Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 237 · 24 active provisions
There shall be a system of state highways which shall include (1) state primary highways, which are highways serving the predominant flow of traffic between the principal towns of this state and between such towns and similar towns of the surrounding states; (2) state secondary highways, which are connecting and feeder…
All sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in Connecticut, commonly known as the interstate highway system, as provided for in the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, as amended, shall be included in the state highway system.
The state highway system shall be that system of highways as shown on the official map marked “State of Connecticut, State Highway System, Committee to Reclassify All Public Roads, Edwards and Kelcey–Engineers and Consultants, January 13, 1961” and on file in the office of the commissioner and the Secretary of the Stat…
Any town aggrieved by the reclassification of highways as designated on the original official map marked “State of Connecticut, State Highway System, Committee to Reclassify All Public Roads, Edwards and Kelcey–Engineers and Consultants, January 13, 1961” or by the action taken by the commissioner pursuant to section 1…
Section 13a-18 is repealed.
Nothing in sections 13a-14, 13a-16 and 13a-17 shall be construed to limit, restrict or derogate from any power, right or authority of the commissioner contained in any other statute.
As used in this part, unless the context indicates a different meaning or intent: (a) “Expressway” means a highway at such locations or between such termini as are herein or may by act of the General Assembly hereafter be established, which is planned, constructed or operated under the provisions of this part and which…
(a) The commissioner is authorized and directed to plan and construct, under the provisions of this part, an expressway which is hereby established at the following location or such part or parts thereof as may from time to time, by a bond declaration, or any amendment thereof signed or approved by the commissioner, be…
(a) The commissioner is authorized to plan and construct, under the provisions of this part, a separate expressway which is hereby established at such part or parts of the location of the highway constituting, on January 30, 1957, the expressway mentioned in section 13a-21 as may, from time to time, by a bond declarati…
The commissioner may (a) plan, construct, reconstruct, repair, improve, manage, maintain and operate expressways, and reconstruct and relocate existing highways, sections of highways, bridges or structures and incorporate and use the same, whether or not so reconstructed or relocated or otherwise changed or improved, a…
Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to limit, restrict or derogate from any power, right or authority of the commissioner existing under or pursuant to any other act of the General Assembly.
Whenever the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court finds that the number of state referees available for the performance of the duties of state referees under subsection (c) of section 13a-73, sections 13a-74 and 13a-76, subsection (d) of section 32-658 and sections 32-659 and 32-660 is not sufficient to consider and act…
(a) Definitions. As used in this section, “parkway” means any state highway receiving special treatment in landscaping and marginal planting, especially designed for, and devoted exclusively to, the use and accommodation of noncommercial motor vehicle traffic and to which access may be allowed only at highway intersect…
The Department of Transportation shall investigate and identify methods to improve notification of height restrictions on the Merritt Parkway. In conducting such investigation, the department shall focus on limited access highway entrances to such parkway and electronic methods for notification of height restrictions o…
(a) For the purposes of this section, (1) “commercial motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle designed or used to transport merchandise or freight and bearing commercial registration, and (2) “parkway” has the same meaning as provided in section 13a-26. (b) No person shall operate any commercial motor vehicle, nor shall…
Section 13a-27 is repealed, effective July 13, 2011.
All rights, funds and properties formerly owned or controlled by the Greater Hartford Bridge Authority, together with all bridges or other properties operated by it or under its jurisdiction or control, shall continue to be vested in the state, and all such bridges and all approach or connecting highways incidental the…
The Commissioner of Transportation shall add such period of employment as any employee of the Department of Transportation previously had in the employ of the Greater Hartford Bridge Authority to the time such employee has accrued as an employee of said department for the purpose of determining such employee's seniorit…
The highway bridge across the Connecticut River, between State Street in Hartford and the dike in East Hartford, is designated as “Founders Bridge”.
The bridge, with approaches, constructed over the Thames River by the Groton-New London Bridge Commission, shall be designated as the “Gold Star Memorial Bridge” in honor of those members of the armed forces of the United States from Groton, New London and Waterford, who lost their lives during World War I, World War I…
The commissioner is authorized and directed, to the full extent but only to the extent permitted by moneys, appropriations and allotments becoming available under sections 13a-239 to 13a-246, inclusive, and allotments becoming available under any other law, to construct a new state highway, which is made hereby a part…
Subject to the limitations referred to in section 13a-32, the commissioner is authorized (a) to plan, design, lay out, construct, reconstruct, relocate, improve, maintain and operate the project, and reconstruct and relocate existing highways, sections of highways, bridges or structures and incorporate or use the same,…
The project and all approach or connecting highways incidental thereto shall be maintained by the commissioner and be part of the state highway system.
In order to observe or fulfill any obligation of the state created by or pursuant to part IV of chapter 234 of the 1958 revision of the general statutes, as amended, prior to June 13, 1961, or to permit certain vehicular passage between the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike and the project without violation of any suc…