Hawaii Revised Statutes 269. Public Utilities Commission

PART I. PUBLIC UTILITIES, GENERALLY

• 269-1 Definitions.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter: "Agricultural activities" means a commercial agricultural, silvicultural, or aquacultural facility or pursuit...
• 269-2 Public Utilities Commission; Number, Appointment of Commissioners, Qualifications; Compensation; Persons Having Interest in Public Utilities; Authority.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-2 Public utilities commission; number, appointment of commissioners, qualifications; compensation; persons having interest in public utilities; authority. (a) There...
• 269-3 Employment of Assistants.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-3 Employment of assistants. (a) The chairperson of the public utilities commission may appoint and employ professional staff and...
• 269-4 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-4 REPEALED. L 1976, c 165, §3.
• 269-5 Annual Report and Register of Orders.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-5 Annual report and register of orders. The public utilities commission shall prepare and present to the governor in...
• 269-6 General Powers and Duties.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-6 General powers and duties. (a) The public utilities commission shall have the general supervision hereinafter set forth over...
• 269-6.5 Electronic Copies of Documents.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-6.5] Electronic copies of documents. (a) No later than July 1, 2011, the public utilities commission shall accept from...
• 269-7 Investigative Powers.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-7 Investigative powers. (a) The public utilities commission and each commissioner shall have power to examine into the condition...
• 269-7.5 Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-7.5 Certificates of public convenience and necessity. (a) No public utility, as defined in section 269-1, shall commence its...
• 269-8 Public Utilities to Furnish Information.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-8 Public utilities to furnish information. Every public utility or other person subject to investigation by the commission, shall...
• 269-8.2 Location of Records.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-8.2] Location of records. A public utility shall keep and maintain within the State such records, books, papers, accounts,...
• 269-8.5 Annual Financial Reports.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-8.5] Annual financial reports. All annual financial reports required to be filed with the commission by public utilities shall...
• 269-9 Report Accidents.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-9 Report accidents. Every public utility shall report to the public utilities commission all accidents caused by or occurring...
• 269-10 Commission May Compel Attendance of Witnesses, Etc.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-10 Commission may compel attendance of witnesses, etc. In all investigations made by the public utilities commission, and in...
• 269-11 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-11 REPEALED. L 1983, c 98, §3.
• 269-12 Notices.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-12 Notices. (a) Whenever an investigation is undertaken by the public utilities commission, reasonable notice in writing of such...
• 269-13 Right to Be Represented by Counsel.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-13 Right to be represented by counsel. At any investigation by or proceeding before the public utilities commission the...
• 269-14 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-14 REPEALED. L 1983, c 219, §2.
• 269-14.5 Appointment of Receiver for Public Utilities.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-14.5] Appointment of receiver for public utilities. (a) Whenever the commission finds that a regulated water utility or regulated...
• 269-15 Commission May Institute Proceedings to Enforce Chapter.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-15 Commission may institute proceedings to enforce chapter. (a) If the public utilities commission is of the opinion that...
• 269-15.5 Appeals.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-15.5 Appeals. An appeal from an order of the public utilities commission under this chapter shall lie, subject to...
• 269-15.6 Alternative Dispute Resolution.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-15.6] Alternative dispute resolution. The commission may require the parties in any matter before the commission to participate in...
• 269-16 Regulation of Utility Rates; Ratemaking Procedures.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16 Regulation of utility rates; ratemaking procedures. (a) All rates, fares, charges, classifications, schedules, rules, and practices made, charged,...
• 269-16.2 Approval of Rules of a Public Utility.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.2] Approval of rules of a public utility. Any rules, guidelines, or other standards of a public utility which...
• 269-16.3 Statewide Rate Increase Surcharge Assessment on Ratepayers in Emergency Situations.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.3 Statewide rate increase surcharge assessment on ratepayers in emergency situations. (a) Any utility that sustains damage to its...
• 269-16.4 Annual Fuel Mix Disclosure.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.4] Annual fuel mix disclosure. (a) Beginning June 1, 2004, and every June 1 thereafter, each retail supplier of...
• 269-16.5 Lifeline Telephone Rates.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.5 Lifeline telephone rates. (a) The public utilities commission shall implement a program to achieve lifeline telephone rates for...
