§ 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” […]
§ 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 […]
§ 15. Schedules binding
It shall be unlawful for any public utility to charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the Virgin Islands, or for any service in connection therewith, than is specified in such printed schedules, including schedules of joint rates, as may at the time be in […]
§ 15a. Transportation rate reductions for the elderly
The Commission shall not approve fare rates or schedules of any passenger services by motor buses or trucks or public marine passenger transportation services operating under government grant of exclusive franchise or any other mode of public passenger transportation service subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, unless these rates or schedules include provisions granting […]
§ 15b. Regulations governing periods during which rate reductions are applicable
The Commission shall establish reasonable regulations concerning the day or days, or parts of days, of the week during which reduced rates for the elderly apply and prescribing the use of some form of age identification.