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IA Code § 476.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.1 - Applicability of authority.

476.1 Applicability of authority.   1. The utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce shall regulate the rates and services of public utilities to the extent and in the manner hereinafter provided.   2. As used in this chapter, “board” or “utilities board” means the utilities board within the utilities division of the department of commerce.   3. As used in this chapter, “public utility” shall include any person, partnership, business association, or corporation, domestic or foreign, owning or operating any facilities for:   a. Furnishing gas by piped distribution system or electricity to the public for compensation.   b. Furnishing communications services to the public for compensation.   c. Furnishing water by piped distribution system to the public for compensation.   d. Furnishing sanitary sewage or storm water drainage disposal by piped collection system to the public for compensation.   4. This chapter does not apply to municipally owned waterworks, waterworks having less than two thousand customers, joint water utilities established pursuant to chapter 389, rural water districts incorporated and organized pursuant to chapters 357A and 504, cooperative water associations incorporated and organized pursuant to chapter 499, municipally owned sanitary sewage or storm water drainage systems, sanitary districts incorporated and organized pursuant to chapter 358, districts organized pursuant to chapter 468, or a person furnishing electricity to five or fewer customers either by secondary line or from an alternate energy production facility or small hydro facility, from electricity that is produced primarily for the person’s own use.   5. The jurisdiction of the board under this chapter shall include efforts designed to promote the use of energy efficiency strategies by gas and electric utilities required to be rate-regulated.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.1; C77, 79, 81, §476.1; 81 Acts, ch 156, §4]  83 Acts, ch 127, §15, 16; 84 Acts, ch 1031, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1172, §2; 90 Acts, ch 1252, §18; 91 Acts, ch 150, §1; 91 Acts, ch 168, §9; 96 Acts, ch 1196, §1; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §393; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §67; 2016 Acts, ch 1013, §1, 2; 2018 Acts, ch 1135, §3; 2018 Acts, ch 1160, §4  Referred to in §16.151, 306.46, 352.6, 388.2A, 423.3, 455H.304, 476.6, 476.20, 476.22, 476.27, 476.58, 476.84, 476.91, 499.30, 499.33, 714H.4, 716.6B, 716.7
IA Code § 476.1A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.1A - Applicability of authority — certain electric utilities.

476.1A Applicability of authority — certain electric utilities.   1. Electric public utilities having fewer than ten thousand customers and electric cooperative corporations and associations are not subject to the regulation authority of the board, except for regulatory action pertaining to all of the following:   a. Assessment of fees for the support of the division and the office of consumer advocate, pursuant to section 476.10.   b. Safety and engineering standards for equipment, operations, and procedures.   c. Assigned area of service.   d. Pilot projects of the board.   e. Assessment of fees for the support of the Iowa energy center created in section 15.120 and the center for global and regional environmental research established by the state board of regents. This paragraph “e” is repealed July 1, 2022.   f. Filing alternate energy purchase program plans with the board, and offering such programs to customers, pursuant to section 476.47.   2. However, sections 476.20, subsections 1 through 4, 476.21, 476.51, 476.56, 476.62, and 476.66 and chapters 476A and 478, to the extent applicable, apply to such electric utilities.   3. Electric cooperative corporations and associations and electric public utilities exempt from rate regulation under this section shall not make or grant any unreasonable preferences or advantages as to rates or services to any person or subject any person to any unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage.   4. The board of directors or the membership of an electric cooperative corporation or association otherwise exempt from rate regulation may elect to have the cooperative’s rates regulated by the board. The board shall adopt rules prescribing the manner in which the board of directors or the membership of an electric cooperative may so elect. If the board of directors or the membership of an electric cooperative has elected to have the cooperative’s rates regulated by the board, after two years have elapsed from the effective date of such election the board of directors or the membership of the electric cooperative may elect to exempt the cooperative from the rate regulation authority of the board, provided, however, that if the membership elected to have the cooperative’s rates regulated by the board, only the membership may elect to exempt the cooperative from the rate regulation authority of the board.  86 Acts, ch 1039, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1174, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1175, §1; 89 Acts, ch 297, §9; 90 Acts, ch 1252, §19; 96 Acts, ch 1196, §2, 3  ; 2001 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 4, §8, 36  ; 2008 Acts, ch 1133, §2, 9; 2017 Acts, ch 169, §36, 49; 2018 Acts, ch 1135, §4  Referred to in §476.44, 476.58
IA Code § 476.1B (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.1B - Applicability of authority — municipally owned utilities.

