§ 16-15 — Compliance with orders. Penalty.

Connecticut § 16-15

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 16: Public Service Companies
• Ch. 277: Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions

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Each public service company and electric supplier shall comply immediately with any order of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority made in accordance with the provisions of sections 16-13 and 16-14, and any company failing to comply with any such order shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars for each offense and shall be liable in double damages for any injury or damage resulting to any person from such failure.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 5405; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 51, 348; P.A. 98-28, S. 86, 117; 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; P.A. 98-28 added electric suppliers, effective July 1, 1998; 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.