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RI Gen L § 39-3-27 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-27 - Definitions.

§ 39-3-27. Definitions.(a) "Affiliate" means and includes the following:(1) Every person owning or holding, directly or indirectly, ten percent (10%) or more of the voting capital stock of a public utility.(2) Any corporation, voluntary association, or trust, ten percent (10%) or more of the voting capital stock of which is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by a person owning or controlling directly or indirectly ten percent (10%) or more of the voting capital stock of a public utility.(3) Any person with whom a public utility has a management or service contract or arrangement of the character set forth in § 39-3-28, including contracts for personal services with persons not otherwise affiliated.(b) "Person" means and includes individuals, corporations, trustees, lessees, holders of beneficial equitable title, voluntary associations, receivers, and partnerships.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-27.
RI Gen L § 39-3-28 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-28 - Filing of agreements with affiliates.

§ 39-3-28. Filing of agreements with affiliates.The original or a verified copy of any contract or arrangement and of any modification thereof or a verified summary of any unwritten contract or arrangement, the consideration of which exceeds five hundred dollars ($500), hereafter entered into between a public utility and an affiliate providing for the furnishing of managerial, supervisory, construction, engineering, accounting, purchasing, financial, or any other services, either to or by a public utility or an affiliate, shall be filed by the public utility with the division within ten (10) days after the date on which the contract is executed or the arrangement entered into. The division may also require a public utility to file in such form as the division may require full information with respect to any purchase from or sale to an affiliate, whether or not made in pursuance of a continuing contract or arrangement.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-28; P.L. 1997, ch. 142, § 3; P.L. 2017, ch. 18, § 2; P.L. 2017, ch. 31, § 2.
RI Gen L § 39-3-29 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-29 - Effect of failure to file agreements.

§ 39-3-29. Effect of failure to file agreements.Any contract or arrangement not filed with the division pursuant to § 39-3-28 shall be unenforceable in any court in this state, and payments thereunder may be disallowed by the division, unless the later filing thereof is approved in writing by the division.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-29.
RI Gen L § 39-3-30 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-30 - Investigation and order as to transaction between affiliates.

§ 39-3-30. Investigation and order as to transaction between affiliates.The division shall have full power and authority to investigate any contract, arrangement, purchase, or sale, and if the division, after notice and hearing, shall find the contract, arrangement, purchase, or sale to be unjust or unreasonable, the division may make such reasonable order relating thereto as the public good requires. In any such investigation, the burden shall be on the public utility or affiliate to prove the reasonableness of any contract, arrangement, purchase, or sale with, from, or to an affiliate. If the public utility shall fail to satisfy the division of the reasonableness of any contract, arrangement, purchase, or sale, the division may disapprove the same, or disallow payments thereunder or the part of any payment as the division shall find to be unjust or unreasonable, or both disapprove and disallow as aforesaid. No payment disallowed by the division shall be capitalized or included as an operating cost of the public utility in the fixing of rates or as an asset in fixing a rate base. If, in any investigation, the public utility or affiliate shall unreasonably refuse to comply with any request of the division for information with respect to relevant accounts and records, whether of the public utility or any affiliate, any portion of which may be applicable to any transaction under investigation, so that parts thereof as the division may deem material may be made part of the record, the refusal shall justify the division in disapproving the transaction under investigation and disallowing payments in pursuance thereof.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-30.
RI Gen L § 39-3-31 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-31 - Court order to cease practice impairing service.

§ 39-3-31. Court order to cease practice impairing service.If, as a result of an investigation in accordance with § 39-3-30, the division shall find that any public utility is making any payment or about to make any payment or doing or about to do any other thing that substantially threatens or impairs the ability of the public utility to render adequate service, at reasonable rates, or otherwise to discharge its duty to the public, the division may apply to the superior court for an order directing the public utility to cease making any payment or doing any other thing, and thereupon the court shall make such order as the public good may require.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-31.
RI Gen L § 39-3-32 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-32 - Disallowance of payments to affiliates in rate proceedings.

