Sec. 13a-80. Sale or lease of land by commissioner. Appraisals. Offer to agencies and abutting landowners. (a) The commissioner, with the advice and consent of
the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the State Properties Review
Board may sell, lease and convey, in the name of the state, or otherwise dispose of, or
enter into agreements concerning, any land and buildings owned by the state and obtained for or in connection with highway purposes or for the efficient accomplishment
of the foregoing purposes or formerly used for highway purposes, which real property
is not necessary for such purposes. The commissioner shall notify the state representative
and the state senator representing the municipality in which said property is located
within one year of the date a determination is made that the property is not necessary
for highway purposes and that the department intends to dispose of the property.
(b) The Department of Transportation shall obtain a full appraisal on excess property prior to its sale. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, transfers to
other state agencies and municipalities for purposes specified by the department shall be
exempt from the appraisal requirement. The department shall obtain a second appraisal if
such property is valued over one hundred thousand dollars and is not to be sold through
public bid or auction. Any appraisals or value reports shall be obtained prior to the
determination of a sale price of the excess property.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 3-14b and 4b-21, no residential property upon which a single-family dwelling is situated at the time it is obtained by the
department for highway purposes may be sold or transferred pursuant to this section
within twenty-five years of the date of its acquisition without the department's first
offering the owner or owners of the property at the time of its acquisition a right of first
refusal to purchase the property at the amount of its appraised value as determined in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, except for property
offered for sale to municipalities prior to July 1, 1988. Notice of such offer shall be sent
to each such owner by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, within one
year of the date a determination is made that such property is not necessary for highway
purposes. Any such offer shall be terminated by the department if it has not received
written notice of the owner's acceptance of the offer within sixty days of the date it was
mailed. Whenever the offer is not so accepted, the department shall offer parcels which
meet local zoning requirements for residential or commercial use to other state agencies
and shall offer parcels which do not meet local zoning requirements for residential or
commercial use to all abutting landowners in accordance with department regulations.
If the sale or transfer of the property pursuant to this section results in the existing
property of an abutting landowner becoming a nonconforming use as to local zoning
requirements, the Commissioner of Transportation may sell or transfer the property to
that abutter without public bid or auction. The commissioner shall adopt regulations,
in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing procedures for the disposition of excess property pursuant to the provisions of this subsection in the event such
property is owned by more than one person.
(d) Where the department has in good faith and with reasonable diligence attempted
to ascertain the identity of persons entitled to notice under subsection (c) of this section
and mailed notice to the last known address of record of those ascertained, the failure
to in fact notify those persons entitled thereto shall not invalidate any subsequent disposition of property pursuant to this section.
(1949 Rev., S. 2226; 1958 Rev., S. 13-105; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 80; P.A. 75-425, S. 48, 57; P.A. 76-253, S. 5, 6; P.A.
77-614, S. 19, 610; P.A. 86-228, S. 2; P.A. 88-283, S. 1, 3; P.A. 03-115, S. 28; P.A. 06-133, S. 3; P.A. 07-232, S. 1.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; P.A. 75-425 required consent of public works commissioner and properties review board in addition to that of commissioner of finance and control for disposal of land or
buildings or agreements concerning land or buildings; P.A. 76-253 deleted reference to public works commissioner; P.A.
77-614 substituted secretary of the office of policy and management for commissioner of finance and control; P.A. 86-228 editorially added Subsec. (b) concerning appraisal requirements for sale of certain excess property and requiring
department to offer parcels meeting local zoning requirements to other state agencies and to offer parcels which do not
meet such requirements to all abutting landowners; P.A. 88-283 amended Subsec. (b) to require department to obtain full
appraisal on all excess property, regardless of value and to make necessary technical changes, and added Subsec. (c),
requiring department to offer owner of residential property obtained for highway purposes a right of first refusal to purchase
the property at amount of its appraised value, and requiring commissioner to adopt regulations, and Subsec. (d) re notification of owner; P.A. 03-115 amended Subsec. (a) to require commissioner to notify the state representative and senator
representing the municipality in which property is located within one year of the date of the determination that property
is not necessary for highway purposes and that department intends to dispose of it; P.A. 06-133 amended Subsec. (c) to
make technical changes and to allow department to offer to sell or transfer land without public bid or auction to an abutting
landowner who would otherwise be left with property that is nonconforming as to local zoning, effective June 6, 2006;
P.A. 07-232 made a technical change in Subsec. (c), effective July 11, 2007.