• 269-16.6 Telecommunications Relay Services for the Deaf, Persons With Hearing Disabilities, and Persons With Speech Disabilities.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.6 Telecommunications relay services for the deaf, persons with hearing disabilities, and persons with speech disabilities. (a) The public...
• 269-16.7 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.7 REPEALED. L 2003, c 50, §3.
• 269-16.8 Aggregators of Telephone Service Requirements.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.8] Aggregators of telephone service requirements. (a) For the purposes of this section: "Aggregator" means every person or entity...
• 269-16.9 Telecommunications Providers and Services.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.9 Telecommunications providers and services. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the commission, upon its...
• 269-16.21 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.21 REPEALED. L 2001, c 272, §8.
• 269-16.22 Power Purchase Agreements; Cost Recovery for Electric Utilities.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.22] Power purchase agreements; cost recovery for electric utilities. All power purchase costs, including costs related to capacity, operations...
• 269-16.85 Retail Intrastate Services; Fully Competitive.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.85 Retail intrastate services; fully competitive. (a) Notwithstanding section 269-16.9 or any other law to the contrary, the public...
• 269-16.91 Universal Service Subsidies.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.91] Universal service subsidies. (a) For any alternative telecommunications provider authorized to provide basic local exchange service to any...
• 269-16.92 Changes in Subscriber Carrier Selections; Prior Authorization Required; Penalties for Unauthorized Changes.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.92] Changes in subscriber carrier selections; prior authorization required; penalties for unauthorized changes. (a) No telecommunications carrier shall initiate...
• 269-16.93 Release of Domestic Violence Victims From Shared Wireless Plans.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-16.93] Release of domestic violence victims from shared wireless plans. (a) All wireless telecommunications service providers shall release, without...
• 269-16.95 Emergency Telephone Service; Capital Costs; Ratemaking.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-16.95 Emergency telephone service; capital costs; ratemaking. (a) A public utility providing local exchange telecommunications services may recover the...
• 269-17 Issuance of Securities.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-17 Issuance of securities. A public utility corporation may, on securing the prior approval of the public utilities commission,...
• 269-17.5 Issuance of Voting Stock; Restrictions.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-17.5 Issuance of voting stock; restrictions. (a) For purposes of this section "foreign corporation" means a foreign corporation as...
• 269-18 Acquirement of Stock of Another Public Utility.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-18 Acquirement of stock of another public utility. No public utility corporation shall purchase or acquire, take or hold,...
• 269-19 Merger and Consolidation of Public Utilities.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-19 Merger and consolidation of public utilities. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no public utility shall sell,...
• 269-19.5 Relations With an Affiliated Interest; Definition; Contracts With Affiliates Filed and Subject to Commission Action.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-19.5] Relations with an affiliated interest; definition; contracts with affiliates filed and subject to commission action. (a) For purposes...
• 269-20 Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity for Water Carriers.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-20 Certificates of public convenience and necessity for water carriers. (a) No person which holds itself out to the...
• 269-21, 22 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §§269-21, 22 REPEALED. L 1969, c 55, §2.
• 269-23 Liability of Initial and Delivering Common Carrier for Loss; Limitation of Liability; Notice and Filing of Claim.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-23 Liability of initial and delivering common carrier for loss; limitation of liability; notice and filing of claim. Any...
• 269-24 Repealed.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-24 REPEALED. L 1981, c 167, §2.
• 269-25 Valuations.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-25 Valuations. The public utilities commission may either upon its own motion or upon application by any utility for...
• 269-26 Investigation of Water Rates Charged by Lessee Under State Leases.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-26 Investigation of water rates charged by lessee under state leases. The public utilities commission shall investigate charges made...
• 269-26.5 Preferential Water Rates for Agricultural Activities.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-26.5] Preferential water rates for agricultural activities. (a) It is the policy of the State to promote the long-term...
• 269-26.6 Preferential Water Carrier Service Rates for Agricultural Activities.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-26.6] Preferential water carrier service rates for agricultural activities. The public utilities commission may authorize preferential water carrier service...
• 269-27 Prevention of Unreasonable Water Rates.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-27 Prevention of unreasonable water rates. In the event the public utilities commission, investigating as provided in section 269-26,...
