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 […]
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, […]
(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” […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
Any public utility doing business in the Virgin Islands having tracks, conduits, poles, wires, switchboards, exchanges, works, or other equipment shall, for a reasonable compensation, permit the use of the same by any other public utility whenever public convenience and necessity requires such use, and such use will not result in irreparable injury to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
(a) The District Court of the Virgin Islands shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any appeal from an order or decision of the Commission. Any public utility, or any other person or corporation affected by any final order or decision of the Commission, may, within sixty days after final action by the Commission upon […]
In the determination of any appeal from an order or decision of the Commission the review by the court shall be limited to questions of law, including constitutional questions; and the findings of fact by the Commission shall be conclusive unless it shall appear that such findings of the Commission are arbitrary, capricious or procured […]
All orders and decisions of the Commission shall remain in full effect, except as provided in section 33 of this title, unless and until they are suspended or rescinded by the Commission or are vacated by lawful order of the District Court of the Virgin Islands: provided, that if in any petition made to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
(a) If any public utility shall violate any provision of this chapter, or shall do any act herein prohibited, or shall fail or refuse to perform any duty enjoined upon it, or shall fail, neglect, or refuse to obey any lawful subpoena, requirement or order made by the Commission, or any judgment or decree made […]
The Commission shall have power, after hearing and notice by order in writing, to require and compel every public utility to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and with all other laws of the Virgin Islands applicable, and any ordinance or regulation relating to said public utility, and to conform to the duties upon […]
That every day during which any public utility, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof, shall fail knowingly or wilfully to observe and comply with any order or direction of the Commission, or perform any duty enjoined by this chapter, shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of such order, or direction, or of this […]
