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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 987
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5001
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
(TRA)
AN ACT CONCERNING TECHN ICAL CHANGES TO A
TRANSPORTATION STATU TE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 15-74b of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
(a) No public service company shall construct or maintain any 3
overhead line or facility within the limits of a clear zone. 4
(b) (1) Immediately upon July 6, 1971, the executive director shall 5
establish clear zones, in accordance with regulations adopted by the 6
executive director, for all public airport runways, and shall establish a 7
list of priorities for the abatement or correction of encroachments 8
thereon by public service companies. (2) Subject to the availability of 9
funds, the executive director shall, from time to time, order the 10
relocation, removal or such other appropriate corrective action as the 11
executive director deems necessary to abate or correct such 12
encroachments on clear zones. 13
(c) Where overhead lines already exist within the limits of an 14 Raised Bill No. 987
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established clear zone, the executive director shall reimburse the 15
owner public service company for the cost of relocation, removal or 16
other corrective measures approved by the executive director. Funds 17
required for the implementation of this section shall be appropriated 18
from existing and future appropriations for state aid to airports in 19
accordance with procedures adopted by the authority pursuant to 20
section 1-121. 21
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 15-74b
TRA Joint Favorable