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TN Code § 65-4-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 2 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity|§ 65-4-208. Interstate Transmission of Electric Power

  Notwithstanding any other law, no person, firm or corporation not engaged on March 22, 1955, in the business of generating, transmitting, distributing, or furnishing electric power shall extend or construct transmission or distribution lines or other works into or within the state, directly or indirectly enter the state, for the purpose of delivering within the state electric power generated at a point or points outside the state, unless such person, firm or corporation shall have first submitted its plans for such extension, construction or entry to the commission and shall have obtained from the commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity covering the same. The commission shall deny such certificate if, after a hearing, the commission cannot affirmatively establish that the granting of such certificate would serve the public interest.   This section shall not apply to the federal government or any federal agency, to the state of Tennessee or any agency or political subdivision of the state, or to any cooperative association organized under the former Electric Cooperative Act or the former Electric Membership Corporation Act, but shall be fully applicable to any private corporation organized under the laws of this or any other state and to any public corporation of any other state, irrespective of the nature, identity or governmental or other public status of the purchaser, consumer, or other party to whom electric power is to be delivered within the state.   The provisions of this section shall be cumulative and the requirements contained in this section shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, the requirements contained in any other law.
TN Code § 65-4-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-301. Fees Required

   Every public utility doing business in this state and subject to the control and jurisdiction of the commission to which this chapter applies, shall pay to the state on or before April 1 of each year, a fee for the inspection, control and supervision of the business, service and rates of such public utility.   Fees collected by the commission pursuant to this part shall be expended by the commission for the inspection, control and supervision of the business service and rates of such public utilities as established in subdivision (a)(1). In addition, the Tennessee public utility commission may grant, on a one-time basis, an amount not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) from the public utilities account, as defined in § 65-4-307, to the 2-1-1 collaborative for the purpose of defraying start-up costs associated with the establishment of 2-1-1 telephone service to cover all parts of the state. Such grant may be made only after public notice is provided by the Tennessee public utility commission, specifically giving all public utilities, which are currently doing business in this state and subject to the control and jurisdiction of the commission, the opportunity to raise objection to such grant. The commission shall consider any objection timely filed in response to the commission notice prior to making such grant.     Every owner or operator of a public pay telephone service who is not a public utility paying a fee in accordance with subsection (a), and who is authorized to provide such service pursuant to commission regulation, shall pay an annual inspection and supervision fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each service location. Such fee shall be paid on or before July 1 of each year.
TN Code § 65-4-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-302. Fee in Addition to Other Taxes and Fees

 The fee provided for in this part shall be paid by the public utility in addition to any and all property, franchise, license, and other taxes, fees, and charges fixed, assessed, or charged by law against such utility.
TN Code § 65-4-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-304. Minimum Fees

 In no case shall the fee to be paid be less than one hundred dollars ($100), which will be the minimum inspection, control and supervision fee to be paid by any public utility subject to such fee.
TN Code § 65-4-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-305. Information Required of Utility

 Annually, every such public utility doing business in this state shall file with the commission a statement under oath, in such form and substance as may be prescribed by the commission, setting forth accurately the amount of its gross receipts from all sources for the preceding calendar year. Any such public utility failing to file such statement as required, or failing to give such other information as may be reasonably required of such public utility, commits a Class C misdemeanor for each day of such failure to comply.
TN Code § 65-4-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-306. Time for Payment of Fees

 The inspection, control, and supervision fees provided for in this part shall become due and payable on April 1 of each year.
TN Code § 65-4-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-307. Collection and Disposition of Fees

 The inspection, control and supervision fees provided for in this part shall be collected by the commission. Such fees, when collected, shall be deposited in the state treasury but shall be kept in a separate account, to be known as the “public utilities account” and the funds so raised shall thus be segregated.
TN Code § 65-4-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-308. Default

 In case of default in the payment of any fee, or part thereof, when the same shall become due, as provided in § 65-4-306, any such public utility in default shall be liable for a penalty of ten percent (10%) per month or fraction thereof, on the amount of the fee, which may be recovered by suit of the state for every month it remains in default, and any such penalty, when collected, shall be deposited into the state treasury as a part of the utilities account; provided, that out of any such penalty, the commission may employ and pay counsel, who shall have power to institute suit in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such penalty, but in no event shall anything more than the penalty be allowed to such counsel for making such collections.
TN Code § 65-4-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 3 - Inspection, Control, and Supervision Fee|§ 65-4-309. Lien for Fees and Penalties

