Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-18
Powers concerning poles and wires
Connecticut · General Statutes of Connecticut Chapter 277 — Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions · Status: effective
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- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-18, Powers concerning poles and wires, Connecticut, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2180873
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The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall have power, after notice to the companies interested and public hearing, to require any public service company or certified telecommunications provider maintaining a line or lines of poles and wires in this state to change the location of such poles and wires in the public highways whenever public convenience or necessity requires such change and, if two or more companies, persons, firms or corporations are using or maintaining lines of poles or wires in the same street, to require the wires of such companies, persons, firms and corporations to be strung upon one or more lines of poles to be owned and maintained by the companies, persons, firms or corporations using the same as said authority determines.