§ 37. Immunity of witnesses
No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing books, accounts, and papers in any proceeding based upon or growing out of any violation of the provisions of this chapter, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or […]
§ 38. Penalty for refusal to supply information
Any officer, agent, or employee of any public utility who shall fail or refuse to fill out and return any blanks, as required by this chapter, or shall fail or refuse to answer any question therein propounded, or shall knowingly or wilfully give a false answer to any such question, or shall evade the answer […]
§ 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 […]
§ 32. Changes of Commission orders
The Commission may, at any time, upon notice to the public utility and after opportunity to be heard as provided in section 22 of this title, rescind, alter, or amend any order fixing any rate or rates, tolls, charges, or schedules, or any other order made by the Commission, and certified copies of the same […]
§ 33. Petitions for reconsideration
Any public utility or any other person or corporation affected by any final order or decision of the Commission may, within thirty days after publication thereof, file with the Commission an application in writing requesting a reconsideration of the matters involved, and stating specifically the errors claimed as grounds for such reconsideration. No public utility, […]
§ 25. Expenses of investigation
In connection with any proceeding involving a public utility with a net investment of $1,000,000 or more, the expenses of any investigation or proceeding of any nature by the Commission of or concerning any public utility operating in the Virgin Islands, and all expenses of any litigation, including appeals, arising from any such investigation, valuation, […]
§ 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.