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CO Code § 40-3.5-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 3.5 - Regulation of Rates and Charges by Municipal Utilities|§ 40-3.5-105. Free and Reduced Service Prohibited - Exceptions

 Except as otherwise provided in this section, no municipal utility shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater or lesser or different compensation for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished, or for any service rendered or to be rendered, than the rates and charges applicable to such product, commodity, or service as specified in its schedules on file and in effect at the time, nor shall any such municipal utility refund or remit, directly or indirectly or in any manner or by any device, any portion of the rates and charges so specified nor extend to any corporation or person any form of contract or agreement or rule or regulation or any facility or privilege except one which is regularly and uniformly extended to all corporations and persons. The governing body of the municipal utility may by rule or order establish such exceptions from the operation of this prohibition as it may consider just and reasonable.   History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1555, § 2, effective June 17.
CO Code § 40-3.5-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 3.5 - Regulation of Rates and Charges by Municipal Utilities|§ 40-3.5-106. Advantages Prohibited - Graduated Schedules

  No municipal utility, as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, shall make or grant any preference or advantage to any corporation or person or subject any corporation or person to any prejudice or disadvantage. No municipal utility shall establish or maintain any unreasonable difference as to rates, charges, service, facilities, or in any other respect, either between localities or between any class of service. The governing body of each municipal utility shall determine the reasonableness of any such difference.    Nothing in this article shall prohibit a municipal utility engaged in the production, generation, transmission, distribution, or furnishing of heat, light, gas, or power from establishing a graduated scale of charges subject to the provisions of this article.    Nothing contained in this article shall exempt from the public utilities commission of the state of Colorado the power and authority to regulate the rates, charges, tariffs and any regulations pertaining thereto of the sale of natural gas by a municipal utility to another public utility.     History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1555, § 2, effective June 17.
CO Code § 40-3.5-107 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 3.5 - Regulation of Rates and Charges by Municipal Utilities|§ 40-3.5-107. Fees

 Municipal utilities authorized to serve areas which lie outside their municipal corporate limits shall be subject to providing annual reports of gross operating revenues, computation of fees, and payment of such fees relating to those areas.   History. Source: L. 83: Entire article added, p. 1555, § 2, effective June 17.
CO Code § 40-4-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-103. Increased Transportation Facilities Prescribed

 Whenever the commission, after a hearing upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that any common carrier does not run a sufficient number of trains or vehicles or does not possess or operate sufficient motive power to reasonably accommodate the traffic, whether passenger or freight, or both, transported by or offered to it for transportation, or does not run its trains or vehicles with sufficient frequency or at a reasonable or proper time having regard to safety, or does not stop the same at proper places or does not run any train or vehicle upon a reasonable time schedule for the run, the commission has the power to make an order directing any such common carrier to increase the number of its trains or of its vehicles or its motive power or to change the time of starting its train or vehicle or to change the time schedule for the run of any train or vehicle, or to change the stopping places thereof, or to make any other change the commission may determine to be reasonably necessary to accommodate and transport the traffic, whether passenger or freight, or both, transported or offered to it for transportation.   History. Source: L. 13: P. 477, § 26. C.L. § 2937. CSA: C. 137, § 27. CRS 53: § 115-4-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-3. L. 69: P. 933, § 21. History. Source: L. 13: P. 477, § 26. C.L. § 2937. CSA: C. 137, § 27. CRS 53: § 115-4-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-3. L. 69: P. 933, § 21.
CO Code § 40-4-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-104. Connection of Noncompetitive Lines - Costs and Rates Apportioned

