2014 Idaho Statutes
Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION
Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Section 61-505 - JOINT HEARINGS AND INVESTIGATIONS -- RECIPROCITY -- CONTRACTS WITH REGULATORY AGENCIES OF NEIGHBORING STATES.
(2) The commission shall have full power and authority to contract with the regulatory agencies of neighboring states to hold hearings and set rates and charges for customers in Idaho located in or nearby border communities served by utilities principally located in states other than Idaho. These contracts may have a term that extends beyond the terms of the current commissioners.
(3) The commission shall have this authority under subsection (2) of this section only if it finds that:
(4) When the commission has entered into a contract authorized in subsection (2) of this section, the findings, decisions and orders of the regulatory agency of the neighboring state are presumptively correct and will take effect according to the terms of the order of the regulatory agency of the neighboring state. Affected Idaho customers may petition the commission for a review of the contract or the rates set under the contract upon a showing that:
The commission, upon its preliminary finding that rates set by the regulatory agency of the neighboring state are prima facie discriminatory, preferential or otherwise unlawful, and that all remedies with the neighboring state's utility and commission have been exhausted, may initiate proceedings to review the decision of the regulatory agency of the neighboring state. Any subsequent order of the commission altering the decision of the regulatory agency of the neighboring state will be of prospective effect only.
(5) The contract authorized in subsection (2) of this section, may be revoked if the commission finds that the affected Idaho residents have been unreasonably, discriminatorily, preferentially or otherwise unlawfully treated by the neighboring state's regulatory agency.
History:
[(61-505) 1929, ch. 29, sec. 1, p. 31; I.C.A., sec. 59-505; rep. and reen. 1969, ch. 229, sec. 1, p. 737; am. 1982, ch. 258, sec. 1, p. 669; am. 1990, ch. 79, sec. 1, p. 161.]
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