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WY Stat § 37-2-125 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-125 - Collection and Disposition of Fees.

37-2-125. Collection and disposition of fees.| (a) The public service commission is hereby authorized and empowered in the conduct of business coming before it to collect in advance the following fees:  (i) For filing application for permit, five dollars ($5.00) and for certificate of convenience and necessity, fifteen dollars ($15.00);  (ii) For filing applications for amendment or assignment of certificates of convenience and necessity, five dollars ($5.00);  (iii) For filing contests, five dollars ($5.00);  (iv) For each certificate and seal, two dollars ($2.00);  (v) For copies of records, judgments, and orders, one dollar ($1.00) for the first one hundred (100) words, and twenty-five cents ($.25) per folio for each subsequent folio, and if certified under seal, one dollar ($1.00) additional;  (vi) For issuing summons or subpoenas, one dollar ($1.00) each;  (vii) For service of summons or subpoenas by registered mail, fifty cents ($.50) and for personal service, by a person authorized to make such service, the same fee that sheriffs receive for such service;  (viii) In all hearings on contests or on investigations, the fees for witnesses and all other costs shall be taxed against the parties in interest as determined by the commission;  (ix) For petitions filed under W.S. 37-6-102, fifteen dollars ($15.00) each.  (b) All fees collected by the commission shall be paid to the state treasurer as collected, and shall be credited to the general fund.
WY Stat § 37-2-126 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-126 - Report to the Governor.

37-2-126. Report to the governor.| The commission shall, as required by W.S. 9-2-1014, report to the governor, including in such detail as the commission may deem expedient all proceedings and investigations of the commission during such period and shall contain abstracts of the reports of public utilities prepared by the commission. It shall also contain the recommendations of the commission for new legislation and any other matters the commission desires to call to the attention of the governor and the legislature.
WY Stat § 37-2-127 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-127 - Implied and Incidental Powers; Requiring Information From Local Utilities.

37-2-127. Implied and incidental powers; requiring information from local utilities.| In addition to the powers herein specifically granted, the commission shall have such implied or incidental powers as may be necessary and proper, effectually to carry out, perform and execute all the powers so granted. The commission shall have the power to require public utilities whose operations are purely local in extent and use to file in the office of the commission a list of their stockholders, officers and directors, with the residence and post office address of, and the amount of stock held by each.
WY Stat § 37-2-128 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-128 - Civil Penalty for Violation of Federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011; Generally.

37-2-128. Civil penalty for violation of federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011; generally.| Where the commission has exercised authority under the provisions of the federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011, 49 U.S.C. § 60101, et seq., and amendments thereto, to regulate gas safety in the state of Wyoming, any person or persons as defined in that act who hereafter violate any provision of that act as made applicable to jurisdictional activities within the state of Wyoming may be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for violation for each day that the violation persists. However, the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) for any related series of violations.
WY Stat § 37-2-129 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-129 - Civil Penalty for Violation of Federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968; Compromise and Recovery Thereof.

37-2-129. Civil penalty for violation of federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968; compromise and recovery thereof.| (a) Such civil penalty may be compromised by the commission, and such determination shall be in the nature of a final order appealable by the person alleged to have committed the violation only upon his refusal to pay. In determining the amount of the penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the size of the business of the person charged, the gravity of the violation and the good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve compliance after notification of a violation shall be considered. The amount of the penalty when finally determined, or the amount agreed upon in compromise may be deducted from any sums owing by the state to the person charged or may be recovered in a civil action in the state courts.  (b) Any action to recover said sums shall be commenced in the courts in and for the county or district in which the principal office of the commission is located.
WY Stat § 37-2-130 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-130 - Right of Review.

37-2-130. Right of review.| A person adversely affected or aggrieved by any action, findings, conclusions or decision of the public service commission is entitled to judicial review thereof according to the procedures established by the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Rules of Appellate Procedure. The standards to be applied, to judicial review proceedings, including scope of review, shall be those standards established in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
WY Stat § 37-2-131 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-131 - Supplemental Safety Jurisdiction of Commission.

37-2-131. Supplemental safety jurisdiction of commission.| (a) The commission shall have regulatory safety jurisdiction over any "intrastate gas pipeline facility" as defined under the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006, 49 U.S.C. § 60101, et seq., as amended, for the sole purpose of implementing the safety standards and practices of the federal act to such intrastate gas pipeline facility. This jurisdiction shall not apply to an "intrastate gas pipeline facility" which is otherwise subject to federal regulatory jurisdiction for safety purposes. The commission is authorized under this section to implement such safety standards and practices only to the extent the secretary of transportation is so authorized under the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006. The commission's jurisdiction under this section shall only apply where the secretary of transportation has delegated, or otherwise authorized, the state of Wyoming to act on his behalf, and the state of Wyoming has formally accepted the delegation or other authorization prior to the exercise of the jurisdiction by the commission.  (b) The commission shall have safety jurisdiction over any new or existing electrical lines used by the owner to transmit electricity which is generated by the owner for resale, and which are located upon property not exclusively controlled by the owner of the line for the purpose of enforcement of the safety requirements of the National Electrical Safety Code and those safety standards adopted by the commission. This section shall not apply to any incorporated or chartered city or town established under Wyoming law or joint powers board created under the Wyoming Joint Powers Act.
WY Stat § 37-2-132 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-132 - Determination of Telephone Prefixes; Report to National Do-Not-Call List.

