CGS § 16-4. Employees of public service companies, certified telecommunications providers and electric suppliers ineligible to serve on authority or in department.

History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 would have replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979, except for action of P.A. 78-303 which retained reference to authority in this section; P.A. 84-342 added reference to the department of public utility control; P.A. 94-74 added provision re persons, firms or corporations certified to provide intrastate telecommunication services, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 98-28 rearranged language, deleted an obsolete provision and added electric suppliers, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-286 changed reference to person, firm or corporation certified by the department to “certified telecommunications provider”, effective July 19, 1999; P.A. 11-80 changed “Public Utilities Control Authority” to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “Department of Public Utility Control” to “Department of Energy and Environmental Protection”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 23-102 replaced “member” with “utility commissioner”, effective June 29, 2023.