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AK Stat § 42.04.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 04. Regulatory Commission of Alaska|Article 1. Commission and Staff.|Sec. 42.04.060. Restrictions on members and employees.

(a) A member of the commission or an employee of the commission may not have an official connection with, hold stock or securities in, or have a pecuniary interest in a public utility or pipeline carrier within the state. Membership in a cooperative association is not a “pecuniary interest” within the meaning of this section; however, a member or employee of the commission may not be an officer, board member, or employee of a cooperative association. A member or employee may not act upon a matter in which a relationship of the member or employee with any person creates a conflict of interest. (b) A member or employee of the commission may not, after leaving the position as a member or employee of the commission, act as agent for or on behalf of a public utility in any matter before the commission that was before the commission during the employee's employment or the member's term of office. A violation of this subsection is a class A misdemeanor. (c) Members and employees of the commission, except clerical and secretarial staff, are subject to AS 39.50. Members and employees of the commission are subject to AS 39.52. (d) A member of the commission is disqualified from voting upon any matter before the commission in which the member has a conflict of interest.
AK Stat § 42.04.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 04. Regulatory Commission of Alaska|Article 1. Commission and Staff.|Sec. 42.04.070. Powers and duties of commission chair.

(a) The chair of the commission shall (1) employ the commission staff; (2) establish and implement a time management system for the commission; (3) assign the work of the commission to members and staff of the commission so that matters before the commission are resolved as expeditiously and competently as possible; when assigning a matter, the chair shall also set a date by which time the matter should be completed. (b) The chair of the commission may appoint a hearing examiner or an administrative law judge to hear a matter that has come before the commission; a member of the commission may serve as hearing examiner or, if qualified, as an administrative law judge. (c) The chair of the commission shall request the attorney general to participate as a party in a matter when the commission believes that it is in the public interest for the attorney general to do so.
AK Stat § 42.04.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 04. Regulatory Commission of Alaska|Article 1. Commission and Staff.|Sec. 42.04.080. Decision-making procedures.

(a) Except as provided in AS 42.05.171 or AS 42.06.140, when a matter comes for decision before the commission under AS 42.05, AS 42.06, or AS 42.08, the chair shall appoint a hearing panel composed of three or more members to hear, or if a hearing is not required, to otherwise consider, and decide the case. The panel shall exercise the powers of the commission with respect to the matter. (b) The commission shall adopt regulations that establish standards of timeliness for the types of cases that come before the commission. The commission shall establish standards based in part on degrees of complexity of the cases.
AK Stat § 42.04.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 04. Regulatory Commission of Alaska|Article 2. Communications Carriers Section.|Sec. 42.04.100. Communications carriers section.

There is established within the commission a communications carriers section that shall develop, recommend, and administer policies and programs with respect to the regulation of rates, services, accounting, and facilities of communications common carriers within the state involving the use of wire, cable, radio, and space satellites.
AK Stat § 42.05.141 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.141. General powers and duties of the commission.

(a) The Regulatory Commission of Alaska may do all things necessary or proper to carry out the purposes and exercise the powers expressly granted or reasonably implied in this chapter, including (1) regulate every public utility engaged or proposing to engage in a utility business inside the state, except to the extent exempted by AS 42.05.711; (2) investigate, upon complaint or upon its own motion, the rates, classifications, rules, regulations, practices, services, and facilities of a public utility and hold hearings on them; (3) make or require just, fair, and reasonable rates, classifications, regulations, practices, services, and facilities for a public utility; (4) prescribe the system of accounts and regulate the service and safety of operations of a public utility; (5) require a public utility to file reports and other information and data; (6) appear personally or by counsel and represent the interests and welfare of the state in all matters and proceedings involving a public utility pending before an officer, department, board, commission, or court of the state or of another state or the United States and to intervene in, protest, resist, or advocate the granting, denial, or modification of any petition, application, complaint, or other proceeding; (7) examine witnesses and offer evidence in any proceeding affecting the state and initiate or participate in judicial proceedings to the extent necessary to protect and promote the interests of the state. (b) The commission shall perform the duties assigned to it under AS 42.45.100 - 42.45.190. (c) In the establishment of electric service rates under this chapter the commission shall promote the conservation of resources used in the generation of electric energy. (d) When considering whether the approval of a rate or a gas supply contract proposed by a utility to provide a reliable supply of gas for a reasonable price is in the public interest, the commission shall (1) recognize the public benefits of allowing a utility to negotiate different pricing mechanisms with different gas suppliers and to maintain a diversified portfolio of gas supply contracts to protect customers from the risks of inadequate supply or excessive cost that may arise from a single pricing mechanism; and (2) consider whether a utility could meet its responsibility to the public in a timely manner and without undue risk to the public if the commission fails to approve a rate or a gas supply contract proposed by the utility. (e) The commission may not designate a local exchange carrier or long distance telephone company as the carrier of last resort. In this subsection, “local exchange carrier” and “long distance telephone company” have the meanings given in AS 42.05.890. (f) The commission may designate an eligible telecommunications carrier consistent with 47 U.S.C. 214(e).
AK Stat § 42.05.145 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.145. Telecommunications regulation policy; restriction on regulation of telephone directories.

