppliers; procedures; penalties; regulations.

Section
16-245t

Complaints to authority re electric suppliers; procedures; remedies.

Section
16-245u

Unfair and discriminatory conduct and unfair trade practices in electric market prohibited. Investigations.

Section
16-245v

List of displaced electric utility employees to be provided to distribution companies and electric suppliers.

Section
16-245w

Fee to be paid by self-generation facilities in lieu of certain assessments; study by authority.

Section
16-245x

Monitoring and reporting by authority of electric rates of each customer class. Action to minimize rate differential.

Section
16-245y

Annual reporting re status of electric deregulation.

Section
16-245z

Internet links to Energy Star program.

Other companies which may sell electricity.

Section
16-246a

Definitions.

Sections
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 ownership of facility; waiver of right to petition.

Section
16-246e

Procurement and sale by authority of electric power capacity and power output from out-of-state producers. Approval by Governor.

Section
16-246f

Electric company emergency assistance.

Section
16-246g

Pilot program for electric generation.

Foreign telephone companies.

Section
16-247a

Goals of the state. Definitions.

Section
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 competitive or emerging competitive service. Subsidization prohibited.

Section
16-247c

Provision of intrastate telecommunications services. Civil penalty. Competition.

Section
16-247d

Biennial reports on competition for intrastate interexchange telecommunications service. Plan for implementing competition. General Assembly approval required.

Section
16-247e

Basic telecommunications services. Lifeline and telecommunications relay service programs. Universal service program.

Section
16-247f

Regulation of telecommunication services: Initial classifications, reclassifications, tariffs, exemption from filing tariff.

Section
16-247g

Certificate of public convenience and necessity for intrastate telecommunications services: Application, requirements, suspension, revocation. Fees. Obligation to serve.

Section
16-247h

Use of public right-of-way for provision of intrastate telecommunications service.

Section
16-247i

Telecommunications service and regulation status report.

Section
16-247j

Regulations.

Section
16-247k

Alternative forms of regulation for telephone companies: Plan requirements, monitoring period, modification.

Section
16-247l

Access by certified telecommunications providers to occupied buildings: Service, wiring, compensation, regulations, civil penalty.

Section
16-247m

Withdrawal by telephone company of retail telecommunications service. Applications.

Section
16-247n

Certification of telephone company's operations support systems interface. Rates. Proceedings.

Section
16-247o

Consultant to test operations support systems interface.

Section
16-247p

Quality-of-service standards. Performance standards.

Section
16-247q

Education outreach program for telecommunications competition, scope. Consumer Education Advisory Council established.

Section
16-247r

Discrimination by telephone companies and certified telecommunications providers prohibited.

Section
16-247s

Directory assistance database. Disclosure and distribution of cellular mobile telephone numbers.

Section
16-247t

Customer inquiries and complaints regarding cellular mobile telephone service.

Section
16-247u

Unauthorized procurement and sale of telephone records. Definitions. Exclusions. Telephone company protection of records. Penalties. Unfair trade practice.

Section
16-247v

Performance standards for restoration of intrastate telecommunications service after emergencies. Credit for service outages.

Rights of telephone company in operation May 23, 1985.

Sections
16-249 to 16-250a

Authority finding re extension of exchange business of telephone company. Determination of public convenience and necessity for extension. Reselling or sharing of line purchased or leased from telephone company.

Section
16-250b

Cellular mobile telephone service. Authority jurisdiction. Regulations.

Bonds of telephone company.

Bonds may be secured by mortgage.

Sections
16-253 and 16-254

Amount of capital to be paid in. Subscriptions for cash.

General powers.

Sections
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 of review. Nonvotable securities; injunctive relief. Regulations. Appeals. Remedial and penal provisions. Exemptions. Severability.

Notice of offense in party line usage in telephone directory.

Section
16-256a

Directory assistance charge prohibited.

Section
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.

Section
16-256c

Extended local calling criteria. Calling volume. Subscriber survey and vote. Petitions.

Section
16-256d

Itemized telephone bills for business customers.

Section
16-256e

Recorded telephone message devices prohibited. Blocking devices or services prohibited: Class A misdemeanor.

Section
16-256f

Blocking service available to customers.

Section
16-256g

Proceeding to determine monthly subscriber fee. Assessment of subscribers for enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program.

Section
16-256h

Business to residential pricing ratio for basic exchange service.

Section
16-256i

Primary local or intrastate interexchange carrier orders. Unauthorized switching. Penalty.

Section
16-256j

Billing for telecommunications services. Information re carriers, basic, local service and taxes.

Section
16-256k

Disclosure for removal or change in telecommunications service. Disclosure for promotional offerings.

Recording of agreement of consolidation or merger of electric and gas companies.

Standards concerning electricity and gas.

Section
16-258a

Registration of natural gas sellers. Procedures. Penalties.

Section
16-258b

Registration of electric generating facilities.

Section
16-258c

Dual fuel capability requirements for electric generating facilities.

Section
16-258d

District heating systems incentive program.

Section
16-258e

Electric distribution company procurement of electricity and renewable energy credits from a combined heat and power system.

Inspection of meters.

Section
16-259a

Inaccurate billing. Financial liability of customer. Payment plan.

Water meters may be required.

Extension of electric lines to unserved areas. Determination of rates.

Section
16-261a

Interagency electric and magnetic fields task force; composition; study. Assessment of electric public service companies for specified expenses of task force.

Gas companies authorized to deal in natural gas.

Section
16-262a

Water company to have area resident as director or advisory council of area residents.

Section
16-262b

Notice of discharge of explosives or highway excavation to gas companies.

Section
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 an operating expense. Hardship cases. Notice. Regulations. Annual reports. Privacy of individual customer utility usage and billing information.

Section
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 agreement. Appeal. Notice re credit rating information.

Section
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 from rent. Access to meters.

Section
16-262f

Action for receivership of rents and common expenses by electric distribution, gas and telephone companies; petition; hearing; appointment; duties; termination.

Section
16-262g

Penalty.

Section
16-262h

Nonexclusivity of remedy.

Section
16-262i

Regulations.

Section
16-262j

Refusal of residential utility service. Regulations. Refusal of telecommunications service to a candidate or committee. Interest on customer security deposits.

Section
16-262k

Interconnection of public water supply systems to relieve site-specific water shortages.

Section
16-262l

Receivership of water companies for failure to provide adequate service. Personal liability of directors, officers and managers.

Section
16-262m

Construction specifications for water companies.

Section
16-262n

Definition. Economic viability of water companies. Reviews. Failure to comply with orders. Hearings.

Section
16-262o

Acquisition of water company ordered by authority. Rates and charges. Recovery of acquisition costs.

Section
16-262p

Improvements by acquiring entity.

Section
16-262q

Compensation for acquisition of water company.

Section
16-262r

Satellite management of water companies. Expedited rate proceedings.

Section
16-262s

Voluntary acquisition of water company. Surcharges. Rate of return.

Section
16-262t

Action for receivership of rent and common expenses by water companies; petition; hearing; appointment; duties; termination.

Section
16-262u

Replacement and repair of water service connections. Granting of exceptions.

Section
16-262v

Water company infrastructure projects: Definitions.

Section
16-262w

Water company rate adjustment mechanisms.

Section
16-262x

Termination of residential utility service. Requirements.

Section
16-262y

Water company revenue adjustment mechanism.

Section
16-262z

Properties served by deficient well systems. Extension of service by water company.