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ID Code § 61-517 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-517 - ACCIDENTS — INVESTIGATION — ORDER OR RECOMMENDATION OF COMMISSION — REPORT BY UTILITY.

61-517. ACCIDENTS — INVESTIGATION — ORDER OR RECOMMENDATION OF COMMISSION — REPORT BY UTILITY. The commission shall investigate the cause of all accidents occurring within this state upon the property of any public utility or directly or indirectly arising from or connected with its maintenance or operation, resulting in loss of life or injury to person or property and requiring, in the judgment of the commission, investigation by it, and shall have the power to make such order or recommendation with respect thereto as in its judgment may seem just and reasonable: provided, that neither the order or recommendation of the commission, nor any accident report filed with the commission, shall be admitted as evidence in any action for damages based on or arising out of the loss of life, or injury to person or property in this section referred to. Every public utility is hereby required to file with the commission, under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, a report of each accident so occurring of such kinds or classes as the commission may from time to time designate.  History: [(61-517) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 42, p. 248; compiled and reen. C.L. 106:97; C.S., sec. 2465; I.C.A., sec. 59-517.]
ID Code § 61-518 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-518 - RAILROAD SERVICE — FURNISHING CARS.

61-518. RAILROAD SERVICE — FURNISHING CARS. Every railroad company shall, upon reasonable notice, furnish to all persons or corporations who may apply therefor and offer property for transportation, sufficient and suitable cars for the transportation of such property in carload lots. In case at any time a railroad company has not sufficient cars to meet all the requirements for transportation of property in carload lots, all cars available for such purpose shall be distributed among the several applicants therefor without unjust discrimination between shippers, localities or competitive or noncompetitive points, but preference may always be given in the supplying of cars for shipment of live stock or perishable property.  History: [(61-518) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 43a, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:98; C.S., sec. 2466; I.C.A., sec. 59-518.]
ID Code § 61-519 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-519 - EXPRESS SERVICE — DELIVERY OF TELEPHONE MESSAGES.

61-519. EXPRESS SERVICE — DELIVERY OF TELEPHONE MESSAGES. The commission shall also have power to provide the time within which express packages shall be received, gathered, transported and delivered at destination and the limits within which express packages shall be gathered and distributed and telephone messages delivered without extra charge.  History: [(61-519) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 43b, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:99; C.S., sec. 2467; I.C.A., sec. 59-519; am. 1984, ch. 106, sec. 7, p. 249.]
ID Code § 61-520 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-520 - SERVICE OF ELECTRIC, GAS, AND WATER CORPORATIONS — DETERMINATION OF STANDARDS.

61-520. SERVICE OF ELECTRIC, GAS, AND WATER CORPORATIONS — DETERMINATION OF STANDARDS. The commission shall have power, after hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, to ascertain and fix just and reasonable standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements or service to be furnished, imposed, observed and followed by all electrical, gas and water corporations; to ascertain and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quantity, quality, pressure, initial voltage or other condition pertaining to the supply of the product, commodity or service furnished or rendered by any such public utility; to prescribe reasonable regulations for the examination and testing of such product, commodity or service and for the measurement thereof; to establish reasonable rules, regulations, specifications and standards to secure the accuracy of all meters and appliances for measurements; and to provide for the examination and testing of any and all appliances used for the measurement of any product, commodity or service of any such public utility.  History: [(61-520) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 44a, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:100; C.S., sec. 2468; I.C.A., sec. 59-520.]
ID Code § 61-521 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-521 - AUTHORITY TO ENTER PREMISES.

61-521. AUTHORITY TO ENTER PREMISES. The commissioners and their officers and employees shall have power to enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility, for the purpose of making the examinations and tests and exercising any of the other powers provided for in this act, and to set up and use on such premises any apparatus and appliances necessary therefor. The agents and employees of such public utility shall have the right to be present at the making of such examination and tests.  History: [(61-521) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 44b, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:101; C.S., sec. 2469; I.C.A., sec. 59-521.]
ID Code § 61-522 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-522 - CONSUMER MAY HAVE COMMODITY OR APPLIANCE TESTED.

