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OR Rev Stat § 757.063 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.063 - Regulation of associations furnishing water upon petition.

(1) Any association of individuals that furnishes water to members of the association is subject to regulation in the same manner as provided by this chapter for public utilities, and must pay the fee provided for in ORS 756.310, if 20 percent or more of the members of the association file a petition with the Public Utility Commission requesting that the association be subject to such regulation. (2) The provisions of this section apply to an association of individuals even if the association does not furnish water directly to or for the public. The provisions of this section do not apply to any cooperative formed under ORS chapter 62 or to any public body as defined by ORS 174.109. [2003 c.82 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 757.065 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.065

[Renumbered 756.370]
OR Rev Stat § 757.068 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.068 - Use of fees to make emergency repairs to water service plants.

(1) In each biennium the Public Utility Commission may use not more than $5,000 of the fees collected under ORS 756.310 to make emergency repairs to the plants of public utilities providing water service. The commission may expend moneys under the provisions of this section only if the commission determines that: (a) Customers of the utility are without service and are likely to remain without service for an unreasonable period of time; (b) The utility is unwilling or unable to make emergency repairs, or cannot be found after reasonable effort; and (c) Restoration of the service is necessary for the health and safety of the customers of the utility. (2) The commission shall attempt to recover fees used under this section from the utility providing water service. The commission may also recover a penalty as provided in ORS 756.350 from the time the fees are expended. [2003 c.202 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 757.069 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.069 - Notice of delinquency on water bill.

(1) If a customer of a water utility fails to pay a water bill for more than 120 days after the bill becomes due, the water utility shall mail notice of the delinquency to the persons who are listed as the owners of the property in the real property tax records for the county only if the utility asserts that the property owners are responsible for the bill. The notice must be mailed to the addresses of the owners as reflected in the real property tax records. (2) The provisions of this section apply to water utilities operated by public utilities, municipalities, cooperatives and unincorporated associations. [2005 c.168 §2; 2007 c.211 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 757.070 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.070

[Renumbered 756.375]
OR Rev Stat § 757.077 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.077 - Incorrect billings; collections; refunds.

(1) If a public utility determines that a current or former customer of the public utility was previously billed an incorrect amount for a service provided by the public utility under rate schedules or tariffs in effect for the public utility on the date on which the service was provided, the public utility may: (a) If the public utility underbilled the customer, issue a bill to the customer for amounts the customer owes the public utility in accordance with subsection (2) of this section; or (b) If the public utility overbilled the customer, refund the customer for amounts the public utility owes the customer in accordance with subsection (3) of this section. (2)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, when issuing a bill under subsection (1)(a) of this section, a public utility: (A) May only collect amounts incorrectly billed during the 12-month period ending on the date on which the public utility issued the last incorrect bill; and (B) May not collect amounts incorrectly billed more than two years before the date on which the public utility identified the incorrect bill. (b) If an incorrect billing described in subsection (1) of this section is the result of fraud, tampering, diversion, theft, misinformation or other dishonest or unlawful conduct for which the customer is responsible, the public utility may collect full payment for any amount that the customer of the public utility owes the public utility. (3) When making a refund under subsection (1)(b) of this section, a public utility: (a) May only refund amounts incorrectly received during the 12-month period ending on the date on which the public utility issued the last incorrect bill; and (b) May not refund amounts incorrectly received more than three years before the date on which the public utility identified the incorrect bill. [2013 c.170 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 757.080 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.080

[1953 c.356 §1; 1961 c.354 §1; 1971 c.655 §30a; renumbered 756.380]
OR Rev Stat § 757.085 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.085

[1953 c.356 §2; 1961 c.354 §2; renumbered 756.385]
OR Rev Stat § 757.090 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.090

[1953 c.356 §3; 1961 c.354 §3; renumbered 756.390]
OR Rev Stat § 757.095 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.095

[1969 c.372 §2; 1971 c.655 §69; renumbered 757.039]
OR Rev Stat § 757.105 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.105 - Filing of budget; rules; review by commission; pensions as operating expenses.

