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NH Rev Stat § 363-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 363-B - Procedures for Termination of Certain Utility Services|Section 363-B:2 - Conference Provided.

    363-B:2 Conference Provided. –||I. Any person who receives a notice of intent to terminate service pursuant to RSA 363-B:1 and believes such proposed termination to be unjustified may request, prior to the date specified in the termination notice, a conference with the utility company involved to review the basis for the proposed termination. The conference with the utility company shall be conducted in person, by writing or by telephone as the customer may elect. If the customer is dissatisfied with the outcome of the conference he may, within 3 days after the conference if the conference is conducted in person, or within 5 days after the conference if the conference is conducted by writing or by telephone, request a conference with a staff member of the commission to review the basis for the proposed termination. The conference with the commission may be conducted by writing or by telephone if the customer so elects.||II. In the event of a request for a conference with the public utility, the public utility shall continue service to the customer for 3 days after the conference if the conference was conducted in person, or for 5 days after the conference if the conference was conducted by writing or by telephone, or to the date specified in the notice of termination, whichever comes later.||III. During the conference with the utility company, the utility company shall inform the customer of his right to request a conference with a staff member of the commission. If the conference with the utility company is conducted in person, the customer shall be furnished a form for requesting a conference with a staff member of the commission during the conference. If the conference with the utility company is conducted by writing or by telephone, the utility company shall mail the form to the customer by regular mail on the same day as the conference. In the event of a request for a conference with a staff member of the commission, the public utility shall continue service to the customer until such time as the staff member or the commission determines that termination is justified.||IV. [Repealed.]|||Source. 1974, 11:1. 1975, 119:1-3. 1981, 220:3. 1994, 193:8, I, eff. July 23, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 363-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 363-B - Procedures for Termination of Certain Utility Services|Section 363-B:3 - Notification of Property Owner or Condominium Association.

    363-B:3 Notification of Property Owner or Condominium Association. –||Notwithstanding any other provisions of state law, any electric or gas public utility may, prior to terminating residential service to a tenant or to a condominium owner, provide notice of the termination to the property owner, in the case of a tenant, or any associated condominium association when:||I. The termination of service is to occur between November 1 and April 30, inclusive of beginning and end dates; and||II. The property owner or the condominium association has requested that it, or its agents, be notified in such instances.|||Source. 2000, 276:1, eff. June 16, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 364:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 364 - Municipal Utilities|Section 364:1 - Submission of Plan to Public Utilities Commission.

    364:1 Submission of Plan to Public Utilities Commission. –||Before any town, village district or precinct shall vote to appropriate money or issue bonds or notes for the acquisition of any existing public utility, or for the construction of a public utility, or for the reconstruction or enlarging of a municipally owned utility, the selectmen of the town or the commissioners of the village district or the commissioners of any precinct may submit, and upon written application of 50 or more qualified voters or 1/4 of the qualified voters of said town, district or precinct, shall submit to the public utilities commission the general details of the plan and the amount proposed to be expended together with engineering plans and specifications.|||Source. 1949, 271:1, eff. June 29, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 364:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 364 - Municipal Utilities|Section 364:2 - Hearing.

    364:2 Hearing. –||Said commission shall after notice hold a public hearing at which time it shall receive evidence from any interested parties, and shall on its own motion investigate the public need for such acquisition, construction, reconstruction or enlarging and the feasibility of said proposed plan.|||Source. 1949, 271:2, eff. June 29, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 364:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 364 - Municipal Utilities|Section 364:3 - Findings.

    364:3 Findings. –||Said commission shall, within 30 days after said hearing, issue a report which shall contain its findings on said plan as proposed, with the reasons therefor, and shall cause it to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in said town, and shall also submit a copy of said report to the selectmen or precinct commissioners of said town, village district or precinct. Before any vote is taken by said town, village district or precinct to appropriate money or issue bonds or notes for any of the purposes mentioned in RSA 364:1, said findings of the public utilities commission shall be read to the meeting by the moderator or the chairman.|||Source. 1949, 271:3, eff. June 29, 1949.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:1 - Complaint Against Public Utilities.

    365:1 Complaint Against Public Utilities. –||Any person may make complaint to the department of energy by petition setting forth in writing any thing or act claimed to have been done or to have been omitted by any public utility in violation of any provision of law, or of the terms and conditions of its franchises or charter, or of any order of the commission.|||Source. 1911, 164:10. 1913, 145:9. PL 238:1, 8. RL 287:1, 8. 1951, 203:11 par. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:247, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:1-a - Exceptions.

    365:1-a Exceptions. –||Except for complaints about RSA 371:17 through RSA 371:24, RSA 374:2-a, RSA 374:22-p, I(b), RSA 374:28-a, RSA 374:34-a, RSA 374:48 through RSA 374:56, RSA 374:59, and RSA 378:44 through RSA 378:48, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any end user of an excepted local exchange carrier, nor to any service provided to such end user. Such end users may make complaints to the commission regarding basic service, as defined by RSA 374:22-p, I(b) by excepted local exchange carriers.|||Source. 2012, 177:5, eff. Aug. 10, 2012. 2013, 279:5, eff. July 27, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:2 - Order.

