No company shall lay out or locate its road, or any part thereof, through any cemetery or any approach in common use from the highway thereto, and within one-quarter of a mile thereof, unless the Commissioner of Transportation, when called upon to approve the proposed layout of such road, finds that such cemetery, or the approach thereto, was located for the purpose of obstructing such layout, or unless said commissioner approves such layout or location.
(1949 Rev., S. 5473; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 571, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136.)
History: P.A. 75-486 substituted “public utilities control authority” for public utilities “commission” and “authority” for “commission” thereafter, effective December 1, 1975; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted “commissioner of transportation” for “public utilities control authority” and “commissioner” for “authority”, effective January 1, 1979; in 1981 Sec. 16-84 transferred to Sec. 13b-254.