66 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 3 - Public Utility Commission

• Chapter Notes

Subchapter A.  General Provisions

• Section 301 - Establishment, Members, Qualifications And Chairman
  (a) Appointment and terms of members.--The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, established by the act of March 31, 1937 (P.L.160, No.43), as an independent administrative...
• Section 302 - Removal Of Commissioner
  The Governor, by and with the consent of two-thirds of all of the members of the Senate, shall remove from office any commissioner who...
• Section 303 - Seal
  The commission shall adopt and use an official seal, by which the commission shall authenticate its proceedings, and of which seal the courts shall...
• Section 304 - Administrative Law Judges
  (a) General rule.--The office of administrative law judge to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission is hereby created. The commission shall have the power to...
• Section 305 - Director Of Operations, Secretary, Employees And Consultants
  (a) Director of operations.--The commission may appoint a director of operations who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission and shall be responsible...
• Section 306 - Office Of Trial Staff (Repealed)
  § 306. Office of Trial Staff (Repealed). 2008 Repeal. Section 306 was repealed October 15, 2008, P.L.1592, No.129, effective in 30 days.
• Section 307 - Inspectors For Enforcement
  The commission may employ such inspectors, as it may deem necessary, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this part. Such inspectors are...
• Section 308 - Bureaus And Offices
  (a) Enumeration.--There shall be established within the commission the following bureaus and functions: (1) Law Bureau. (2) (Deleted by amendment). (3) Bureau of Consumer...
• Section 308.1 - Consumer Protection And Information
  (a) Informal complaints.--The commission shall promulgate regulations by which a consumer may make informal complaints. A party may appeal a determination regarding the informal...
• Section 308.2 - Other Bureaus, Offices And Positions
  (a) Establishment of other bureaus, offices and positions.--In addition to the specific bureaus established in this part, the commission may establish other bureaus, offices...
• Section 309 - Oaths And Subpoenas
  The commission, or its representative, shall have the power, in any part of this Commonwealth, to subpoena witnesses, to administer oaths, to examine witnesses,...
• Section 310 - Depositions
  The commission, or any commissioner, or any party to proceedings before the commission, may cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without this...
• Section 311 - Witness Fees
  Witnesses who are summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage as are paid to witnesses in the courts of...
• Section 312 - Privilege And Immunity
  No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, document, paper, or account in any investigation or inquiry by, or hearing...
• Section 313 - Joint Hearings And Investigations; Reciprocity
  (a) Joint hearings and investigations.--The commission shall have full power and authority to make joint investigations, hold joint hearings within or without this Commonwealth,...
• Section 314 - Investigation Of Interstate Rates, Facilities And Service
  The commission may investigate the interstate rates, traffic facilities, or service of any public utility within this Commonwealth, and when such rates, facilities or...
• Section 315 - Burden Of Proof
  (a) Reasonableness of rates.--In any proceeding upon the motion of the commission, involving any proposed or existing rate of any public utility, or in...
• Section 316 - Effect Of Commission Action
  Whenever the commission shall make any rule, regulation, finding, determination or order, the same shall be prima facie evidence of the facts found and...
• Section 317 - Fees For Services Rendered By Commission
  (a) General rule.--The commission shall by rule establish on a reasonable cost basis the fees to be charged and collected for the following services:...
• Section 318 - Commission To Cooperate With Other Departments
  (a) Vehicle registration plates.--The Department of Transportation and the commission are hereby authorized and directed to cooperate in the issuance by the Department of...
• Section 319 - Code Of Ethics
  (a) General rule.--Each commissioner and each administrative law judge shall conform to the following code of ethics for the Public Utility Commission. A commissioner...
• Section 320 - Annual Appropriations
  The following sums, or as much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby specifically appropriated from the restricted revenue account within the General Fund...
• Section 321 - Annual Reports
  The commission shall annually transmit, to the Governor and the General Assembly and shall make available to the public, a report on the conduct...

Subchapter B.  Investigations and Hearings

• Section 331 - Powers Of Commission And Administrative Law Judges
  (a) General rule.--The commission may, on its own motion and whenever it may be necessary in the performance of its duties, investigate and examine...
• Section 332 - Procedures In General
  (a) Burden of proof.--Except as may be otherwise provided in section 315 (relating to burden of proof) or other provisions of this part or...
• Section 333 - Prehearing Procedures
  (a) Conferences.--The presiding officer shall have the authority to hold one or more prehearing conferences during the course of the proceeding on his own...
• Section 334 - Presiding Officers
  (a) Presiding officers to decide.--The same presiding officer shall to the fullest extent possible preside at all the reception of evidence in a particular...
• Section 335 - Initial Decisions And Release Of Documents
  (a) Procedures.--When the commission does not preside at the reception of evidence, the presiding officer shall initially decide the case, unless the commission requires,...

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