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AR Code § 23-4-714 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-714. Complaints — Investigation

 It shall be the duty of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, upon the complaint of any person, company, or corporation in writing, charging any person or corporation with discrimination or overcharge, to investigate the complaint and take such action in the premises as is provided in this act and which the facts in the case justify.
AR Code § 23-4-715 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-715. Complaints — Hearings

 It shall be the duty of the Arkansas Department of Transportation to hear all complaints made by any person, firm, or corporation against any such tariff of charges so approved, to hear the parties to the controversy in person or by attorney, or both. The department may take testimony, orally or in writing, and regulate argument thereon and conduct the investigation of such complaints in such manner as to the department may seem best adapted to arrive at the truth. When any changes are made in any tariff of charges, notice thereof shall be given to the person or corporation to be affected thereby.
AR Code § 23-4-716 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-716. Liability as to rates approved by department

 In no instance shall any person or corporation operating a railroad or express company, the schedule of charges of which have been submitted to, revised, and approved by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, be civilly or criminally liable for the making of any charge that has been authorized by the tariff of charges approved by the department or the rules and regulations prescribed by the department.
AR Code § 23-4-717 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-717. Railroads required to furnish copies of traffic agreements and other information to department

 Upon notice to do so, every person or corporation operating a railroad or express company having an agent or office in the state shall furnish the Arkansas Department of Transportation with all the information required to enable the department to perform its duties relative to the management of their respective lines and connecting lines and, particularly, with copies of all leases, contracts, and agreements with other lines, express companies, or sleeping car companies and shall furnish all such information as to the number of persons employed in the different departments of their service and the wages paid these employees, as the department may require.
AR Code § 23-4-718 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-718. Access to railroad books by department — Penalties

 (a)  (1) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall have the right at such times as the department deems necessary to inspect the books and papers of any railroad company and to examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of the railroad in relation to the business and affairs of the railroad.  (2) If any railroad refuses to permit the department to examine its books and papers, the railroad company, for each offense, shall pay to the State of Arkansas not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each day it shall so fail and refuse.    (b) Any officer, agent, or employee of any railroad company who, upon proper demand, shall fail or refuse to exhibit to the department any book or paper of such a railroad company which is in the possession or under the control of the officer, agent, or employee shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in any court having jurisdiction shall be fined for each offense a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
AR Code § 23-4-719 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-719. Enforcement of Acts 1899, No. 53 — Mandamus

 If any person or corporation operating any railroad or express company fails, refuses, or neglects, after notice by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, to put up its rate sheet, giving its tariff of charges in the manner, place, and time as provided in this act; to furnish the department with the rate sheet and tariff of charges as provided for in this act; to furnish cars and motive power for the prompt transportation of freight as provided in this act; to comply with any provision of this act; or to make returns as required by this act, then the person or corporation shall be subject to a writ of mandamus. The writ shall be issued by any circuit court of this state where the person or corporation has an office, agent, or place of business to compel a compliance with the provisions and requirements of this act. The writ shall issue in the name of the State of Arkansas at the relation of the department appointed under the provisions of this act, and failure to comply with the requirements shall be punishable as and for a contempt.
AR Code § 23-4-720 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 7 - Railroads and Express Companies — Establishing Rates|§ 23-4-720. Disposition of funds

 All fines and penalties recovered under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.
AR Code § 23-4-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 8 - Railroads and Transportation Companies — Passes and Free Transportation|§ 23-4-801. Definitions

 As used in this section and § 23-4-802, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Officers of this state, legislative, executive, or judicial” includes all officers elective, appointive, commissioned, or qualified; and  (2) “Railroad” or “transportation company” shall be deemed and taken to mean all corporations, companies, or individuals owning or operating any railroad or transportation line in this state for the public transportation or conveyance as common carriers of persons or property therein.
AR Code § 23-4-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 8 - Railroads and Transportation Companies — Passes and Free Transportation|§ 23-4-802. Granting of free passes to certain government officials prohibited

 (a) No railroad or transportation company organized or doing business in this state under any act of incorporation or general law of this state shall grant any free pass in the cars or other modes of conveyance over the line of any such railroad or transportation company, for any length of time or for any distance, to any officer of this state, legislative, executive, or judicial, whereby any such officer may be transported for any length of time or for any distance over the line of the railroad or transportation company, either free of charge therefor or for a less compensation than that demanded or received from the general public.  (b)  (1) Any railroad or transportation company that shall grant any free pass to any such officer in violation of this section shall forfeit and pay for every such offense an amount not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000).  (2)  (A) The penalty is to be recovered in an action at law brought in the name of the state by the prosecuting attorney thereof in any county of the state through or into which the railroad corporation or transportation company may run its railroad or transportation line.  (B) The prosecuting attorney shall be allowed a fee for his or her services of ten percent (10%) of the amount that may be collected in any suit, in case judgment is rendered for the plaintiff.  (C) The balance and residue of any sums recovered in the suit shall be paid into the county treasury of the county where the suit is brought, to be appropriated to general county purposes in the county.  (D) In any such suit should judgment be rendered for the defendant, the costs of the suit shall be paid by the county.
AR Code § 23-4-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 8 - Railroads and Transportation Companies — Passes and Free Transportation|§ 23-4-804. Exemptions — General Assembly and certain state officers may accept free passes