• 269-27.1 Establishment of Geothermal Energy Rates.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-27.1] Establishment of geothermal energy rates. (a) The rate payable by a public utility to the producer of geothermal...
• 269-27.2 Utilization of Electricity Generated From Nonfossil Fuels.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-27.2 Utilization of electricity generated from nonfossil fuels. (a) The public utilities commission shall investigate and determine the extent...
• 269-27.3 Preferential Renewable Energy Rates; Agricultural Activities.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-27.3] Preferential renewable energy rates; agricultural activities. It is the policy of the State to promote the long-term viability...
• 269-27.4 Community-Based Renewable Energy Tariffs.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-27.4] Community-based renewable energy tariffs. (a) Each electric utility in the State shall file a proposed community-based renewable energy...
• 269-27.5 Construction of High-Voltage Electric Transmission Lines; Hearing.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-27.5] Construction of high-voltage electric transmission lines; hearing. Whenever a public utility plans to place, construct, erect, or otherwise...
• 269-27.6 Construction of High-Voltage Electric Transmission Lines; Overhead or Underground Construction.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-27.6 Construction of high-voltage electric transmission lines; overhead or underground construction. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, whenever...
• 269-28 Penalty.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-28 Penalty. (a) Any public utility violating or neglecting or failing in any particular to conform to or comply...
• 269-29 Perjury.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-29 Perjury. Any person who wilfully and knowingly makes under oath any false statement in connection with any investigation...
• 269-30 Finances; Public Utility Fee.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-30 Finances; public utility fee. (a) Sections 607-5 to 607-9 shall apply to the public utilities commission and each...
• 269-31 Application of This Chapter.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-31 Application of this chapter. (a) This chapter shall not apply to commerce with foreign nations, or commerce with...
• 269-32 Injury to Public Utility Property.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-32] Injury to public utility property. Any person who injures or destroys, through want of proper care, any necessary...
• 269-33 Public Utilities Commission Special Fund.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-33 Public utilities commission special fund. (a) There is established in the state treasury a public utilities commission special...
• 269-34 Obligations of Telecommunications Carriers.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-34] Obligations of telecommunications carriers. In accordance with conditions and guidelines established by the commission to facilitate the introduction...
• 269-35 Universal Service.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-35] Universal service. The commission shall preserve and advance universal service by: (1) Maintaining affordable, just, and reasonable rates...
• 269-36 Telecommunications Number Portability.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-36] Telecommunications number portability. The commission shall ensure that telecommunications number portability within an exchange is available, upon request,...
• 269-37 Compensation Agreements.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-37] Compensation agreements. The commission shall ensure that telecommunications carriers are compensated on a fair basis for termination of...
• 269-38 Regulatory Flexibility for Effectively Competitive Services.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-38] Regulatory flexibility for effectively competitive services. The commission may allow telecommunications carriers to have pricing flexibility for services...
• 269-39 Cross-Subsidies.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-39] Cross-subsidies. (a) The commission shall ensure that noncompetitive services shall not cross-subsidize competitive services. Cross-subsidization shall be deemed...
• 269-40 Access to Advanced Services.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-40] Access to advanced services. The commission shall ensure that all consumers are provided with nondiscriminatory, reasonable, and equitable...
• 269-41 Universal Service Program; Establishment; Purpose; Principles.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-41] Universal service program; establishment; purpose; principles. There is established the universal service program. The purpose of this program...
• 269-42 Universal Service Program; Contributions.
  Part heading added by revisor. §269-42 Universal service program; contributions. (a) There is established outside of the state treasury a special fund to be...
• 269-43 Carriers of Last Resort.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-43] Carriers of last resort. (a) The commission may define and designate local exchange service areas where the commission...
• 269-44 Solar Water Heater System Standards.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-44] Solar water heater system standards. Not later than July 1, 2009, or as soon as reasonably practicable, the...
• 269-45 Gas Utility Companies; Renewable Energy; Reporting Requirements.
  Part heading added by revisor. [§269-45] Gas utility companies; renewable energy; reporting requirements. (a) Each gas utility company shall submit an annual report to...

