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Alabama Code (Last Updated: November 28, 2014) |
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Title37 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. |
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Chapter1. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. |
| Article 1. Organization and Personnel. |
| § 37-1-1. Commission established. |
| § 37-1-2. Seal. |
| § 37-1-3. Election or appointment of commissioners; terms of office; filling of vacancies. |
| § 37-1-4. Oath. |
| § 37-1-5. Commissioners and clerks not to render professional service to utilities. |
| § 37-1-6. Certain persons ineligible to be commissioners. |
| § 37-1-7. Impeachment and removal of commissioners. |
| § 37-1-8. Office; meetings; record of proceedings. |
| § 37-1-9. Residency of commissioners; full time devoted to official business. |
| § 37-1-10. Domicile of commission; jurisdiction of actions or proceedings against commission. |
| § 37-1-11. Salaries and expense allowances of commissioners. |
| § 37-1-12. Employees - Appointment or employment; salaries; special counsel. |
| § 37-1-12.1. Employees - Accountant, utility rates analyst, economist, etc. |
| § 37-1-12.2. Employees - Stenographic and other clerical assistants; special investigators. |
| § 37-1-13. Employees - Penalty for divulging certain information. |
| § 37-1-14. Bond of supervisor of accounts. |
| § 37-1-15. Free tickets, free passes or free transportation. |
| § 37-1-17. Economic and financial studies and surveys of public utility services; compilation of financial and economic data, statistics and analysis; evaluations of future needs. |
| § 37-1-18. Consumer's Utility Rate Hearing Fund. |
| Article 2. Powers and Duties Generally. |
| Division 1. General Provisions. |
| § 37-1-30. Use of word "utility" or "utilities." |
| § 37-1-31. Exclusive powers and jurisdiction. |
| § 37-1-32. General supervision of utilities. |
| § 37-1-33. Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Distribution or furnishing, etc., of electricity, gas, or steam. |
| § 37-1-34. Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Municipal utilities. |
| § 37-1-35. Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Exercise of certain municipal powers. |
| § 37-1-36. Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Nonutility business. |
| § 37-1-37. Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Logging or private railroads. |
| § 37-1-38. Adoption of rules. |
| § 37-1-39. Publication of orders and opinions. |
| § 37-1-40. Duty of utilities to comply with orders. |
| § 37-1-41. Reports to Governor. |
| § 37-1-42. Furnishing information to Department of Revenue. |
| § 37-1-43. Jurisdiction over utilities engaged in interstate commerce not regulated under acts of Congress. |
| § 37-1-44. Proceedings when interstate rates or rules, etc., deemed excessive or discriminatory. |
| § 37-1-45. Sitting or conferring with commissions of other states. |
| § 37-1-46. Sitting or conferring with federal commissions or agencies. |
| § 37-1-47. Intervention, initiation or participation in federal proceedings involving interstate rates, etc., in Alabama. |
| § 37-1-48. Waiver by utility of terms or conditions in municipal ordinances or contracts. |
| § 37-1-49. Duty of utility to render adequate service and maintain facilities. |
| § 37-1-50. Certificate for abandonment of service. |
| § 37-1-51. Classification of utility services. |
| § 37-1-52. Prescribing standards of service; regulations for testing of service. |
| § 37-1-52.1. Operator service to include access to live operator. |
| § 37-1-53. Providing for accuracy of meters or measuring devices, etc. |
| § 37-1-54. Establishing uniform systems of accounts for utilities. |
| § 37-1-55. Separation of intrastate railroad operations for accounting purposes. |
| § 37-1-56. Prescribing changes in form for schedules and service regulations. |
| § 37-1-57. Requiring reports and information from utilities - Generally. |
| § 37-1-58. Requiring reports and information from utilities - Annual return of business. |
| § 37-1-59. Requiring reports and information from utilities - Additional reports of earnings and operating expenses. |
| § 37-1-60. Requiring reports and information from utilities - Form of reports and records. |
| § 37-1-61. Requiring reports and information from utilities - Originals to be subscribed and sworn to; preservation in office of commission. |
| § 37-1-62. Reports, records and accounts to be open for public inspection. |
