Section 7 – Charges not to vary from schedules — Refunds and rebates forbidden — Exceptions.
54-3-7. Charges not to vary from schedules — Refunds and rebates forbidden — Exceptions. Except as provided in this chapter or Chapter 8b, Public Telecommunications Law, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished, or for any […]
Section 8 – Preferences forbidden — Power of commission to determine facts — Applicability of section.
Effective 5/4/2022 54-3-8. Preferences forbidden — Power of commission to determine facts — Applicability of section. (1) Except as provided in Chapter 8b, Public Telecommunications Law, a public utility may not: (a) as to rates, charges, service, facilities or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any person, or subject […]
Section 8.5 – Rate on electricity for agricultural irrigation or drainage.
54-3-8.5. Rate on electricity for agricultural irrigation or drainage. The commission in approving any rate applicable to customers who use electric power for agricultural irrigation or soil drainage purposes which includes a demand or power charge as a separate charge shall take into consideration the productive utilization of agricultural water and electric energy. Enacted by […]
Section 9 – Sliding scale of charges — Control by commission.
54-3-9. Sliding scale of charges — Control by commission. Nothing in this title shall be taken to prohibit a corporation or person engaged in the production, generation, transmission, or furnishing of heat, light, water or power, or telegraph or telephone service, from establishing a sliding scale of charges, provided a schedule showing such scale of […]
Section 10 – Interchange of business required.
54-3-10. Interchange of business required. Every telephone corporation and telegraph corporation operating in this state shall receive, transmit, and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations and messages of every other telephone or telegraph corporation with whose line a physical connection may have been made. Amended by Chapter 170, 1996 General Session
Section 19 – Long and short distance service — Through and intermediate rates.
54-3-19. Long and short distance service — Through and intermediate rates. (1) A telephone or telegraph corporation may not charge or receive any greater compensation, in the aggregate, for the transmission of any long distance message or conversation for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same […]
Section 21 – Commission to be furnished information and copies of records — Hearings before commission to be public — Privilege.
Effective 5/8/2018 54-3-21. Commission to be furnished information and copies of records — Hearings before commission to be public — Privilege. (1) Every public utility shall furnish to the commission in such form and such detail as the commission shall prescribe all tabulations and computations and all other information required by it to carry into […]
Section 22 – Required reports.
54-3-22. Required reports. Every public utility shall furnish to the commission at such time and in such form as the commission may require a report in which the public utility shall specifically answer all questions propounded by the commission upon or concerning any matter upon which the commission may desire information. The commission shall have […]
Section 23 – Commission’s orders must be obeyed.
54-3-23. Commission’s orders must be obeyed. Every public utility shall obey and comply with each and every requirement of every order, decision, direction, rule or regulation made or prescribed by the commission in the matters herein specified, or in any other matter in any way relating to or affecting its business as a public utility, […]
Section 1 – Charges must be just; service adequate; rules reasonable.
54-3-1. Charges must be just; service adequate; rules reasonable. All charges made, demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished, or for any service rendered or to be rendered, shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust or unreasonable […]