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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7370
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E USE OF MUNICIPAL GAIN TO SUPPORT
REGIONALIZATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 16-233 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
Each town, city, borough, fire district or the Department of 3
Transportation shall have the right to occupy and use for any purpose, 4
including, but not limited to, efforts to consolidate administrative and 5
business office functions and information technology associated with 6
such functions with other towns, cities, boroughs or fire districts and 7
other entities, without payment therefor, one gain upon each public 8
utility pole or in each underground communications duct system 9
installed by a public service company within the limits of any such 10
town, city, borough or district. The location or relocation of any such 11
gain shall be prescribed by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. 12
Any such gain shall be reserved for use by the town, city, borough, fire 13
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 16-233
Statement of Purpose:
To specify that a municipality may use the gain on each public utility
pole reserved for such municipality for the purpose of consolidating
back-office functions with other municipalities and other entities.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]