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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 16-263 (2025)

Power to construct and operate natural gas pipeline

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Any corporation organized under the laws of this state or of any other state or of the United States for the purpose of constructing and operating a natural gas pipeline, which corporation holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under the provisions of the federal Natural Gas Act, approved June 21, 1938, as it may be amended, authorizing such corporation to construct and operate a natural gas pipeline or pipelines and appurtenant facilities within this state, is authorized, upon compliance with the provisions of sections 16-264 to 16-267, inclusive, to acquire by condemnation and to enter upon, take and use such lands, rights-of-way, easements or other interests in land in this state as are necessary for the construction, operation, maintenance and alteration of such pipeline or pipelines and the installation of compressor stations, appliances and other appurtenant equipment, and to operate the same subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth; provided such corporation shall be held to pay all damages that may arise to any person or persons from any such taking.

(March, 1950, S. 2617d.)

Cited. 138 C. 370. Act held constitutional; taking of temporary interest in land is authorized. Id., 582. Cited. 162 C. 56.

Cited. 5 CA 189.

Cited. 19 CS 11; 20 CS 51.

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1971–1985 · leading case: Algonquin Gas Transmission Co. v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals, 291 A.2d 204 (Conn. 1971).
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Algonquin Gas Transmission Co. v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals, 291 A.2d 204 (Conn. 1971). · cites it 4× “The plaintiff, the Algonquin Gas Transmission Company, hereinafter referred to as Algonquin, is a pipeline company authorized under General Statutes § 16-263 to construct and operate pipelines, compressor stations, appliances and other appurtenant equipment within the state of…”
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. v. Avon Fish & Game Club, Inc., 497 A.2d 432 (Conn. App. Ct. 1985). · cites it 2× “See General Statutes § 16-263. Pursuant to General Statutes § 16-266, the court, Bernstein, J.”
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