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CT Gen Stat § 16-28 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-28 - Correction of returns and reports.

 When a report filed by a public service company under subsection (a) of section 16-27 or an annual report filed by a community antenna television company under subsection (b) of said section seems to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority defective or erroneous, the authority may notify the company making the same and require the amendment of such report within fifteen days from the time of giving such notice, under the same penalty as is provided for refusing or neglecting to make such report; and the authority may examine the officers, agents, employees, books, records, accounts, vouchers, plant and equipment of such company and may correct such items in such report as, upon such examination, the authority may find ought to be corrected.(1949 Rev., S. 5419; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 67, 348; P.A. 85-509, S. 4, 11; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 85-509 made technical changes for consistency with amendments to Sec. 16-27; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-30 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-30 - Returns from motor bus companies. Penalty.

 Section 16-30 is repealed, effective June 29, 1993.(1949 Rev., S. 5421; P.A. 73-334; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 79-610, S. 8, 43; P.A. 93-307, S. 32, 34.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-31 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-31 - Remission of forfeitures by the Attorney General.

 Section 16-31 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 5145; P.A. 90-221, S. 14, 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-32a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32a - Filing re procurement practices. Public hearing. Regulations re competitive bidding.

 The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall by regulation require public service companies to file statements of their procurement policies and practices whenever there is a material change to such policies or practices. Where, after investigation, the authority determines that competitive bidding seems likely to reduce procurement costs without impairing quality, continuity or dependability of service or the ability to respond to emergencies, the authority may, after notice and public hearing, establish such regulations as it deems necessary to provide for competitive bidding in appropriate cases, but only if the contract price exceeds fifty thousand dollars in each such case.(P.A. 75-486, S. 12, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 70, 348; P.A. 98-121, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 98-121 inserted “whenever there is a material change to such policies or practices”; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32b - Regional water authority or water district to submit annual report.

 Each regional water authority and each regional water district shall, annually, submit to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, on or before May thirty-first, its annual report for the preceding calendar year, in such form and manner as the authority may prescribe. The authority may, for good cause shown, grant an extension of such deadline of up to sixty days, provided the regional water authority or regional water district desiring an extension files a request in writing setting forth the reasons for such request.(P.A. 90-221, S. 4, 15; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32g - Electric wire maintenance plans. Regulations.

 Not later than January 1, 2008, and annually thereafter, each electric distribution company shall submit to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority a plan for the maintenance of poles, wires, conduits or other fixtures, along public highways or streets for the transmission or distribution of electric current, owned, operated, managed or controlled by such company, in such format as the authority shall prescribe. Such plan shall include a summary of appropriate staffing levels necessary for the maintenance of said fixtures and a program for the trimming of tree branches and limbs located in close proximity to overhead electric wires where such branches and limbs may cause damage to such electric wires. The authority shall review each plan and may issue such orders as may be necessary to ensure compliance with this section. The authority may require each electric distribution company to submit an updated plan at such time and containing such information as the authority may prescribe. The authority shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of this section.(P.A. 87-68, S. 1, 2; P.A. 98-28, S. 97, 117; P.A. 07-242, S. 6; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 67.)History: P.A. 98-28 added electric distribution companies and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 07-242 changed “January 1, 1988,” to “January 1, 2008, and annually thereafter” and required summary of appropriate staffing levels in plan; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-134 deleted references to electric company, effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32i - Performance review of electric distribution companies and gas companies after emergencies. Hearing. Penalty.