61-522. CONSUMER MAY HAVE COMMODITY OR APPLIANCE TESTED. Any consumer or user of any product, commodity or service of a public utility may have any appliance used in the measurement thereof tested upon paying the fees fixed by the commission. The commission shall establish and fix reasonable fees to be paid for testing such appliances on the request of the consumer or user, the fee to be paid by the consumer or user at the time of his request, but to be paid by the public utility and repaid to the consumer or user if the appliance is found defective or incorrect to the disadvantage of the consumer or user under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commission.  History: [(61-522) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 44c, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:102; C.S., sec. 2470; I.C.A., sec. 59-522.]
ID Code § 61-523 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-523 - VALUATION.

61-523. VALUATION. The commission shall have power to ascertain the value of the property of every public utility in this state and every fact which, in its judgment, may or does have any bearing on such value. The commission shall have power to make revaluations from time to time and to ascertain all new construction, extensions and additions to the property of every public utility.  History: [(61-523) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 45, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:103; C.S., sec. 2471; I.C.A., sec. 59-523.]
ID Code § 61-524 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-524 - SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS.

61-524. SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS. The commission shall have power to establish a system of accounts to be kept by the public utilities subject to its jurisdiction, or to classify said public utilities and to establish a system of accounts for each class and to prescribe the manner in which such accounts shall be kept: provided, that the system of accounts to be kept by railroad corporations and common carriers shall conform to the rules and requirements of the interstate commerce commission in all respects. It may also in its discretion prescribe the forms of accounts, records and memoranda to be kept by such public utilities, including the accounts, records and memoranda of the movement of traffic as well as the receipts and expenditures of moneys, and any other forms, records and memoranda which in the judgment of the commission may be necessary to carry out any of the provisions of this act. The systems of accounts established by the commission and the forms of accounts, records and memoranda prescribed by it shall not be inconsistent, in the case of corporations subject to the provisions of the act of congress entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, and the acts amendatory thereto, with the systems and forms from time to time established for such corporations by the interstate commerce commission. Where the commission has prescribed the forms of accounts, records or memoranda to be kept by any public utility not subject to the provisions of the act of congress entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, and the acts amendatory thereto, for any of its business, it shall thereafter be unlawful for such public utility to keep any accounts, records or memoranda for such business other than those so prescribed, or those prescribed by or under the authority of any other state or of the United States, excepting such accounts, records or memoranda as shall be explanatory of and supplemental to the accounts, records or memoranda prescribed by the commission.  History: [(61-524) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 46, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:104; C.S., sec. 2472; I.C.A., sec. 59-524.]
ID Code § 61-525 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-525 - DEPRECIATION ACCOUNT.

61-525. DEPRECIATION ACCOUNT. The commission shall have power, after hearing, to require any or all public utilities, except such as are subject to the act of congress entitled "An act to regulate commerce," approved February 4, 1887, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, to carry a proper and adequate depreciation account in accordance with such rules, regulations and forms of accounts as the commission may prescribe. The commission may from time to time ascertain and determine and by order fix the proper and adequate rate of depreciation of the several classes of property of each public utility. Each public utility shall conform its depreciation accounts to the rates so ascertained, determined and fixed, and shall set aside the moneys so provided for out of the earnings and carry the same in a depreciation fund and expend such fund only for such purposes and under such rules and regulations, both as to original expenditure and subsequent replacement as the commission may prescribe. The income from investments of moneys in such public fund shall likewise be carried in such fund.  History: [(61-525) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 47, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:105; C.S., sec. 2473; I.C.A., sec. 59-525.]
ID Code § 61-526 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-526 - CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY.

