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2014 Utah Code
Title 54 - Public Utilities
Chapter 3 - Duties of Public Utilities
Section 8 - Preferences forbidden -- Power of commission to determine facts -- Applicability of section.

UT Code § 54-3-8 (2014) What's This?
Effective 5/13/2014
54-3-8. Preferences forbidden -- Power of commission to determine facts -- Applicability of section.
(1) Except as provided in Chapter 8b, Public Telecommunications Law, a public utility may not:
(a) as to rates, charges, service, facilities or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any person, or subject any person to any prejudice or disadvantage; and
(b) establish or maintain any unreasonable difference as to rates, charges, service or facilities, or in any other respect, either as between localities or as between classes of service.
(2) The commission shall have power to determine any question of fact arising under this section.
(3) This section does not apply to, and the commission may not enforce this chapter concerning, a schedule, classification, rate, price, charge, fare, toll, rental, rule, service, facility, or contract of an entity described in Subsection 54-2-1(7)(b)(iii) or (iv), (17), or (19)(i), or if the electricity is consumed by an eligible customer for the eligible customer's own use or the use of the eligible customer's tenant or affiliate.


Amended by Chapter 381, 2014 General Session

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