(a) With respect to the particular public utilities and matters over which each agency has jurisdiction, the Arkansas Public Service Commission or the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall have the power, after reasonable notice and after full and complete hearing, to enforce, originate, establish, modify, change, adjust, and promulgate tariffs, rates, joint rates, tolls, and […]
(a) The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall have the power to investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, charges, and classifications, and all rules and practices in relation thereto promulgated and prescribed by or for any public utility as defined in § 23-1-101, when the matters so investigated shall affect the public of this state. […]
All rates made, demanded, or received by any public utility, for any product or commodity furnished, or to be furnished, or any service rendered or to be rendered, and all rules made by any public utility pertaining thereto shall be just and reasonable, and to the extent that the rates or rules may be unjust […]
(a) All charges, tolls, fares, and rates shall be just and reasonable. (b) No charge shall be made in any tariffs, rates, fares, tolls, schedules, or classifications except as provided in this act.
Under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, every public utility shall file with the commission, within such time and in such form as the commission may designate, schedules showing all rates established by or for it, and collected or enforced, or to be collected or enforced, within the jurisdiction of the commission.
Every public utility shall keep copies of its rate schedules open to public inspection under such rules and at such places as the commission may prescribe.
No public utility shall directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person a greater or lesser compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by the public utility than that prescribed in the schedules of the public utility applicable thereto then filed in the manner provided in […]
(a) (1) Nothing in this act shall be taken to prohibit a public utility from establishing or entering into an agreement for a fixed period for a sliding scale or automatic adjustment of charges for public utility service in relation to the dividends to be paid to stockholders of the public utility, or the profit […]
Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit a public utility from filing a schedule or entering into any reasonable arrangements with its customers, or prospective customers, which provide for a minimum charge for services to be rendered, or from providing for any other financial device that may be lawful if the schedule or […]
(a) (1) No person, firm, or corporation subject to the provisions of this act shall modify, change, cancel, or annul any rate, joint rates, fares, classifications, charges, or rentals except after thirty (30) days’ notice to the public and to the municipal council or city commission, as the case may be, depending on the utility […]
(a) As used in this section: (1) (A) “Public utility” means a public utility as that term is defined under § 23-1-101. (B) However, “public utility” does not mean an incumbent local exchange carrier that has elected to be regulated under §§ 23-17-406 — 23-17-408 or § 23-17-412; (2) “Original cost” means the cost incurred […]
(a) This section applies to storm restoration costs incurred on or after January 1, 2009. (b) Upon application by an electric public utility and after notice and hearing, the Arkansas Public Service Commission shall permit an electric public utility to establish a storm cost reserve account consistent with the then-current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Uniform […]
