Arkansas Code Title 23, Subtitle 1, Chapter 4, Subchapter 4 - Utilities -- Rate Changes and Surcharges Generally

• § 23-4-401 - Notice of Intention to File Application.
  (a) Every public utility shall notify the secretary of the Arkansas Public Service Commission in writing of its intention to file an application for...
• § 23-4-402 - Notice of Proposed Changes.
  (a) Unless the Arkansas Public Service Commission otherwise orders, no public utility shall make any change in any rate duly established under this act...
• § 23-4-403 - Changes Allowed Without Notice.
  The Arkansas Public Service Commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes in rates without requiring the thirty (30) days' notice under such conditions...
• § 23-4-404 - Proposed Changes to Be Reflected in Schedules.
  All proposed changes shall be shown by filing new schedules or shall be plainly indicated upon schedules filed and in force at the time...
• § 23-4-405 - Investigation of Proposed Rates.
  Whenever there is filed with the Arkansas Public Service Commission by any public utility a schedule stating a new rate, the commission, upon reasonable...
• § 23-4-406 - Test Periods to Justify New Rates.
  For the purpose of justifying the reasonableness of a proposed new rate schedule, a utility may utilize either a historical test period of twelve...
• § 23-4-407 - Suspension of Proposed Rates.
  (a) Pending its investigation and the decision thereon, the Arkansas Public Service Commission may suspend the operation of the rate by written order at...
• § 23-4-408 - Interim Implementation of Suspended Rates.
  (a) If the public utility contends that an immediate and impelling necessity exists for the requested rate increase, a petition may be filed with...
• § 23-4-409 - Rate Increase Not Effective Until Final Order.
  Unless the Arkansas Public Service Commission finds an immediate and impelling necessity exists as provided in § 23-4-408, or fails to enter a timely...
• § 23-4-410 - Authority of Commission to Fix Rates -- Apportionment of Increase.
  (a) If after the investigation and hearing thereon the Arkansas Public Service Commission finds the new rate to be unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory, or otherwise...
• § 23-4-411 - Failure of Commission to Reach Timely Decision -- Conditional Implementation of Suspended Rates.
  In the event no final rate determination has been made upon the schedule for new rates within ten (10) months after the date the...
• § 23-4-412 - Issuance of Commission Order -- Rates to Be Collected.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, upon issuance of the findings and order of the Arkansas Public Service Commission as prescribed in §...
• § 23-4-413 - Surcharge to Collect Rates Increased by Courts.
  (a) In the event that the rates set in the order of the Arkansas Public Service Commission subsequently are determined to have been inadequate,...
• § 23-4-414 - Refunds of Excessive Rate Collections Under Bond.
  In the event a public utility has implemented under bond or other arrangements as a matter involving an immediate and impelling necessity pursuant to...
• § 23-4-415 - Refunds of Excessive Bonded Collections -- Order Not Stayed During Rehearing.
  An application for rehearing pursuant to § 23-2-422 filed by a party aggrieved by the final order of the Arkansas Public Service Commission shall...
• § 23-4-416 - Surcharge to Collect Excessive Refunds.
  In the event that the amount of refunds ordered by the Arkansas Public Service Commission in its final order is subsequently determined to have...
• § 23-4-417 - Petition for Mandamus.
  If the Arkansas Public Service Commission's order is not issued before the expiration of the period of suspension, the filed rates shall remain subject...
• § 23-4-418 - Suit to Compel Refunds -- Proceeds.
  (a) If the public utility fails to make refunds within thirty (30) days after the effective date of the order requiring such refunds, the...
• § 23-4-419 - Applications for Additional Increases.
  (a) No public utility which has filed an application with the Arkansas Public Service Commission for a general increase in the utility rates charged...
• § 23-4-420 - Reports on Status of Applications.
  (a) Quarterly, the Arkansas Public Service Commission shall appear before the Legislative Council, file a written report, and make such oral reports as the...
• § 23-4-421 - No Changes Allowed in Terms of Employment Subject to Collective Bargaining Agreement.
  In establishing public utility rates, the Arkansas Public Service Commission shall not reduce or otherwise change any wage rate, benefit, working condition, or other...
• § 23-4-422 - Cost Allocation -- Definition.
  (a) (1) The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall establish and regulate the rates and charges of a public utility under this subchapter and shall...

Last modified: November 15, 2016