 Whenever the commission, after a hearing upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more noncompetitive telephone public utilities whose lines can be made to form a continuous line of communication by the construction and maintenance of suitable connections for the transmission of messages or conversations and that the public convenience and necessity will be served or finds that two or more telephone public utilities have failed to establish joint rates, tolls, or charges for service by or over said lines and that joint rates, tolls, or charges ought to be established, the commission may by its order require that such connections be made and that conversations be transmitted and messages transferred over such connection under such rules as the commission may establish and prescribe through lines and joint rates, tolls, and charges to be made and used, observed, and in force in the future. If such telephone public utilities do not agree upon the division between them of the joint cost of the physical connection or connections or the division of the joint rates, tolls, or charges established by the commission over such through lines, the commission has authority, after further hearing, to establish the division by supplemental order.   History. Source: L. 13: P. 477, § 27. C.L. § 2938. CSA: C. 137, § 28. CRS 53: § 115-4-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-4. L. 69: P. 934, § 22. L. 2008: Entire section amended, p. 1794, § 11, effective July 1. History. Source: L. 13: P. 477, § 27. C.L. § 2938. CSA: C. 137, § 28. CRS 53: § 115-4-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-4. L. 69: P. 934, § 22. L. 2008: Entire section amended, p. 1794, § 11, effective July 1.    Cross references:   For duty of telephone company to transmit messages of another company, see § 40-3-107 .
CO Code § 40-4-108 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-108. Standards for Electricity, Gas, and Water

 The commission has power, after hearing 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 electric, gas, and water public utilities; 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 equipment for measurement and weighing; and to provide for the examination and testing of any and all equipment used for the measurement or weighing of any product, commodity, or service of any such public utility.   History. Source: L. 13: P. 479, § 31. C.L. § 2942. CSA: C. 137, § 32. CRS 53: § 115-4-8. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-8. L. 69: P. 936, § 26. History. Source: L. 13: P. 479, § 31. C.L. § 2942. CSA: C. 137, § 32. CRS 53: § 115-4-8. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-8. L. 69: P. 936, § 26.
CO Code § 40-4-109 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-109. Entry to Premises - Testing Meters

  The commissioners and their officers and employees have power to enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility for the purpose of making the examination and tests and exercising any of the other powers provided for in articles 1 to 7 of this title and to set up and use on such premises any equipment necessary therefor. The agents and employees of such public utility have the right to be present at the making of such examinations and tests.    Any consumer or user of any product, commodity, or service of a public utility may have any equipment 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 equipment 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 equipment 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. Source: L. 13: P. 479, § 31. C.L. § 2942. CSA: C. 137, § 32. CRS 53: § 115-4-9. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-9. L. 69: P. 937, § 27. History. Source: L. 13: P. 479, § 31. C.L. § 2942. CSA: C. 137, § 32. CRS 53: § 115-4-9. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-9. L. 69: P. 937, § 27.    Cross references:   For standards for and the testing of weights and measures generally, see article 14 of title 35.
CO Code § 40-4-110 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-110. Valuations of Property

 The commission has power to ascertain the value of the property of every public utility in this state and the facts which in its judgment have or may have any bearing on such value. The commission has 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. Source: L. 13: P. 480, § 32. C.L. § 2943. CSA: C. 137, § 33. CRS 53: § 115-4-10. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-10. History. Source: L. 13: P. 480, § 32. C.L. § 2943. CSA: C. 137, § 33. CRS 53: § 115-4-10. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-10.    Cross references:   For hearings in valuation matters, see § 40-6-118 .   ANNOTATION   Commission has duty to ascertain value of utility's plant. In considering the reasonableness of a rate, it was the duty of the commission to ascertain the reasonable present value of the public utility's plant and also to investigate the arbitrary amounts set aside for depreciation and surplus. Ohio & Colo. Smelting & Ref. Co. v. Pub. Utils. Comm'n, 68 Colo. 137 , 187 P. 1082 (1920).   Utility corporation is entitled to fair return upon reasonable value of its property at the time it is being used for the public. Ohio & Colo. Smelting & Ref. Co. v. Pub. Utils. Comm'n, 68 Colo. 137 , 187 P. 1082 (1920).   Section contemplates full hearing on value, which affords the utility its opportunity to present its evidence of value. Pub. Utils. Comm'n v. Northwest Water Corp., 168 Colo. 154 , 451 P.2d 266 (1969).
CO Code § 40-4-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-111. Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed

