§ 25a. Annual assessment of utilities
(a) As used in this section: “gross operating revenues” means the gross operating revenues of a public utility derived from intraterritorial regulated operations in the last preceding calendar year except as it relates to the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, gross operating revenue calculations do not include fuel charges, referred to as the “LEAC” […]
§ 26. Complaints by utilities
Any public utility may make complaint as to any matter affecting its own product or service with like effect as though made by the Commission or upon reasonable complaint as hereinbefore provided.
§ 27. Power to administer oaths
Each of the members of the Commission and every agent provided for in section 19 of this title [sic] for the purposes mentioned in this section, shall have power to administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony. In […]
§ 28. Depositions
The Commission or any party may, in any investigation, cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the Virgin Islands to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in the District Court.
§ 20. Investigations of rates and services
(a) Upon its own initiative or upon reasonable complaint made against any public utility including the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority that any of the rates, tolls, charges, or schedules, or services, or time and conditions of payment, or any joint rate or rates, schedules, or services, are in any respect unreasonable or unjustly […]
§ 21. Notice to utility of complaint
The Commission shall prior to such formal hearing notify the public utility complained of that a complaint has been made, and ten days after such notice has been given the Commission may proceed to set a time and place for a hearing and an investigation as hereinafter provided.
§ 22. Notice to utility of hearing
The Commission shall give the public utility and the complainant, if any, ten days’ notice of the time and place when and where such hearing and investigation will be held and such matters considered and determined. Both the public utility and the complainant shall be entitled to be heard and shall have process to enforce […]
§ 23. Power of Commission to fix rates and services
(a) If upon such investigation the rates, tolls, charges, schedules, or joint rates shall be found to be unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, or unjustly discriminatory, or to be preferential or otherwise in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the Commission shall have power to determine and by order fix and order to be […]
§ 24. Suspension of rates
Whenever there is filed with the Commission any new charge, classification, or practice, the Commissioner may either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, upon reasonable notice, enter upon a hearing concerning the lawlessness thereof; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon, the Commission, upon delivering to the utility affected thereby a […]
§ 15c. Rules governing rate reductions
The Commission shall promulgate rules for the prompt, fair, and efficient establishment and maintenance of reductions in the fare rates and schedules for elderly persons of any passenger services by motor buses or trucks or public marine transportation services operating under government grant of exclusive franchise or any other mode of public passenger transportation service […]