476.1B Applicability of authority — municipally owned utilities.   1. Unless otherwise specifically provided by statute, a municipally owned utility furnishing gas or electricity is not subject to regulation by the board under this chapter, except for regulatory action pertaining to:   a. Assessment of fees for the support of the division and the office of consumer advocate, as set forth in section 476.10.   b. Safety standards.   c. Assigned areas of service, as set forth in sections 476.22 through 476.26.   d. Enforcement of civil penalties pursuant to section 476.51.   e. Disconnection of service, as set forth in section 476.20, subsections 1 through 4.   f. Encouragement of alternate energy production facilities, as set forth in sections 476.41 through 476.45.   g. Enforcement of section 476.56.   h. Enforcement of section 476.66.   i. Enforcement of section 476.62.   j. Assessment of fees for the support of the Iowa energy center created in section 15.120 and the center for global and regional environmental research created by the state board of regents. This paragraph “j” is repealed July 1, 2022.   k. An electric power agency as defined in chapter 28F and section 390.9 that includes as a member a city or municipally owned utility that builds transmission facilities after July 1, 2001, is subject to applicable transmission reliability rules or standards adopted by the board for those facilities.   l. Filing alternate energy purchase program plans with the board, and offering such programs to customers, pursuant to section 476.47.   2. The board may waive all or part of the energy efficiency filing and review requirements for municipally owned utilities which demonstrate superior results with existing energy efficiency efforts.   3. Unless otherwise specifically provided by statute, a municipally owned utility providing local exchange services is not subject to regulation by the board under this chapter except for regulatory action pertaining to the enforcement of sections 476.95, 476.95A, 476.95B, 476.100, and 476.102.  86 Acts, ch 1162, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1174, §2; 88 Acts, ch 1175, §2; 89 Acts, ch 297, §10; 90 Acts, ch 1252, §20; 96 Acts, ch 1196, §4, 5; 97 Acts, ch 81, §1, 2, 6; 99 Acts, ch 63, §7, 8  ; 2001 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 4, §9, 36  ; 2008 Acts, ch 1133, §3, 9; 2010 Acts, ch 1018, §6; 2017 Acts, ch 62, §4; 2017 Acts, ch 169, §37, 49; 2018 Acts, ch 1135, §5; 2018 Acts, ch 1160, §5  Referred to in §476.58
IA Code § 476.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.2 - Board powers and rules — utility’s Iowa office.

476.2 Board powers and rules — utility’s Iowa office.   1. The board shall have broad general powers to effect the purposes of this chapter notwithstanding the fact that certain specific powers are set forth in this section. The board shall have authority to issue subpoenas and to pay the same fees and mileage as are payable to witnesses in the courts of record of general jurisdiction and shall establish all needful, just and reasonable rules, not inconsistent with law, to govern the exercise of its powers and duties, the practice and procedure before it, and to govern the form, contents and filing of reports, documents and other papers provided for in this chapter or in the board’s rules. In the establishment, amendment, alteration or repeal of any of such rules, the board shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 17A.   2. The board shall employ at rates of compensation consistent with current standards in industry such professionally trained engineers, accountants, attorneys, and skilled examiners and inspectors, secretaries, clerks, and other employees as it may find necessary for the full and efficient discharge of its duties and responsibilities as required by this chapter.   3. The board may intervene in any proceedings before the federal energy regulatory commission or any other federal or state regulatory body when it finds that any decision of that tribunal would adversely affect the costs of any public utility service within the state of Iowa.   4. The board shall have authority to inquire into the management of the business of all public utilities, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and may obtain from any public utility all necessary information to enable the board to perform its duties.   5. Each rate-regulated gas and electric utility operating within the state shall maintain within the state the utility’s principal office for Iowa operations. The principal office shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the board and shall house those books, accounts, papers, and records of the utility deemed necessary by the board to be housed within the state. The utility shall maintain within the state administrative, technical, and operating personnel necessary for the delivery of safe and reasonably adequate services and facilities as required pursuant to section 476.8. A public utility which violates this section shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 476.51 and shall be denied authority to recover, for a period determined by the board, the costs of an energy efficiency plan pursuant to section 476.6, subsection 8.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.2; C77, 79, 81, §476.2]  90 Acts, ch 1168, §51; 90 Acts, ch 1252, §22; 96 Acts, ch 1196, §7; 2018 Acts, ch 1135, §6; 2018 Acts, ch 1160, §8; 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §262  Referred to in §476.12  Subsection 1 amended
IA Code § 476.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.4 - Tariffs filed.

