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2014 Code of Alabama
Title 37 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
Chapter 1 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
Article 1 Organization and Personnel.- Section 37-1-1 - Commission established.
- Section 37-1-2 - Seal.
- Section 37-1-3 - Election or appointment of commissioners; terms of office; filling of vacancies.
- Section 37-1-4 - Oath.
- Section 37-1-5 - Commissioners and clerks not to render professional service to utilities.
- Section 37-1-6 - Certain persons ineligible to be commissioners.
- Section 37-1-7 - Impeachment and removal of commissioners.
- Section 37-1-8 - Office; meetings; record of proceedings.
- Section 37-1-9 - Residency of commissioners; full time devoted to official business.
- Section 37-1-10 - Domicile of commission; jurisdiction of actions or proceedings against commission.
- Section 37-1-11 - Salaries and expense allowances of commissioners.
- Section 37-1-12 - Employees - Appointment or employment; salaries; special counsel.
- Section 37-1-12.1 - Employees - Accountant, utility rates analyst, economist, etc.
- Section 37-1-12.2 - Employees - Stenographic and other clerical assistants; special investigators.
- Section 37-1-13 - Employees - Penalty for divulging certain information.
- Section 37-1-14 - Bond of supervisor of accounts.
- Section 37-1-15 - Free tickets, free passes or free transportation.
- Section 37-1-16 - Assignment of Assistant Attorney General to represent consumers and state in proceedings before commission; powers and duties of Attorney General in connection with public utility services generally; commission to furnish copies of applications, pleadings, etc., filed with it to Attorney General.
- Section 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.
- Section 37-1-18 - Consumer's Utility Rate Hearing Fund.
Division 1 General Provisions.
- Section 37-1-30 - Use of word "utility" or "utilities."
- Section 37-1-31 - Exclusive powers and jurisdiction.
- Section 37-1-32 - General supervision of utilities.
- Section 37-1-33 - Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Distribution or furnishing, etc., of electricity, gas, or steam.
- Section 37-1-34 - Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Municipal utilities.
- Section 37-1-35 - Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Exercise of certain municipal powers.
- Section 37-1-36 - Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Nonutility business.
- Section 37-1-37 - Jurisdictional exemptions or limitations - Logging or private railroads.
- Section 37-1-38 - Adoption of rules.
- Section 37-1-39 - Publication of orders and opinions.
- Section 37-1-40 - Duty of utilities to comply with orders.
- Section 37-1-41 - Reports to Governor.
- Section 37-1-42 - Furnishing information to Department of Revenue.
- Section 37-1-43 - Jurisdiction over utilities engaged in interstate commerce not regulated under acts of Congress.
- Section 37-1-44 - Proceedings when interstate rates or rules, etc., deemed excessive or discriminatory.
- Section 37-1-45 - Sitting or conferring with commissions of other states.
- Section 37-1-46 - Sitting or conferring with federal commissions or agencies.
- Section 37-1-47 - Intervention, initiation or participation in federal proceedings involving interstate rates, etc., in Alabama.
- Section 37-1-48 - Waiver by utility of terms or conditions in municipal ordinances or contracts.
- Section 37-1-49 - Duty of utility to render adequate service and maintain facilities.
- Section 37-1-50 - Certificate for abandonment of service.
- Section 37-1-51 - Classification of utility services.
- Section 37-1-52 - Prescribing standards of service; regulations for testing of service.
- Section 37-1-52.1 - Operator service to include access to live operator.
- Section 37-1-53 - Providing for accuracy of meters or measuring devices, etc.
- Section 37-1-54 - Establishing uniform systems of accounts for utilities.
- Section 37-1-55 - Separation of intrastate railroad operations for accounting purposes.
- Section 37-1-56 - Prescribing changes in form for schedules and service regulations.
- Section 37-1-57 - Requiring reports and information from utilities - Generally.
- Section 37-1-58 - Requiring reports and information from utilities - Annual return of business.
- Section 37-1-59 - Requiring reports and information from utilities - Additional reports of earnings and operating expenses.
- Section 37-1-60 - Requiring reports and information from utilities - Form of reports and records.
- Section 37-1-61 - Requiring reports and information from utilities - Originals to be subscribed and sworn to; preservation in office of commission.
- Section 37-1-62 - Reports, records and accounts to be open for public inspection.
- Section 37-1-63 - Powers of commissioners and examiners to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc.
