Arkansas Code Title 23, Subtitle 1, Chapter 3, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 23-3-101 - Organization or Reorganization.
  (a) Organizations or reorganizations of all public utilities shall be subject to the supervision and control of the Arkansas Public Service Commission or the...
• § 23-3-102 - Consolidations, Stock Purchases in Another Utility, or Rentals of Additional Property.
  (a) With the consent and approval of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, but not otherwise: (1) Any two (2) or more public utilities may...
• § 23-3-103 - Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Etc., and Creation of Liens -- Regulation by Commissions.
  (a) (1) The power of public utilities to issue stocks, stock certificates, bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness in case of public utilities...
• § 23-3-104 - Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Etc. -- Issuance.
  (a) (1) When authorized by order of the commission, and not otherwise, a public utility may issue stock, bonds, notes, or other evidence of...
• § 23-3-105 - Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Etc. -- Amount of Issue.
  The commission shall have no power to authorize the issuance of stocks, notes, bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness of any public utility in...
• § 23-3-106 - Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Etc. -- Disposition of Proceeds.
  The commission shall have the power to require every public utility, other than municipalities, to account for the disposition of the proceeds of all...
• § 23-3-107 - Stocks, Bonds, Notes, Etc. -- Liability of State.
  No provision of this act and no deed or act done or performed under or in connection therewith shall be construed to obligate the...
• § 23-3-108 - Domestication of Foreign Railroad, Pipeline, or Electric Light and Power Corporations.
  (a) (1) Before any foreign railroad corporation, foreign pipeline corporation, or foreign light and power corporation organized for the purpose of generating, transmitting, distributing,...
• § 23-3-109 - Annual Statements of Gross Earnings.
  (a) Annually, during the month of March, each utility subject by law to the payment of fees or charges under the jurisdiction of either...
• § 23-3-110 - Annual Fees Generally.
  (a) (1) There is levied and charged and there shall be collected annually from each utility subject by law to the payment of fees...
• § 23-3-111 - Fees -- Foreign Companies Doing Intrastate Business.
  (a) All foreign railroad, street, interurban, or other transportation companies now doing intrastate business, or desiring to engage in intrastate business, or authorized to...
• § 23-3-112 - Forms Sent to Utilities to Be Filled Out and Returned.
  (a) Any public utility receiving from the commission any blanks with directions to fill the blanks shall cause the blanks to be properly filled...
• § 23-3-113 - Adequate Service, Facilities, Etc., to Be Provided.
  (a) Every public utility shall furnish, provide, and maintain such adequate and efficient service, instrumentalities, equipment, and facilities as shall promote the safety, health,...
• § 23-3-114 - Unreasonable Preferences Prohibited.
  (a) (1) As to rates or services, no public utility shall make or grant any unreasonable preference or advantage to any corporation or person...
• § 23-3-115 - Wires Transmitting Electricity or Messages Over Public or Private Ways.
  Every public utility which owns, operates, manages, or controls along or across any public or private way any wires over which electricity or messages...
• § 23-3-116 - Power, Water, Gas, or Electricity -- Violation of Municipal Franchise -- Penalties -- Damages.
  (a) (1) Whenever a person, company, or corporation which has secured a franchise from any municipality in this state to furnish power, water, gas,...
• § 23-3-117 - Contracts for Interruptible Service With Industrial Users.
  Public utilities are authorized to contract for the sale, on an interruptible basis, of utility services at agreed prices for a definite term not...
• § 23-3-118 - Rates, Charges, or Service -- Investigations.
  (a) Whenever the commission believes that any rate or charge may be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, that any service is inadequate, or that an...
• § 23-3-119 - Complaints.
  (a) (1) Any chamber of commerce or board of trade, mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing association, any public utility, any municipality, any customer of a...
• § 23-3-120 - Definition.
  As used in this subchapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms "corporation" or "company" include a corporation and a limited liability company.

Last modified: November 15, 2016