37-2-132. Determination of telephone prefixes; report to national do-not-call list.| The public service commission may determine which prefixes or telephone numbers are used in Wyoming primarily for cellular telephone service by determining prefixes or telephone numbers or by utilizing information available from the North American numbering plan administrator, the national pooling administrator, the local number portability administrator or any suitable least cost alternative as determined by the commission. The commission shall report these prefixes and telephone numbers to the national do-not-call list.
WY Stat § 37-2-134 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 1 - In General|Section 37-2-134 - Electric Generation Facility Closures; Presumption; Commission Review.

37-2-134. Electric generation facility closures; presumption; commission review.| (a) As used in this section:  (i) "Dispatchable" means as defined in W.S. 37-18-101(a)(ii) and includes dispatchability;  (ii) "Retirement" or "retired" means the closure of or the complete and permanent cessation of operations at an electric generation facility. "Retirement" or "retired" shall not include any closure mandated by federal law or any closure resulting from federal environmental requirements to where it is no longer cost effective for the facility to continue operating;  (iii) "Electric generation facility" means a facility located in Wyoming that uses coal or natural gas to generate reliable and dispatchable electricity for provision to customers;  (iv) "Reliable" means as defined in W.S. 37-18-101(a)(iv).  (b) Before authorizing or approving the retirement of an electric generation facility as proposed in a rate case, integrated resource plan or other submission to the commission, the commission shall consider the effect on available reliable, dispatchable electricity to Wyoming customers and the impact that any shortage of available energy nationwide may have on Wyoming customers.  (c) There shall be a rebuttable presumption against the retirement of an electric generation facility. The commission shall not approve the retirement of an electric generation facility unless the presumption created by this subsection is rebutted by evidence deemed sufficient by the commission to establish that:  (i) Cost savings will result to customers as a result of the retirement of the electric generation facility;  (ii) The retirement will not result in an insufficient amount of reliable and dispatchable capacity to serve Wyoming customers; and  (iii) The retirement will not adversely impact the dispatchability or reliability of electric service to customers of the public utility.  (d) The rate recovery limitations of W.S. 37-3-118 shall apply to a public utility that completes a retirement of an electric generation facility without rebutting the presumption specified in this section.  (e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve a public utility of the requirements to comply with W.S. 37-2-133 and 37-3-117 before the retirement of an electric generation facility.
WY Stat § 37-2-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-201 - Fixing Time and Place of Public Hearing; Notice and Conduct.

37-2-201. Fixing time and place of public hearing; notice and conduct.| Whenever the commission shall determine to conduct an investigation of any matter provided for in W.S. 37-1-101 through 37-3-114 and 37-12-201 through 37-12-213, either with or without complaint as in such chapter provided for, it shall fix a time and place for a public hearing of the matters under investigation, and shall notify, by registered letter requiring receipt, the complainant, the persons complained of and such other persons, as it may deem proper, of such time and place of hearing, at least twenty (20) days in advance thereof. At the hearing held pursuant to such notice, the commission, commissioner or commission employee authorized by order of the commission to conduct such hearing, may take such testimony as may be offered, or as they may desire, and may make such other and further investigation as in its opinion, is desirable.
WY Stat § 37-2-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-202 - Service of Notice.

37-2-202. Service of notice.| Service on any person of any notice or order or other matter under the provisions of this act may be made by mailing such notice, or order or other matter, or a certified copy thereof, in a registered letter requiring receipt, directed to the public utility at the principal office of such public utility in this state.
WY Stat § 37-2-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-204 - Rules for Proceedings and Investigations.

37-2-204. Rules for proceedings and investigations.| The commission may from time to time make, publish or amend rules for the order and regulation of all proceedings and investigations which under the provisions of this act it is authorized to conduct.
WY Stat § 37-2-205.1 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-205.1 - Nonsitus Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.

37-2-205.1. Nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity.| (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section and unless otherwise waived by the commission, no public utility shall begin construction or complete the purchase of a line or plant, or of any extension of a line or material addition to a plant, outside the state of Wyoming without having first obtained from the commission a nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity determining that the present or future need for the nonsitus resource is prudent and in the public interest.  (b) A certificate shall only be required under this section if:  (i) The nonsitus resource is intended by the public utility to be a capital investment in a plant on which return is earned in Wyoming; and  (ii) The capital investment in the nonsitus resource exceeds one percent (1%) of the total capital investment in the plant on which return is earned, that is assigned or allocated to Wyoming customers, based on the public utility's most recent general rate case determination.  (c) No public utility shall include a capital investment in a nonsitus resource in rates charged to Wyoming customers without having first obtained from the commission a nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to this section.  (d) Unless otherwise determined by the commission, issuance of a nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity shall not confer the right to recover a specific amount of the costs of the nonsitus resource in rates charged to Wyoming customers. Actual costs of the capital investment may be considered by the commission in a separate rate case determination.  (e) As used in this section:  (i) "Nonsitus resource" means construction or complete the purchase of a line or plant, or of any extension of a line or material addition to a plant, outside the state of Wyoming;  (ii) "Public utility" shall not include any cooperative electric utility as defined in W.S. 37-17-101(a)(i) that is exempt from public service commission retail rate regulation.
WY Stat § 37-2-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-206 - Powers of Commission; Court to Compel Obedience to Lawful Orders.

