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Chapter 277

• Sec. 16-1. Definitions.
• Sec. 16-1a. Reference to Public Utilities Commission deemed to mean Public Utilities Control Authority.
• Sec. 16-1b. Department of Public Utility Control. Department head.
• Sec. 16-2. Public Utilities Control Authority. Members, appointment, term, qualifications. Executive director. Staff. Ethics.
• Sec. 16-2a. Office of Consumer Counsel.
• Sec. 16-2b. Term "Office of Consumer Counsel" deemed to mean Division of Consumer Counsel within the Department of Business Regulation.
• Sec. 16-2c. Division of Adjudication.
• Sec. 16-3. Vacancy.
• Sec. 16-3a. Appointment of initial members. Transfer of business between commission and authority.
• Sec. 16-4. Employees of public service companies, certified telecommunications providers and electric suppliers ineligible to serve on authority or in department.
• Sec. 16-5. Removal.
• Sec. 16-6. Office and records.
• Sec. 16-6a. Participation in proceedings before federal agencies and federal courts. Expenses.
• Sec. 16-6b. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-6c. Power to delay implementation of electric suppliers' generation portfolio standards.
• Sec. 16-7. Right of entry. Penalty.
• Sec. 16-8. Examination of witnesses and documents. Hearing examiners. Management audits.
• Sec. 16-8a. Protection of employee of public service company, contractor or Nuclear Regulatory Commission from retaliation. Procedures. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-8b. Labor disputes at public service companies. Determination of unreasonable profits during dispute. Refunds.
• Sec. 16-8c. Examination of witnesses and documents. Audits. Relationship between public service companies and subsidiaries.
• Sec. 16-8d. Recovery of costs, expenses, judgments or attorney's fees for an action brought under section 16-8a.
• Sec. 16-9. Orders.
• Sec. 16-9a. Party status in proceedings before department.
• Sec. 16-10. Enforcement of statutes and orders.
• Sec. 16-10a. Revocation of franchises. Procedure. Reassignment.
• Sec. 16-11. Safety of public and employees. Powers.
• Sec. 16-11a. Nuclear Energy Advisory Council; composition; duties.
• Sec. 16-12. Complaints as to dangerous conditions.
• Sec. 16-13. Procedure upon complaint.
• Sec. 16-14. Powers concerning electrolysis or escape of electricity.
• Sec. 16-15. Compliance with orders. Penalty.
• Sec. 16-16. Report of accidents.
• Sec. 16-17. Duties as to accidents.
• Sec. 16-18. Powers concerning poles and wires.
• Sec. 16-18a. Consultants: Retention, expenses, findings and recommendations.
• Sec. 16-19. Amendment of rate schedule; investigations and findings by department; hearings; deferral of municipal rate increases; refunds; notice of application for rate amendment, interim rate amend
• Sec. 16-19a. Periodic review re gas, electric and electric distribution companies' rates, services and performance. Approval of performance-based incentives.
• Sec. 16-19b. Purchased gas adjustment clauses, energy adjustment clauses and transmission rate adjustment clauses.
• Sec. 16-19c. Investigation of fuel cost adjustment and purchased gas adjustment charges.
• Sec. 16-19d. Advertising not to be deemed an operating expense for purposes of rate-making. Disclosure of source of payment for advertising.
• Sec. 16-19e. Guidelines for transfer of assets and franchises, plant expansion, internal utility management and rate structures. Public hearing. Policy coordination among state agencies. Parties to ra
• Sec. 16-19f. Rate design standards for electric utilities. Determination of appropriateness. Implementation.
• Sec. 16-19g. Penalty for failure to report nuclear incident not an operating expense.
• Sec. 16-19h. Reopening of water company rate proceedings.
• Sec. 16-19i. Electric company residential customer service charge indicated on bill.
• Sec. 16-19j. Portion of department staff to be made party to certain rate proceedings.
• Sec. 16-19k. Costs of educational materials or information on water conservation included as operating costs.
• Sec. 16-19l.
• Sec. 16-19m. Decommissioning of nuclear power generating facilities. Definitions.
• Sec. 16-19n. Decommissioning financing plan. Contents.
• Sec. 16-19o. Decommissioning financing plan. Updates. Hearing approval.
• Sec. 16-19p. Review of plan. Changes.
• Sec. 16-19q. Decommissioning costs. Liability.
• Secs. 16-19r to 16-19t. Three Mile Island nuclear power generating facility damage costs prohibited from being placed in rate base or included as operating expenses. Revenues associated with construct
• Sec. 16-19u. Monthly reports from nuclear power generating facility licensees re construction costs and progress.
• Sec. 16-19v. Excess construction costs of Seabrook 1 nuclear power generating facility not included in rates.
• Sec. 16-19w. Prohibition on inclusion of certain costs associated with construction of Seabrook 2 nuclear power generating facility in rates.
• Sec. 16-19x. Phase-in of costs of certain large electric generating facilities.
• Sec. 16-19y. Rate treatment of enhanced 9-1-1 service costs.
• Sec. 16-19z. Rate treatment of land purchased, owned or retained by water companies for water supply protection or future water supply use.
• Sec. 16-19aa. Excess generating capacity. Exclusion of costs associated with. Return on and depreciation of unrecovered investment in generating facilities.
• Sec. 16-19bb. Application or refund of electric or electric distribution company rate moderation funds.
• Sec. 16-19cc. Semiannual reports from nuclear generating facility licensees re: Maintenance, refueling and shutdown schedules. Penalty for shutdown for a significant period of time.
• Sec. 16-19dd. Moratorium on changing agricultural rates.
