Connecticut General Statutes 49-5 – Mortgages on property of public service companies
(a) Any corporation doing a light, heat, gas, power, water, telephone or natural gas transmission business in, or owning property in, more than one town may secure its issue of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness by mortgage or deed of trust of all or any part of its plant and property, real, personal or mixed, wherever the same is situated, including, without limitation, its goods, documents, instruments, general intangibles, chattel paper, accounts, contract rights and franchises, whether owned by it at the time of the mortgage or deed of trust or thereafter to be acquired by it, or both, and the mortgage or deed of trust shall secure equally all such bonds as may be issued from time to time, under and in pursuance of the terms and provisions specified in the mortgage or deed of trust. In the mortgage or deed of trust it is sufficient to describe the plant, equipment, apparatus, transmission or pipe lines, distribution systems and the personal property of such company by general terms.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 49-5
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
(b) The mortgage or deed of trust or, if the mortgage or deed of trust has been previously recorded, whether within or without this state, a copy of the record of the mortgage or deed of trust certified by the recording authority, may be recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State and when so recorded need not be recorded or filed in the records of the towns within which the property, plant or transmission or pipe lines or distribution systems included in the mortgage or deed of trust are situated, and shall be valid and effectual as respects all property therein included as aforesaid, provided a certificate shall be recorded in the office of the town clerk of each of such towns setting forth the names of the mortgagor and the mortgagee, the date of the mortgage or deed of trust and the fact that the mortgage or deed of trust is recorded in the office of the Secretary of the State.
(c) The provisions of sections 16-218 to 16-227, inclusive, concerning the foreclosure of mortgages of railroad companies, apply to all mortgages or bonds issued by companies doing a light, heat, gas, power, water, telephone or natural gas transmission business.