Sec. 16-235. Control by local authorities. Orders. Appeals.

Telephone and railway companies may use the same pole for wires. 70 C. 54. Consent of adjoining proprietors need not precede action by municipal authorities; whether action by municipal authority on petition is mandatory, quaere. 71 C. 381. Charter power to construct underground conduits held to leave power of regulation with local authorities. Id., 657. Contract permitting telephone company to use poles belonging to city construed. 74 C. 326. Power of municipalities to regulate wires and fixtures of street railway; appeal. 80 C. 623. Zoning commission acts as special agency of the state and is empowered to issue orders regulating and restricting subject to appeal to public utilities commission; constitutionality upheld. 140 C. 650; 145 C. 243. If order is on records of zoning commission, it is properly recorded; personal service need only be made on those under duty to comply with order; provisions re recording and notice of order are directory; standard used by zoning commission should be that used in public utility regulation; contract commitments of public utility outside franchise area held valid consideration for public utility commission's finding. Id. Zoning board of appeals may hear request of public service company for extension of nonconforming use and in such capacity acts as special agency of state. 147 C. 229. Cited. 149 C. 101. This is not a condemnation statute. 152 C. 688. Claim that, for purposes of Sec. 16-236, phrase “anything done” under this section is restricted to case where there has been a physical invasion of plaintiff's property is without merit. Id., 690. Boards of zoning or selectmen do not have power to regulate power transmission lines over private property. 161 C. 430. Cited. 162 C. 53. Jurisdiction of water resources commission over transmission lines above rivers. Id., 89. Cited. Id., 93; 206 C. 65.

Cited. 20 CA 474.