PART II. CONSUMER ADVOCATE

• 269-51 Consumer Advocate; Executive Director of the Division of Consumer Advocacy.
  The executive director of the division of consumer advocacy shall be the consumer advocate in hearings before the public utilities commission. The consumer advocate...
• 269-52 Division of Consumer Advocacy; Personnel.
  There shall be a division of consumer advocacy within the department of commerce and consumer affairs. The director of commerce and consumer affairs may...
• 269-53 Legal Counsel.
  The executive director of the division of consumer advocacy may appoint or retain, without regard to chapter 76, attorneys to provide legal services for...
• 269-54 General Powers; Duties.
  (a) The consumer advocate shall have the authority expressly conferred by or reasonably implied from the provisions of this part. (b) The consumer advocate...
• 269-55 Handling of Complaints.
  The consumer advocate shall counsel utility customers in the handling of consumer complaints before the public utilities commission. The public utilities commission shall provide...

PART III. OTHER PROVISIONS

• 269-71 Meter Tampering.
  Any person who, without permission or authorization from a utility tampers with, damages, destroys, removes, connects, causes to connect, disconnects, or causes to be...

PART IV. GAS PIPELINE SYSTEMS--REPEALED

• 269-81 to 269-84 Repealed.
  L 2009, c 25, §1.

PART V. RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS

• 269-91 [Definitions.]
  For the purposes of this [part]: "Biofuels" means liquid or gaseous fuels produced from organic sources such as biomass crops, agricultural residues and oil...
• 269-92 Renewable Portfolio Standards.
  (a) Each electric utility company that sells electricity for consumption in the State shall establish a renewable portfolio standard of: (1) Ten per cent...
• 269-93 Achieving Portfolio Standard.
  (a) An electric utility company and its electric utility affiliates may aggregate their renewable portfolios to achieve the renewable portfolio standard. (b) If an...
• 269-94 Waivers, Extensions, and Incentives.]
  Any electric utility company not meeting the renewable portfolio standard shall report to the public utilities commission within ninety days following the goal dates...
• 269-95 Renewable Portfolio Standards Study.
  The public utilities commission shall: (1) By December 31, 2007, develop and implement a utility ratemaking structure, which may include performance-based ratemaking, to provide...
• 269-96 Energy-Efficiency Portfolio Standards.
  (a) The public utilities commission shall establish energy-efficiency portfolio standards that will maximize cost-effective energy-efficiency programs and technologies. (b) The energy-efficiency portfolio standards shall...

