Utah Code > Title 54 > Chapter 3 – Duties of Public Utilities


§ 54-3-1	Charges must be just; service adequate; rules reasonable
§ 54-3-2	Schedules of rates and classification — Right of inspection — Changes by commission — Online consumer access to usage data
§ 54-3-3	Changes by utilities in schedules — Notice
§ 54-3-4	Joint tariffs
§ 54-3-7	Charges not to vary from schedules — Refunds and rebates forbidden — Exceptions
§ 54-3-8	Preferences forbidden — Power of commission to determine facts — Applicability of section
§ 54-3-8.5	Rate on electricity for agricultural irrigation or drainage
§ 54-3-9	Sliding scale of charges — Control by commission
§ 54-3-10	Interchange of business required
§ 54-3-19	Long and short distance service — Through and intermediate rates
§ 54-3-21	Commission to be furnished information and copies of records — Hearings before commission to be public — Privilege
§ 54-3-22	Required reports
§ 54-3-23	Commission’s orders must be obeyed
§ 54-3-24	Hostage situation — Telephone communication prevention
§ 54-3-26	Retention of unclaimed capital credits by electric and telephone cooperatives — Use of retained money — Reporting requirements
§ 54-3-27	Public utility easement
§ 54-3-28	Notice required of certain public utilities before preparing or amending a long-range plan or acquiring certain property
§ 54-3-29	Removal, relocation, or alteration of utility facility in public highway construction or reconstruction — Notice — Cooperation
§ 54-3-30	Electric utility service within a provider municipality — Electrical corporation prohibited as provider — Exceptions — Notice and agreement — Transfer of customer
§ 54-3-31	Electric utility service within a provider municipality — Electrical corporation authorized as continuing provider for service provided on or before June 15, 2013 — Notice of service and agreement — Transfer of customer
§ 54-3-32	Public utility duties — Procedure to transfer service to a nonutility energy supplier
§ 54-3-33	Eligible customer energy supply contract

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 54 > Chapter 3 - Duties of Public Utilities

Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
Commissioner: means a member of the commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
Corporation: includes an association and a joint stock company having any powers or privileges not possessed by individuals or partnerships. See Utah Code 54-2-1
Donor: The person who makes a gift.
Electrical corporation: includes every corporation, cooperative association, and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any electric plant, or in any way furnishing electric power for public service or to its consumers or members for domestic, commercial, or industrial use, within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1

Eligible customer: means a person who:

(a)

on December 31, 2013:

(i)	was a customer of a public utility that, on December 31, 2013, had more than 200,000 retail customers in this state; and

(ii)	owned an electric plant that is an electric generation plant that, on December 31, 2013, had a generation name plate capacity of greater than 150 megawatts; and

(b)

produces electricity:

(i)	from a qualifying power production facility for sale to a public utility in this state;

(ii)	primarily for the eligible customer's own use; or

(iii)

for the use of the eligible customer's tenant or affiliate. See Utah Code 54-2-1

Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102

Gas corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any gas plant for public service within this state or for the selling or furnishing of natural gas to any consumer or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use, except in the situation that:

(a)

gas is made or produced on, and distributed by the maker or producer through, private property:

(i)	solely for the maker's or producer's own use or the use of the maker's or producer's tenants; and

(ii)	not for sale to others;

(b)	gas is compressed on private property solely for the owner's own use or the use of the owner's employees as a motor vehicle fuel; or

(c)

gas is compressed by a retailer of motor vehicle fuel on the retailer's property solely for sale as a motor vehicle fuel. See Utah Code 54-2-1

Large-scale electric utility: means a public utility that provides retail electric service to more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-2-1

Nonutility energy supplier: means a person that:

(a)

has received market-based rate authority from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in accordance with 16 U. See Utah Code 54-2-1

Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.

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

Telegraph corporation: includes every corporation and person, their lessees, trustees, and receivers, owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telegraph line for public service within this state. See Utah Code 54-2-1

Telephone corporation: means any corporation or person, and their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court, who owns, controls, operates, manages, or resells a public telecommunications service as defined in Section 54-8b-2. See Utah Code 54-2-1