Terms Used In Alabama Code 37-4-85

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • United States: includes the territories thereof and the District of Columbia. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Nothing in this article shall be deemed to confer upon the commission any additional power and jurisdiction to supervise or regulate the rates, services, franchises or other matters pertaining to pipeline systems or transportation of gas except with respect to the enforcement of federal safety standards prescribed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; nor shall anything in this article be deemed to confer upon the commission any power to adopt or continue in force any standards for pipeline systems or transportation of gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission as prohibited by Section 3 (b) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 ( P.L. 90-481).

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