§ 39-3-32. Disallowance of payments to affiliates in rate proceedings.In any proceeding, whether upon the division's own motion or upon complaint, involving the rates or practices of any public utility, the division may disallow the inclusion in the accounts of a public utility of any payments or compensation to an affiliate for any services rendered, or property furnished, under existing contracts or arrangements with an affiliate unless the public utility shall establish the reasonableness of the payment or compensation.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-32.
RI Gen L § 39-3-33 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-33 - Rules of division.

§ 39-3-33. Rules of division.The division shall make such reasonable rules as will aid in the administration and enforcement of chapters 1 — 5 of this title.History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 64; P.L. 1936, ch. 2345, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 60; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-33; P.L. 1996, ch. 316, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-34 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-34 - Utilities to which restrictions apply.

§ 39-3-34. Utilities to which restrictions apply.Sections 39-3-15 — 39-3-33 shall apply only to public utilities as defined in § 39-1-2.History of Section.P.L. 1936 (s.s.), ch. 2438, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 61; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-34.
RI Gen L § 39-3-35 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-35 - Municipal rights and franchises subject to regulation.

§ 39-3-35. Municipal rights and franchises subject to regulation.Every franchise granted to any public utility by any town or city and all contracts, ordinances, rules, regulations, and orders entered into or made by any town or city regulating the use and enjoyment of rights and franchises granted to any public utility or regulating, restricting, or affecting the operation of transit vehicles, under the provisions of any general or special law, shall be subject to the continuing control of the division in the exercise of the powers enumerated in chapters 1 — 5 of this title, and during the existence thereof, every franchise, contract, ordinance, rule, regulation, and order shall be deemed to include, and be subject to, the exercise by the division of any and all of the powers or regulations provided for in chapters 1 — 5 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 1912, ch. 795, § 51; G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 51; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 48; G.L. 1956, § 39-3-35; P.L. 1959, ch. 144, § 2.
RI Gen L § 39-3-36 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-36 - Notice of railroad hearing.

§ 39-3-36. Notice of railroad hearing.On any matter pertaining to railroad clearances, or on any matter wherein the safety of railroad train personnel is concerned, the public utilities administrator shall, at least ten (10) days before the date of the hearing on the matter or matters, serve a notice of the time and place of the hearing by mailing a registered letter, postage prepaid, to the Rhode Island state representative of the legislative board of the united transportation union. To effectuate the purpose of this section, it shall be the duty of the united transportation union to notify the division, in writing, of the name and address of the state representative.History of Section.P.L. 1961, ch. 32, § 1; P.L. 1969, ch. 37, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-37 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-37 - Public utilities - Informational mailings.

§ 39-3-37. Public utilities — Informational mailings.All public utilities shall include with their mailings to customers any information relating to public utility rates and services as is required from time to time by the commission, which shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the intent of this section.History of Section.P.L. 1974, ch. 245, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-37.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-37.1 - Conservation notice on water bills.

§ 39-3-37.1. Conservation notice on water bills.Every person or corporation who or that shall charge for the use of water furnished to any house, building, tenement, or estate shall conspicuously display upon the bill or statement for such water charges, the telephone number and address of a public agency designated for the purpose of providing information to the consumer on the conservation of water; provided, further, that once each calendar year, information relating to the conservation of water shall be furnished on the bill to all consumers who are charged for the use of water.History of Section.P.L. 1990, ch. 416, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-37.2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-37.2 - Informational notice on electric bills.

§ 39-3-37.2. Informational notice on electric bills.Every person or corporation who or that shall charge for the use of electricity furnished to any house, building, tenement, or estate shall conspicuously display upon the bill or statement for such electricity charges, the following information:(1) The total number of kilowatt hours consumed;(2) The base rate amount for the hours;(3) Capacity cost adjustment;(4) Fuel adjustment charge;(5) Conservation costs;(6) All applicable credits;(7) Applicable streetlight rental costs;(8) Applicable taxes; and(9) All other costs, charges, or fees added to the bill or statement.History of Section.P.L. 1991, ch. 232, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-37.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-37.3 - Informational notice on electric bills - Electric distribution company.

