§ 4905.01 Definitions
§ 4905.02 Public utility defined
§ 4905.03 Public utility company definitions
§ 4905.04 Power to regulate public utilities and railroads
§ 4905.041 Exclusive jurisdiction of commission
§ 4905.042 Commission jurisdiction over advanced or Internet protocol-enabled services
§ 4905.05 Scope of jurisdiction
§ 4905.06 General supervision
§ 4905.07 Information and records to be public
§ 4905.09 Substantial compliance
§ 4905.10 Assessment for expenses
§ 4905.12 Forfeiture
§ 4905.13 System of accounts for public utilities
§ 4905.14 Annual report
§ 4905.15 Reports and accounts
§ 4905.16 Copy of contract may be required by commission
§ 4905.17 Construction accounts
§ 4905.18 Depreciation account
§ 4905.19 Depreciation fund
§ 4905.20 Abandonment of facilities
§ 4905.21 Application to commission to abandon, withdraw or close
§ 4905.22 Service and facilities required – unreasonable charge prohibited
§ 4905.26 Complaints as to service
§ 4905.261 Telephone call center for consumer complaints
§ 4905.27 Standard units
§ 4905.28 Standards of measurement
§ 4905.29 Examinations and tests
§ 4905.30 Printed schedules of rates must be filed
§ 4905.302 Purchased gas adjustment clause
§ 4905.303 Approving purchases of synthetic natural gas
§ 4905.304 Examining coal research and development costs incurred by gas or natural gas company
§ 4905.31 Reasonable arrangements allowed – variable rate
§ 4905.32 Schedule rate collected
§ 4905.33 Rebates, special rates, and free service prohibited
§ 4905.34 Free service or reduced rates
§ 4905.35 Prohibiting discrimination
§ 4905.36 Separate hearings
§ 4905.37 Commission may change rules and regulations of public utilities
§ 4905.38 Repairs and improvements may be ordered by commission
§ 4905.39 Power to require additions and extensions
§ 4905.40 Issuance of stocks, bonds, and notes
§ 4905.401 Issuing notes or other evidences of indebtedness
§ 4905.402 Acquiring or merging with domestic telephone or electric utility company or holding company
§ 4905.403 Filing control bid for a natural gas company
§ 4905.41 Proceedings to obtain authority
§ 4905.42 Hearings on issuance of stocks, bonds, and notes
§ 4905.43 Public utility in possession of receiver exempted
§ 4905.45 Indorsement of public utility or railroad securities
§ 4905.46 Restrictions on dividend or distribution
§ 4905.47 Capitalization
§ 4905.48 Transactions between public utilities
§ 4905.481 Purchase of municipal water-works or sewage disposal system company
§ 4905.49 Acquisition of water-works or sewage disposal system; rate division
§ 4905.491 Contents of order of approval
§ 4905.51 Use of equipment over street by other public utility
§ 4905.52 Refusal to answer questions in examination
§ 4905.54 Compliance with orders
§ 4905.55 Liability for act of agent
§ 4905.56 Violation
§ 4905.57 Actions to recover forfeitures
§ 4905.58 Indictment
§ 4905.59 Action for forfeiture by prosecuting attorney
§ 4905.60 Writ of mandamus – injunction
§ 4905.61 Treble damages
§ 4905.62 Limitation
§ 4905.63 Company formed to acquire property or transact business subject to certain laws
§ 4905.64 Forfeiture shall be cumulative
§ 4905.65 Local regulation restricting construction, location, or use of public utility facility
§ 4905.70 Energy conservation programs
§ 4905.71 Filing tariffs for charges for attachment to pole or conduit use of equipment
§ 4905.72 Changes in provider of natural gas service or public telecommunications service to consumer
§ 4905.73 Jurisdiction
§ 4905.74 Persistent practice or pattern of violative conduct
§ 4905.75 Payments to agent not considered past due
§ 4905.79 Tax credits for costs of service to aid communicatively impaired
§ 4905.80 State policy regarding motor carriers
§ 4905.81 Duties of public utilities commission
§ 4905.84 Annual assessment to pay for TRS service
§ 4905.86 Sulfur dioxide emission allowances
§ 4905.87 Biomass energy program fund
§ 4905.90 Natural gas pipeline safety standards definitions
§ 4905.91 Intrastate gas pipe-lines
§ 4905.911 Compliance with federal design requirements
§ 4905.92 Assessments against operators – pipe-line safety fund
§ 4905.93 Duties of operator
§ 4905.94 Operator of master-meter system
§ 4905.95 Notices, hearings and orders of commission
§ 4905.96 Civil action against operator
§ 4905.99 Penalty

Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 4905 - Public Utilities Commission - General Powers

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • imprisonment: means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term under a sentence imposed for an offense in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, a minimum security jail, a community-based correctional facility, or another facility described or referred to in section 2929. See Ohio Code 1.05
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • 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.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Ohio coal research and development costs: means all reasonable costs associated with a facility or project undertaken by a public utility for which a recommendation to allow the recovery of costs associated therewith has been made under division (B)(7) of section 1551. See Ohio Code 4905.01
  • Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • public utility: includes every corporation, company, copartnership, person, or association, the lessees, trustees, or receivers of the foregoing, defined in section 4905. See Ohio Code 4905.02
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02