Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 1307

  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • 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.
Upon application of the commission or of the Attorney General, the Superior Court has full jurisdiction to enforce the commission’s order and to enforce the public utilities’ performance of the duties imposed on them by law, including the appointment of receivers, agents and special masters and providing them with adequate authority to carry the order of the courts and of the commission into effect. [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1987, c. 141, §A6 (NEW).