(a) A utility that provides local exchange or interexchange telecommunications service in the state affects the public interest. Regulation of these utilities shall, consistent with this chapter, seek to maintain and further the efficiency, availability, and affordability of universal basic telecommunications service. (b) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, the commission may not regulate the production and distribution of telephone directories.
AK Stat § 42.05.151 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.151. Regulations and hearing procedures.

(a) The commission may adopt regulations, not inconsistent with the law, necessary or proper to exercise its powers and to perform its duties under this chapter. (b) The commission shall adopt regulations governing practice and procedure, consistent with due process of law, including the conduct of formal and informal investigations, pre-hearing conferences, hearings, and proceedings, and the handling of procedural motions by a single commissioner. The regulations must provide for the hearing or, when a hearing is not required, other consideration of a matter in accordance with AS 42.04.080. Technical rules of evidence need not apply to investigations, pre-hearing conferences, hearings, and proceedings before the commission. The commission shall provide for representation by out-of-state attorneys substantially in accordance with Rule 81, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure. (c) The commission, each commissioner, or an employee authorized by the commission may administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and issue subpoenas, subpoenas duces tecum, and other process to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of testimony, records, papers, accounts, and documents in an inquiry, investigation, hearing, or proceeding before the commission in any part of the state. Each commissioner is authorized to issue orders on procedural motions. The commission may petition a court of this state to enforce its subpoenas, subpoenas duces tecum, or other process.
AK Stat § 42.05.161 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.161. Application of Administrative Procedure Act.

(a) The administrative adjudication procedures of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) do not apply to adjudicatory proceedings of the commission except that final administrative determinations by the commission are subject to judicial review under that Act as provided in AS 42.05.551(a). (b) AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) applies to regulations adopted by the commission.
AK Stat § 42.05.171 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.171. Formal hearings.

A formal hearing that the commission has power to hold may be held by or before a hearing panel appointed under AS 42.04.080, a hearing examiner, or an administrative law judge designated for the purpose by the chair of the commission. In appropriate cases, a formal hearing may be held before an arbitrator or mediator designated for the purpose by the commission. The testimony and evidence in a formal hearing may be taken by the panel, by the hearing examiner, by the arbitrator, by the mediator, or by the administrative law judge to whom the hearing has been assigned. A decision of a hearing examiner, an arbitrator, a mediator, or an administrative law judge is not final until approved by the commission. A commissioner who has not heard or read the testimony, including the argument, may not participate in making a decision of a hearing panel. A party may file a petition for reconsideration of, or an administrative appeal of, a decision by a hearing examiner, an arbitrator, a mediator, or an administrative law judge that has been approved by the commission, or a decision of a hearing panel. The full commission shall act on the petition for reconsideration or the appeal. In determining the place of a hearing, the commission shall give preference to holding the hearing at a place most convenient for those interested in the subject of the hearing.
AK Stat § 42.05.181 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.181. Notice and hearing before final orders.

A final order of the commission compelling affirmative action, denying a right or privilege, or granting a right or privilege over protest of the public utility or any party of record may not be entered without giving the interested party reasonable notice and an opportunity to be heard.
AK Stat § 42.05.191 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.191. Contents and service of orders.

Every formal order of the commission shall be based upon the facts of record. However, the commission may, without a hearing, issue an order approving any settlement supported by all the parties of record in a proceeding, including a compromise settlement. Every order entered pursuant to a hearing must state the commission's findings, the basis of its findings and conclusions, together with its decision. These orders shall be entered of record and a copy of them shall be served on all parties of record in the proceeding.
AK Stat § 42.05.201 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.201. Publication of reports, orders, decisions, and regulations.

All reports, orders, decisions, and regulations of the commission shall be in writing. The commission shall apprise all affected utilities and interested parties of these reports, orders, decisions, and regulations as they are issued and adopted, and, when appropriate to do so, shall publish them in a manner that will reasonably inform the public or the affected consumers of any public utility service. The commission may set charges for costs of printing or reproducing and furnishing copies of its reports, orders, decisions and regulations. The publication requirement, as it pertains to regulations, does not supersede the requirements of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
AK Stat § 42.05.211 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.|Sec. 42.05.211. Annual report.

