Section 5-101 – Regulation of Services

    (a)    After providing notice and an opportunity for interested parties to be heard, the Commission may adopt regulations that prescribe standards for safe, adequate, reasonable, and proper service for any class of public service company or gas master meter operator.     (b)    The standards adopted under subsection (a) of this section shall best promote, in the opinion of […]

Section 5-102 – Tickets, Rates, and Routes

    (a)    The Commission may:         (1)    as it considers reasonable and proper, order a common carrier to issue mileage, excursion, school commuter, passenger commuter, or joint interchangeable mile tickets for all or part of the common carrier’s route in the State; and         (2)    require any two or more common carriers, whose lines form a continuous line of transportation or […]

Section 5-103 – Franchises

    (a)    (1)    The Commission may require a public service company to continue any service that the public service company renders to the public under any franchise, right, or permit, after any applicable expiration date.         (2)    Unless authorized by the Commission, a public service company may not discontinue or abandon a service under a franchise, right, or permit.         (3)    The […]

Section 5-104 – Required Finding; Effect of Authorization

    (a)    The Commission may authorize the acts described in §§ 5-202, 5-203, and 5-205 of this title and § 6-101(a) of this article if it finds that the authorization is consistent with the public convenience and necessity.     (b)    Authority that the Commission grants under §§ 5-202 and 5-203 of this title does not:         (1)    revive a lapsed franchise; […]

Section 5-105 – Security Deposits From Elderly Subscribers

    The Commission shall require each gas company, electric company, and telephone company to exempt the dwelling units of subscribing individuals who are at least 60 years old from any cash deposit requirement, if the subscriber does not owe any past-due bill to that public service company.

Section 5-106 – Licenses and Permits

    Before a license or permit may be issued under this article to an employer to engage in an activity in which the employer may employ a covered employee, as defined in § 9-101 of the Labor and Employment Article, the employer shall file with the issuing authority:         (1)    a certificate of compliance with the Maryland Workers’ […]