 (a) Members of the General Assembly within the State of Arkansas are exempted from the provisions of §§ 23-4-801 and 23-4-802. They are permitted to accept and it shall be the duty of all railroad companies doing business in the State of Arkansas to issue passes for free transportation to any such officers. In issuing free passes for transportation, the railroad companies shall not be liable to the penalties set out in § 23-4-802, or liable to prosecution under any of the laws of the State of Arkansas because of the issuance of any pass.  (b) The Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney General, and Lieutenant Governor are permitted to accept and use a free pass from any railroad of this state without incurring the penalties prescribed in § 23-4-803 [repealed].
AR Code § 23-4-805 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 8 - Railroads and Transportation Companies — Passes and Free Transportation|§ 23-4-805. Exemptions — Certain officials permitted to accept and use passes

 (a) Sheriffs are exempt from the provision of § 23-4-803 [repealed], and it shall not be unlawful for railroad companies to furnish free passes to them.  (b) The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education and the prosecuting attorneys and judges of the circuit courts of the several judicial districts of this state shall be permitted to accept and use a free pass on any railroad in this state without incurring any penalty prescribed under § 23-4-803 [repealed].  (c) Any county judge or any constable or deputy sheriff within the State of Arkansas is permitted to accept and use a free pass on any railroad in the State of Arkansas without incurring the penalty prescribed in § 23-4-803 [repealed].  (d) No railroad company issuing such a pass shall be liable for the penalty set out in § 23-4-802 or liable to prosecution under any of the laws of the State of Arkansas because of the issuance of the pass.
AR Code § 23-4-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 8 - Railroads and Transportation Companies — Passes and Free Transportation|§ 23-4-806. Passes in exchange for advertising space

 Railroad companies operating in the State of Arkansas are authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with newspaper and periodical publishers of the State of Arkansas for the issuance of transportation in exchange for advertising space in the publication. The transportation is to be restricted to intrastate passage.
AR Code § 23-4-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 8 - Railroads and Transportation Companies — Passes and Free Transportation|§ 23-4-807. Free carriage, passage permitted

 (a) Nothing in the law shall prevent carriage, storage, or hauling free or at reduced rates for any city, county, or town government, nor the free carriage of destitute or indigent persons or ministers of the gospel, nor prevent the railroads from giving free transportation or transportation at reduced rates to the inmates of hospitals, or eleemosynary and charitable institutions.  (b) Nothing in the law shall be construed to prevent railroads from giving free transportation to any railroad officer, agent, or employee, or attorney, stockholder, or director of the railroad company.
AR Code § 23-4-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-901. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Board” means the board of directors of a rural electric distribution cooperative;  (2) “Commission” means the Arkansas Public Service Commission;  (3) “Co-op” means a rural electric distribution cooperative formed under § 23-18-101 et seq., and which sells electricity only at retail; and  (4) “Member-consumers” means the customers of a rural electric distribution cooperative.
AR Code § 23-4-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-902. Exemption from rate case procedures, etc

 A co-op, as defined in § 23-4-901, shall not be subject to rate case procedures and hearings and other requirements of §§ 23-4-402 — 23-4-405, 23-4-407 — 23-4-418, and 23-4-620 — 23-4-634 and Arkansas Public Service Commission rules implementary thereof, hereafter referred to as “rate case procedures”, by the commission unless:   (1) By action of its board of directors, the co-op elects to be subject to rate case procedures by the commission;  (2) A proposed change in the co-op's rates and charges exceeds ten percent (10%) of total gross revenues;  (3) Ten percent (10%) of the co-op's member-consumers petition the commission to apply rate case procedures; or  (4) As otherwise provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 23-4-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-903. Notification of proposed rate change

 Each co-op not subject to rate case procedures, at least ninety (90) days before the effective date of any proposed rate change, shall notify the Arkansas Public Service Commission and each of its member-consumers of the proposed rate change. Notice to the commission shall include a verified statement showing the then total number of member-consumers of the co-op. Notice by the co-op to its member-consumers shall:   (1) Be in a form prescribed by the commission;  (2) Be by regular mail and may be included in regular member-consumer billings or in regularly published co-op newsletters provided to its member-consumers; and  (3) Include a schedule of the proposed rate change, the effective date of the proposed rate change, and the procedure necessary for the member-consumers to petition the commission to apply rate case procedures.
AR Code § 23-4-904 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-904. Petition for relief from rate change — Form