The commission shall, by November 15 of each year, publish an annual report reviewing its activities during the previous fiscal year and notify the legislature that the report is available. The report must address the regulation of public utility service in the state as of June 30 and must contain details about the commission's compliance with the requirements of AS 42.05.175(a) - (e), with the timeline extensions made by the commission under AS 42.05.175(f), and with other performance measures established by the commission.
AK Stat § 42.05.221 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.221. Certificates required.

(a) A public utility may not operate and receive compensation for providing a commodity or service without first having obtained from the commission under this chapter a certificate declaring that public convenience and necessity require or will require the service. Where a public utility provides more than one type of utility service, a separate certificate of convenience and necessity is required for each type. A certificate must describe the nature and extent of the authority granted in it, including, as appropriate for the services involved, a description of the authorized area and scope of operations of the public utility. (b) All certificates of convenience and necessity issued to a public utility before July 1, 1970, remain in effect but they are subject to modification where there are areas of conflict with public utilities that have not previously been required to have a certificate or where there is a substantial change in circumstances. (c) A certificate shall be issued to a public utility that was not required to have one before July 1, 1970, and that is required to have one after that date, if it appears to the commission that the utility was actually operating in good faith on that date. Such a certificate is subject to modification where there are areas of conflict with other public utilities or where there has been a substantial change in circumstances. (d) In an area where the commission determines that two or more public utilities are competing to furnish identical utility service and that this competition is not in the public interest, the commission shall take appropriate action to eliminate the competition and any undesirable duplication of facilities. This appropriate action may include, but is not limited to, ordering the competing utilities to enter into a contract that, among other things, would: (1) delineate the service area boundaries of each in those areas of competition; (2) eliminate existing duplication and paralleling to the fullest reasonable extent; (3) preclude future duplication and paralleling; (4) provide for the exchange of customers and facilities for the purposes of providing better public service and of eliminating duplication and paralleling; and (5) provide such other mutually equitable arrangements as would be in the public interest. (e) If the commission employs professional consultants to assist it in administering this section, it may apportion the expenses relating to their employment among the competing utilities. (f) [Repealed, § 12 ch 136 SLA 1980.]
AK Stat § 42.05.231 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.231. Application.

Application for a certificate shall be in writing and shall be in the form and contain the information required by the commission by regulation.
AK Stat § 42.05.241 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.241. Conditions of issuance.

A certificate may not be issued unless the commission finds that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to provide the utility services applied for and that the services are required for the convenience and necessity of the public. The commission may issue a certificate granting an application in whole or in part and attach to the grant of it the terms and conditions it considers necessary to protect and promote the public interest including the condition that the applicant may or shall serve an area or provide a necessary service not contemplated by the applicant. The commission may, for good cause, deny an application with or without prejudice.
AK Stat § 42.05.251 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.251. Use of municipal public ways.

Public utilities have the right to a permit to use public streets, alleys, and other public ways of a municipality upon payment of a reasonable permit fee and on reasonable terms and conditions and with reasonable exceptions the municipality requires. The fee may not exceed the actual cost to the municipality of the utility's use of the public way and of administering the permit program. A dispute as to whether fees, terms, conditions, or exceptions are reasonable shall be decided by the commission. The commission may require a utility to add the amount of any permit fee paid as a pro rata surcharge to its bills for service rendered at locations within the boundaries of any municipality that requires payment of a permit fee.
AK Stat § 42.05.261 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.261. Discontinuance, suspension, or abandonment of certificated service.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a public utility may not discontinue or abandon a service for which a certificate has been issued by the commission unless upon the application of the public utility and if, after notice and opportunity for hearing, the commission finds that the continued service is not required by public convenience and necessity. Any interested person may file with the commission a protest or memorandum of opposition to or in support of discontinuance or abandonment. The commission may authorize temporary suspension of a service or of part of a service. (b) Upon complaint or upon its own motion, the commission may reinvestigate a previously authorized discontinuance, abandonment, or suspension of a service of an operating public utility. If, after providing notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the commission finds that the public convenience and necessity require the service to be resumed, it may order the public utility to again provide the service.
AK Stat § 42.05.271 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.271. Modification, suspension, or revocation of certificates.

Upon complaint or upon its own motion the commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing and for good cause shown, may amend, modify, suspend, or revoke a certificate, in whole or in part. Good cause for amendment, modification, suspension, or revocation of a certificate includes (1) the requirements of public convenience and necessity; (2) misrepresentation of a material fact in obtaining the certificate; (3) unauthorized discontinuance or abandonment of all or part of a public utility's service; (4) wilful failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter or the regulations or orders of the commission; or (5) wilful failure to comply with a term, condition, or limitation of the certificate.
AK Stat § 42.05.281 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 42. Public Utilities and Carriers and Energy Programs|Chapter 05. Alaska Public Utilities Regulatory Act|Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.|Sec. 42.05.281. Transfer of certificate.

A certificate may not be sold or leased, rented, transferred or inherited without the prior approval of the commission.