PART VI. NET ENERGY METERING

• 269-101 Definitions.
  As used in this part: "Eligible customer-generator" means a metered residential or commercial customer, including a government entity, of an electric utility who owns...
• 269-101.5 Maximum Capacity of Eligible Customer-Generator.
  The eligible customer-generator shall have a capacity of not more than fifty kilowatts; provided that the public utilities commission may increase the maximum allowable...
• 269-102 Standard Contract or Tariff; Rate Structure.
  (a) Every electric utility shall develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering and shall make this contract available to eligible...
• 269-103 Generating Capacity.
  On an annual basis, beginning in 2003, every electric utility shall make available to the public utilities commission information on the total rated generating...
• 269-104 Additional Customer-Generators.
  Notwithstanding section 269-102, an electric utility is not obligated to provide net energy metering to additional customer-generators in its service area when the combined...
• 269-105 Calculation.
  The net energy metering calculation shall be made by measuring the difference between the electricity supplied to the eligible customer-generator and: (1) The electricity...
• 269-106 Billing Periods; Twelve-Month Reconciliation.
  (a) Billing of net energy metering customers shall be on a monthly basis; provided that the last monthly bill for each twelve-month period shall...
• 269-107 Net Electricity Consumers.
  At the end of each monthly billing period, where the electricity supplied during the period by the electric utility exceeds: (1) The electricity generated...
• 269-108 Net Electricity Producers; Excess Electricity Credits and Credit Carry Over.
  At the end of each monthly billing period, where the electricity generated by the eligible customer-generator during the month exceeds the electricity supplied by...
• 269-109 Net Electricity Consumption or Production Information.
  The electric utility shall provide every eligible customer-generator with net electricity consumption or production information with each regular monthly bill, which shall include: (1)...
• 269-110 Termination by Eligible Customer-Generators.
  If an eligible customer-generator terminates the customer relationship with the electric utility, the electric utility shall reconcile the eligible customer-generator's consumption and production of...
• 269-111 Safety and Performance Standards.
  (a) A solar, wind turbine, biomass, or hydroelectric energy generating system, or a hybrid system consisting of two or more of these facilities, used...

PART VII. PUBLIC BENEFITS FEE

• 269-121 Public Benefits Fee Authorization.
  Part heading amended by L 2008, c 118, pt of §2. §269-121 Public benefits fee authorization. (a) The public utilities commission, by order or...
• 269-122 Public Benefits Fee Administrator; Establishment.
  Part heading amended by L 2008, c 118, pt of §2. §269-122 Public benefits fee administrator; establishment. (a) The public utilities commission may contract...
• 269-123 Requirements for the Public Benefits Fee Administrator.
  Part heading amended by L 2008, c 118, pt of §2. §269-123 Requirements for the public benefits fee administrator. (a) Any public benefits fee...
• 269-124 Transitioning From Utility Demand-Side Management Programs to the Public Benefits Fee.
  Part heading amended by L 2008, c 118, pt of §2. §269-124 Transitioning from utility demand-side management programs to the public benefits fee. If...
• 269-125 On-Bill Financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
  Part heading amended by L 2008, c 118, pt of §2. §269-125 On-bill financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy. (a) The public utilities...

PART VIII. INTERISLAND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM

• 269-131 Definitions.
  As used in this part: "Cable acquisition cost" means the electric utility company's costs, including reasonable transaction costs, to acquire a high-voltage electric transmission...
• 269-132 Certification.
  (a) Prior to installing a high-voltage electric transmission cable system, a cable company shall be selected through a request for proposals, or other process...
• 269-133 Transmission Tariff.
  The commission shall, by order, approve, disapprove, or approve subject to certain conditions, the tariff of the certified cable company pursuant to which the...
• 269-134 Cable Surcharge.
  (a) The commission shall establish a cable surcharge to allow recovery of the high-voltage electric transmission cable system costs designated for recovery according to...
• 269-135 Recovery of Electric Utility Company Costs.
  (a) An electric utility company may recover, through an automatic rate adjustment clause, its revenue requirement resulting from the capital costs that it prudently incurs...