 Petitions provided for in this subchapter shall be prepared as follows:   (1) Form.  (A) The petition shall be headed by a caption, which shall contain:  (i) The heading, “Before the Arkansas Public Service Commission”;  (ii) The name of the co-op seeking a change in rates and charges; and  (iii) The relief sought.    (B) A petition substantially in compliance with the form set forth in this section shall not be deemed invalid due to minor errors in its form; and    (2) Body. The body of the petition shall consist of three (3) numbered paragraphs, if applicable, as follows:  (A) Allegations of Facts. The allegations of facts shall be stated in the form of ultimate facts, without unnecessary detail, upon which the right to relief is based. The allegations will be stated in numbered subparagraphs as necessary for clarity;  (B) Relief Sought. The petition shall contain a brief statement of the amount of the change in rates and charges that is objected to or other relief sought; and  (C) Petitioners. The petition shall contain the name, address, telephone number, and signature of each member-consumer. Only the member-consumer in whose name the electric service is listed shall be counted as a petitioner. Every signature must be dated and shall have been affixed to the petition within ninety (90) days preceding its filing with the commission.
AR Code § 23-4-905 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-905. Petition for relief from rate change — Effect

 If, by the effective date of the proposed change in rates and charges, the Arkansas Public Service Commission has received petitions from fewer than fifteen percent (15%) of the member-consumers requesting that the commission apply rate case procedures, then the commission shall immediately certify that fact to the co-op. The proposed rates and charges shall become effective as published in the notice to the member-consumers. Rates and charges so established shall be in effect for not less than one (1) year, subject to the procedure provided for in § 23-4-906. If, on or before the effective date of the proposed change in rates and charges, the commission has received petitions from ten percent (10%) of the member-consumers, then the commission shall notify the co-op that it will apply rate case procedures.
AR Code § 23-4-906 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-906. Petition to declare co-op subject to rate case procedures

 In addition to the procedure for petition prior to any proposed change in rates and charges pursuant to §§ 23-4-903 and 23-4-905, the member-consumers of a co-op may at any time petition the Arkansas Public Service Commission to declare the co-op subject to rate case procedures. If the commission determines that at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the member-consumers of a co-op have properly petitioned that the co-op be subject to rate case procedures, the commission shall certify that fact to the co-op. Thereafter, the co-op shall be subject to rate case procedures by the commission until at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the member-consumers of the co-op properly petition, in the manner prescribed in § 23-4-904, that the co-op shall no longer be subject to rate case procedures by the commission.
AR Code § 23-4-907 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-907. Commission's jurisdiction not affected

 Sections 23-4-902, 23-4-903, 23-4-905, and 23-4-906 apply only to rates and charges and shall have no effect on the Arkansas Public Service Commission's jurisdiction over a co-op as otherwise provided by law.
AR Code § 23-4-908 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-908. Authority of commission

 The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall have the authority to investigate and determine the reasonableness of the change in rates and charges of each co-op changing its rates and charges pursuant to this subchapter, within one (1) year of the time of the change in rates and charges. If the commission preliminarily determines that there is substantial evidence indicating that the rates and charges are unreasonable, the commission shall have the authority to apply rate case procedures. After a hearing thereon, the commission shall have the authority to modify all or any portion of the changes found to be unreasonable. If, following the hearing, the commission orders a change in the co-op's rates and charges, the co-op shall not effect a subsequent change in rates and charges pursuant to this subchapter for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of the commission order.
AR Code § 23-4-909 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 9 - Rural Electric Distribution Cooperatives|§ 23-4-909. Apportionment of rates and charges

 When determining how rates and charges established under § 23-4-903 are to be allocated among different rate classes, a co-op shall endeavor to apportion the rates and charges in a manner which reflects, as closely as practicable, the costs of providing service to each class.
AR Code § 23-4-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 10 - Pole Attachments|§ 23-4-1001. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1)  (A) “Pole attachment” means the attachment of wires and related equipment to a pole, duct, or conduit owned or controlled by a public utility for the provision of:  (i) Electric service;  (ii) Telecommunication service;  (iii) Cable television service;  (iv) Internet access service; or  (v) Other related information services.(B) “Pole attachment” does not mean multiground neutral connections; and      (2)  (A) “Public utility” means an electric utility as defined in § 23-1-101, an electric cooperative as defined in § 23-18-201, or a telecommunications provider as defined in § 23-17-403.  (B) “Public utility” does not mean a municipal electric utility.
AR Code § 23-4-1002 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 4 - Regulation of Rates and Charges Generally|Subchapter 10 - Pole Attachments|§ 23-4-1002. Nondiscriminatory access for pole attachments

 A public utility shall provide nondiscriminatory access for a pole attachment to:   (1) An electric utility;  (2) A telecommunications provider;  (3) A cable television service; or  (4) A cable Internet access service.