§ 39-3-37.3. Informational notice on electric bills — Electric distribution company.(a) Every electric distribution company that shall charge for the distribution of electricity to any house, building, tenement, or estate shall conspicuously display upon the bill or statement for any customer the following information:(1) The total number of kilowatt hours consumed;(2) The total cost of distributing the consumer power to the customer;(3) Transition charges;(4) Conservation costs;(5) The total cost of transmitting the consumed power to the appropriate distribution site;(6) All applicable credits;(7) Applicable streetlight rental costs;(8) Applicable taxes;(9) The cost of power delivered; and(10) All other costs, charges, or fees added to the bill or statement.(b) The electric distribution company shall issue a single bill for electric service to all customers in its service territory; provided however, that customers of nonregulated power producers may request that the nonregulated power producers provide separate bills for electricity supply.History of Section.P.L. 1996, ch. 316, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 357, § 4.
RI Gen L § 39-3-38 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-38 - Wholesale contracts for the sale of water - Rates or charges.

§ 39-3-38. Wholesale contracts for the sale of water — Rates or charges.The authority of any public waterworks or water service owned or furnished by any city, town, water district, fire district, or any other municipal or quasi-municipal corporation to enter into contracts with each other for the sale of water at wholesale is hereby confirmed, and the wholesale contracts shall be exempt from the provisions of § 39-3-24(1) but shall be filed with the division; provided, however, that whenever any public waterworks or water service owned or furnished by any city, town, water district, fire district, or any other municipal or quasi-municipal corporation shall enter into wholesale contracts with each other, the fair wholesale rates or charges for the quantity of water taken shall be for such times and at such rates fixed to continue during such periods as may be mutually agreed upon, or in default of agreement, as shall be determined by the commission in accordance with the provisions of §§ 39-3-10 and 39-3-11.History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 138, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-38.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-38.1 - Rate adjustments - Purchase and sale of water between regulated water-supply boards.

§ 39-3-38.1. Rate adjustments — Purchase and sale of water between regulated water-supply boards.Regulated water-supply boards that purchase wholesale water from another regulated water-supply board may impose a retail rate increase provided the public utilities commission has approved the wholesale rate increase. The total amount of the retail rate so imposed shall not exceed the amount of the wholesale rate increase. The proposed retail rate increase to be applied by the wholesale purchaser shall be submitted no less than thirty (30) days prior to its effective date to the public utilities commission for its review and approval.History of Section.P.L. 1984, ch. 303, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-39 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-39 - Purchase of power from small production facilities by electric utilities.

§ 39-3-39. Purchase of power from small production facilities by electric utilities.The public utilities commission shall require that all electric utilities subject to the "Third supplementary decision and order" in that matter entitled "In Re: Arrangements between electric utilities and qualifying cogeneration and small power production facilities" Docket No. 1549 before the public utilities commission purchase additional power from small production facilities at the ceiling price established by each utility pursuant to the decision and order. The electric utilities subject to the decision and order shall purchase power under a standard contract and at the ceiling price from qualifying cogeneration facilities and qualifying small power production facilities, as defined in the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ("PURPA") (16 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.) with a capacity of ten megawatts (10 MW) or less that are located in the state. The electric utilities to the public utilities third supplementary decision and order issued in Docket No. 1549 shall not be required to enter into agreements at the ceiling price for more than two and one-half percent (2½%) of its peak load during the prior year.History of Section.P.L. 1991, ch. 49, § 2.
RI Gen L § 39-3-40 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-40 - Storage, transportation, and distribution of gas - Regulation - Penalties.

