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AL Code § 37-4-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.|Section 37-4-24 - Inspection and Supervision Fees - Recovery of Delinquent Fees.

Section 37-4-24Inspection and supervision fees - Recovery of delinquent fees. (a) Supervision and inspection fees provided for in this chapter shall be in default after February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 of each year, if not paid prior to or on that date. In the event that the amount payable by any utility for any quarter cannot be ascertained on or before the dates herein prescribed for payment each year, such utility shall, in any event, pay the minimum supervision and inspection fee provided in this article, and in addition such part of any additional supervision and inspection fee as may be ascertainable on or before the date of default; and when any further or additional amount payable for such quarter can be ascertained, the same shall be paid within 30 days after it becomes possible to ascertain the same. Any utility failing, in whole or in part to pay any supervision or inspection fee, or part thereof, due by it within any of the time prescribed in this article, for the payment of the same, shall be in default, and shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding $50.00 per day, to be recovered by a civil action brought by the state, for every day it thereafter remains in default, and such penalty may be recovered together with the supervision and inspection fee, in default, in a single action. And the state shall have a lien upon all the property in this state of any utility for the payment of the supervision and inspection fees provided by this chapter, to be paid, and the penalties in this section provided for, which lien shall be superior to all other liens, except the lien for state, county and municipal taxes. (b) Any utility company may, at their own election, pay over the total fees due for the preceding fiscal year on November 1 of each year. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9767; Code 1940, T. 48, §328; Acts 1981, No. 81-718, p. 1210, §1.)
AL Code § 37-4-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.|Section 37-4-25 - Intercorporate Relations - Treatment of Utility as Part of General System.

Section 37-4-25Intercorporate relations - Treatment of utility as part of general system. For all the purposes of this chapter the commission may, in its discretion, deem and treat any utility, the property of which is operated in connection with or as a part of a general system of any other utility and all of the capital stock of which or substantially all of the capital stock of which is owned or controlled by such other utility, or by any person or persons who own or control all of the capital stock or substantially all of the capital stock of such other utility as a part of or consolidated with such owning or controlling utility or such other utility whose stock is so owned or controlled. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9792; Code 1940, T. 48, §329.)
AL Code § 37-4-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.|Section 37-4-26 - Intercorporate Relations - Agreements With Holding Companies or Affiliated Interests.

Section 37-4-26Intercorporate relations - Agreements with holding companies or affiliated interests. Every utility engaged in any intrastate business in this state must file with the commission a true and correct statement, properly verified, of every outstanding or existing agreement between it and any holding company or affiliated interests, substantially affecting the financial status or credit of the utility, or the management or control of the utility by such holding company or affiliated interests. Thereafter, it shall be the duty of every such utility, within 30 days after the making thereof, to file with the commission a verified statement of every new agreement or modification of an existing agreement of like character; provided, that the commission may, by affirmative action, relieve any utility from the duty or obligation of filing any such statement. The commission shall have full authority and power to investigate any such agreement, and if the commission, after due notice and hearing, finds that such agreement is unjust and unreasonable, the commission shall make and enter such order as is just and reasonable relating thereto. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 232, p. 233; Code 1940, T. 48, §330.)
AL Code § 37-4-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.|Section 37-4-27 - Special or Reduced Rates.

Section 37-4-27Special or reduced rates. All utilities may grant free transportation or service, or transportation or service at reduced rates, to such persons as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law to receive the same, and may grant free transportation or service, or transportation or service at reduced rates, to their officers, agents, attorneys or employees, and their families, and may exchange the same with other utilities. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9794; Code 1940, T. 48, §331.)
AL Code § 37-4-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.|Section 37-4-28 - Certificate of Convenience and Necessity - When Required; Application; Issuance.

Section 37-4-28Certificate of convenience and necessity - When required; application; issuance. No plant, property or facility for the production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of gas, electricity, water or steam shall be constructed, except ordinary extensions of existing systems in the usual course of business, until written application is first made to the commission for the issuance of a certificate of convenience and necessity, and the issuance by the commission of such certificate. Upon the filing of any such application, and after a public hearing of all parties interested, the commission may, or may not, in its discretion, issue such a certificate of convenience and necessity, and if issued, may prescribe such conditions upon the issuance as it may deem advisable. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9795; Code 1940, T. 48, §332.)
AL Code § 37-4-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 1 - Rate and Other Regulations.|Section 37-4-29 - Certificate of Convenience and Necessity - Time for Exercising Authority Conferred.

Section 37-4-29Certificate of convenience and necessity - Time for exercising authority conferred. Unless exercised within a period designated by the commission, but not exceeding one year from the grant thereof, exclusive of any delay due to the order of any court, or the failure to obtain any grant or consent, authority conferred by a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the commission shall be null and void; but the beginning of the construction of the road, line, system or works of such utility, in good faith within the time prescribed by the commission, and the prosecution of the same with reasonable diligence, shall constitute a compliance with such certificate. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9797; Code 1940, T. 48, §334.)
AL Code § 37-4-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-80 - Definitions.

