2011 Vermont Code
Title 30 Public Service
Chapter 5 POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
§ 208 Complaints; investigations; procedure
§ 208. Complaints; investigations; procedure
A complaint to the public service board may be made against a company subject to supervision under the provisions of this chapter concerning any claimed unlawful act or neglect adversely affecting the complainant, who may be a company or five or more individuals or, if less than five are so affected, then any one of them. The complainant may bring his or her complaint directly before the board or he or she may file his or her complaint with the department of public service which shall investigate such complaint and if sufficient cause exists, shall prosecute the same in the name of the state. Upon request of the trustees of an incorporated village or the selectmen or city council or upon its own motion, the department of public service may institute investigations regarding the price, toll, rate or rental charged by any utility. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), { 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1979, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), { 24, eff. Feb. 1, 1981.)
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