61-526. CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY. No street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telephone corporation or water corporation, shall henceforth begin the construction of a street railroad, or of a line, plant, or system or of any extension of such street railroad, or line, plant, or system, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require such construction: provided, that this section shall not be construed to require such corporation to secure such certificate for an extension within any city or county, within which it shall have theretofore lawfully commenced operation, or for an extension into territory whether within or without a city or county, contiguous to its street railroad, or line, plant or system, and not theretofore served by a public utility of like character, or for an extension within or to territory already served by it necessary in the ordinary course of its business: and provided further, that if any public utility in constructing or extending its lines, plant or system, shall interfere or be about to interfere with the operation of the line, plant or system of any other public utility already constructed, or if public convenience and necessity does not require or will require such construction or extension, the commission on complaint of the public utility claiming to be injuriously affected, or on the commission’s own motion, may, after hearing, make such order and prescribe such terms and conditions for the locating or type of the line, plant or system affected as to it may seem just and reasonable: provided, that power companies may, without such certificate, increase the capacity of their existing generating plants.  History: [(61-526) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 48a, p. 248; substantially reen. 1915, ch. 62, sec. 2, subd. 48a, p. 155; reen. C.L., 106:106, C.S., sec. 2474; I.C.A., sec. 59-526; am. 1970, ch. 134, sec. 1, p. 327.]
ID Code § 61-527 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-527 - CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — EXERCISE OF RIGHT OR FRANCHISE.

61-527. CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — EXERCISE OF RIGHT OR FRANCHISE. No public utility of a class specified in the foregoing section shall henceforth exercise any right or privilege, or obtain a franchise, or permit, to exercise such right or privilege, from a municipality or county, without having first obtained from the commission a certificate that the public convenience and necessity require the exercise of such right and privilege: provided, that when the commission shall find, after hearing, that the public utility has heretofore begun actual construction work, and is prosecuting such work in good faith, uninterruptedly, and with reasonable diligence in proportion to the magnitude of the undertaking, under any franchise or permit heretofore granted, but not heretofore actually exercised, such public utility may proceed to the completion of such work and may after such completion exercise such right and privilege: provided further, that this section shall not be construed to validate any right or privilege now invalid or hereafter becoming invalid under any law of this state, nor impair any vested right in any franchise or permit heretofore granted.  History: [(61-527) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 48b, p. 248; substantially reen. 1915, ch. 62, sec. 2, subd. 48b, p. 156; reen. C.L. 106:107; C.S., sec. 2475; I.C.A., sec. 59-527.]
ID Code § 61-528 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-528 - CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — CONDITIONS.

61-528. CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — CONDITIONS. Before any certificate of convenience and necessity may issue[,] a certified copy of its articles of incorporation, or charter, if the applicant be a corporation, shall be filed in the office of the commission. The commission shall have power, after hearing involving the financial ability and good faith of the applicant and necessity of additional service in the community to issue said certificate as prayed for, or to refuse to issue the same, or to issue it for the construction of any portion only of the contemplated street railroad, line, plant or system or extension thereof, or for the partial exercise only of said right or privilege, and may attach to the exercise of the rights granted by said certificate, such terms and conditions as in its judgment the public convenience and necessity may require.  History: [(61-528) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 48c, p. 248; am. 1915, ch. 62, sec. 2, subd. 48c, p. 156; compiled and reen. C.L. 106:108; C.S., sec. 2476; I.C.A., sec. 59-528.]
ID Code § 61-529 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-529 - CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — ELECTRICITY EXCLUSIVELY FOR MINES EXCEPTED.

61-529. CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — ELECTRICITY EXCLUSIVELY FOR MINES EXCEPTED. No certificate of convenience and necessity shall be required under any provision of this act where the electricity is to be used exclusively in operations incident to the working of metalliferous mines and mining claims, mills, or reduction and smelting plants, and the transmission lines and distribution systems are owned by the consumer or where several consumers severally own their individual distribution systems and jointly own, in their own names or through a trustee, the transmission lines used in connection therewith and transmit such electricity, whether generated by themselves or procured from some other source, over such transmission lines and distribution systems without profit, and to be used for their private uses for the purposes aforesaid in places outside the limits of incorporated cities, towns and villages, and not for resale or public use, sale or distribution.  History: [(61-529) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 48d, p. 248; as added by 1915, ch. 62, sec. 2, subd. 48d, p. 157; reen. C.L. 106:109; C.S., sec. 2477; I.C.A., sec. 59-529.]
ID Code § 61-530 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-530 - CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — PORT DISTRICTS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS.

