Sec. 16-249. Department to authorize extension of operations of telephone companies. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 16-249. Department to authorize extension of operations of telephone companies. Every telephone company whose plant was in existence and in operation on May 23, 1985, desiring to extend its telephone exchange business to another town or towns, is prohibited from taking any steps under the general statutes for the location of its poles or conduits, and from commencing to construct its extension or its plant, until it has applied to the Department of Public Utility Control and has obtained from the department, in the manner hereinafter provided, a finding that public convenience and necessity require the carrying on of such telephone exchange business by such company, association or corporation, within the territorial limits, or some portion thereof, stated in its application.

      (1949 Rev., S. 5661; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 80-482, S. 110, 348; P.A. 85-187, S. 7, 15.)

      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; P.A. 85-187 applied provisions of section to every telephone company whose plant was in existence and in operation on May 23, 1985, instead of to every company, association or corporation under former Sec. 16-248 whose plant was in existence and in operation on May 3, 1899 and to any other such company, association or corporation theretofore existing, or thereafter organized under state law to do a telephone exchange business.