• Sec. 16-19ee. Reports from electric or electric distribution companies concerning electrical outages from power surges.
• Sec. 16-19ff. Submetering allowed at recreational campgrounds, individual slips at marinas and other locations. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-19gg. Factors to be considered during a rate proceeding.
• Sec. 16-19hh. Implementation of flexible pricing and rates. Special contracts for electric service. Exemption from competitive transition assessment. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-19ii. Use of electric resistance space heating. Differential rates.
• Sec. 16-19jj. Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Sec. 16-19kk. Finding re conservation and load management programs. Department's investigation into a company's earnings and volume of sales. Rates of return for conservation and load manageme
• Sec. 16-19ll. Submittal of legislation re encouraging conservation and load management programs, etc.
• Sec. 16-19mm. Consideration of external costs and benefits.
• Sec. 16-19nn. Encouragement of specific end uses of electricity and gas.
• Sec. 16-19oo. Approval of rate amendments for conservation and load management programs or programs promoting the state's economic development in proceedings other than rate proceedings.
• Sec. 16-19pp. Uncontested proceedings before the department. Participating parties.
• Sec. 16-19qq. Outages of nuclear power generating facilities; rate proceedings; rebuttable presumption of imprudent management.
• Sec. 16-19rr. Rates charged by electric and electric distribution companies and electric utilities to veterans' organizations.
• Sec. 16-19ss. Solicitations for the provision of temporary electric generation facilities.
• Sec. 16-19tt. Gas and electric distribution companies' distribution revenue decoupling.
• Sec. 16-20. Inadequate service or unreasonable rates; petition to department.
• Sec. 16-21. Change of rates fixed pursuant to charter or contract.
• Sec. 16-22. Rates; transfer of assets or franchise; burden of proof.
• Sec. 16-23. Regulations and service prescribed by department deemed reasonable.
• Sec. 16-24. Classification of service.
• Sec. 16-25. Time and place of hearings. Notice.
• Sec. 16-25a. Hearings on Office of Consumer Counsel petitions.
• Sec. 16-26. Public hearing to be held in locality affected.
• Sec. 16-27. Returns from public service companies. Reports from community antenna television companies. Penalty. Form 8-K reports.
• Sec. 16-28. Correction of returns and reports.
• Sec. 16-29. Returns from municipalities.
• Sec. 16-30. Returns from motor bus companies. Penalty.
• Sec. 16-31. Remission of forfeitures by the Attorney General.
• Sec. 16-32. Annual audit report.
• Sec. 16-32a. Filing re procurement practices. Public hearing. Regulations re competitive bidding.
• Sec. 16-32b. Regional water authority or water district to submit annual report.
• Sec. 16-32c. Water company rate adjustments. Application. Notice to customers.
• Sec. 16-32d.
• Sec. 16-32e. Emergency plans to be filed by public service companies, telecommunications companies and municipal utilities. Hearings. Revisions.
• Sec. 16-32f. Gas company supply and demand forecast reports and conservation plans.
• Sec. 16-32g. Electric wire maintenance plans. Regulations.
• Sec. 16-33. Obstructing department; false entries and returns to; penalty.
• Sec. 16-34. Annual reports to Governor.
• Sec. 16-35. Appeals to Superior Court.
• Secs. 16-36 to 16-39. Venue. Procedure on appeal. Notice when parties are numerous. Supersedeas.
• Sec. 16-40. Rights and duties of trustees and receivers.
• Sec. 16-41. Imposition of civil penalties by the department.
• Sec. 16-42. Not to affect labor contracts.
• Sec. 16-43. Merger or sale of public service companies. Issuance and approval of securities. Net proceeds from sale of water company land. Allocation of economic benefits of sale of water company land
• Sec. 16-43a. Validity of securities issued pursuant to order of department.
• Sec. 16-43b. Definitions applicable to apportionment of land sales benefits.
• Sec. 16-43c. Sale of water company land to certain municipal corporations for construction of a school.
• Sec. 16-43d. Sale of existing electric generation plants.
• Sec. 16-44. Notice of formation, consolidation or discontinuance of public service companies; change of name. Penalty.
• Sec. 16-44a. Disclosure of salaries of directors and officers of public service companies.
• Sec. 16-45. Increase or reduction of capital stock by public service companies.
• Sec. 16-46. Dissolution or termination of public service company. Cessation of public service operations.
• Sec. 16-47. Holding companies. Approval of department re exercise of control. Investigation and hearing. Annual reports. Injunctive relief.
• Sec. 16-48. Electricity and gas; transmission between this state and other states.
• Sec. 16-48a. Consumer Counsel and Public Utility Control Fund established.
• Sec. 16-49. Expenses of Department of Public Utility Control and Office of Consumer Counsel. Assessment of regulated companies.
• Secs. 16-49a to 16-49c. Appropriation. Council on water company lands established. Moratorium on sale of water company lands; duties of council.
• Sec. 16-49d. Applications for sales of water company lands submitted prior to June 25, 1975.
• Sec. 16-49e. Public service company may request identification from person opening an account. Telecommunications company may request identification prior to providing service.
• Sec. 16-50. Employees. Consultants.
• Sec. 16-50a. Local filing of maps on acquisition of property.
• Sec. 16-50b. Declaration of policy.
• Sec. 16-50c. Notification of intent to dispose of unimproved real property. Approval or disapproval by department. Hearing.
• Sec. 16-50d. Action to acquire property.
• Sec. 16-50e. Notices to town clerk.
• Sec. 16-50f. Solicitation of insurance applications from employees of public service companies. Payroll deductions.