4909.17 [Effective Until 9/13/2010] Approval required for change in rate.

4909.17 [Effective Until 9/13/2010] 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 or practice affecting any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental of a public utility shall become effective until the public utilities commission, by order, determines it to be just and reasonable, except as provided in this section and sections 4909.18 and 4909.19 of the Revised Code. Such sections do not apply to any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or any regulation or practice affecting the same, of railroads, street and electric railways, motor transportation companies, telegraph companies, and pipe line companies. Any change of any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or any regulation or practice affecting the same, of telegraph companies, may be made in the same manner as such changes may be made by railroad companies. All laws respecting such changes by railroad companies apply to such changes by telegraph companies.

Effective Date: 10-01-1953

This section is set out twice. See also § 4909.17, as amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 43, SB 162, § 1, eff. 9/13/2010.

4909.17 [Effective 9/13/2010] 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 or practice affecting any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental of a public utility shall become effective until the public utilities commission, by order, determines it to be just and reasonable, except as provided in this section and sections 4909.18 and 4909.19 of the Revised Code. Such sections do not apply to any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or any regulation or practice affecting the same, of railroads, street and electric railways, motor transportation companies, and pipe line companies.

Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 43, SB 162, § 1, eff. 9/13/2010.

Effective Date: 10-01-1953

This section is set out twice. See also § 4909.17, effective until 9/13/2010.