2010 Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers
Chapter 18 - Light, Heat, And Power Utilities
Subchapter 5 - Utility Facility Environmental and Economic Protection Act
§ 23-18-507 - Authority of Arkansas Public Service Commission.

23-18-507. Authority of Arkansas Public Service Commission.

(a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to confer upon the Arkansas Public Service Commission power or jurisdiction to regulate or supervise the rates, service, or securities of any person not otherwise subject to the commission's jurisdiction.

(b) The commission, in the discharge of its duties under this subchapter or any other act, is authorized to make joint investigations, hold joint hearings in or outside the state, and to issue joint or concurrent orders in conjunction or concurrence with any official or agency of any other state or of the United States, whether in the holding of such investigations or hearings or in the making of such orders the commission functions under agreements or compacts between states or under the concurrent power of states to regulate interstate commerce, or as an agency of the United States, or otherwise.

(c) In the discharge of its duties under this subchapter, the commission is further authorized to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts with agencies of other states, pursuant to any consent of Congress, for cooperative efforts in certification, construction, financing, operation, and maintenance of major utility facilities in accord with the purposes of this subchapter and for the enforcement of the respective state laws regarding them.

(d) The commission is deemed to be the agency of the State of Arkansas that shall be the member of any regional hearing authority or commission created by the terms of any compact between Arkansas and other states or between Arkansas and the United States otherwise concerning the implementation of this subchapter, except as may be provided by 23-18-505 and 23-18-506.

(e) It is the intent of the General Assembly to confer upon the commission, under this subchapter, broad rule-making authority adequate to enable it to comply with any requirements imposed by state or federal legislation dealing with the subject matter of this subchapter upon state-administered certification programs and to enable it to comply with any state or federal requirements for facilitating the issuance of tax-exempt bonds should their issuance be authorized.