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Sec. 13a-85c. Sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of excess property
obtained in connection with the Route 6 Expressway. (a) The Commissioner of Transportation, with the advice and consent of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and
Management and the State Properties Review Board, may sell, lease and convey, in the
name of the state, or otherwise dispose of, or enter into agreements concerning, any
land and buildings owned by the state and obtained for or in connection with the Route
6 Expressway, which real property is not necessary for such purposes. The commissioner
shall notify the chief elected official of the municipality in which said property is located
and the state representative and the state senator representing the municipality in which
said property is located not later than one year after the date a determination is made
that the property is not necessary for highway purposes and that the department intends
to dispose of the property. No such determination shall be made without the commissioner first holding a public hearing concerning such proposed disposition and the approval of the Federal Highway Administration.
(b) The Department of Transportation shall obtain a full appraisal on excess property prior to its sale pursuant to this section. Except as provided in subsection (c) of this
section, transfers to other state agencies and municipalities for purposes specified by
the department shall be exempt from the appraisal requirement. The department shall
obtain a second appraisal if such property is valued over one hundred thousand dollars
and is not to be sold through public bid or auction. If a second appraisal is obtained, the
sale price shall be the average of the two appraisals. Any appraisals or value reports
shall be obtained prior to the determination of a sale price of the excess property.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 3-14b and 4b-21, no property,
whether or not a structure is situated upon it at the time it is obtained by the department
for highway purposes, may be sold or transferred pursuant to this section not later than
twenty-five years after the date of its acquisition without the department first offering
the owner or owners of the property at the time of its acquisition a right of first refusal
to purchase the property at the amount of its appraised value as determined in accordance
with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, except for property offered for sale
to municipalities prior to the effective date of this section. Notice of such offer shall be
sent to each such owner by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, not
later than one year after the date a determination is made that such property is not
necessary for highway purposes. Any such offer shall be terminated by the department
if it has not received written notice of the owner's acceptance of the offer not later than
ninety days after the date it was mailed. Whenever the offer is not so accepted, the
department shall offer parcels which meet local zoning requirements for residential or
commercial use to other state agencies and shall offer parcels which do not meet local
zoning requirements for residential or commercial use to all abutting landowners in
accordance with department regulations. If the sale or transfer of the property pursuant
to this section results in the existing property of an abutting landowner becoming a
nonconforming use as to local zoning requirements, the commissioner may sell or transfer the property to that abutter without public bid or auction. The commissioner shall
adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, establishing procedures for the disposition of excess property pursuant to the provisions of this subsection
in the event such property is owned by more than one person.
(d) Where the department has in good faith and with reasonable diligence attempted
to ascertain the identity of persons entitled to notice under subsection (c) of this section
and mailed notice to the last-known address of record of those ascertained, the failure
to in fact notify those persons entitled thereto shall not invalidate any subsequent disposition of property pursuant to this section.
(S.A. 07-11, S. 31.)
History: S.A. 07-11 effective July 1, 2007.
