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Current as of: 2011
§ 196.01Definitions
§ 196.012Interstate commerce
§ 196.015Total service long-run incremental cost
§ 196.016Relationship to certain federal telecommunications law
§ 196.02Commission's powers
§ 196.025Duties of the commission
§ 196.027Environmental trust financing
§ 196.03Utility charges and service; reasonable and adequate
§ 196.04Facilities granted other utilities; physical telecommunications connections; petition; investigation
§ 196.05Public utility property; valuation; revaluation
§ 196.06Uniform accounting; forms; books; office
§ 196.07Balance sheet filed annually
§ 196.08Audit and inspection
§ 196.09Depreciation rates and practices; findings by commission; dividends from reserves; retirements
§ 196.10Construction; accounting
§ 196.11Profit sharing and sliding scales
§ 196.12Report by public utilities; items
§ 196.13Commission's report
§ 196.135Confidential handling of records
§ 196.14Public record exception
§ 196.15Units of product or service
§ 196.16Standard measurements; accurate appliances
§ 196.17Tests of meters; fees
§ 196.171Examination of meters, pipes, fittings, wires and works; entering buildings for
§ 196.175Construction and occupancy standards
§ 196.18Entry upon premises
§ 196.19Publish schedules; regulations; files; joint rates
§ 196.191Telecommunications utility and alternative telecommunications utility tariffs
§ 196.192Market-based compensation, rates and contracts
§ 196.193Water and sewer rate increases without hearings
§ 196.194Gas utility individual contracts
§ 196.195Alternative telecommunications regulation plans
§ 196.197Unbundled network elements
§ 196.198Local measured telecommunications service
§ 196.199Interconnection agreements
§ 196.20Rules on service; changes in rates
§ 196.201Regulation of private shared telecommunications systems
§ 196.202Exemption of commercial mobile radio service providers
§ 196.203Exemption of alternative telecommunications utilities
§ 196.204Local government telecommunications utilities
§ 196.205Election of rate regulation
§ 196.206Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service
§ 196.207Telephone caller identification services
§ 196.208Telecommunications pay-per-call and toll-free services
§ 196.209Privacy considerations
§ 196.21Publicity of revised schedules
§ 196.212Switched access rates
§ 196.216Small telecommunications utilities as small businesses
§ 196.217Average toll rates
§ 196.218Universal service fund
§ 196.219Protection of telecommunications consumers
§ 196.22Discrimination forbidden
§ 196.23Utility service for victims of misappropriated identifying information
§ 196.24Agents of commission; powers
§ 196.25Questionnaires
§ 196.26Complaint by consumers; hearing; notice; order; costs
§ 196.28Summary investigations
§ 196.30Utilities may complain
§ 196.31Intervenor financing
§ 196.32Witness fees and mileage
§ 196.33Depositions
§ 196.34Commission records
§ 196.36Transcripts and tapes
§ 196.37Lawful rates; reasonable service
§ 196.371Rate-making principles for electric generation facilities
§ 196.372Railroad telecommunications service
§ 196.373Water heater thermostat settings
§ 196.374Energy efficiency and renewable resource programs
§ 196.375Adequate service; reasonable rates
§ 196.377Renewable energy sources
§ 196.378Renewable resources
§ 196.39Change, amendment and rescission of orders; reopening cases
§ 196.395Test, conditional, emergency and supplemental orders; waiver of conditions in orders
§ 196.40Orders and determinations; time of taking effect
§ 196.41Court review
§ 196.43Injunction procedure
§ 196.44Law enforcement
§ 196.48Incriminating evidence
§ 196.485Transmission system requirements
§ 196.487Reliability of electric service
§ 196.49Authorization from commission before transacting business; extensions and improvements to be approved; enforcement of orders; natural gas
§ 196.491Strategic energy assessment; electric generating facilities and transmission lines
§ 196.493Construction of nuclear power plants limited
§ 196.494Regional transmission planning
§ 196.495Avoidance of duplication in electric facilities
§ 196.496Distributed generation facilities
§ 196.497State policy regarding the long-term disposal of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste
§ 196.499Regulation of telecommunications carriers
§ 196.50Competing public utilities; indeterminate permits; telecommunications utility certification
§ 196.503Telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations
§ 196.505Construction of chapter
§ 196.51Prior permits and franchises validated
§ 196.52Relations with affiliated interests; definition; contracts with affiliates filed and subject to commission control
§ 196.525Loans to officers or directors and loans to and investments in securities of holding companies; penalty
§ 196.53Franchise, foreign corporation not to have
§ 196.54Indeterminate permits
§ 196.58Municipality to regulate utilities; appeal
§ 196.59Merchandising by utilities
§ 196.595Utility advertising practices
§ 196.60Discrimination prohibited; penalty
§ 196.604Rebates, concessions and discriminations unlawful
§ 196.605Telecommunications cooperatives with federal loans
§ 196.61Facilities in exchange for compensation prohibited
§ 196.625Discrimination by telecommunications utilities
§ 196.63Telecommunications interruption in crisis situation
§ 196.635Unbilled utility service
§ 196.64Public utilities, liability for treble damages
§ 196.642Customer liability for treble damages
§ 196.643Owner responsibility for service to rental dwelling unit
§ 196.645Rate changes
§ 196.65Penalties relating to information and records
§ 196.66General forfeiture provisions
§ 196.665Unlawful combinations, trusts
§ 196.67Warning signs
§ 196.675Unlawful for carriers and public utilities to employ assistant district attorneys or judicial officers
§ 196.68Municipal officers, malfeasance
§ 196.69Interference with commission's equipment
§ 196.70Temporary alteration or suspension of rates
§ 196.71Municipal public utility contracts
§ 196.72Accidents; public utility report; investigation
§ 196.74Electric lines; safety and interference
§ 196.745Construction and operation; safety; commission orders
§ 196.76Other rights of action; penalties cumulative
§ 196.78Voluntary dissolution
§ 196.79Reorganization subject to commission approval
§ 196.795Public utility holding companies
§ 196.796Real estate activities
§ 196.80Consolidation or merger of utilities
§ 196.807Energy affiliate and utility employees
§ 196.81Abandonment; commission approval required
§ 196.84Commission's holding company and nonutility affiliate regulation costs
§ 196.85Payment of commission's expenditures
§ 196.855Assessment of costs against municipalities
§ 196.857Stray voltage program
§ 196.858Assessment for telephone relay service
§ 196.859Assessment for telecommunications utility trade practices
§ 196.86Assessments for air quality improvement program
§ 196.91Acquisition of existing dams
§ 196.92Procedure for acquiring dams
§ 196.97Nonessential uses of natural gas
§ 196.975Local access and transport area boundaries

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U.S. Code Provisions: Utilities

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