Sec. 16-230. Bond requirement.

Before any such public service company makes any such application, it shall file with the Secretary of the State a bond, with surety, in form and amount satisfactory to and approved by him, to save harmless any person or corporation which may be injured by the negligent carrying on of such work, which bond may be a continuing bond to cover all of such work conducted by such public service company in this state during the term of such bond, but said Secretary may dispense with the filing of any such bond upon the furnishing to him of satisfactory proof of the solvency and the financial ability of such public service company to pay any damages resulting from such negligent carrying on of such work, and said Secretary shall issue to such company his certificate that such bond has been filed or proof of solvency furnished. No such bond or further proof of solvency and financial ability shall be required by the Secretary of the State, or by any other authority, of any such public service company which has, within the preceding twelve months, filed with the Secretary of the State a certification, attested by the secretary of such company, that the combined paid-in capital and surplus of such company is not less than five hundred thousand dollars.

(1949 Rev., S. 5641; 1957, P.A. 85; 1971, P.A. 367.)

History: 1971 act made waiver of bond applicable to companies with capital and surplus of $500,000 or more rather than $150,000 or more.

Notation

Cited. 162 C. 53.