Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4909 - Public Utilities Commission - Fixation Of Rates

• Section 4909.01 - Public Utilities Commission - Fixation Of Rates Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Public utility" has the same meaning as in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Electric light company,"...
• Section 4909.02 - Regulations And Practices Prescribed By Commission Prima-facie Reasonable.
  All regulations, practices, and service of railroad companies prescribed by the public utilities commission shall be in force and be prima-facie reasonable, unless suspended...
• Section 4909.03 - Effect Of Rates Fixed By Commission.
  All rates, fares, charges, classifications, and joint rates of railroad companies fixed by the public utilities commission shall be in force and be prima-facie...
• Section 4909.04 - Valuation Of Property To Determine Justice Of Rates.
  (A) The public utilities commission, for the purpose of ascertaining the reasonableness and justice of rates and charges for the service rendered by public...
• Section 4909.05 - Report Of Valuation Of Property.
  As used in this section: (A) A "lease purchase agreement" is an agreement pursuant to which a public utility leasing property is required to...
• Section 4909.06 - Additional Facts.
  The investigation and report required by section 4909.05 of the Revised Code shall show, when the public utilities commission deems it necessary, the amounts,...
• Section 4909.07 - Revision And Correction Of Valuations.
  The public utilities commission, during the making of the valuation provided for in sections 4909.04 to 4909.13 of the Revised Code, and after its...
• Section 4909.08 - Notice And Hearing Before Valuation Becomes Final.
  When the public utilities commission has completed the valuation of the property of any public utility or railroad and before such valuation becomes final,...
• Section 4909.09 - Ascertainment Of Valuation.
  When the authority is conferred or the obligation is imposed upon the public utilities commission to ascertain the value of any public utility or...
• Section 4909.10 - Hearing To Ascertain Value Of Property - Notice.
  For the purpose of ascertaining the value of the property of any public utility or railroad in this state, including municipally owned or operated...
• Section 4909.11 - Filing And Review Of Findings.
  The public utilities commission shall make and file its findings of fact in writing upon all matters, concerning which evidence has been introduced before...
• Section 4909.12 - Admissibility Of Findings In Evidence.
  The findings of the public utilities commission made and filed under section 4909.11 of the Revised Code, when properly certified under the seal of...
• Section 4909.13 - Additional Hearings.
  The public utilities commission may cause further hearings and investigations to be had for the purpose of making revaluations or ascertaining the value of...
• Section 4909.14 - Wrongful Valuation.
  No member of the public utilities commission shall willfully overvalue the property of a public utility for the purpose of enabling such public utility...
• Section 4909.15 - Fixation Of Reasonable Rate.
  (A) The public utilities commission, when fixing and determining just and reasonable rates, fares, tolls, rentals, and charges, shall determine: (1) The valuation as...
• Section 4909.151 - Consideration Of Costs Attributable To Service.
  In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any...
• Section 4909.152 - Consideration Of Efficiency, Sufficiency, Adequacy Of Facilities.
  In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any...
• Section 4909.153 - Hearing Service Complaints.
  In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any...
• Section 4909.154 - Consideration Of Management Policies, Practices, And Organization Of Public Utility.
  In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any...
• Section 4909.155 - Filing Report On Bonds, Stock And Money.
  In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any...
• Section 4909.156 - Filing Report Showing Property Valuation.
  In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any...
• Section 4909.157 To 4909.159 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2001
• Section 4909.16 - Power To Amend, Alter, Or Suspend Schedule Of Rates.
  When the public utilities commission deems it necessary to prevent injury to the business or interests of the public or of any public utility...
• Section 4909.161 - Recovering Increased Excise Tax Levy And Kilowatt-hour Tax.
  (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapters 4905. and 4909. of the Revised Code, the payment of any type of increased excise tax levy shall...
• Section 4909.17 - Approval Required For Change In Rate.
  No rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, no change in any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, and no regulation...
• Section 4909.171 - Basing Waterworks Rate Charge On Change In Water Cost Imposed By Local Government.
  (A) Any waterworks company or any sewage disposal system company may submit an application to the public utilities commission for an increase or decrease...
• Section 4909.172 - Application For Approval To Collect Infrastructure Improvement Surcharge.
  (A) A waterworks company, or a sewage disposal system company, that is a public utility may file an application with the public utilities commission...
• Section 4909.18 - Application To Establish Or Change Rate.
  Any public utility desiring to establish any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or to modify, amend, change, increase, or reduce any...
• Section 4909.181 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-02-1980
• Section 4909.19 - Publication Of Notice - Investigation.
  (A) Upon the filing of any application for increase provided for by section 4909.18 of the Revised Code the public utility shall forthwith publish...
• Section 4909.191 - Submission Of Rate Or Charge Adjustments Or Recalculations After Actual Data Acquired.
