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66 PA Cons Stat § 1701 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 17 - Accounting and Budgetary Matters|Section 1701 - Mandatory systems of accounts

§ 1701. Mandatory systems of accounts.  The commission may, after reasonable notice and hearing, establish systems of accounts, including cost finding procedures, to be kept by public utilities, or may classify public utilities and establish a system of accounts for each class, and prescribe the manner and form in which such accounts shall be kept. Every public utility shall establish such systems of accounting, and shall keep such accounts in the manner and form required by the commission. The accounting system of any public utility also subject to the jurisdiction of a Federal regulatory body shall correspond, as far as practicable, to the system prescribed by such Federal regulatory body. The commission may require any such public utility to keep and maintain supplemental or additional accounts to those required by any such regulatory body.    Cross References. Section 1701 is referred to in section 1706 of this title.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1702 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 17 - Accounting and Budgetary Matters|Section 1702 - Continuing property records

§ 1702. Continuing property records.  The commission may require any public utility to establish, provide, and maintain as a part of its system of accounts, continuing property records, including a list or inventory of all the units of tangible property used or useful in the public service, showing the current location of such property units by definite reference to the specific land parcels upon which such units are located or stored. The commission may require any public utility to keep accounts and records in such manner as to show, currently, the original cost of such property when first devoted to the public service, and the reserve accumulated to provide for the depreciation thereof.    Cross References. Section 1702 is referred to in section 1310 of this title.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1703 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 17 - Accounting and Budgetary Matters|Section 1703 - Depreciation accounts; reports

§ 1703. Depreciation accounts; reports.   (a) Accounts.--Every public utility shall carry on its books or records of account, proper and reasonable sums representing the annual depreciation on its property used or useful in the public service, which sums shall be based upon the average estimated life of each of the several units or classes of depreciable property. The commission, by appropriate order, after hearing, shall, except where found to be inappropriate, establish for each class of public utilities, the units of depreciable property, the loss upon the retirement of which shall be charged to the depreciation reserve.  (b) Statements.--Every public utility shall file with the commission, at such times and in such form as the commission may prescribe, statements setting forth the details supporting its computation of annual depreciation, as recorded on the books or records of accounts of the public utility. If the commission, upon review of such statements, is of the opinion that the amount of annual depreciation so recorded by any public utility is not reasonable and proper, it may, after hearing, require that provision be made for annual depreciation in such sums as may be found by it to be reasonable and proper. In making its findings, the commission shall give consideration to the experience of the public utility, and the predecessors of the public utility in accumulating depreciation reserves, the retirements actually made, and such other factors as may be deemed relevant.  (c) Use of estimates.--The commission shall not be bound in rate proceedings to accept, as just and reasonable for rate-making purposes, estimates of annual depreciation established under the provisions of this section, but in such rate proceedings it shall give consideration to statements submitted under this section, in addition to such other factors as may be relevant.    Cross References. Section 1703 is referred to in section 1706 of this title.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1704 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 17 - Accounting and Budgetary Matters|Section 1704 - Records and accounts to be kept in Commonwealth

§ 1704. Records and accounts to be kept in Commonwealth.   (a) General rule.--Every public utility shall keep such books, accounts, papers, records, and memoranda, as shall be required by the commission, in an office within this Commonwealth, and shall not remove the same, or any of them, from this Commonwealth, except upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the commission.  (b) Exceptions.--This section does not apply to a public utility of another state, engaged in interstate commerce, whose accounts are kept at its principal place of business without this Commonwealth, in the manner prescribed by any Federal regulatory body. Such public utility, when required by the commission, shall furnish to the commission, within such reasonable time as it shall fix, certified copies of its books, accounts, papers, records, and memoranda relating to the business done by such public utility within this Commonwealth.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1705 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 17 - Accounting and Budgetary Matters|Section 1705 - Budgets of public utilities

