Terms Used In Utah Code 54-3-7

  • Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Public utility: includes every railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, distribution electrical cooperative, wholesale electrical cooperative, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewerage corporation, heat corporation, and independent energy producer not described in Section 54-2-201 where the service is performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the public generally, or in the case of a gas corporation or electrical corporation where the gas or electricity is sold or furnished to any member or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use. See Utah Code 54-2-1
     Except as provided in this chapter or Chapter 8b, Public Telecommunications Law, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished, or for any service rendered or to be rendered, than the rates, tolls, rentals and charges applicable to such products or commodity or service as specified in its schedules on file and in effect at the time; nor shall any such public utility refund or remit, directly or indirectly, in any manner or by any device, any portion of the rates, tolls, rentals and charges so specified; nor extend to any person any form of contract or agreement, or any rule or regulation, or any facility or privilege except such as are regularly and uniformly extended to all corporations and persons; provided, that the commission may, by rule or order, establish such exceptions from the operation of this prohibition as it may consider just and reasonable as to any public utility.

Amended by Chapter 5, 2005 General Session

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