Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-30
RULES OF PUBLIC
UTILITIES BOARD
ARE PROMULGATED
Regular Sessions on Tuesdays.
Complaints Must Be Made
by Petition.

TRENTON, July 30.-The new State
| Board OF Public Utility Commissioners
today made public the rules it has
adopted to- govern its future opera
tions. They gave the information that
regular sessions will be held each Tues
day morning, that all complaints and
applications must be by petition, that
answers to complaints must be filed
within ten days, and other similar in
formation,
knowledge of the rules is of value to
the general public because the new
commission has legal power to hear
complaints about gas, electric light.
trolley service, telephone and telegraph
service, express service, pipe line serv-
ice, and so on, besides the railroad serv-
ice. The rules are published that the
people of the State may know how to
proceed with complaints and that the
companies may know how to proceed to
defend themselves. The rules are as
follows:
/. Sessions of the board for receiv-
ing, considering and acting upon petit
tions, applications a: d othes communi-
cations, and disposing of bus 'ess
other than the hearing ~ ntts ed
cases, will be held at the 70, - the
board, at the State House in tt
Trenton, each Tuesday at IL oeI,
the morning
2. Sessions of the board for the hear
ing of contested cases will be held on
such days, at such hours and at such
places as the board may from time to
time designate.
8. Special sessions of the board shall
be called by the president of his own
initiative, or on the request of any
member of the board. One days notice
by telegraph or telephone shall be
given of such special sessions, and
these may be called to be held at the
rooms of the board either In the city
of Trenton or the city of Newark
Complaints.
4JAll complaints and applications un-
der the statute must be by petition and
set forth concisely the facts upon which
the complaint or application is based.
The name and address of the petitioner
and that of the attorney or counsel OF
the petitioner ifany, must appear upon
the petition; the name of the corpora
ton, association or company COM
planned of, or to whom an order or rec
ommendation is sought Hereinafter
designated respondent). must be set
forth in such petition.
5. Every petitioner must file with the
board the original of the petition, and,
in addition thereto, as many copies
thereof as there may be respondents.
6. Petitions for approval under Sec
tion of chapter Al of the laws of 1910
must be accompanied by copy of the
ordinance, resolution or motion grant
ing the privilege or franchise. approval
of (which Is applied for, and of all pro-
ceedings of the municipality relating
thereto and resulting in the passage
thereof.
Answers.
Z. Unless the board shall specifically
otherwise direct, answers to petitions
must be filed within ten days after the
day on which copy of the petition is
mailed by the secretary of the board
The day of the mailing of the copy of
the petition shall be set forth in the
communication accompanying such
copy.
s. The board may in any case require
the answer to be filed within a shorter
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