Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 1909

  • Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • Gas utility: includes every person, that person's lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court owning, controlling, operating or managing any gas plant for compensation within this State, except when gas is made or produced on and distributed by the maker or producer through private property alone solely for its own tenants and not for sale to others, or when the gas is sold solely for use in vehicles fueled by natural gas or to a liquid gas system that serves fewer than 10 customers as long as no portion of the liquid gas system is located in a public place or that serves a single customer if the liquid gas system is located entirely on the customer's premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Natural gas pipeline utility: includes every person, its lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court owning or operating for compensation within this State any pipeline, including pumping stations, storage depots and other facilities, for the transportation, distribution or sale of natural gas, or any person or corporation which has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity or to the Public Utilities Commission for a certificate of authorization to operate a natural gas pipeline within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • Pipeline capacity holder: means any person owning rights to natural gas pipeline capacity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 1902
The commission may on its own motion, with or without notice, summarily investigate the exercise of market power by a gas utility, natural gas pipeline utility or pipeline capacity holder. If, after the summary investigation, the commission determines it to be necessary, it may hold a public hearing in accordance with section 1304. Notwithstanding section 1304 and Title 5, section 9052, the commission shall notify the utility under investigation in writing of the matter under investigation and 7 days after the commission has given notice the commission may set the time and place for the public hearing. [PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. B, §1 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 2013, c. 369, Pt. B, §1 (NEW).