§ 39-3-40. Storage, transportation, and distribution of gas — Regulation — Penalties.(a) In regulating the storage, transportation, and distribution of gas, and the pressure under which these operations may respectively be carried on, the division of public utilities and carriers may ascertain, determine, and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, or other condition pertaining to the performing of its service, or to the furnishing of its product or commodity, by any gas storage, transportation, and distribution facility, and prescribe reasonable regulations for examination and testing of such service, product, or commodity.(b) (1) Any person, firm, or corporation who or that violates any provision of any code adopted by the division pertaining to the safety of pipeline facilities and the transportation of gas, or of any regulation or rule thereunder, at a time when the division has submitted to and has in effect the annual certification from the United States Secretary of Transportation provided for in § 5(a) of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, as amended (see § 60101 et seq. of Title 49 of the United States Code), shall be subject to civil penalties as specified in 49 U.S.C. § 60122(a), as amended. To provide adequate protection against risks to life and property posed by pipeline transportation and pipeline facilities, the division shall possess the authority to adopt any of the safety standards for pipeline transportation and for pipeline facilities that are contained in 49 U.S.C. § 60101 et seq.(2) Any such penalty shall be determined by the division. In determining the amount of the penalty, the appropriateness of the penalty to the size of the business of the person, firm, or corporation charged; the gravity of the violation; and the good faith of the person, firm, or corporation charged in attempting to achieve compliance after notification of a violation; shall be considered. The amount of the penalty, where finally determined, may be deducted from any sums that the state may owe to the person, firm, or corporation charged or may be recovered in a civil action commenced in the state courts.History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 62, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 99, § 1; P.L. 2012, ch. 105, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 54, § 1; P.L. 2015, ch. 55, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 511, art. 1, § 17.
RI Gen L § 39-3-41 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-41 - Regulations for pay-per-call services.

§ 39-3-41. Regulations for pay-per-call services.(a) The commission may promulgate reasonable regulations concerning the offering of pay-per-call services to customers within the state. The regulations may include advertising standards, conditions under which charges for "pay-per-call services" may be adjusted or waived along with other restrictions or requirements that the commission determines are necessary to protect consumers' reasonable access to "pay-per-call services."(b) For the purposes of this section, "pay-per-call service" means any passive, interactive, polling, conference, or other similar audiotext service that is accessed by telephone, through a 900 area or exchange code or otherwise, and generates a service-related fee billed to a telephone customer via a telephone common carrier or local exchange telephone company in the customer's normal monthly bill for telephone service.History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 389, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-3-42 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-42 - [Repealed.]

§ 39-3-42. [Repealed.]History of Section.P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 34, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 40, § 171, effective July 1, 1995.
RI Gen L § 39-3-43 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-43 - [Repealed.]

§ 39-3-43. [Repealed.]History of Section.P.L. 2006, ch. 227, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2006, ch. 227, § 2.
RI Gen L § 39-3-44 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-3 - Regulatory Powers of Administration|Section 39-3-44 - Payment of public utility bills.

§ 39-3-44. Payment of public utility bills.All bills issued by a public utility as defined in § 39-1-2 shall be deemed paid upon the receipt of sufficient funds by an agent of the public utility authorized to accept such payment.History of Section.P.L. 2007, ch. 175, § 1.
RI Gen L § 39-4-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 39-4 - Hearings and Investigations|Section 39-4-1 - Investigation of personal injuries and deaths.

§ 39-4-1. Investigation of personal injuries and deaths.Every public utility shall, whenever any accident attended with loss of human life, or serious injury occurs within this state, directly or indirectly arising from or connected with its maintenance or operation, give immediate notice thereof to the division. In the event of any accident, the division, if it deems that the public interest requires it, shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith, which investigation shall be held in the locality of the accident, unless for the greater convenience of those concerned, it shall order the investigation to be held at some other place; and the investigation may be adjourned from place to place as may be found necessary and convenient. The division shall reasonably notify the public utility of the time and place of the investigation. The notice required by this section to be given shall not be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose against the public utility giving notice, in any suit, action, or proceeding brought for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in the notice; nor shall the notice be admitted as evidence or be used for any purpose in any criminal proceeding brought against the public utility giving notice, or against any of its officers, agents, or employees, growing out of any matter mentioned in the notice.History of Section.P.L. 1912, ch. 795, § 49; G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 49; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 46; G.L. 1956, § 39-4-1; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 107.