§ 39-3-1. Services for which certificate of necessity required. No public utility, whether privately owned or a quasi-public agency, shall distribute electricity or furnish or sell gas in any town or city in which any other public utility is at the time distributing electricity or furnishing or selling gas to the public generally, unless the […]
§ 39-3-1.1. Purchasing cooperatives. Purchasing cooperatives may at any time be organized consisting of any group of electricity consumers for the purpose of negotiating for electric power from nonregulated power producers. The purchasing cooperatives shall be considered to be associations of electricity consumers organized solely for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of electric power […]
§ 39-3-1.2. Aggregation of electrical load by municipality or group of municipalities. (a)(1) The legislative authority of a municipality may adopt an ordinance or resolution, under which it may aggregate in accordance with this section one or more classes of the retail electrical loads located, respectively, within the municipality or town and, for that purpose, […]
§ 39-3-10. Filing and availability of rate schedules. (a) Every public utility shall file with the public utilities administrator, within a time to be fixed by the administrator, schedules that shall be open to public inspection, showing all rates, tolls, and charges it has established and that are in force at the time for any […]
§ 39-3-11. Notice of change in rates — Suspension of change — Hearings. (a) No change shall be made in the rates, tolls, and charges that have been filed and published by any public utility in compliance with the requirements of § 39-3-10, except after thirty (30) days’ notice to the commission and to the […]
§ 39-3-11.1. Changes in rates of publicly owned water authorities. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the commission shall not have the power to suspend the taking effect of any change or changes in the rates, tolls, and charges filed and published in compliance with the requirements of §§ 39-3-10 and 39-3-11 by […]
§ 39-3-11.2. [Repealed.] History of Section.P.L. 1993, ch. 138, art. 37, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 70, art. 17, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 28, § 1; P.L. 1996, ch. 100, art. 38, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 30, art. 11, § 1; P.L. 1998, ch. 31, art. 17, § 1; P.L. 1999, […]
§ 39-3-11.3. Providence Water Supply Board transfer. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Providence Water Supply Board shall transfer to the general fund of the city of Providence an amount equal to five percent (5%) per annum times the annual gross revenues of the Providence Water Supply Board for the fiscal year ending June […]
§ 39-3-12. Burden of proof to sustain increased rates — Modification of requirements. At any hearing involving any proposed increase in any rate, toll, or charge, the burden of proof to show that the increase is necessary in order to obtain a reasonable compensation for the service rendered shall be upon the public utility; provided, […]
§ 39-3-12.1. Information required of water utility. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, no water company, supplier, or water utility regulated by the commission shall be allowed to file its rate schedules or notice of changes in rates unless it shall also file a statement containing the following information: (1) The status of […]
§ 39-3-12.2. Certain advertising costs prohibited on rate base. No electric utility, as defined in chapter 1 of this title, may include as part of its rate base any expense for advertising, either direct or indirect, that promotes the construction of a nuclear facility for the generation of electricity, and no utility so regulated may […]
§ 39-3-13. Emergency suspension of rate schedules. The division shall have power, when deemed by it necessary to prevent injury to the business or interest of the people or any public utility of this state in case of any emergency to be judged of by the division, to permit any public utility to temporarily alter, […]
§ 39-3-13.1. Power to order refunds. The division shall have the power, when deemed by it necessary, to provide remedial relief from unjust, unreasonable, or discriminatory acts, or from any matter, act, or thing done by a public utility, which matter, act, or thing is in chapters 1 — 5 of this title, or otherwise, […]
§ 39-3-14. Accounting and records of utilities. The division may, from time to time, establish and prescribe a system of forms of accounts to be used by all public utilities, or may classify the public utilities and prescribe a system of forms of accounts for each class thereof. The accounts of all public utilities shall […]
§ 39-3-15. Security issues for which permission required. A public utility, as defined in § 39-1-2, may not, without application to and authority from the division, issue stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, payable more than twelve (12) months from the date of issue, when necessary for the acquisition of property; the construction, […]
§ 39-3-16. [Repealed.] History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 62; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 58; Repealed by P.L. 1996, ch. 316, § 1, effective August 7, 1996.
§ 39-3-17. Procedure for obtaining authority for security issues. (a) The proceedings for obtaining the consent and authority of the division for the security issue as provided in §§ 39-3-15 — 39-3-23 shall be as follows: (1) In case the stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness are to be issued for money only, […]
§ 39-3-18. Order of division as to security issue. The order of the division shall fix the amount, character, and terms of any issue, and the purposes to which the issue or any proceeds thereof shall be applied, and recite that the money, property, consideration, or labor procured or to be procured or paid for […]
§ 39-3-19. Unauthorized securities. All stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, payable at periods of more than twelve (12) months after the date of issue thereof, issued by any public utility after April 30, 1936, without the consent or permission of the division, as provided in this chapter, shall be void and of […]
§ 39-3-2. Persons and companies eligible for certificates. No certificate shall be issued to any person who is not a citizen resident within this state, or to any association, unless all members of the association are citizens of this state, or to any corporation unless the corporation has been created by special act of the […]
