§ 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.
§ 29. Records of proceedings
A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the Commission or its agents on any formal investigation had, and all testimony shall be taken down by a stenographer appointed by the Commission, unless otherwise directed by the Commission.
§ 30. Transcript as evidence
A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, in any investigation taken by a stenographer appointed by the Commission, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of all the testimony in the investigation or of a particular witness, or of other specific part thereof, carefully […]
§ 31. Compliance with Commission rate orders
All public utilities to which an order of the Commission applies shall make such changes in their schedules on file as may be necessary to make the same conform to said order, and no change shall thereafter be made by any public utility in any such rates, tolls, or charges, or in any joint rate […]
§ 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 […]
§ 17. Subpoena of records
(a) The Commission may require, by order or subpoena, to be served upon any public utility in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the production within the Virgin Islands at such time and place as it may designate of any books, […]