§ 1705. Budgets of public utilities.   (a) Proposed budgets; adjustments; determination.--The commission may, by regulation, require any class of public utilities, except common carriers, to file proposed budgets with the commission on or before the first day of each budgetary period, showing the amount of money which each public utility within such class, will in its judgment, expend during the budgetary period for payment of salaries of executive officers, donations, advertising, lobbying expenses, entertainment, political contributions, expenditures, and major contracts for the sale or purchase of facilities, and all items covering or contemplating any payment to any affiliated interest for advice, auditing, associating, sponsoring, engineering, managing, operating, financing, legal, or other services. Adjustments or additions to any such budget may be made from time to time by filing supplementary budgets with the commission. When any such budget or supplemental budget has been filed, the commission may examine into and investigate the same to determine whether any or all of the contemplated expenditures are unreasonable or contrary to the public interest and if after reasonable notice and hearing, it shall so determine, it shall make its findings and order in writing rejecting the same or any part thereof.  (b) Rejected budgets.--Upon such rejection, the public utility concerned shall not make further expenditures or payments under the budget or part thereof rejected, and no expenditures at any time made under such rejected budget, or part thereof, shall be allowed as an operating expense, or capital expenditure in any rate or valuation proceeding, or in any other proceeding or hearing before the commission, unless and until the propriety thereof shall have been established to the satisfaction of the commission, and any such finding or order shall remain in full force and effect, unless and until such finding or order shall be vacated, modified or set aside by the commission, or upon an appeal, as provided in this part.  (c) Use of budgets.--The filing of any budget, its examination, investigation, or determination by the commission, under this section, shall not bar or estop the commission from determining, in any rate valuation or other proceeding, whether any or all of the expenditures made under any budget or supplemental budget are reasonable or commensurate with the service or facilities received.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1706 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 17 - Accounting and Budgetary Matters|Section 1706 - Applicability to municipal corporations

§ 1706. Applicability to municipal corporations.  The provisions of sections 505 (relating to duty to furnish information to commission; cooperation in valuing property), 506 (relating to inspection of facilities and records), 1701 (relating to mandatory systems of accounts) and 1703 (relating to depreciation accounts; reports), shall apply to any municipal corporation rendering or furnishing to the public any public utility service.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1901 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 19 - Securities and Obligations|Section 1901 - Registration of securities to be issued or assumed

§ 1901. Registration of securities to be issued or assumed.   (a) General rule.--Under such regulations as the commission may prescribe, every public utility, before it shall issue or assume securities, shall file with the commission and receive from it, notice of registration of a document to be known as a securities certificate.  (b) Issuance of securities defined.--Issuance of securities includes any act of a public utility executing, causing to be authenticated, delivering or making any change or extension in any term, condition or date of, any stock certificate, or other evidence of equitable interest in itself or any bond, note, trust certificate or other evidence of indebtedness of itself. Issuance of securities does not include the execution, authentication or delivery of the following: (1) Securities to replace identical securities lost, mutilated or destroyed while in the ownership of a bona fide holder-for-value who properly indemnifies the public utility therefor. (2) Securities in exchange for the surrender of identical securities, solely for the purpose of registering or facilitating changes in the ownership thereof between bona fide holders-for-value, which surrendered securities are thereupon cancelled. (3) Securities from the treasury of the public utility previously reacquired from bona fide holders-for-value and held alive. (4) Any evidence of indebtedness, the date of maturity of which is at a period of less than one year from the date of its execution. (5) Any evidence of indebtedness for which no date of maturity is fixed but which matures upon demand of the holder. (6) Any evidence of indebtedness in the nature of a contract between a public utility and a vendor of equipment wherein the public utility promises to pay installments upon the purchase price of equipment acquired and which is not in the form of an equipment trust certificate or similar instrument readily marketable to the general public.  (c) Assumption of securities defined.--Assumption of securities includes any act of a public utility assuming primary or contingent liability for the payment of any dividends upon any stocks or of any principal or interest of any indebtedness, created or incurred by any other person or corporation. Assumption of securities does not include the acquisition of all property of the issuing company by the assuming company as provided in section 1102(3) (relating to enumeration of acts requiring certificate) if the approval of the commission is obtained.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1902 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 19 - Securities and Obligations|Section 1902 - Contents of securities certificates