  (A) If the public utilities commission, under division (D) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, incorporated proposed adjustments to revenues and expenses into...
• Section 4909.192, 4909.193 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2001
• Section 4909.20 - Regulation Of Freight Charges.
  No railroad company, or person owning, controlling, or operating a railroad in whole or in part within this state, shall charge or receive any...
• Section 4909.21 - Rules And Regulations Relative To Carload Shipments Of Livestock.
  Any company owning or operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, which receives livestock for shipment in carload lots, shall...
• Section 4909.22 - Rates Shall Be Just And Reasonable.
  When passengers or property are transported over two or more connecting railroads between points in this state, and the railroad companies have made joint...
• Section 4909.23 - Special Contract Rates.
  Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not prevent concentration, commodity, transit, and other special contract...
• Section 4909.24 - Complaints And Hearings.
  Upon complaint of a person, firm, corporation, or association, of a mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, or of a body politic or municipal organization,...
• Section 4909.25 - Separate Hearings.
  When complaint is made of more than one rate or charge, the public utilities commission may order separate hearings thereon, and may consider and...
• Section 4909.26 - Commission May Change Unreasonable Rate.
  Upon an investigation, if the rate, or any regulation, practice, or service of any railroad complained of is found to be unreasonable or unjustly...
• Section 4909.27 - Investigating Rates Upon Its Own Motion.
  If the public utilities commission believes that any rate or charge may be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, and that an investigation relating thereto should...
• Section 4909.28 - Commission May Change Rate Or Service.
  If, upon an investigation under Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission finds that any existing...
• Section 4909.29 - Copies Of Orders To Be Supplied Railroad.
  Certified copies of all orders, other than those referred to in section 4909.28 of the Revised Code, of the public utilities commission shall be...
• Section 4909.30 - Commission May Rescind Or Amend An Order.
  Upon application of any person or any railroad, and after notice to the parties in interest and opportunity to be heard as provided in...
• Section 4909.31 - Supplemental Order As To Railroads.
  Whenever a joint rate or charge is ordered substituted by the public utilities commission, and the railroads party thereto fail to agree within twenty...
• Section 4909.32 - Commission May Fix Joint Rate.
  Whenever railroads refuse or neglect to establish a joint rate for the transportation of persons or property, the public utilities commission may, upon notice...
• Section 4909.33 - Supplemental Order As To Public Utilities.
  Whenever any rate, toll, charge, or service ordered substituted by the public utilities commission is a joint rate, toll, charge, or service, and the...
• Section 4909.34 - Power Of Municipal Corporation Or Group Of Corporations To Fix Rate, Price, And Charge.
  Any municipal corporation or group of municipal corporations in which any public utility is established may, by ordinance or ordinances, at any time within...
• Section 4909.35 - Failure Of Municipal Corporation To Fix Rates.
  If the legislative authority of any municipal corporation fails to regulate, within sixty days after the expiration of any lawful rate, by ordinance, the...
• Section 4909.36 - Hearing Upon Accepted Rates - Procedure.
  If any public utility has accepted any rate, price, charge, toll, or rental fixed by ordinance of a municipal corporation or ordinances of a...
• Section 4909.37 - Hearing Where Cause Of Action Arose.
  In all cases arising under sections 4909.34 to 4909.36, inclusive, and other sections of the Revised Code providing for the hearing of complaints or...
• Section 4909.38 - Complaint, Appeal, Or Notification Requirements.
  A complaint or appeal to the public utilities commission under division (A) of section 4909.34 or section 4909.35 of the Revised Code, shall meet...
• Section 4909.39 - Findings As To Rate - Valuation Of Property.
  If the public utilities commission, after the hearing referred to in sections 4909.34 to 4909.36 of the Revised Code, is of the opinion that...
• Section 4909.40 - Certain Rates, Fares, Regulations, And Prices Excepted.
  Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not apply to any rate, fare, or regulation prescribed...
• Section 4909.41 - Violation.
  No officer, agent, or employee in an official capacity of a public utility shall knowingly violate sections 4909.15 to 4909.19, inclusive, or 4909.33 to...
• Section 4909.42 - Commission Fails To Issue Timely Order.
  If the proceeding on an application filed with the public utilities commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code by any public utility requesting...
• Section 4909.43 - Filing Rate Increase Application.
  (A) No public utility shall file a rate increase application covering a municipal corporation pursuant to section 4909.18 or 4909.35 of the Revised Code...
• Section 4909.45 - Information Furnished By Gas Or Natural Gas Company To Municipal Corporation.
  Every gas or natural gas company shall, prior to accepting any rate, price, charge, toll, or rental fixed by ordinance of a municipal corporation,...
• Section 4909.50 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-31-1999
• Section 4909.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates section 4909.14 or 4909.41 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. Effective Date: 07-01-1996

Last modified: October 10, 2016