 The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall review the performance of each electric distribution company and gas company, as those terms are defined in section 16-1, after any emergency, as defined in section 16-32e, (1) in which more than ten per cent of any such company's customers were without service for more than forty-eight consecutive hours, or (2) at the authority's discretion. The authority, upon a finding that any such company failed to comply with any standard of acceptable performance in emergency preparation or restoration of service in an emergency, adopted pursuant to section 16-32h, or with any order of the authority, shall make orders, after a hearing that is conducted as a contested case in accordance with chapter 54, to enforce such standards or orders and may levy civil penalties against such company, pursuant to section 16-41, not to exceed a total of four per cent of such electric distribution or gas company's annual distribution revenue, for noncompliance in any such emergency. In determining the amount of any penalty, the authority shall consider whether such company received approval and reasonable funding allowances, as determined by the authority, from the authority to meet infrastructure resiliency efforts to improve such company's performance. Any such penalty shall be assessed in the form of credits to the accounts of ratepayers of such electric distribution or gas company. Any such penalty shall not be included as an operating expense of such company for purposes of ratemaking.(P.A. 12-148, S. 4; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 9.)History: P.A. 12-148 effective June 15, 2012; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 increased potential civil penalty to 4 per cent of annual distribution revenue and replaced “a credit to” with “credits to the accounts of”, effective October 2, 2020.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32j - Procedures for expedited road clearing after emergencies.

 On or before January 1, 2013, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, in coordination and consultation with each public service company, as defined in section 16-1, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and an association of municipalities, shall develop procedures to expedite the process of road clearing for public safety personnel after an emergency, as defined in section 16-32e.(P.A. 12-148, S. 11.)History: P.A. 12-148 effective June 15, 2012.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32k - Vegetation management practices review. Report.

 On and after June 6, 2014, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall review the vegetation management practices of each electric distribution company. Not later than one year after the final decision has been issued by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for the docket described in subsection (c) of section 16-32h, and every two years thereafter, the authority shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy. Such report shall include a review of the vegetation management practices of each electric distribution company.(P.A. 14-151, S. 2.)History: P.A. 14-151 effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32l - Residential customer credits for distribution-system service outage. Recovery of costs. Waiver of requirements.

 (a) For the purposes of this section, “emergency” has the same meaning as provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-32e and “electric distribution company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, on and after July 1, 2021, each electric distribution company shall provide to residential customers of such company a credit of twenty-five dollars, on the balance of such customer's account, for each day of distribution-system service outage that occurs for such customers for more than ninety-six consecutive hours after the occurrence of an emergency.(c) Any costs incurred by an electric distribution company pursuant to this section shall not be recoverable.(d) Not later than fourteen calendar days after the occurrence of an emergency, an electric distribution company may petition the authority for a waiver of the requirements of this section. Any petition for a waiver made under this subsection shall include the severity of the emergency, employee safety issues and conditions on the ground, and shall be conducted as a contested case proceeding. The burden of proving that such waiver is reasonable and warranted shall be on the electric distribution company. In determining whether to grant such waiver, the authority shall consider whether the electric distribution company received approval and reasonable funding allowances, as determined by the authority, to meet infrastructure resiliency efforts to improve such company's performance.(e) On or before January 1, 2021, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to consider the implementation of the residential customer credit and waiver provisions of this section and establish circumstances, standards and methodologies applicable to each electric distribution company and necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including any modifications to the ninety-six-consecutive-hour standard in subsection (b) of this section. The authority shall issue a final decision in such proceeding on or before July 1, 2021.(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 10.)History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 effective October 2, 2020.
CT Gen Stat § 16-32m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-32m - Residential customer compensation for expiration of medicine and food due to distribution-system service outage. Recovery of costs. Waiver of requirements.