§ 1902. Contents of securities certificates.  Every securities certificate shall be verified by oath or affirmation, and shall be in such form, and contain such information pertinent to a proposed issuance or assumption of securities, as the commission may require by its regulations. If two or more issues of securities are proposed to be issued or assumed by a public utility, a separate securities certificate shall be submitted to the commission for the issuance or assumption of each security issue. All information submitted to the commission or obtained through investigation or hearing shall become a part of the securities certificate.
66 PA Cons Stat § 1904 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 19 - Securities and Obligations|Section 1904 - Unauthorized securities may be declared void

§ 1904. Unauthorized securities may be declared void.  In addition to any other penalty provided in this part for any violation of this chapter, the commission, after due consideration of the public interest, may declare void any securities issued, or any assumption of securities made in violation of this chapter. Any such declaration shall not be construed as a bar to the recovery, by an innocent holder-for-value of such securities, of any losses sustained by reason of the wrongful acts of the issuing or assuming public utility.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2101 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 21 - Relations with Affiliated Interests|Section 2101 - Definition of affiliated interest

§ 2101. Definition of affiliated interest. (a) General rule.--As used in this part "affiliated interest" with a public utility means and includes the following:  (1) Every corporation and person owning or holding directly or indirectly 5% or more of the voting securities of such public utility.  (2) Every corporation and person in any chain of successive ownership of 5% or more of voting securities.  (3) Every corporation 5% or more of whose voting securities are owned by any person or corporation owning 5% or more of the voting securities of such public utility or by any person or corporation in any such chain of successive ownership of 5% or more of voting securities.  (4) Every person who is an officer or director of such public utility or of any corporation in any chain of successive ownership of 5% or more of voting securities.  (5) Every corporation operating a public utility or a servicing organization for furnishing supervisory, construction, engineering, accounting, legal and similar services to utilities, which has one or more officers or one or more directors in common with such public utility, to every other corporation which has directors in common with such public utility where the number of such directors is more than one-third of the total number of the utility's directors.  (6) Every corporation or person which the commission may determine as a matter of fact after investigation and hearing is actually exercising any substantial influence over the policies and actions of such public utility even though such influence is not based upon stockholding, stockholders, directors or officers to the extent specified in this section. As used in this part substantial influence means any corporation or person which or who stands in such relationship to the public utility that there is an absence of free and equal bargaining power between it or him and the public utility.  (7) Every person or corporation who or which the commission may determine as a matter of fact after investigation and hearing is actually exercising such substantial influence over the policies and actions of such public utility in conjunction with one or more other corporations or persons, or both, with which or whom they are related by ownership or blood relationship, or both, or by action in concert that together they are affiliated with such public utility within the meaning of this section even though no one of them alone is so affiliated.  (b) Construction of section.--The term "person" shall not be construed to exclude trustees, lessees, holders of beneficial equitable interest, voluntary associations, receivers and partnerships.    Cross References. Section 2101 is referred to in sections 1102, 1317, 1318 of this title.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2103 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 21 - Relations with Affiliated Interests|Section 2103 - Continuing supervision and jurisdiction over contracts

§ 2103. Continuing supervision and jurisdiction over contracts.  The commission shall have continuing supervisory control over the terms and conditions of contracts and arrangements as described in section 2102 (relating to approval of contracts with affiliated interests) so far as necessary to protect and promote the public interest. The commission shall have the same jurisdiction over the modifications or amendment of contracts or arrangements as it has over such original contracts and arrangements. The fact that the commission shall have approved entry into such contracts or arrangements shall not preclude disallowance or disapproval of payments made pursuant thereto, if upon actual experience under such contract or arrangement it appears that the payments provided for or made were or are unreasonable.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2104 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 21 - Relations with Affiliated Interests|Section 2104 - Contracts to be in writing; cost data

§ 2104. Contracts to be in writing; cost data.  The commission may, by regulation or order, require any contract with an affiliated interest to be in writing. The commission may also, by regulation or order, require that any contract with an affiliated interest shall contain a provision whereby the affiliated interest shall agree to furnish to the public utility, at the time of billing such public utility for any service, property, security, right, or thing, under such contract, a detailed statement of the cost to the affiliated interest of such service, property, security, right, or thing.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2105 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 21 - Relations with Affiliated Interests|Section 2105 - Contracts in violation of part void

