66 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 13 - Rates And Distribution Systems
Subchapter A. Rates
- Section 1301 - Rates To Be Just And Reasonable
Every rate made, demanded, or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities jointly, shall be just and reasonable,...
- Section 1302 - Tariffs; Filing And Inspection
Under such regulations as the commission may prescribe, every public utility shall file with the commission, within such time and in such form as...
- Section 1303 - Adherence To Tariffs
No public utility shall, directly or indirectly, by any device whatsoever, or in anywise, demand or receive from any person, corporation, or municipal corporation...
- Section 1304 - Discrimination In Rates
No public utility shall, as to rates, make or grant any unreasonable preference or advantage to any person, corporation, or municipal corporation, or subject...
- Section 1305 - Advance Payment Of Rates; Interest On Deposits
No public utility shall require the payment of rates in advance, or the making of minimum payments, ready to serve charges, or deposits to...
- Section 1306 - Apportionment Of Joint Rates
Where public utilities entitled to share in any joint rate shall be unable to agree upon the division thereof, or shall make any unjust...
- Section 1307 - Sliding Scale Of Rates; Adjustments
(a) General rule.--Any public utility, except common carriers and those natural gas distributors with gross intrastate annual operating revenues in excess of $40,000,000 with...
- Section 1308 - Voluntary Changes In Rates
(a) General rule.--Unless the commission otherwise orders, no public utility shall make any change in any existing and duly established rate, except after 60...
- Section 1309 - Rates Fixed On Complaint; Investigation Of Costs Of Production
(a) General rule.--Whenever the commission, after reasonable notice and hearing, upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that the existing rates of any...
- Section 1310 - Temporary Rates
(a) General rule.--The commission may, in any proceeding involving the rates of a public utility, except a proceeding involving a general rate increase, brought...
- Section 1311 - Valuation Of And Return On The Property Of A Public Utility
(a) Valuation generally.--The commission may, after reasonable notice and hearing, ascertain and fix the value of the whole or any part of the property...
- Section 1312 - Refunds
(a) General rule.--If, in any proceeding involving rates, the commission shall determine that any rate received by a public utility was unjust or unreasonable,...
- Section 1313 - Price Upon Resale Of Public Utility Services
Whenever any person, corporation or other entity, not a public utility, electric cooperative corporation, municipality authority or municipal corporation, purchases service from a public...
- Section 1314 - Limitation On Prices Paid For Property And Fuel
The commission shall adopt regulations prohibiting public utilities subject to its jurisdiction from paying for or agreeing to pay for goods, services, equipment or...
- Section 1315 - Limitation On Consideration Of Certain Costs For Electric Utilities
Except for such nonrevenue producing, nonexpense reducing investments as may be reasonably shown to be necessary to improve environmental conditions at existing facilities or...
- Section 1316 - Recovery Of Advertising Expenses
(a) General rule.--For purposes of rate determinations, no public utility may charge to its consumers as a permissible operating expense for ratemaking purposes any...
- Section 1316.1 - Recovery Of Club Dues
No public utility may charge to its customers as a permissible operating expense for ratemaking purposes membership fees, dues or charges to fraternal, social...
- Section 1317 - Regulation Of Natural Gas Costs
(a) General rule.--In every rate proceeding instituted by a natural gas distribution utility, pursuant to section 1307(f) (relating to sliding scale of rates; adjustments),...
- Section 1318 - Determination Of Just And Reasonable Gas Cost Rates
(a) General rule.--In establishing just and reasonable rates for those natural gas distribution companies, as defined in section 2202 (relating to definitions), with gross...
- Section 1319 - Financing Of Energy Supply Alternatives
(a) Recovery of certain additional expenses.--If: (1) a natural gas or electric public utility elects to establish a conservation or load management program and...
- Section 1320 - Fuel Purchase Audits By Complaint
(1) Upon complaint, the commission shall conduct an audit of an electric public utility's purchases of fuel for generating purposes. Such an audit shall...
- Section 1321 - Recovery Of Certain Employee Meeting Expenses
No public utility may charge to its customers as a permissible operating expense for ratemaking purposes any portion or portions of the direct or...
- Section 1322 - Outages Of Electric Generating Units
(a) General rule.--Whenever an electric generating unit, determined by the commission to be a base load unit, is out of service for more than...
- Section 1323 - Procedures For New Electric Generating Capacity
(a) Excess capacity costs.--Whenever a public utility claims the costs of an electric generating unit in its rates for the first time and the...
- Section 1324 - Residential Telephone Service Rates Based On Duration Or Distance Of Call
(a) Required charging method.--In addition to any other method of charging offered on an optional basis, a telecommunications utility providing local exchange telephone service...
- Section 1325 - Local Exchange Service Increases; Limitation (Repealed)
§ 1325. Local exchange service increases; limitation (Repealed). 2004 Repeal. Section 1325 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.
- Section 1326 - Standby Charge Prohibited
(a) Prohibition.--A public utility that furnishes water to or for the public shall not impose a standby charge on owners of residential structures equipped...
- Section 1327 - Acquisition Of Water And Sewer Utilities
(a) Acquisition cost greater than depreciated original cost.--If a public utility acquires property from another public utility, a municipal corporation or a person at...
- Section 1328 - Determination Of Public Fire Hydrant Rates
(a) General rule.--A public utility that furnishes water to or for the public shall be allowed to recover in rates the full cost of...
Subchapter B. Distribution Systems
- Section 1350 - Scope Of Subchapter
This subchapter shall provide an additional mechanism for a distribution system to recover costs related to the repair, improvement and replacement of eligible property.
- Section 1351 - 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 1352 - Long-term Infrastructure Improvement Plan
(a) Submission.--In order to be eligible to recover costs under section 1353 (relating to distribution system improvement charge), a utility must submit a long-term...
- Section 1353 - Distribution System Improvement Charge
(a) Authority.--Except as provided under this subchapter, after January 1, 2013, a utility may petition the commission, or the commission, after notice and hearing,...
- Section 1354 - Customer Notice
Utilities shall provide notice to customers in bill inserts or through other means as prescribed by the commission of the following: (1) Submission of...
- Section 1355 - Review
Following the filing of a petition in compliance with section 1353 (relating to distribution system improvement charge), the commission shall, after notice and opportunity...
- Section 1356 - Asset Optimization Plans
A utility with an approved distribution system charge and long-term infrastructure plan shall file annual asset optimization plans. The plan shall include the following:...
- Section 1357 - Computation Of Charge
(a) Recovery.--The following shall apply: (1) The initial distribution system improvement charge shall be calculated to recover the fixed cost of eligible property that...
- Section 1358 - Customer Protections
(a) Limitation.--As follows: (1) Except as provided under paragraph (2), the distribution system improvement charge may not exceed 5% of the amount billed to...
- Section 1359 - Projects
(a) Standards.--The commission shall establish standards to ensure that work on utility systems to repair, improve or replace eligible property is performed by qualified...
- Section 1360 - Applicability
(a) Acceptance.--The commission may accept a long-term infrastructure plan filed by a water utility prior to the effective date of this subsection in order...
Last modified: October 8, 2016