 (a) For the purposes of this section, “emergency” has the same meaning as provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-32e and “electric distribution company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.(b) On and after July 1, 2021, each electric distribution company shall provide to each residential customer compensation in an amount of two hundred fifty dollars, in the aggregate, for any medication and food that expires or spoils due to a distribution-system service outage that lasts more than ninety-six consecutive hours in duration after the occurrence of an emergency.(c) Any costs incurred by an electric distribution company pursuant to this section shall not be recoverable.(d) Not later than fourteen calendar days after the occurrence of an emergency, an electric distribution company may petition the authority for a waiver of the requirements of this section. Any petition for a waiver made under this subsection shall include the severity of the emergency, employee safety issues and conditions on the ground, and shall be conducted as a contested case proceeding. The burden of proving that such waiver is reasonable and warranted shall be on the electric distribution company. In determining whether to grant such waiver, the authority shall consider whether the electric distribution company received approval and reasonable funding allowances, as determined by the authority, to meet infrastructure resiliency efforts to improve such company's performance.(e) On or before January 1, 2021, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to consider the implementation of the compensation reimbursement and waiver provisions of this section and establish circumstances, standards and methodologies applicable to each electric distribution company and necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including any modifications to the ninety-six-consecutive-hour standard in subsection (b) of this section. The authority shall issue a final decision in such proceeding on or before July 1, 2021.(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 11.)History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 effective October 2, 2020.
CT Gen Stat § 16-33 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-33 - Obstructing authority; false entries and returns to; penalty.

 Any person who wilfully makes any false return or report to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or to any member thereof, or to any agent or any employee acting therefor, or who testifies falsely to any material fact in any matter wherein an oath or affirmation is required or authorized, or who makes any false entry or memorandum upon any account, book, paper, record, report or statement of any company, or who wilfully destroys, mutilates, alters or by any other means or device falsifies or destroys the record of any such account, book, paper, record, report or statement, with the intent to mislead or deceive the authority, or any member thereof, or any agent or employee acting therefor, or who wilfully obstructs or hinders the authority, or any of its members, agents or employees, in the making of any examination of the accounts, affairs or condition of any company, and any person who, with like intent, aids or abets another in any of the acts hereinbefore set forth, shall be guilty of a class D felony.(1949 Rev., S. 5423, 8708; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 71, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 62.)History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.Cited. 159 C. 556.
CT Gen Stat § 16-34 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-34 - Annual reports to Governor.

 Section 16-34 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 5424; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 81-348, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 16-34a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-34a - Annual report re lost and unaccounted for gas. Docket to investigate.

 (a) Not later than July 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy. Such report shall include (1) a description of the reasons for each gas company's percentage of lost and unaccounted for gas, (2) recommendations for each gas company's gas leak reduction strategy, (3) a description of each gas company's current gas leak monitoring system program, and (4) the number of leaks and causes of such leaks throughout the entire gas distribution system in the state and any other information the authority determines to be relevant.(b) The authority shall initiate a docket to investigate the lost and unaccounted for gas of a gas company if the percentage of lost and unaccounted for gas of such gas company in any calendar year exceeds a total of three per cent. In such docket, a gas company shall report (1) leak detection and monitoring procedures, (2) emissions reduction strategies in addition to leak repair, and (3) any additional requirements the authority determines to be relevant. In such docket, the authority shall establish a cost mechanism to comply with long-term emissions reductions required by section 22a-200a and to incentivize a gas company to (A) reduce lost and unaccounted for gas, including the number of leaks throughout the entire gas distribution system in the state, (B) replace aging infrastructure, and (C) comply with any additional requirements the authority determines to be relevant. Such cost mechanism may be incorporated in the purchased gas adjustment clause pursuant to section 16-19b.(P.A. 14-152, S. 1.)History: P.A. 14-152 effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 16-40 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-40 - Rights and duties of trustees and receivers.

 When any company is operated by a trustee or receiver, such trustee or receiver shall have all the powers and shall be subject to all the duties, obligations and penalties which such company would otherwise have or to which it would be subject under the provisions of this title, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the rights, duties or obligations of such trustee or receiver as an officer of the court appointing him.(1949 Rev., S. 5430.)Cited. 162 C. 51.
CT Gen Stat § 16-42 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 16 - Public Service Companies|Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 16-42 - Not to affect labor contracts.

 Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to interfere in any manner with contracts between public service companies and their employees.(1949 Rev., S. 5432; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 74, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.