Section 37-4-80Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is expressly stated or clearly indicated by the context: (1) PUBLIC UTILITY. Any person, firm, corporation or other legal entity of any kind engaged in the transportation and sale of gas and shall include the State of Alabama, every county in the State of Alabama, every municipality in the State of Alabama, every public body or corporation of whatever kind in the State of Alabama, as well as every private or nonpublic entity, when engaged in the transportation and sale of gas. (2) GAS. Natural gas, flammable gas or gas which is toxic or corrosive. (3) TRANSPORTATION OF GAS. The gathering, transmission, distribution and storage of natural gas and the transmission and distribution by pipeline of all kinds of gas other than natural gas. (4) PIPELINE SYSTEM. New and existing pipe rights-of-way and any pipeline, equipment, facility and building, or any of the foregoing, used by a public utility in the transportation of gas or the treatment of gas during the course of transportation; but "rights-of-way," as used in this article does not authorize the commission to prescribe the location or routing of any pipeline, equipment, facility or building, or any of the foregoing. (5) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission. (6) FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARDS. The minimum standards of safety adopted by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-481) or any amendments thereto, and any rules and regulations promulgated by any regulatory agency of the United States having jurisdiction thereof. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §1.)
AL Code § 37-4-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-81 - Compliance With Federal Minimum Safety Standards.

Section 37-4-81Compliance with federal minimum safety standards. All pipeline systems used in this state for the transportation of gas shall be constructed, operated and maintained in such safe manner as at all times to be in compliance with the defined federal minimum safety standards. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §2.)
AL Code § 37-4-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-82 - Powers of Commission - Generally.

Section 37-4-82Powers of commission - Generally. The commission shall have the right, power and authority: To provide and make certifications, reports and information to the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; to enter into agreements with said secretary to carry out the purposes of this article; to enforce federal safety standards in the State of Alabama in lieu of enforcement by the said department of transportation as permitted in the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P. L. 90-481); and to exercise regulatory jurisdiction over the safety of pipeline systems and the transportation of gas as permitted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P. L. 90-481). (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §3.)
AL Code § 37-4-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-83 - Powers of Commission - Promulgation of Rules; Requiring Records; Inspections.

Section 37-4-83Powers of commission - Promulgation of rules; requiring records; inspections. In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline system is operating in compliance with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Alabama Public Service Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate such purposes. It may require each such pipeline system to make, maintain and file such books, papers, records and documents as the commission may deem necessary, which books, papers, records and documents shall be made available to members of the commission and their employees upon request. Authorized personnel of the commission shall be authorized to inspect all such pipeline systems, facilities and equipment and shall have the right of access and entry to all buildings and property owned, leased or operated by such systems. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §4.)
AL Code § 37-4-84 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-84 - Powers of Commission - Employment of Personnel.

Section 37-4-84Powers of commission - Employment of personnel. The Alabama Public Service Commission shall be authorized to employ, subject to the provisions of the Merit System Act, such inspectors or other qualified employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §6.)
AL Code § 37-4-85 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-85 - Powers of Commission - Limitations.

Section 37-4-85Powers of commission - Limitations. Nothing in this article shall be deemed to confer upon the commission any additional power and jurisdiction to supervise or regulate the rates, services, franchises or other matters pertaining to pipeline systems or transportation of gas except with respect to the enforcement of federal safety standards prescribed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; nor shall anything in this article be deemed to confer upon the commission any power to adopt or continue in force any standards for pipeline systems or transportation of gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission as prohibited by Section 3 (b) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-481). (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §8.)
AL Code § 37-4-86 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-86 - Jurisdiction of Circuit Court.

Section 37-4-86Jurisdiction of circuit court. Upon petition of the commission, the circuit court in any county in which a violation of this article exists shall have jurisdiction to restrain such violations and to enforce compliance with the safety standards herein required. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §5.)
AL Code § 37-4-87 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-87 - Penalties.

Section 37-4-87Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this article or of any regulation issued hereunder shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for each violation for each day that the violation persists. However, the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000) for any related series of violations. (b) Any civil penalty may be compromised by the commission. In determining the amount of the penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the appropriateness of the penalty to the size of the business of the person charged, the gravity of the violation, and the good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve compliance, after notification of a violation, shall be considered. The amount of the penalty, when finally determined, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, may be deducted from any sums owing by the State of Alabama to the person charged, or may be recovered in a civil action brought by the commission in the circuit court of any county in which a violation exists. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §7; Acts 1990, No. 90-568, p. 965, §1; Act 2015-452, §1.)
AL Code § 37-4-88 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3 - Gas Pipeline Systems.|Section 37-4-88 - Safety Inspection Fees.

