Sec. 16-246. Other companies which may sell electricity.

Any corporation authorized to construct and maintain dams or sites on any stream and to own and operate mills and manufacturing plants and to utilize the power generated by it in the operation of such plants in any town in this state and to generate, sell and distribute in any way electricity may, within the territory where it is so authorized to act and subject to the authority, supervision and order of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and the restrictions contained in section 16-245, transmit, convey and deliver electricity to any person, company or corporation desiring to use the same for any purpose incident to or connected with manufacturing purposes. The authority shall have jurisdiction upon the application of any corporation or person so desiring to supply or be supplied with electricity, after such notice as it deems reasonable, to hear and determine all questions relating to expediency or necessity arising by reason of such application and to make an order respecting the furnishing of electricity and the rates and terms upon which the same shall be furnished if so ordered. Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize any such company to distribute and sell electricity in any town in which any other company or municipality has already been given the right to distribute and sell electricity.

(1949 Rev., S. 5658; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 107, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.