 The commission has power to establish a system of accounts to be kept by all public utilities, 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. 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 that in the judgment of the commission may be necessary to carry out the provisions of articles 1 to 7 of this title. The system 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 federal “Interstate Commerce Act”, Part I, 49 U.S.C., sec. 1 et seq., with the systems and forms from time to time established for such corporations by the surface transportation board; but nothing contained in this section shall affect the power of the commission to prescribe forms of accounts, records, and memoranda covering information in addition to that required by the surface transportation board. The commission, after hearing upon its own motion or upon complaint, may prescribe by order the accounts in which particular outlays and receipts shall be entered, charged, or credited. Where the commission has prescribed the forms of accounts, records, or memoranda to be kept by any public utility 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 are explanatory of and supplemental to the accounts, records, or memoranda prescribed by the commission.   History. Source: L. 13: P. 480, § 33. C.L. § 2944. CSA: C. 137, § 34. CRS 53: § 115-4-11. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-11. L. 2001: Entire section amended, p. 1281, § 60, effective June 5. History. Source: L. 13: P. 480, § 33. C.L. § 2944. CSA: C. 137, § 34. CRS 53: § 115-4-11. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-11. L. 2001: Entire section amended, p. 1281, § 60, effective June 5.    ANNOTATION   Law reviews. For article, “Generation and Transmission Loan Policy Under the Rural Electrification Act”, see 43 Den. L.J. 269 (1966).
CO Code § 40-4-112 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 4 - Service and Equipment|§ 40-4-112. Depreciation Account - Rules

 The commission has power, after hearing, to require any or all public utilities 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, from time to time, may determine and by order fix the proper and adequate rates of depreciation of the several classes of property of each public utility, and each public utility shall conform its depreciation accounts to the rates so determined.   History. Source: L. 13: P. 481, § 34. C.L. § 2945. CSA: C. 137, § 35. CRS 53: § 115-4-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-12. L. 69: P. 937, § 28. History. Source: L. 13: P. 481, § 34. C.L. § 2945. CSA: C. 137, § 35. CRS 53: § 115-4-12. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-4-12. L. 69: P. 937, § 28.    ANNOTATION   Commission acted properly in establishing the depreciation life of a coal-powered energy plant. Glustrom v. Pub. Utils. Comm'n, 2012 CO 53, 280 P.3d 662.
CO Code § 40-5-101.5 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 5 - New Construction - Extension|§ 40-5-101.5. Investor-Owned Utilities' Service Extension Policies - Commission Review - Rules

  Within one hundred eighty days after August 9, 2017, the commission shall open a nonadjudicatory proceeding to evaluate investor-owned utilities' current service extension policies for serving new load applications; except that gas-only, investor-owned utilities are not subject to the commission's nonadjudicatory proceeding. Based on the commission's evaluation, the commission shall issue a decision containing recommendations to investor-owned utilities for potential implementation.    In the commission's nonadjudicatory proceeding, the commission shall consider, without limitation, the following information from investor-owned utilities:   The utilities' general load extension procedures used by the utility and requesting customers, including:   The use of construction agreements, revenue assurance agreements, assignment of estimated costs, predevelopment system investment protocols, and options for cost and schedule transparency; and    Potential system automation benefits to enhance clarity of the requirements and process;       Equitable allocation of costs associated with an extension of facilities and any other factors affecting the cost of an extension of facilities; and    Variables that affect time lines for construction and implementation of an extension of facilities.       Within ninety days after the conclusion of the nonadjudicatory proceeding, the commission may promulgate rules consistent with the findings of the nonadjudicatory proceeding.     History. Source: L. 2017: Entire section added, (SB 17-271), ch. 310, p. 1673, § 1, effective August 9.
CO Code § 40-5-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 5 - New Construction - Extension|§ 40-5-104. Acquisition by Municipality

  Any municipality which has acquired or constructed any public utility plant, property, or facility has the power to contract with a public utility for the operation of any part or the whole thereof, subject to the provisions of articles 1 to 7 of this title and to exercise, in respect to such public utility, the powers of regulation and supervision conferred upon it by the commission.    Sections 40-5-101 to 40-5-104 shall not apply to railroads.     History. Source: L. 17: P. 417, § 1. C.L. § 2946. CSA: C. 137, § 36. CRS 53: § 115-5-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-5-4. L. 69: P. 938, § 30. History. Source: L. 17: P. 417, § 1. C.L. § 2946. CSA: C. 137, § 36. CRS 53: § 115-5-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-5-4. L. 69: P. 938, § 30.    ANNOTATION   Commission determines certification of new area absent preexisting right to serve area. When there is no preexisting right to serve an area, even if there is presently service to a contiguous area, the new area can be certificated to whomever the public utilities commission, exercising its expertise, determines is best able to serve the territory. Rocky Mt. Natural Gas Co. v. Pub. Utils. Comm'n, 199 Colo. 352 , 617 P.2d 1175 (1980).
CO Code § 40-5-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 5 - New Construction - Extension|§ 40-5-106. Designation for Service of Process