PART IX. ELECTRIC RELIABILITY

• 269-141 Definitions.
  As used in this part: "Advanced grid modernization technology" means equipment, facilities, and associated processes that individually or collectively function to improve the reliability,...
• 269-142 Reliability Standards; Interconnection Requirements; Adoption and Development; Force and Effect.
  (a) The commission may adopt, by rule or order, reliability standards and interconnection requirements. Reliability standards and interconnection requirements adopted by the commission shall...
• 269-143 Monitoring.
  (a) The commission shall have the authority to monitor the reliability and operation of the Hawaii electric system using any data, files, maps, reports,...
• 269-144 Compliance and Enforcement.
  (a) The commission shall take all necessary steps, including audits, spot checks, data requests, report requests, and internal monitoring procedures, to ensure that any...
• 269-145 Grid Access; Procedures for Interconnection; Dispute Resolution.
  (a) Each user, owner, or operator of the Hawaii electric system, or any other person, business, or entity seeking to make an interconnection on...
• 269-145.5 Advanced Grid Modernization Technology; Principles.
  (a) The commission, in carrying out its responsibilities under this chapter, shall consider the value of improving electrical generation, transmission, and distribution systems and...
• 269-146 Hawaii Electricity Reliability Surcharge; Authorization; Cost Recovery.
  (a) The commission may require, by rule or order, that all utilities, persons, businesses, or entities connecting to the Hawaii electric system, or any...
• 269-147 Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator; Contracting.
  (a) The commission may contract for the performance of its functions under this part with a person, business, or organization, except for a public...
• 269-148 Hawaii Electricity Reliability Administrator; Qualifications.
  Any entity contracted by the commission to serve as the Hawaii electricity reliability administrator shall: (1) Satisfy the qualification requirements established by the commission...
• 269-149 Funding; Reporting.
  (a) The Hawaii electricity reliability administrator shall use funds collected through the Hawaii electricity reliability surcharge provided for under section 269-146 to carry out...

PART X. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS

• 269-161 Definitions.
  As used in this part: "Ancillary agreement" means any bond insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity...
• 269-162 Applications to Issue Bonds and Authorize Green Infrastructure Fee.
  (a) In connection with the issuance of bonds, the department may apply to the public utilities commission for one or more financing orders, each...
• 269-163 Green Infrastructure Financing Order.
  (a) The public utilities commission shall issue its financing order as final or if a finding in subsection (b) cannot be made, its denial of...
• 269-164 Green Infrastructure Property.
  (a) The green infrastructure property shall be created simultaneously with the issuance of the bonds and shall immediately vest in the department, which shall pledge...
• 269-165 Bonds Financing Order.
  (a) A financing order shall remain in effect until the bonds issued under the financing order and all financing costs related to the bonds have...
• 269-166 Green Infrastructure Fee; Nonbypassable
  . (a) The public utilities commission may create, pursuant to a financing order approved pursuant to section 269-163, a utility-wide nonbypassable surcharge, referred to as...
• 269-167 Electric Utility Successor Requirements; Default of Electric Utility.
  (a) Any successor to an electric utility subject to a financing order shall be bound by the requirements of this part. The successor shall perform...
• 269-168 Treatment of Bonds, Fees, and Property.
  (a) In the furtherance of section 39-65, the ownership, transfer, and pledge of the green infrastructure fee and green infrastructure property and the imposition,...
• 269-169 Green Infrastructure Property; Non-Impairment.
  (a) In furtherance of section 39-61, the State pledges to and agrees with the bondholders and any financing parties under a financing order that...
• 269-170 Green Infrastructure Loan Program Order; Application.
  (a) The authority shall submit an application to the public utilities commission for the use or other disposition of amounts deposited or held in...
• 269-171 Green Infrastructure Loan Program Order; Issuance.
  (a) The public utilities commission may issue a program order authorizing the allocation, use, expenditure, or other disposition of any amounts deposited or held...
• 269-172 Electric Utilities; Cost Recovery; Billing Agent.
  (a) The public utilities commission shall ensure that all reasonable costs incurred by electric utilities to start up and implement the loan program may...
• 269-173 Severability
  . If any provision of this part is held to be invalid or is superseded, replaced, repealed, or expires for any reason: (1) That occurrence...
• 269-174 Miscellaneous.
  Neither the department nor a financing party shall be considered an electric utility or person providing electric service by virtue of engaging in the...
• 269-175 Revenue Bonds; Exclusion From Debt Limit.
  Green infrastructure bonds are revenue bonds issued under article VII, section 12, of the Hawaii State Constitution, and chapter 39, part III, as modified...
• 269-176 Financing Order; Adjustments to Green Infrastructure Fee.
  The financing order shall include, without limitation, a procedure to require the public utilities commission, in accordance with a formula set out in the...

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