2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 17 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation, Constitutions
Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally
Section 757.991 - Civil penalty for noncompliance with gas regulations.

(1) Any person or municipality, or any agent, lessee, trustee or receiver of the person or municipality, engaged in the management, operation, ownership or control of facilities for the transmission or distribution of gas by pipeline, or of facilities for the storage or treatment of gas to be transmitted or distributed by pipeline, who fails to comply with ORS 757.039, or fails to comply with any order, rule or regulation of the Public Utility Commission made pursuant to ORS 757.039, is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $200,000 for each such failure for each day that the failure persists, except that the maximum civil penalty may not exceed $2 million for any related series of failures.

(2) Notwithstanding ORS 183.315 (6), 183.745 (7)(d) and 756.500 to 756.610, civil penalties under this section must be imposed by the commission as provided in ORS 183.745.

(3) Civil penalties collected under this section must be paid into the General Fund and credited to the Public Utility Commission Account as described in ORS 756.990 (7).

[1969 c.372 §4; 1991 c.199 §1; 2015 c.231 §1]