  It is the duty of every public utility operating in, through, or into the state of Colorado to file with the commission a designation in writing, under oath, of the name and post office address of a person upon whom service of notices or orders in proceedings pending before the commission may be made. Such designation may from time to time be changed by like writing similarly filed. In default of such designation, service of any notice or order may be made by posting such order or notice in the office of the director of the commission and by mailing a copy of such notice or order to such public utility by certified mail, return receipt requested, at its last-known address.    Every public utility operating in, through, or into the state of Colorado shall also file with the director of the commission a designation in writing, under oath, of the name and post office address of a person in the state of Colorado upon whom process issued by or under the authority of any court or board having jurisdiction of the subject matter may be served in any judicial or other proceeding brought against such public utility in this state. Such designation may from time to time be changed by like writing similarly filed. In default of such designation, service may be made upon any agent, representative, or employee of such public utility found within the state. Nothing in this article shall apply to railroad corporations.     History. Source: L. 45: P. 526, § 3. CSA: C. 137, § 36. CRS 53: § 115-5-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-5-6. L. 69: P. 938, § 32. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1704, § 17, effective May 14. History. Source: L. 45: P. 526, § 3. CSA: C. 137, § 36. CRS 53: § 115-5-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-5-6. L. 69: P. 938, § 32. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1704, § 17, effective May 14.
CO Code § 40-6-104 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 6 - Hearings and Investigations|§ 40-6-104. Certified Copies - Evidence - Orders

  Copies of all official documents, commission decisions, and orders on file with the commission, or documents filed or deposited according to law in the office of the commission, certified by a commissioner or by the director under the official seal of the commission to be true copies of the originals, shall be evidence in like manner as the originals and shall be treated and recognized as such by all courts of the state of Colorado.    Any order, decision, authorization, certificate, or entry, or a copy thereof, certified by a commissioner or by the director under the official seal of the commission to be a true copy of the original order, decision, authorization, certificate, or entry, may be filed for record in the office of the county clerk and recorder of any county or city and county in which is located the principal place of business of any public utility affected thereby or in which is situated any property of any such public utility, and such record shall impart notice of its provisions to all persons. A certificate under the seal of the commission that any such order, decision, authorization, or certificate has not been modified, stayed, suspended, or revoked may also be recorded in the same offices in the same manner and with like effect.     History. Source: L. 13: P. 491, § 41. C.L. § 2950. CSA: C. 137, § 41. CRS 53: § 115-6-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-6-4. L. 69: P. 941, § 36. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1707, § 21, effective May 14. History. Source: L. 13: P. 491, § 41. C.L. § 2950. CSA: C. 137, § 41. CRS 53: § 115-6-4. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-6-4. L. 69: P. 941, § 36. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1707, § 21, effective May 14.
CO Code § 40-6-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 40 - Utilities|Article 6 - Hearings and Investigations|§ 40-6-105. Fees - Copies of Records - Disposition

  The commission shall charge the following fees: For copies of papers and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by the commission, twenty cents for each page; for certified copies of official documents and orders filed in its office, twenty cents for each page; and one dollar for every certificate under seal affixed thereto.    No fees shall be charged for copies of papers, records, or official documents furnished to public officers for use in their official capacity, but the commission may fix reasonable charges for publications issued under its authority. All fees charged under this section shall be collected by the commission, paid to the department of revenue, deposited in the office of the state treasurer, and credited to the public utilities commission fixed utility fund or the public utilities commission motor carrier fund, as the case may be.     History. Source: L. 13: P. 491, § 42. C.L. § 2951. CSA: C. 137, § 42. CRS 53: § 115-6-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-6-5. L. 69: P. 942, § 37. History. Source: L. 13: P. 491, § 42. C.L. § 2951. CSA: C. 137, § 42. CRS 53: § 115-6-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 115-6-5. L. 69: P. 942, § 37.