(1) The Public Utility Commission has the right and power of regulation, restriction and control over the budgets of expenditures of public utilities, as to all items covering: (a) Proposed payment of salaries of executive officers; (b) Donations; (c) Political contributions and political advertising; (d) Expenditures for pensions or for a trust to provide pensions for employees and officers; (e) Other expenditures and major contracts for the sale or purchase of equipment; and (f) Any payment or contemplated payment to any person or corporation having an affiliated interest for service, advice, auditing, associating, sponsoring, engineering, managing, operating, financing, legal or other services. (2) On or before a date prescribed by the commission by rule, each public utility shall prepare a budget showing the amount of money which, in its judgment, shall be needed during the ensuing year for covering all such activities and expenditures, and file it with the commission. (3) When any such budget has been filed with the commission, the commission shall examine into and investigate the same and unless rejected within 60 days thereafter, the proposed budget is presumptively fair and reasonable and not contrary to public interest. (4) Proposed expenditures for pensions or for a trust to provide pensions for the employees and officers of such utility whether for future service or past service or both, shall be recognized as an operating expense if the trust fund is irrevocably committed to the payment of pensions or benefits to employees and if such pensions are reasonable and nondiscriminatory. The commission may disallow as an operating expense any expenditure for pension purposes in excess of the amount necessary and proper to maintain an actuarially sound retirement plan for the employees of the utility in Oregon. [Amended by 1957 c.593 §1; 1971 c.655 §82; 2013 c.96 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 757.107 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.107 - Supplemental budgets and orders.

Adjustment and additions to such budget expenditures may be made from time to time during the year by filing supplementary budgets with the Public Utility Commission. The provisions of ORS 757.105 (3) apply to adjustments and additions to budgets. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §83]
OR Rev Stat § 757.110 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.110 - Effect of budget orders.

(1) Any finding and order made and entered by the Public Utility Commission under ORS 757.105 or 757.107 shall have the effect of prohibiting any unapproved or rejected expenditure from being recognized as an operating expense or capital expenditure in any rate valuation proceeding or in any proceeding or hearing unless and until the propriety thereof has been established to the satisfaction of the commission. Any such finding and order shall remain in full force and effect, unless and until it is modified or set aside by the commission or is set aside, modified or remanded in a proceeding for judicial review of an order in the manner provided by ORS 756.610. (2) Nothing in ORS 757.105 or 757.107 prevents the commission from at any time making and filing orders rejecting imprudent and unwise expenditures or payments. Such orders when so made shall be in full force and effect, and the public utility shall not have the right to make such expenditures or payments found to be imprudent or unwise until the order has been modified or set aside by the commission or is set aside, modified or remanded in a proceeding for judicial review of an order in the manner provided by ORS 756.610. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §84; 2005 c.638 §7; 2017 c.312 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 757.115 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.115

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §20; renumbered 756.105]
OR Rev Stat § 757.120 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.120 - Accounts required.

(1) Every public utility shall keep and render to the Public Utility Commission, in the manner and form prescribed by the commission, uniform accounts of all business transacted. All forms of accounts which may be prescribed by the commission shall conform as nearly as practicable to similar forms prescribed by federal authority. (2) Every public utility engaged directly or indirectly in any other business than that of a public utility shall, if required by the commission, keep and render separately to the commission, in like manner and form, the accounts of all such other business, in which case all the provisions of this chapter shall apply with like force and effect to the accounts and records of such other business. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §85]
OR Rev Stat § 757.125 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.125 - Duty of utility to keep records and accounts; duty of commission to furnish blanks.

(1) The Public Utility Commission shall prescribe the accounts and records required to be kept, and every public utility is required to keep and render its accounts and records accurately and faithfully in the manner prescribed by the commission and to comply with all directions of the commission relating to such accounts and records. (2) No public utility shall keep any other accounts or records of its public utility business transacted than those prescribed or approved by the commission except such as may be required by the laws of the United States. (3) The commission shall cause to be prepared suitable blanks for reports for carrying out the purposes of this chapter, and shall, when necessary, furnish such blanks for reports to each public utility. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §86]
OR Rev Stat § 757.135 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.135 - Closing accounts and filing balance sheet; rules; auditing accounts.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the accounts required under ORS 757.120 and 757.125 shall be closed annually on December 31 and a balance sheet of that date promptly taken therefrom. On or before a date prescribed by the Public Utility Commission by rule, such balance sheet, together with such other information as the commission shall prescribe, verified by an officer of the public utility, shall be filed with the commission. (2) If a public utility maintains its accounts and records on a fiscal year basis, the accounts required by ORS 757.120 and 757.125 shall be closed annually on the last day of the fiscal year and a balance sheet shall be promptly taken from those accounts. On or before the first day of the fourth month following the end of the public utility’s fiscal year, the balance sheet together with such information as the commission shall prescribe must be verified by an officer of the public utility and filed with the commission. The commission may require that a public utility filing information at the time specified in this subsection also file with the commission on a calendar year basis such additional information as may be prescribed by the commission. (3) The commission may examine and audit any account. Items shall be allocated to the accounts in the manner prescribed by the commission. [Amended by 1983 c.540 §4; 2001 c.733 §1; 2013 c.96 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 757.140 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.140 - Depreciation accounts; use of certain undepreciated investment in rates.