37-2-206. Powers of commission; court to compel obedience to lawful orders.| The commission, commissioner or commission employee acting in the capacity of a hearing officer for the purpose mentioned in W.S. 37-1-101 through 37-3-114, and 37-12-201 through 37-12-213, may administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents and testimony. If any person fails to comply with any lawful order of the commission, commissioner or commission employee acting in the capacity of a hearing officer, or any subpoena, or if any witness refuses to testify to any matter regarding which he may be interrogated lawfully, the district court of any county on application of the commission, a commissioner or commission employee acting in the capacity of a hearing officer, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from the court or a refusal to testify therein.
WY Stat § 37-2-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-207 - Attendance of Witnesses, Production of Books.

37-2-207. Attendance of witnesses, production of books.| Any party to a proceeding before the commission with the consent of the commission shall have process to enforce the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books, papers, maps, contracts, reports and records of every description affecting the subject matter of the investigation.
WY Stat § 37-2-208 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-208 - Witness Fees.

37-2-208. Witness fees.| Witnesses who are summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid to witnesses in the district courts of this state. Witnesses whose depositions are taken pursuant to the provisions of this act and the magistrate or officer taking the same shall be entitled severally to the same fees as are paid for like services in the district courts of the state. All such fees shall be paid in the first instance by the party requesting the process and shall be taxed the same as costs and included in the order of the commission.
WY Stat § 37-2-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-209 - Plea of Self-Incrimination Unavailable; Use of Testimony in Criminal Prosecution Prohibited; Exception.

37-2-209. Plea of self-incrimination unavailable; use of testimony in criminal prosecution prohibited; exception.| No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing books, accounts and papers in any investigation or inquiry by or hearing before the commission or any commissioner, when ordered so to do, based upon or growing out of any violation of the provisions of this act, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture but no person having so testified shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may have testified or produced any documentary evidence; provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for perjury in so testifying.
WY Stat § 37-2-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-210 - Depositions; Rules as to Hearings and Investigations.

37-2-210. Depositions; rules as to hearings and investigations.| The commission, or with the consent of the commission, any party to the proceedings before the commission, may, in any investigation, cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in the courts of this state. All hearings and investigations before the commission shall be conducted under such rules as the commission may prescribe and adopt.
WY Stat § 37-2-211 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-211 - Minutes of Hearings; Parties Entitled to Transcripts.

37-2-211. Minutes of hearings; parties entitled to transcripts.| The minutes of all hearings had before or by the commission shall be kept, and shall include the names of all persons who appear and witnesses who are sworn, with the identification of any documentary evidence produced. Parties to any proceeding before the commission shall be entitled to transcripts of the testimony taken in such proceedings, subject to such reasonable rulings and regulations as the commission may prescribe.
WY Stat § 37-2-212 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-212 - Orders to Be in Writing; Opinions to Be Published.

37-2-212. Orders to be in writing; opinions to be published.| Every order of the commission shall be in writing and in cases of importance may be accompanied by an opinion setting forth in brief the facts on which the commission has based its order. The commission shall provide for the publication from time to time and for the assembling of its opinions and orders.
WY Stat § 37-2-213 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-213 - Orders Effective Within 30 Days; Notice to Parties; Amendment or Annulment of Order.

37-2-213. Orders effective within 30 days; notice to parties; amendment or annulment of order.| Unless a different time is prescribed by the commission, every order of the commission shall be effective within thirty (30) days after the service thereof. Straightway after the entry of record of any order of the commission, notice thereof shall be given to every party required to obey the order. At any time after the entry thereof the commission in the manner provided for the making thereof may alter, amend, annul or otherwise modify any order.
WY Stat § 37-2-214 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 37 - Public Utilities|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings|Section 37-2-214 - Rehearing.

37-2-214. Rehearing.| At any time after an order has been made by the commission any person interested therein may apply for a rehearing in respect to any matter determined therein and the commission shall grant and hold a rehearing if in its judgment sufficient reason therefor be made to appear, which rehearing shall be subject to rules as the commission may prescribe. Applications for rehearing shall stay the effect of any order or decision of the commission only as to the portion of the order addressed in the rehearing application until the commission denies the application or enters an order following rehearing, whichever last occurs, provided, however, that upon the request of any party and a showing of good cause therefor, the commission may vacate the stay and allow the order or decision to remain in effect. An order or decision made after the rehearing vacating, amending or modifying the original order or decision shall not, as to the matter considered on rehearing, be open to a further application for rehearing, and shall have the same force and effect as the original order or decision.