Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-237
No prescriptive right
Connecticut · General Statutes of Connecticut Chapter 283 — Telephone, Gas, Power and Water Companies · Status: effective
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- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-237, No prescriptive right, Connecticut, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2181237
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No person or corporation building and maintaining telephone or electric light or power wires or fixtures, or electrical wires, conductors or fixtures of any kind shall, by reason of any occupation or use of any buildings or lands for the support of the wires of such person or corporation, or by reason of such wires passing over or through any buildings or lands, acquire by the continuance of such use or occupation any prescriptive right to so occupy or use the same. No length of possession, user or occupancy of any buildings or land, or adverse to any easement therein or right thereto belonging to a telephone or electric distribution company, and used or acquired for use for its corporate purposes, shall create or continue any right in or to such land, or adverse to any such easement.