(1) Every public utility shall carry a proper and adequate depreciation account. The Public Utility Commission shall ascertain and determine the proper and adequate rates of depreciation of the several classes of property of each public utility. The rates shall be such as will provide the amounts required over and above the expenses of maintenance, to keep such property in a state of efficiency corresponding to the progress of the industry. Each public utility shall conform its depreciation accounts to the rates so ascertained and determined by the commission. The commission may make changes in such rates of depreciation from time to time as the commission may find to be necessary. (2) In the following cases the commission may allow in rates, directly or indirectly, amounts on the utility’s books of account which the commission finds represent undepreciated investment in a utility plant, including that which has been retired from service: (a) When the retirement is due to ordinary wear and tear, casualties, acts of God, acts of governmental authority; or (b) When the commission finds that the retirement is in the public interest. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §87; 1989 c.956 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 757.155 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.155

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §90; renumbered 757.480]
OR Rev Stat § 757.160 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.160

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §91; renumbered 757.485]
OR Rev Stat § 757.165 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.165

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §92; renumbered 757.490]
OR Rev Stat § 757.170 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.170

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §93; renumbered 757.495]
OR Rev Stat § 757.175 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.175

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §94; renumbered 757.500]
OR Rev Stat § 757.180 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.180

[Amended by 1971 c.655 §21; renumbered 756.115]
OR Rev Stat § 757.205 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.205 - Filing schedules with commission; data filed with schedules.

(1) Every public utility shall file with the Public Utility Commission, within a time to be fixed by the commission, schedules which shall be open to public inspection, showing all rates, tolls and charges which it has established and which are in force at the time for any service performed by it within the state, or for any service in connection therewith or performed by any public utility controlled or operated by it. (2) Every public utility shall file with and as part of every such schedule all rules and regulations that in any manner affect the rates charged or to be charged for any service. Every public utility shall also file with the commission copies of interstate rate schedules and rules and regulations issued by it or to which it is a party. (3) Where a schedule of joint rates or charges is or may be in force between two or more public utilities, such schedules shall in like manner be printed and filed with the commission. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §70]
OR Rev Stat § 757.220 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.220 - Notice of schedule changes required; exception for alternative regulation.

No change shall be made in any schedule, including schedules of joint rates, except upon 30 days’ notice to the Public Utility Commission. All changes shall be plainly indicated upon existing schedules, or by filing new schedules in lieu thereof 30 days prior to the time they are to take effect. However, the commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes without requiring the 30 days’ notice by filing an order specifying the changes to be made and the time when they shall take effect. This section does not apply to rate changes authorized under an alternative form of regulation plan under ORS 757.210 (2). [Amended by 1995 c.785 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 757.225 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.225 - Utilities required to collect for their services in accordance with schedules.

No public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the state, or for any service in connection therewith, than is specified in printed rate schedules as may at the time be in force, or demand, collect or receive any rate not specified in such schedule. The rates named therein are the lawful rates until they are changed as provided in ORS 757.210 to 757.220. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §71; 1985 c.550 §3; 1991 c.67 §204]
OR Rev Stat § 757.227 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation|Chapter 757 - Utility Regulation Generally|Section 757.227 - Rate mitigation for certain electric company rate increases.

(1) As used in this section, "electric company" has the meaning given that term in ORS 757.600. (2) The Public Utility Commission shall require that an electric company mitigate a rate increase payable by a class of customers described in subsection (5) of this section if: (a) The increase results from a transition to an electric company’s generally applicable cost-based rate from the rates established under the contracts described in subsection (5) of this section; and (b) The increase in the cost of electricity to that class of customers by reason of the transition will exceed 50 percent during the first 12 calendar months after the transition occurs. (3) The commission shall require an electric company to mitigate a rate increase under this section by means of a schedule of rate credits for the class of customers described in subsection (5) of this section. The rate credits provided by an electric company under the schedule shall automatically decrease each year to the lowest credit necessary to avoid a rate increase that is greater than 50 percent in any subsequent year. Rate credits under this section may not be provided for more than seven years after the transition occurs. (4) For the purpose of determining the increase in the cost of electricity to a class of customers by reason of a transition described in subsection (2)(a) of this section, the commission shall: (a) Include the total charges for electricity service, including all special charges and credits other than the rate credit provided under this section; and (b) Exclude any local taxes or fees paid by the class of customers. (5) This section applies only to customers of an electric company that purchase electricity at metering points that before the transition described in subsection (2)(a) of this section were eligible for rates that were set under contracts entered into before 1960 and remained unchanged throughout the period of the contract. (6) The full cost of providing rate credits under this section shall be spread equally among all other customers of the electric company. [2005 c.594 §3]