66 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 15 - Service And Facilities

Subchapter A.  General Provisions

• Section 1501 - Character Of Service And Facilities
  Every public utility shall furnish and maintain adequate, efficient, safe, and reasonable service and facilities, and shall make all such repairs, changes, alterations, substitutions,...
• Section 1501.1 - Certain Utilities Prohibited From Using Foreign Coal
  (a) General rule.--No public utility which provides electricity or heat to a State-owned facility shall use coal mined in a foreign country for the...
• Section 1502 - Discrimination In Service
  No public utility shall, as to service, make or grant any unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation, or municipal corporation, or subject...
• Section 1503 - Discontinuance Of Service
  (a) Days discontinuance prohibited.--Except when required to prevent or alleviate an emergency as defined by the commission, except in the case of danger to...
• Section 1504 - Standards Of Service And Facilities
  The commission may, after reasonable notice and hearing, upon its own motion or upon complaint: (1) Prescribe as to service and facilities, including the...
• Section 1505 - Proper Service And Facilities Established On Complaint; Authority To Order Conservation And Load Management Programs
  (a) General rule.--Whenever the commission, after reasonable notice and hearing, upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that the service or facilities of...
• Section 1506 - Copies Of Service Contracts, Etc., To Be Filed With Commission
  Any public utility shall, when required by the commission, file with the commission verified copies of any and all contracts, writings, agreements, leases, arrangements,...
• Section 1507 - Testing Of Appliances For Measurement Of Service
  Every public utility, furnishing service upon meter or other similar measurement, shall provide, and keep in and upon the premises of such public utility,...
• Section 1508 - Reports Of Accidents
  Every public utility shall give immediate notice to the commission of the happening of any accident in or about, or in connection with, the...
• Section 1509 - Billing Procedures
  All bills rendered by a public utility as defined in paragraph (1)(i), (ii), (vi) or (vii) of the definition of "public utility" in section...
• Section 1510 - Ownership And Maintenance Of Natural And Artificial Gas Service Lines
  When connecting the premises of the customer with the gas utility distribution mains, the public utility shall furnish, install and maintain the service line...
• Section 1511 - Electricity Supplied To Certain Organizations
  Any public utility company supplying electric service shall, upon application, permit a volunteer fire company, a nonprofit rescue squad or ambulance service or a...

Subchapter B.  Discontinuance of Service to Leased Premises

• Section 1521 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 1522 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  (a) General rule.--This subchapter applies to public utilities as defined in paragraph (1)(i) and (ii) of the definition of "public utility" in section 102...
• Section 1523 - Notices Before Service To Landlord Terminated
  (a) Nonpayment of charges.--Except when required to prevent or alleviate an emergency as defined by the commission or except in the case of danger...
• Section 1524 - Request To Landlord To Identify Tenants
  (a) Duty of public utility and landlord.--At least 37 days before the termination of service, it is the duty of any public utility to...
• Section 1525 - Delivery And Contents Of Termination Notice To Landlord
  (a) General rule.--The notice required to be given to a landlord ratepayer pursuant to section 1523 (relating to notices before service to landlord terminated)...
• Section 1526 - Delivery And Contents Of First Termination Notice To Tenants
  (a) General rule.--The notice required to be given to a tenant pursuant to section 1523 (relating to notices before service to landlord terminated) shall...
• Section 1527 - Right Of Tenants To Continued Service
  (a) Application for continued service.--At any time before or after service is terminated by a public utility on account of nonpayment of charges by...
• Section 1528 - Delivery And Contents Of Subsequent Termination Notice To Tenants
  Subsequent notices required to be given to a tenant pursuant to section 1527 (relating to right of tenants to continued service) shall be sent...
• Section 1529 - Right Of Tenant To Recover Payments
  Any tenant who has made a payment to a utility on account of nonpayment of charges by the landlord ratepayer pursuant to this subchapter...
• Section 1529.1 - Duty Of Owners Of Rental Property
  (a) Notice to public utility.--It is the duty of every owner of a residential building or mobile home park which contains one or more...
• Section 1530 - Waiver Of Subchapter Prohibited
  Any waiver of a tenant's rights under this subchapter shall be void and unenforceable.
• Section 1531 - Retaliation By Landlord Prohibited
  (a) General rule.--It is unlawful for any landlord ratepayer or agent or employee thereof to threaten or take reprisals against a tenant because the...
• Section 1532 - Penalties
  (a) Per diem liquidated damages.--Any landlord ratepayer who fails to provide a utility with the names and addresses of affected tenants in accordance with...
• Section 1533 - Petition To Appoint Receiver
  (a) Appointment of receiver.--Notwithstanding the foregoing sections of this chapter, when a landlord ratepayer is two or more months in arrears in his utility...

Last modified: October 8, 2016