| § 37-1-63. Powers of commissioners and examiners to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc. |
| § 37-1-64. Attorney General to represent commission in legal proceedings; employment of special counsel. |
| § 37-1-65. Actions to enforce penalties or forfeitures. |
| § 37-1-66. Powers of members of enforcement division. |
| Division 2. Rates and Other Regulations. |
| § 37-1-80. Rates to be just and reasonable; right of utility to earn fair net return; alternative methods of regulation. |
| § 37-1-80.1. Review and adjustment of rates of connecting telephone companies when South Central Bell Telephone Company receives increase in net return. |
| § 37-1-80.2. Dual party relay system and fund; board of trustees; funding of other services; liability of trustees. |
| § 37-1-81. Schedules of rates or service regulations. |
| § 37-1-82. Production and inspection of books or records, etc., of utilities. |
| § 37-1-83. Investigation of unfair rates or inadequate service; who may file complaints; continuance. |
| § 37-1-84. Filing and contents of complaint. |
| § 37-1-85. Time and place of hearing. |
| § 37-1-86. Notice and process. |
| § 37-1-87. Intervention in proceedings before commission. |
| § 37-1-88. Right of party to be heard in person or by attorney. |
| § 37-1-89. Taking of testimony; further investigation; laws governing conduct of hearing; transcript. |
| § 37-1-90. Separate hearings on several matters. |
| § 37-1-91. Witnesses not excused for reasons of incrimination or forfeiture; perjury prosecution not barred. |
| § 37-1-92. Depositions of witnesses. |
| § 37-1-93. Fees of witnesses. |
| § 37-1-94. Time allowed commission for making decision. |
| § 37-1-95. Order requiring discontinuance or rectification of violation. |
| § 37-1-96. Necessity for hearing prior to order affecting rate or service. |
| § 37-1-97. Order fixing reasonable rate. |
| § 37-1-98. Certified copies of orders. |
| § 37-1-99. Rates and orders of commission deemed prima facie reasonable and valid. |
| § 37-1-100. Effective date of orders. |
| § 37-1-101. Modification of orders. |
| § 37-1-102. Record of proceedings. |
| § 37-1-103. Substantial compliance by commission with requirements of title sufficient. |
| § 37-1-104. Power of circuit court to compel compliance with commission orders, etc. |
| § 37-1-105. Rehearing. |
| Division 3. Appeals. |
| Division 1. General Provisions. |
| § 37-1-120. Right of appeal to Circuit Court of Montgomery County - Generally. |
| § 37-1-121. Right of appeal to Circuit Court of Montgomery County - Intervenors or interested parties. |
| § 37-1-122. Time for appeal; how appeal perfected. |
| § 37-1-123. Record or transcript of proceedings before commission. |
| § 37-1-124. Proceedings on appeal. |
| § 37-1-125. Right to supersede order by giving bond. |
| § 37-1-126. Superseding order - Order of stay or supersedeas. |
| § 37-1-127. Superseding order - Statement of approximate effect on revenues. |
| § 37-1-128. Superseding order - Amount of bond. |
| § 37-1-129. Superseding order - Additional bond. |
| § 37-1-130. Superseding order - Order stayed and superseded upon giving bond; termination of stay or supersedeas. |
| § 37-1-131. Rate suspension to affect only utilities giving bond. |
| § 37-1-132. Right of appeal to supreme court. |
| § 37-1-133. Appeal by commission or State. |
| § 37-1-134. Appeal by utility. |
| § 37-1-135. Action on bond for damages resulting from suspension of rates or orders. |
| Division 2. Appeals in Cases Involving Rates and Charges of Telephone Companies or Public Utilities. |
| § 37-1-140. Direct appeal to Supreme Court as matter of right; preferred setting of appeals; time for taking appeals; bond required when appellant is utility or person. |
| § 37-1-141. Who may appeal; manner of taking appeal; application for supersedeas; supersedeas bonds; collection of denied rate increases prior to final disposition of case. |
| § 37-1-142. Certification to supreme court of record or transcript of proceedings before commission. |
| § 37-1-144. Subdivision cumulative; repeal of conflicting laws. |
| Division 4. Injunction or Restraining Order. |
| § 37-1-150. Bond as condition precedent to issuance of injunction or restraining order. |
| § 37-1-151. Notice to commission. |
| § 37-1-152. Filing of bond; condition to pay damages. |
| § 37-1-153. Right to appeal. |
| § 37-1-154. Bond required upon appeal by utility. |
| § 37-1-155. Action on bond. |
| § 37-1-156. Delivery of bond upon dissolution of injunction; receipt in evidence. |
| § 37-1-157. Costs. |