§ 2105. Contracts in violation of part void.  Every contract with an affiliated interest, made effective or modified in violation of any provision of this part, or of any regulation or order of the commission made under this part, shall be void; and any purchase, sale, payment, lease, loan, or exchange of any service, property, money, security, right, or thing under such contract, or under any contract with an affiliated interest, the terms of which shall have been breached by the affiliated interest, shall be unlawful.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2106 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 21 - Relations with Affiliated Interests|Section 2106 - Effect on rates

§ 2106. Effect on rates.  In any proceeding, upon the commission's own motion, or upon application or complaint, involving rates or practices of any public utility, the commission may disallow, in whole or in part, any payment or compensation to an affiliated interest for any services rendered or property or service furnished, or any property, right, or thing received by such public utility, or donation given or received, under existing contracts or arrangements with such affiliated interest unless such public utility shall establish the reasonableness thereof. In such proceeding no payment shall be approved or allowed by the commission, in whole or in part, unless satisfactory proof is submitted to the commission of the cost to the affiliated interest of rendering the service or furnishing the service, property, security, right or thing to the public utility. No proof shall be satisfactory, within the meaning of the foregoing sentence, unless it includes the original (or verified copies) of the relevant cost records and other relevant accounts of the affiliated interest, or such abstract thereof or summary taken therefrom as the commission may deem adequate, properly identified and duly authenticated. The commission may, where reasonable, approve or disapprove such contracts or arrangements without the submission of such cost records or accounts.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2107 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 21 - Relations with Affiliated Interests|Section 2107 - Federal regulatory agencies

§ 2107. Federal regulatory agencies. The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to the rates and related terms and conditions for the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, liquified natural gas, substitute natural gas, liquified propane gas or naphtha which have been submitted to and approved by a Federal regulatory agency having jurisdiction thereof, except that the commission may regulate the volume of such purchases. This section shall not apply to any proceeding under section 1317 (relating to regulation of natural gas costs) or 1318 (relating to determination of just and reasonable natural gas rates).  (May 31, 1984, P.L.370, No.74, eff. 60 days)   1984 Amendment. See section 5 of Act 74 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to applicability.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2201 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 22 - Natural Gas Competition|Section 2201 - Short title of chapter

§ 2201. Short title of chapter. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Natural Gas Choice and Competition Act.
66 PA Cons Stat § 2210 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 22 - Natural Gas Competition|Section 2210 - Approval of proposed mergers, consolidations, acquisitions or dispositions

§ 2210. Approval of proposed mergers, consolidations, acquisitions or dispositions.   (a) General rule.--In the exercise of authority the commission otherwise may have to approve mergers or consolidations involving natural gas distribution companies or natural gas suppliers or the acquisition or disposition of assets or securities of natural gas distribution companies or natural gas suppliers, the commission shall consider: (1) Whether the proposed merger, consolidation, acquisition or disposition is likely to result in anticompetitive or discriminatory conduct, including the unlawful exercise of market power, which will prevent retail gas customers from obtaining the benefits of a properly functioning and effectively competitive retail natural gas market. (2) The effect of the proposed merger, consolidation, acquisition or disposition on the employees of the natural gas distribution company and on any authorized collective bargaining agent representing those employees.  (b) Procedure.--Upon request for any approval identified in subsection (a), the commission shall provide notice and an opportunity for open, public evidentiary hearings. If the commission finds, after hearing, that a proposed merger, consolidation, acquisition or disposition is likely to result in anticompetitive or discriminatory conduct, including the unlawful exercise of market power, which will prevent retail gas customers from obtaining benefits of a properly functioning and effectively competitive retail natural gas market, the commission shall not approve such proposed merger, consolidation, acquisition or disposition, except upon such terms and conditions as it finds necessary to preserve the benefits of a properly functioning and effectively competitive retail natural gas market.  (c) Preservation of rights.--Nothing in this section shall restrict the right of any party to pursue any other remedy available to it.