Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 301:59

  • 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.
The public utilities commission shall retain jurisdiction over rural electric cooperatives, regardless of whether or not a certificate of regulation or deregulation is on file, for purpose of implementing and enforcing provisions of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978, and any successor laws amending, replacing, or repealing the act, and regulations of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission implementing the act.