476.4 Tariffs filed.   1. Every public utility shall file with the board tariffs showing the rates and charges for its public utility services and the rules and regulations under which such services were furnished, on April 1, 1963, which rates and charges shall be subject to investigation by the board as provided in section 476.3, and upon such investigation the burden of establishing the reasonableness of such rates and charges shall be upon the public utility filing the same. These filings shall be made under such rules as the board may prescribe within such time and in such form as the board may designate. In prescribing rules and regulations with respect to the form of tariffs and any other regulations, the board shall, in the case of public utilities subject to regulation by any federal agency, give due regard to any corresponding rules and regulations of such federal agency, to the end that unnecessary duplication of effort and expense may be avoided so far as reasonably possible. Each public utility shall keep copies of its tariffs open to public inspection under such rules as the board may prescribe.   2. No later than January 1, 2015, a telephone utility is required to file tariffs as provided in this section only for such wholesale services as may be specified by the board.   3. Every rate, charge, rule, and regulation contained in any filing made with the commission on or prior to July 4, 1963, shall be effective as of such date, subject, however, to investigation as provided in this chapter. If any such filing is made prior to the time the commission prescribes rules as aforesaid, and if such filing does not comply as to form or substance with such rules, then the public utility which filed the same shall within a reasonable time after the adoption of such rules make a new filing or filings complying with such rules, which new filing or filings shall be deemed effective as of July 4, 1963.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.4; C77, 79, 81, §476.4]  2014 Acts, ch 1099, §4; 2018 Acts, ch 1135, §7; 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §263  Referred to in §476.43  Subsection 3 amended
IA Code § 476.4A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.4A - Exemption from tariff filings for telephone utilities.

476.4A Exemption from tariff filings for telephone utilities. Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1099, §19.
IA Code § 476.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.5 - Adherence to schedules.

476.5 Adherence to schedules.   No public utility subject to rate regulation shall directly or indirectly charge a greater or less compensation for its services than that prescribed in its tariffs, and no such public utility shall make or grant any unreasonable preferences or advantages as to rates or services to any person or subject any person to any unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.5; C77, 79, 81, §476.5]  2014 Acts, ch 1099, §5
IA Code § 476.6A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.6A - Alternate energy production facilities — notification requirements.

476.6A Alternate energy production facilities — notification requirements.   1. On and after January 1, 2013, the owner of an alternate energy production facility, as defined in section 476.42, which when constructed or installed will be attached to an electric transmission or distribution line or attached to equipment which is attached to an electric transmission or distribution line, who has not entered into a power purchase agreement with a public utility, shall be subject to the notification requirements of subsection 2.   2. No later than thirty days prior to commencement of the construction or installation of an alternate energy production facility as described in subsection 1, the owner of the facility shall provide written notice to the public utility within whose service territory the facility is to be located of the owner’s intent to construct or install the facility, the type of facility to be constructed or installed, and the date that the facility is anticipated to commence operation.  2012 Acts, ch 1027, §1
IA Code § 476.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.7 - Application by utility for review.

476.7 Application by utility for review.   If there shall be filed with the board by any public utility an application requesting the board to determine the reasonableness of the utility’s rates, charges, schedules, service or regulations, the board shall promptly initiate a formal proceeding. Such a formal proceeding may be initiated at any time by the board on its own motion. Whenever such a proceeding has been initiated upon application or motion, the board shall set the case for hearing and give such notice thereof as it deems appropriate. Whenever the board, after a hearing held after reasonable notice, finds any public utility’s rates, charges, schedules, service or regulations are unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, discriminatory or otherwise in violation of any provision of law, the board shall determine just, reasonable, sufficient and nondiscriminatory rates, charges, schedules, service or regulations to be thereafter observed and enforced.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.7; C77, 79, 81, §476.7]
IA Code § 476.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.8 - Utility charges and service.