Section 37-4-88Safety inspection fees. (a) Any gas system operated by any investor-owned company, city, county, municipality, or public gas district which comes under the supervision of the commission for the purpose of enforcing the gas pipeline safety requirements of this article, shall pay annually on October first of each year an inspection fee to the commission of $.50 per active service line for the previous calendar year ending December 31, for each active service line in said system. (b) Any investor-owned company, partnership, public housing authority or public entity created by Act of Congress or state legislature that uses a master meter for one or more units, shall pay the inspection fee based upon the number of all units on premises served by said master meter. (c) All provisions of this section are applicable to any and all liquefied petroleum gas installations that come under the enforcement provisions of the commission. (d) All said inspection fees collected under this provision shall be paid into a fund to be known as the "gas pipeline safety fund" and shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds by the commission. (e) Payment of gas pipeline safety inspection fees provided for under this section shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of Section 37-4-23 and Section 37-4-24. (f) In the event said "gas pipeline safety fund" accumulates by September 30 in any year to an amount equal to 110 percent of the amount budgeted in that current fiscal year for the purpose of enforcing the gas pipeline safety requirements of this article, the commission shall suspend the collection of said inspection fees for one year. (g) Upon July 25, 1983, the additional revenue generated herein shall be over and above the appropriation of the commission for fiscal year 1983-84. (Acts 1983, No. 83-588, p. 920; Acts 1984, No. 84-259, p. 431, §1.)
AL Code § 37-4-90 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3A - Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Facilities.|Section 37-4-90 - Definitions.

Section 37-4-90Definitions. For the purposes of this article the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is expressly stated or clearly indicated by the context: (1) PERSON. Any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, or joint stock association and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof engaged in the transportation of hazardous liquids. (2) HAZARDOUS LIQUID: a. Petroleum, petroleum products; or anhydrous ammonia. b. Any substance or material which is in liquid state, including liquified natural gas (LNG), when transported by pipeline facilities and which may pose an unreasonable risk to life or property when transported by pipeline facilities; (3) TRANSPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS LIQUIDS. The movement of hazardous liquids by intrastate pipeline, or their storage incidental to such movement, except that it shall not include: any such movement through gathering lines in rural locations, coastal waters, or onshore production; refining or manufacturing, cleansing and processing facilities, not including LNG facilities; or storage or in-plant piping systems associated with any such facilities; (4) FACILITIES. Includes, without limitation, new and existing pipe, right-of-way, any equipment, facility, or building used or intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids, and any facility used in the liquification of natural gas, but "rights-of-way" as used in this title does not authorize the commission to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility; (5) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission; (6) FEDERAL SAFETY STANDARDS. The minimum standards of safety adopted by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (P.L. 96-129) (Title 49 C.F.R., Parts 191-195) or any amendments thereto, and any rules and regulations promulgated by any regulatory agency of the United States having jurisdiction thereof. (Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-915, p. 508, §1.)
AL Code § 37-4-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3A - Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Facilities.|Section 37-4-91 - Operation and Maintenance.

Section 37-4-91Operation and maintenance. All facilities used in this state for the transportation of hazardous liquids and the liquification of natural gas shall be constructed, operated and maintained in such safe manner as at all times to be in compliance with the defined federal minimum standards. (Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-915, p. 508, §2.)
AL Code § 37-4-92 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3A - Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Facilities.|Section 37-4-92 - Commission - Power and Authority.

Section 37-4-92Commission - Power and authority. The commission shall have the right, power and authority: to provide and make certification, reports and information to the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; to enter into agreements with said secretary to carry out the purposes of this article; to enforce federal safety standards in the State of Alabama in lieu of enforcement by the said department of transportation as permitted in the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (P.L. 96-129); and to exercise regulatory jurisdiction over the safety of pipeline facilities and the transportation of hazardous liquids as permitted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 (P.L. 96-129). (Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-915, p. 508, §3.)
AL Code § 37-4-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 4 - Public Utilities Other Than Transportation Companies or Motor Vehicle Carriers.|Article 3A - Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Facilities.|Section 37-4-93 - Commission - Power to Promulgate Rules and Regulations.

Section 37-4-93Commission - Power to promulgate rules and regulations. In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline facility is operating in compliance with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Alabama Public Service Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate such purposes. It may require each such pipeline system to make, maintain and file such books, papers, records and documents as the commission may deem necessary, which books, papers, records and documents shall be made available to members of the commission and their employees upon request. Authorized personnel of the commission shall be authorized to inspect all such pipeline facilities, systems, and equipment and shall have the right of access and entry to all buildings and property owned, leased or operated by such systems. (Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-915, p. 508, §4.)