Connecticut § 16-275 - Submission of plans to authority.

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§ 16-275. Submission of plans to authority.

Sec. 16-275. Submission of plans to authority. Not less than thirty days before the commencement of actual construction or installation, any such corporation shall submit to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority information concerning the engineering design of its pipeline and the standards of construction which it proposes to follow and any other such information as the authority deems necessary, so that it may determine whether the public safety and the safety of the employees of such company are being protected. If the authority finds as a result of its investigation that any part of the engineering design does not conform to the minimum standards of the American Standard Code for Pressure Piping, promulgated by the American Standards Association of New York, New York, or that the condition of any part of the equipment or the manner of operation thereof is such that it is dangerous to the public safety or the safety of the employees, it shall make such order as may be necessary to remedy the same and shall furnish a copy of such order to the company.

(1951, S. 2629d; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 124, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.

Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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