Source: http://www.ksrevisor.org/statutes/chapters/ch66/066_015_0002.html
Timestamp: 2017-11-19 21:33:08
Document Index: 344820737

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 268', '§ 3', '§ 1', '§ 1']

66-1502
66-1502. Assessment of certain expenses; payment. (a) Whenever, in order to carry out the duties imposed upon it by law, the state corporation commission, in a proceeding upon its own motion, on complaint, or upon an application to it, shall deem it necessary to investigate any public utility or common carrier or make appraisals of the property of any public utility, such public utility or common carrier, in case the expenses reasonably attributable to such investigation or appraisal exceed the sum of $100, including both direct and indirect expenses incurred by the commission or its staff or by the citizens' utility ratepayer board, shall pay such expenses which shall be assessed against such public utility or common carrier by the commission. Such expenses shall be assessed beginning on the date that the proceeding is filed or beginning three business days after the commission gives the public utility or common carrier notice of the assessment by United States mail, whichever is later. The state corporation commission shall give such public utility or common carrier notice and opportunity for a hearing in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act. At such hearing, the public utility or common carrier may be heard as to the necessity of such investigation or appraisal and may show cause, if any, why such investigation or appraisal should not be made or why the costs thereof should not be assessed against such public utility or common carrier. The finding of the commission as to the necessity of the investigation or appraisal and the assessment of the expenses thereof shall be conclusive, except that no such public utility or common carrier shall be liable for payment of any such expenses incurred by such state corporation commission or citizens' utility ratepayer board in connection with any proceeding before or within the jurisdiction of any federal regulatory body.
(b) The commission, in accordance with the procedures prescribed by subsection (a), may assess against an entity, other than a residential or small commercial ratepayer, that is not subject to assessment pursuant to subsection (a) actual expenses of any services extended, filings processed or actions certified by the commission for the entity.
History: L. 1935, ch. 267, § 1; L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; L. 1988, ch. 356, § 268; L. 1991, ch. 205, § 3; L. 1992, ch. 186, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 132, § 1; July 1.