- Section 37-1-64 - Attorney General to represent commission in legal proceedings; employment of special counsel.
- Section 37-1-65 - Actions to enforce penalties or forfeitures.
- Section 37-1-66 - Powers of members of enforcement division.
- Section 37-1-80 - Rates to be just and reasonable; right of utility to earn fair net return; alternative methods of regulation.
- Section 37-1-80.1 - Review and adjustment of rates of connecting telephone companies when South Central Bell Telephone Company receives increase in net return.
- Section 37-1-80.2 - Dual party relay system and fund; board of trustees; funding of other services; liability of trustees.
- Section 37-1-81 - Schedules of rates or service regulations.
- Section 37-1-82 - Production and inspection of books or records, etc., of utilities.
- Section 37-1-83 - Investigation of unfair rates or inadequate service; who may file complaints; continuance.
- Section 37-1-84 - Filing and contents of complaint.
- Section 37-1-85 - Time and place of hearing.
- Section 37-1-86 - Notice and process.
- Section 37-1-87 - Intervention in proceedings before commission.
- Section 37-1-88 - Right of party to be heard in person or by attorney.
- Section 37-1-89 - Taking of testimony; further investigation; laws governing conduct of hearing; transcript.
- Section 37-1-90 - Separate hearings on several matters.
- Section 37-1-91 - Witnesses not excused for reasons of incrimination or forfeiture; perjury prosecution not barred.
- Section 37-1-92 - Depositions of witnesses.
- Section 37-1-93 - Fees of witnesses.
- Section 37-1-94 - Time allowed commission for making decision.
- Section 37-1-95 - Order requiring discontinuance or rectification of violation.
- Section 37-1-96 - Necessity for hearing prior to order affecting rate or service.
- Section 37-1-97 - Order fixing reasonable rate.
- Section 37-1-98 - Certified copies of orders.
- Section 37-1-99 - Rates and orders of commission deemed prima facie reasonable and valid.
- Section 37-1-100 - Effective date of orders.
- Section 37-1-101 - Modification of orders.
- Section 37-1-102 - Record of proceedings.
- Section 37-1-103 - Substantial compliance by commission with requirements of title sufficient.
- Section 37-1-104 - Power of circuit court to compel compliance with commission orders, etc.
- Section 37-1-105 - Rehearing.
Division 1 General Provisions.
- Section 37-1-120 - Right of appeal to Circuit Court of Montgomery County - Generally.
- Section 37-1-121 - Right of appeal to Circuit Court of Montgomery County - Intervenors or interested parties.
- Section 37-1-122 - Time for appeal; how appeal perfected.
- Section 37-1-123 - Record or transcript of proceedings before commission.
- Section 37-1-124 - Proceedings on appeal.
- Section 37-1-125 - Right to supersede order by giving bond.
- Section 37-1-126 - Superseding order - Order of stay or supersedeas.
- Section 37-1-127 - Superseding order - Statement of approximate effect on revenues.
- Section 37-1-128 - Superseding order - Amount of bond.
- Section 37-1-129 - Superseding order - Additional bond.
- Section 37-1-130 - Superseding order - Order stayed and superseded upon giving bond; termination of stay or supersedeas.
- Section 37-1-131 - Rate suspension to affect only utilities giving bond.
- Section 37-1-132 - Right of appeal to supreme court.
- Section 37-1-133 - Appeal by commission or State.
- Section 37-1-134 - Appeal by utility.
- Section 37-1-135 - Action on bond for damages resulting from suspension of rates or orders.
- Section 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.
- Section 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.
- Section 37-1-142 - Certification to supreme court of record or transcript of proceedings before commission.
- Section 37-1-143 - Review of case to be upon certified record or transcript; remand of case to commission for additional proceedings; employment of special masters, accountants, consultants, etc., by chief justice.
- Section 37-1-144 - Subdivision cumulative; repeal of conflicting laws.
- Section 37-1-150 - Bond as condition precedent to issuance of injunction or restraining order.
- Section 37-1-151 - Notice to commission.
- Section 37-1-152 - Filing of bond; condition to pay damages.
- Section 37-1-153 - Right to appeal.
- Section 37-1-154 - Bond required upon appeal by utility.
- Section 37-1-155 - Action on bond.
- Section 37-1-156 - Delivery of bond upon dissolution of injunction; receipt in evidence.
- Section 37-1-157 - Costs.
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