61-530. CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY — PORT DISTRICTS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS. No port district or industrial development district within a port district shall acquire by eminent domain any existing and operating railroad facilities, without first having secured from the commission, after hearing, a certificate that such acquisition is necessary for the public convenience and necessity.  History: [61-530, as added by 1970, ch. 3, sec. 2, p. 4.]
ID Code § 61-531 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-531 - PLAN FOR CURTAILMENT OF ELECTRIC OR GAS CONSUMPTION.

61-531. PLAN FOR CURTAILMENT OF ELECTRIC OR GAS CONSUMPTION. The Idaho public utilities commission shall forthwith direct and require all suppliers of electric power and energy, or natural or manufactured gas, including those otherwise excepted under section 61-104, Idaho Code, except agencies of the federal government, to file with the commission, within a designated time period, a plan for the curtailment of electric or gas consumption during an emergency.  History: [61,531, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 2, p. 646.]
ID Code § 61-532 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-532 - ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF PLANS — PROCEDURE.

61-532. ADOPTION OR REJECTION OF PLANS — PROCEDURE. The commission, after notice and hearing pursuant to its rules of practice and procedure, shall consider and act upon the plan or plans submitted and may adopt or reject such plan or plans, or adopt other plan or plans, for such curtailment. In acting upon such plan or plans the commission shall consider the following factors: (a) The consistency of the plan with the public health, safety and welfare; (b) The technical feasibility of implementation of the plan; and (c) The effectiveness with which the plan minimizes the impact of any curtailment.  History: [61-532, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 3, p. 646.]
ID Code § 61-533 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-533 - AUTHORITY TO DECLARE EMERGENCY.

61-533. AUTHORITY TO DECLARE EMERGENCY. The commission shall have authority to declare an emergency, with or without notice, upon finding that an inadequacy or insufficiency of electric power and energy, or natural or manufactured gas threatens the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of this state.  History: [61-533, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 4, p. 646.]
ID Code § 61-534 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-534 - CURTAILMENT OF SERVICE BY SUPPLIERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS.

61-534. CURTAILMENT OF SERVICE BY SUPPLIERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH PLANS. Upon declaration that such an emergency exists, the commission shall have authority to require all suppliers of electric power and energy, or natural or manufactured gas, except agencies of the federal government, to curtail service in accordance with the curtailment plans on file with and approved by the commission.  History: [61-534, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 5, p. 646.]
ID Code § 61-535 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-535 - ORDER FOR CURTAILMENT OF CONSUMPTION BY CONSUMERS.

61-535. ORDER FOR CURTAILMENT OF CONSUMPTION BY CONSUMERS. The commission, in addition to the powers herein granted, upon the declaration of an emergency, may order the curtailment of electric power and gas consumption by consumers as the commission finds reasonable and necessary.  History: [61-535, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 6, p. 646.]
ID Code § 61-536 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-536 - LIABILITY OF SUPPLIERS.

61-536. LIABILITY OF SUPPLIERS. No supplier of electric power or gas shall be liable for (a) actions taken pursuant to an order of the commission, or by reason of curtailment of such electric or gas service pursuant to such order or its curtailment plan on file with and approved by the commission; or (b) inability of a supplier to furnish adequate or sufficient supplies of electric power or gas or refusal to supply electric power or gas when such inability or refusal is due to inadequate or insufficient supplies on the supplier’s system occurring as a result of the supplier’s being unable to obtain from the commission an order which allows adequate time to construct necessary generating and transmission facilities.  History: [61-536, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 7, p. 646; am. 1976, ch. 219, sec. 1, p. 792.]
ID Code § 61-537 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 61 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION|Chapter 5 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION|Section 61-537 - CONTRACTS OF SUPPLIERS SUBJECT TO PROVISIONS OF LAW.

61-537. CONTRACTS OF SUPPLIERS SUBJECT TO PROVISIONS OF LAW. All contracts of suppliers shall be subject to actions taken and the immunities provided hereunder.  History: [61-537, added 1975, ch. 238, sec. 8, p. 646.]