Sec. 16-250. Determination of public convenience and necessity for extension. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 16-250. Determination of public convenience and necessity for extension. Every telephone company whose plant was in existence and in operation on May 23, 1985, intending to extend a telephone system for doing a telephone exchange business, shall make application to the Department of Public Utility Control for a finding that public convenience and necessity require such extension by such company and any such application shall state the territorial limits in which it is intended in good faith to extend such system. The department shall thereupon fix a time and place to hear such application, and shall cause notice to be served, at least twelve days before the date of the hearing, upon any other telephone company, association or corporation, organized under special or general law, that may be affected by such extension, and upon the selectmen of any town, the mayor of any city or the warden and burgesses of any borough, within whose limits such extension may be made. The department may hear the parties and determine whether, upon consideration of the facts, circumstances and conditions of the business, public convenience and necessity require the extension as heretofore defined by such company and may make a finding that public convenience and necessity require the extension of such telephone exchange system by the applicant in the whole or a part of the territory named in the application.

      (1949 Rev., S. 5662; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 111, 348; P.A. 85-187, S. 8, 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 under former Sec. 16-249 and applied provisions of section to extension of a telephone system instead to both extension and construction.