 A lien is declared, and shall exist, upon all the property of each public utility in default, for the payment of the fee prescribed, together with all penalties accruing under this part, which liens shall be superior to all other liens, except those for federal, state, county and municipal taxes.
TN Code § 65-4-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-401. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Caller identification service” means telephone service which notifies telephone subscribers of the telephone number of incoming telephone calls;   “Commission” means the Tennessee public utility commission;   “Local exchange company” includes telecommunications service providers as defined in § 65-4-101, competing telecommunications service providers as such term is defined in § 65-4-101, telephone cooperatives, and cellular or other wireless telecommunications providers;   “Person” means a natural person, individual, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, incorporated or unincorporated association and any other legal or commercial entity however organized and wherever located that telemarkets to citizens located within the state of Tennessee;   “Residential subscriber” means a person who has subscribed to residential telephone service from a local exchange company or the other persons living, residing or visiting with such person; and    “Telephone solicitation” means any voice communication over a telephone originating from Tennessee or elsewhere that:   Promotes or encourages, directly or indirectly, the purchase of, rental of, or investment in property, goods, or services;   Refers a residential subscriber to another person for the purpose of promoting or encouraging the purchase of, rental of, or investment in property, goods, or services; or   Requests a charitable contribution except as provided for in subdivision (6)(B)(ii);     “Telephone solicitation” does not include voice communications to any residential subscriber:   With that subscriber's prior express permission;   If the communication is made by a bona fide member, volunteer or direct employee of a not-for-profit organization exempt from paying taxes under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. §  501(c)), provided the voice communication is made to request a charitable contribution to be used solely for such not-for-profit organization's exempt purpose;   Who is an existing customer. For the purposes of this part, an “existing customer” includes a residential subscriber with whom the person or entity making a telephone solicitation has had a prior relationship within the prior twelve (12) months; or   If the communication is made on behalf of a business and all of the following conditions are met:        A direct employee of the business makes the voice communication;   The communication is not made as part of a telecommunications marketing plan;   The business has a reasonable belief that the specific person who is receiving the voice communication is considering purchasing the service or product sold or leased by the business and the call is specifically directed to such person;   The business does not sell or engage in telemarketing services; and   The business does not make more than a total of three (3) such voice communications in any one (1) calendar week.
TN Code § 65-4-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-402. Identity of Caller — Authorized Times for Solicitation

 Any person or entity who makes a telephone solicitation to any residential subscriber in this state shall, at the beginning of such call, state clearly the identity of the person initiating the call and entity or organization such person represents. Without the permission of the residential subscriber, no person or entity who makes a telephone solicitation shall call such subscriber at any time other than between the hours of eight o'clock a.m. (8:00 a.m.) to nine o'clock p.m. (9:00 p.m.), prevailing time.
TN Code § 65-4-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-403. Circumvention of Caller Identification Service Prohibited

 No person or entity who makes a telephone solicitation to the telephone of a residential subscriber in this state shall knowingly utilize any method to block or otherwise circumvent such subscriber's use of a caller identification service.
TN Code § 65-4-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-404. Calls to Persons Objecting to Solicitation

 No person or entity shall knowingly make or cause to be made any telephone solicitation to any residential subscriber in this state who has given notice to the commission, in accordance with regulations promulgated pursuant to this part, of such subscriber's objection to receiving telephone solicitations.
TN Code § 65-4-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-406. Remedies Not Exclusive

 The remedies, duties, prohibitions, and penalties of this part are not exclusive and are in addition to the Consumer Telemarketing Protection Act of 1990, compiled in title 47, chapter 18, part 15, and all other causes of action, remedies, and penalties provided by law.
TN Code § 65-4-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-407. Liability of Caller Identification Service Providers

 No provider of telephone caller identification service shall be held liable for violations of this part committed by other persons or entities.
TN Code § 65-4-408 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-408. Defenses

 It shall be a defense in any action or proceeding brought under this part that the defendant has established and implemented, with due care, reasonable practices and procedures to effectively prevent telephone solicitations in violation of this part.
TN Code § 65-4-409 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-409. Portability of Telephone Number

 The local exchange company shall provide notice to the customer at the time the customer signs up for new service of the availability of number portability of the customer's telephone number.
TN Code § 65-4-410 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 4 - Telephone Solicitation and Number Portability|§ 65-4-410. Do Not Call Register