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Sec. 13a-126. Readjustment, relocation or removal of public service facilities
for highway construction. As used in this section, "public service facility" includes
all privately, publicly or cooperatively owned lines, facilities and systems for producing,
transmitting or distributing communications, cable television, power, electricity, light,
heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, steam, waste, storm water not connected with highway drainage and any other similar commodities, including fire and police signal systems and street lighting systems which directly or indirectly serve the public. Whenever
the commissioner determines that any public service facility located within, on, along,
over or under any land comprising the right-of-way of a state highway or any other public
highway when necessitated by the construction or reconstruction of a state highway shall
be readjusted or relocated in or removed from such right-of-way, the commissioner
shall issue an appropriate order to the company, corporation or municipality owning or
operating such facility, and such company, corporation or municipality shall readjust,
relocate or remove the same promptly in accordance with such order; provided an equitable share of the cost of such readjustment, relocation or removal, including the cost of
installing and constructing a facility of equal capacity in a new location, shall be borne
by the state, except that the state shall not bear any share of the cost of a project of an
electric distribution company, as defined in section 16-1, to readjust, relocate or remove
any facility, as defined in subsection (a) of section 16-50i, used for transmitting electricity or as an electric transmission trunkline. The Department of Transportation shall
evaluate the total costs of such a project, including department costs for construction
or reconstruction and electric distribution company costs for readjusting, relocating or
removing such facility, so as to minimize the overall costs incurred by the state and
the electric distribution company. The electric distribution company may provide the
department with proposed alternatives to the relocation, readjustment or removal proposed by the department and shall be responsible for any changes to project costs attributable to adoption of the company's proposed alternative designs for such project, including changes to the area of the relocation, readjustment or removal and any incremental
costs incurred by the department to evaluate such alternatives. If such electric distribution company and the department cannot agree on a plan for such project, the Commissioner of Transportation and the chairperson of the Department of Public Utility Control
shall, on request of the company, jointly determine the alternative for the project. Such
equitable share, in the case of or in connection with the construction or reconstruction
of any limited access highway, shall be the entire cost, less the deductions provided in
this section, and, in the case of or in connection with the construction or reconstruction of
any other state highway, shall be such portion or all of the entire cost, less the deductions
provided in this section, as may be fair and just under all the circumstances, but shall
not be less than fifty per cent of such cost after the deductions provided in this section.
In establishing the equitable share of the cost to be borne by the state, there shall be
deducted from the cost of the readjusted, relocated or removed facilities a sum based
on a consideration of the value of materials salvaged from existing installations, the
cost of the original installation, the life expectancy of the original facility and the unexpired term of such life use. When any facility is removed from the right-of-way of a
public highway to a private right-of-way, the state shall not pay for such private right-of-way, provided, when a municipally-owned facility is thus removed from a municipally-owned highway, the state shall pay for the private right-of-way needed by the municipality for such relocation. If the commissioner and the company, corporation or municipality owning or operating such facility cannot agree upon the share of the cost to be borne
by the state, either may apply to the superior court for the judicial district within which
such highway is situated, or, if said court is not in session, to any judge thereof, for a
determination of the cost to be borne by the state, and said court or such judge, after
causing notice of the pendency of such application to be given to the other party, shall
appoint a state referee to make such determination. Such referee, having given at least
ten days' notice to the parties interested of the time and place of the hearing, shall hear
both parties, shall view such highway, shall take such testimony as such referee deems
material and shall thereupon determine the amount of the cost to be borne by the state
and immediately report to the court. If the report is accepted by the court, such determination shall, subject to right of appeal as in civil actions, be conclusive upon both parties.
(1953, 1955, S. 1201d; 1957, P.A. 576, S. 1; 1958 Rev., S. 13-124; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 126; 1967, P.A. 671; P.A. 76-133; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 82-472, S. 36, 183; P.A. 94-188, S. 7; P.A. 03-115, S. 33; P.A. 05-210, S. 28; P.A. 06-196, S. 278; P.A. 07-242, S. 56.)
History: 1963 act replaced previous provisions: See title history; 1967 act clarified provisions by adding references to
construction or reconstruction of highways and added proviso re payment of relocation right-of-way costs for municipally-owned facilities removed from municipally-owned highway; P.A. 76-133 included community antenna television companies in definition of "public service facility"; P.A. 78-280 substituted "judicial district" for "county"; P.A. 82-472 corrected
reference to superior court; P.A. 94-188 redefined "public service facility"; P.A. 03-115 made technical changes; P.A. 05-210 added exception providing that the state shall not bear any share of cost of project to readjust, relocate or remove
facility used for transmitting electricity and that electric distribution company may provide alternatives, and if department
does not agree, then department and chairperson of the Department of Public Utility Control shall jointly determine alternative for project, effective July 6, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change, effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-242 amended
section to provide that state shall not bear any share of the cost of a project "of an electric distribution company, as defined
in section 16-1" re any facility used as an electric "transmission" trunkline, effective June 4, 2007.
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