    365:2 Order. –||Thereupon the department of energy shall cause a copy of said complaint to be forwarded to the public utility complained of, which may be accompanied by an order, requiring that the matters complained of be satisfied, or that the charges be answered in writing within a time to be specified by the department.|||Source. 1911, 164:10. PL 238:2. RL 287:2. 1951, 203:11 par. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:248, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:3 - Reparation.

    365:3 Reparation. –||If the public utility complained of shall make reparation for any injury alleged and shall cease to commit or to permit the violation of law, franchise, or order charged in the complaint, and shall notify the department of energy of that fact before the time allowed for answer, the department shall not be required to take any further action upon the charges.|||Source. 1911, 164:10. PL 238:3. RL 287:3. 1951, 203:11 par. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:248, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:4 - Investigation.

    365:4 Investigation. –||If the charges are not satisfied as provided in RSA 365:3, and it shall appear to the department of energy that there are reasonable grounds therefor, it shall investigate the same in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper. After investigation, the department of energy may bring proceedings on its own motion before the public utilities commission, with respect to any complaint or violation of any provision of law, rule, terms and conditions of its franchises or charter, or any order of the commission.|||Source. 1911, 164:10. PL 238:4. RL 287:4. 1951, 203:11 par. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:248, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:5 - Independent Inquiry.

    365:5 Independent Inquiry. –||The commission, on its own motion or upon petition of a public utility, and the department of energy may investigate or make inquiry in a manner to be determined by it as to any rate charged or proposed or as to any act or thing having been done, or having been omitted or proposed by any public utility; and shall make such inquiry in regard to any rate charged or proposed or to any act or thing having been done or having been omitted or proposed by any such utility in violation of any provision of law or order of the commission or the department.|||Source. 1911, 164:10. 1913, 145:9. PL 238:6. RL 287:6. 1951, 203:11 par. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:248, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:6 - Inspection.

    365:6 Inspection. –||Both the commission and the department of energy may at any time personally, or by its experts or agents, inspect the property, works, system, plant, devices, appliances and methods used by any public utility, or its books, papers and records.|||Source. 1911, 164:10. 1913, 145:9. PL 238:7. RL 287:7. 1951, 203:11 par. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:248, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:7 - Authority to Inspect.

    365:7 Authority to Inspect. –||Any expert or agent of the department of energy or the commission, who shall make a demand on behalf of the commission or the department to be allowed to inspect as provided in RSA 365:6, shall produce written authority to make such inspection signed by the chairperson of the commission or the commissioner of the department of energy.|||Source. 1913, 145:9. PL 238:8. RL 287:8. 1951, 203:11 par. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2021, 91:248, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:8 - Rulemaking Authority.

    365:8 Rulemaking Authority. –||I. The commission shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||(a) The conduct of its hearings, including alternative processes in hearings and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.||(b) Standards and procedures for streamlined review or other alternative processes to enhance the efficiency of the commission and respond to the needs of the utility's ratepayers and shareholders.||(c) Standards and procedures for the creation, monitoring and evaluation of alternative forms of regulation.||(d) Standards and procedures for the handling of confidential information, in accordance with RSA 91-A.||(e) Standards and procedures for filing requirements for tariffs, engineering, accounting, and other commission matters.||(f) Standards and procedures for franchise terms and conditions, including extended area telephone service.||(g) Standards and procedures for safe and reliable utility service and termination of service subject to RSA 363-B.||(h) Standards and procedures for matters related to the proper administration of RSA 366 relative to utility relations with affiliates.||(i) Standards and procedures relative to a reasonable amount of the short-term notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness based upon the amount of the utility's respective plant investment which each utility shall not exceed without first obtaining the approval of the commission pursuant to RSA 369:7.||(j) Standards and procedures for determination and recovery of rate proceedings expenses.||(k) Standards and procedures for the conduct of investigations authorized under this title.||(l) Procedures necessary to provide for the proper administration of and to further the purposes of this title.||(m) [Repealed.]||(n) Standards and procedures for public utilities to request protection of routine filings that contain confidential commercial or financial information.||II. Where the commission has adopted rules in conformity with this section, proceedings before the commission shall not be subject to RSA 541-A:29 or RSA 541-A:29-a.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. PL 238:9. RL 287:9. 1951, 203:11 par. 8. RSA 365:8. 1981, 220:4. 1994, 193:1. 2005, 102:1, eff. June 15, 2005. 2010, 206:2, eff. June 22, 2010; 336:3, eff. Oct. 18, 2010. 2018, 279:18, eff. Jan. 1, 2019. 2021, 91:249, 250, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:8-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:8-a - Repealed by 2021, 91:251, I, eff. July 1, 2021.