  Residential telephone subscribers may enroll on the Tennessee Do Not Call Register in the manner prescribed by the commission. Enrollment shall take effect thirty (30) days following the first day of the succeeding month of enrollment by the subscriber.   State government telephone subscribers may enroll on the Tennessee Do Not Call Register in a manner prescribed by the commission; provided, that only the administrative head, or such person's designee, for each state department, agency, board, commission and other entity of the state, including the legislative branch and the judicial branch, may designate telephone numbers for such department, agency, board, commission or other entity of the state to be enrolled on the register. Enrollment shall take effect thirty (30) days following the first succeeding month of enrollment.
TN Code § 65-4-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 5 - Unsolicited Facsimiles|§ 65-4-501. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Commission” means the Tennessee public utility commission;   “Fax” or “facsimile” means:  Every process in which electronic signals are transmitted by telephone lines for conversion into written text or other graphic images; but   “Fax” or “facsimile” does not include:   Electronic mail or “e-mail” as regulated pursuant to title 47, chapter 18, part 25; or   Any transmission of electronic signals by a local exchange company to the extent that the local exchange company merely carries that transmission over its network;       “Local exchange company” includes telecommunications service providers as defined in § 65-4-101, competing telecommunications service providers as such term is defined in § 65-4-101, telephone cooperatives, and cellular or other wireless telecommunications providers, or interactive computer service provider as defined by 47 U.S.C. § 230(f);   “Person” means a natural person, individual, partnership, trust, estate, incorporated or unincorporated association, any corporation, parent, subsidiary or affiliate thereof, or any other legal or commercial entity however organized and wherever located;  “Affiliate” of a specific person means a person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, is under common control with, the person specified;   “Parent” means a company owning more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting shares, or otherwise a controlling interest, of another company; and   “Subsidiary” means a corporation with more than fifty percent (50%) of its outstanding voting shares being owned by its parent or the parent's other subsidiaries; and     “Unsolicited facsimile advertisement” means any material advertising the commercial availability or quality of any property, goods, or services, that is transmitted by fax to any person located within the state of Tennessee without such person's prior express invitation or permission, and is transmitted from Tennessee or elsewhere for the purpose of offering the extension of credit or encouraging the purchase or rental of, or investment in, property, goods, or services.
TN Code § 65-4-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 5 - Unsolicited Facsimiles|§ 65-4-502. Unsolicited Facsimile Advertisements Prohibited — Information Required on Transmissions

  No person shall transmit or cause another person to transmit an unsolicited facsimile advertisement; provided, that a not-for-profit membership organization exempt from paying taxes under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. §  501(c)) is exempt from this subsection (a), if the facsimile is made by a bona fide member, volunteer, or direct employee of the organization to its current membership.   Any transmission by facsimile machine shall include in a margin at the top or bottom of each transmitted page or on the first page of the transmission the date and time of the transmission; an identification of the business, other entity, or individual sending the message; and the telephone number of the sending machine or of such business, other entity or individual.
TN Code § 65-4-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 5 - Unsolicited Facsimiles|§ 65-4-503. Implementation

 The commission is authorized to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement and effectuate this part.
TN Code § 65-4-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 5 - Unsolicited Facsimiles|§ 65-4-504. Commission — Penalties — Investigations — Notice and Hearing

  The commission is authorized to initiate proceedings relative to a violation of this part or any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this part. Such proceedings include, without limitation, proceedings to: issue a cease and desist order; issue an order imposing a civil penalty up to a maximum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each violation; and to seek additional relief in any court of competent jurisdiction. Violations shall be calculated in a liberal manner to deter violators and to protect consumers. Each page of each unsolicited facsimile advertisement may constitute a separate violation.   In the course of investigating an alleged violation of this part, the commission is authorized to issue investigative demands, issue subpoenas, administer oaths, and conduct hearings in accordance with this title. After proper notice, any such hearing shall be conducted in conformance with commission rules and the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. All civil penalties assessed pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the public utilities account in the state treasury.
TN Code § 65-4-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 5 - Unsolicited Facsimiles|§ 65-4-505. Remedies — Construction

  This part shall not be construed to limit any person's right to pursue any additional civil remedy otherwise allowed by law.   This part shall not be construed to restrict or apply to communications to and from citizens and their elected representatives.
TN Code § 65-4-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities by Commission|Part 5 - Unsolicited Facsimiles|§ 65-4-506. Violations

  A violation of this part also constitutes a violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977, compiled in title 47, chapter 18, part 1.   For the purpose of application of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, any violation of this part shall be construed to constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting trade or commerce and subject to the penalties and remedies as provided in that act, in addition to the penalties and remedies set forth in this part as well as that of 47 U.S.C. § 227, or any other cause of action, civil remedy or penalty provided by law.
TN Code § 65-5-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-102. Commission May Require Filing of Schedules

 The commission has the power to require every such public utility to file with it complete schedules of every classification employed and of every individual or joint rate, toll, fare, or charge made or exacted by it for any product supplied or service rendered within this state as specified in such requirement.
TN Code § 65-5-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-104. Unjust Rate, Fare, Schedule or Classification Prohibited

  No public utility shall:  Make, impose, or exact any unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential individual or joint rate, or special rate, toll, fare, charge, or schedule for any product, or service supplied or rendered by it within this state; or   Adopt or impose any unjust or unreasonable classification in the making or as the basis of any rate, toll, charge, fare, or schedule for any product or service rendered by it within this state.     Any measure taken by any public utility to avoid discrimination in rates, charges, fees and in the availability and quality of energy against consumers using solar- or wind-powered equipment as a source of energy shall not be considered unreasonable, unjust, or unduly preferential in violation of this section, unless such customers do not have sufficient safety equipment to protect the suppliers from damage.
TN Code § 65-5-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 5 - Regulation of Rates|Part 1 - Public Utilities|§ 65-5-105. Intrastate Rate Reductions Reflecting Tax Savings

 Any public utility, the maximum rates of which are fixed by the commission, shall reduce its intrastate rates to reflect any tax savings resulting from Acts 1989, ch. 312. Such rate reduction shall be implemented contemporaneously with the effective date of the tax savings.