476.8 Utility charges and service.   1. Every public utility is required to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities. “Reasonably adequate service and facilities” for public utilities furnishing gas or electricity includes programs for customers to encourage the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. The charge made by any public utility for any heat, light, gas, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, water or power produced, transmitted, delivered or furnished, sanitary sewage or storm water collected and treated, or communications services, or for any service rendered or to be rendered in connection therewith shall be reasonable and just, and every unjust or unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared unlawful. In determining reasonable and just rates, the board shall consider all factors relating to value and shall not be bound by rate base decisions or rulings made prior to the adoption of this chapter.   2. The board, in determining the value of materials or services to be included in valuations or costs of operations for rate-making purposes, may disallow any unreasonable profit made in the sale of materials to or services supplied for any public utility by any firm or corporation owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such utility or any affiliate, subsidiary, parent company, associate or any corporation whose controlling stockholders are also controlling stockholders of such utility. The burden of proof shall be on the public utility to prove that no unreasonable profit is made.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.8; C77, 79, 81, §476.8]  83 Acts, ch 127, §27; 90 Acts, ch 1252, §28; 2016 Acts, ch 1013, §3  Referred to in §476.2
IA Code § 476.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.9 - Accounts rendered to board.

476.9 Accounts rendered to board.   1. Every public utility, except telecommunications service providers registered pursuant to section 476.95A, shall keep and render to the board in the manner and form prescribed by the board uniform accounts of all business transacted.   2. Every public utility engaged directly or indirectly in any other business than that of the production, transmission, or furnishing of heat, light, water, power, or the collection and treatment of sanitary sewage or storm water for the public shall, if required by the board, keep and render separately to the board in like manner and form the accounts of all such other business, in which case all the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the books, accounts, papers and records of such other business and all profits and losses may be taken into consideration by the board if deemed relevant to the general fiscal condition of the public utility.   3. Every public utility, except telecommunications service providers registered pursuant to section 476.95A, is required to keep and render its books, accounts, papers and records accurately and faithfully in the manner and form prescribed by the board, and to comply with all directions of the board relating to such books, accounts, papers and records.   4. The board shall consult with other state and federal regulatory bodies for the purpose of eliminating accounting discrepancies with regard to the keeping of public utility accounts before prescribing any system of accounts to be kept by the public utility.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, §490A.9; C77, 79, 81, §476.9]  2016 Acts, ch 1013, §4; 2018 Acts, ch 1160, §11
IA Code § 476.10A (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.10A - Funding for Iowa energy center and center for global and regional environmental research.

476.10A Funding for Iowa energy center and center for global and regional environmental research.   1. a. The board shall direct all gas and electric utilities to remit to the treasurer of state one-tenth of one percent of the total gross operating revenues during the last calendar year derived from their intrastate public utility operations. The board shall by rule provide a schedule for remittances.   b. The amounts collected pursuant to this section shall be in addition to the amounts permitted to be assessed pursuant to section 476.10. The board shall allow inclusion of these amounts in the budgets approved by the board pursuant to section 476.6, subsection 15, paragraph “c”.   c. (1) Of eighty-five percent of the remittances collected pursuant to this section, the following shall occur:   (a) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, such remittances are appropriated to the Iowa energy center created in section 15.120.   (b) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, the first one million two hundred eighty-thousand dollars of such remittances shall be transferred to the general fund of the state, and the remaining amount is appropriated to the Iowa energy center created in section 15.120.   (c) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, the first two million nine hundred ten thousand dollars of such remittances shall be transferred to the general fund of the state, and the remaining amount is appropriated to the Iowa energy center created in section 15.120.   (d) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, the first three million five hundred thirty thousand dollars of such remittances shall be transferred to the general fund of the state, and the remaining amount is appropriated to the Iowa energy center created in section 15.120.   (2) Fifteen percent of the remittances collected pursuant to this section is appropriated to the center for global and regional environmental research established by the state board of regents.   2. Notwithstanding section 8.33, any unexpended moneys remitted to the treasurer of state under this section shall be retained for the purposes designated. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on investments or time deposits of the moneys remitted under this section shall be retained and used for the purposes designated, pursuant to section 476.46.   3. The Iowa energy center and the center for global and regional environmental research shall each provide a written annual report to the utilities board that describes each center’s activities and the results that each center has accomplished. Each report shall include an explanation of initiatives and projects of importance to the state of Iowa.   4. This section is repealed July 1, 2022.  90 Acts, ch 1252, §30; 91 Acts, ch 253, §23; 96 Acts, ch 1196, §10; 2002 Acts, ch 1109, §3; 2017 Acts, ch 169, §40, 41, 49; 2018 Acts, ch 1172, §91  Referred to in §15.120
IA Code § 476.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 476 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Section 476.11 - Telephone toll connections.

476.11 Telephone toll connections. Repealed by 2018 Acts, ch 1160, §32.