    365:8-a Repealed by 2021, 91:251, I, eff. July 1, 2021. –|
NH Rev Stat § 365:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:9 - Evidence.

    365:9 Evidence. –||In any such investigation or hearing, the commission shall not be bound by the technical rules of evidence.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. PL 238:10. RL 287:10. 1951, 203:11 par. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:10 - Summons; Oath.

    365:10 Summons;  Oath. –||The commission shall have power to subpoena witnesses and administer oaths in any proceeding or examination instituted before or conducted by it, and to compel, by subpoena duces tecum, the production of any accounts, books, contracts, records, documents, memoranda and papers of any kind whatever.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:11. RL 287:11. 1951, 203:11 par. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:10-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:10-a - Appearance.

    365:10-a Appearance. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission may in its discretion determine who, in addition to those lawyers licensed in the state of New Hampshire to do so, may appear before the commission on behalf of any party, provided, however, that the discretion shall not be exercised unreasonably or in a discriminatory manner. All parties will be required to adhere to the commission's rules of practice and procedure in addition to any orders of the commission or agreements between the parties, including but not limited to those concerning confidentiality.|||Source. 1993, 330:1, eff. Aug. 28, 1993.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:11 - Repealed by 2019, 346:157, IV, eff. July 1, 2019.

    365:11 Repealed by 2019, 346:157, IV, eff. July 1, 2019. –|
NH Rev Stat § 365:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:12 - Contumacy.

    365:12 Contumacy. –||Any person who wilfully shall fail or refuse to attend to testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, contracts, agreements, or other records, if in his or its power so to do, in obedience to the subpoena of the commission, shall be subject to the provisions of RSA 491:19 and 491:20.|||Source. 1951, 203:11 par. 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:13 - Fees.

    365:13 Fees. –||When any such summons shall be endorsed by the secretary, or assistant secretary, or by a commissioner, as follows, "Legal fees of witnesses guaranteed by the State," advance payment of fees shall not be required, but any witness served with such summons shall appear as directed therein as a witness for the state, and his legal fees therefor shall be paid out of any appropriation for the use of the commission available for the purpose.|||Source. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:13. RL 287:13. 1951, 203:11 par. 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:14 - Production of Sworn Copies.

    365:14 Production of Sworn Copies. –||In lieu of requiring production of originals by subpoena duces tecum, the commission may require sworn copies of any such books, records, contracts, documents and papers or parts thereof be filed with it.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:14. RL 287:14. 1951, 203:11 par. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:15 - Specific Answers.

    365:15 Specific Answers. –||The commission may also require any public utility to make specific answers to questions upon which the commission may need information.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:15. RL 287:15. 1951, 203:11 par. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:16 - Testimonial Privilege.

    365:16 Testimonial Privilege. –||No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book or paper in any investigation or inquiry by or upon any hearing before the commission, when ordered to do so by the commission, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, book or document required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing concerning which under oath, after claiming his privilege, he shall by order of the commission have testified or produced documentary evidence.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:16. RL 287:16. 1951, 203:11 par. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:17 - Perjury.

    365:17 Perjury. –||No person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:17. RL 287:17. 1951, 203:11 par. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:18 - Corporate Immunity.

    365:18 Corporate Immunity. –||Nothing herein contained shall give to any corporation immunity of any kind.|||Source. 1911, 164:2. 1913, 145:5. PL 238:18. RL 287:18. 1951, 203:11 par. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:19 - Independent Investigation.

    365:19 Independent Investigation. –||In any case in which the commission may hold a hearing it may, before or after such hearing, make such independent investigation as in its judgment the public good may require; provided, that, whenever such investigation shall disclose any facts which the commission shall intend to consider in making any decision or order, such facts shall be stated and made a part of the record, and any party whose rights may be affected shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard with reference thereto or in denial thereof.|||Source. 1913, 145:6. PL 238:19. RL 287:19. 1951, 203:11 par. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:20 - Questions of Law.

    365:20 Questions of Law. –||The commission may at any time reserve, certify and transfer to the supreme court for decision any question of law arising during the hearing of any matter before the commission.|||Source. 1917, 205:1. PL 238:20. RL 287:20. 1951, 203:11 par. 20, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:21 - Rehearings and Appeals.

    365:21 Rehearings and Appeals. –||The procedure for rehearings and appeals shall be that prescribed by RSA 541, except as herein otherwise provided. Notwithstanding RSA 541:5, upon the filing of a motion for rehearing, the commission shall within 30 days either grant or deny the motion, or suspend the order or decision complained of pending further consideration, and any order of suspension may be upon such terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe.|||Source. 1951, 203:11 par. 21, eff. Sept. 1, 1951. 2014, 24:1, eff. July 22, 2014.|