§ 62-54 – Notification of opportunity to object to telephone solicitation.
62-54. Notification of opportunity to object to telephone solicitation. The Commission shall require each local exchange company and each competing local provider certified to do business in North Carolina to notify all telephone subscribers who subscribe to residential service from that company of the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 75 of the General Statutes […]
§ 62-38 – Power to regulate public utilities in municipalities.
62-38. Power to regulate public utilities in municipalities. The Commission shall have the same power and authority to regulate the operation of privately owned public utilities within municipalities as it has to regulate such public utilities operating outside of municipalities, with the exception of the rights of such municipalities to grant franchises for such operation […]
§ 62-39 – To regulate crossings of telephone, telegraph, electric power lines and pipelines and rights-of-way of railroads and other utilities by another utility.
62-39. To regulate crossings of telephone, telegraph, electric power lines and pipelines and rights-of-way of railroads and other utilities by another utility. (a) The Commission, upon its own motion or upon petition of any public utility or upon petition of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority on behalf of any electric membership corporation, shall have […]
§ 62-40 – To hear and determine controversies submitted.
62-40. To hear and determine controversies submitted. When a public utility embraced in this Chapter has a controversy with another person and all the parties to such controversy agree in writing to submit such controversy to the Commission as arbitrator, the Commission shall act as such, and after due notice to all parties interested shall […]
§ 62-41 – To investigate accidents involving public utilities; to promote general safety program.
62-41. To investigate accidents involving public utilities; to promote general safety program. The Commission may conduct a program of accident prevention and public safety covering all public utilities with special emphasis on highway safety and transport safety and may investigate the causes of any accident on a highway involving a public utility. Any information obtained […]
§ 62-42 – Compelling efficient service, extensions of services and facilities, additions and improvements.
62-42. Compelling efficient service, extensions of services and facilities, additions and improvements. (a) Except as otherwise limited in this Chapter, whenever the Commission, after notice and hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds: (1) That the service of any public utility is inadequate, insufficient or unreasonably discriminatory, or (2) That persons are […]
§ 62-43 – Fixing standards, classifications, etc.; testing service.
62-43. Fixing standards, classifications, etc.; testing service. (a) The Commission may, after notice and hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint, ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, or service to be furnished, imposed, observed or followed by any or all public utilities; ascertain and fix adequate and reasonable standards […]
§ 62-44 – Commission may require continuous telephone lines.
62-44. Commission may require continuous telephone lines. The Commission may, upon its own motion or upon written complaint by any person, after notice and hearing, require any two or more telephone or telegraph utilities to establish and maintain through lines within the State between two or more localities, which cannot be communicated with or reached […]
§ 62-45 – Determination of cost and value of utility property.
62-45. Determination of cost and value of utility property. The Commission, after notice and hearing, may ascertain and fix the cost or value, or both, of the whole or any part of the property of any public utility insofar as the same is material to the exercise of the jurisdiction of the Commission, make revaluations […]
§ 62-46 – Water gauging stations.
62-46. Water gauging stations. The Commission may require the location, establishment, maintenance and operation of any water gauging station which it finds is needed in the State over and above those required by federal agencies, and the Commission may cooperate with federal and other State agencies as to the location, construction and reports and the […]