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Ohio Rev Code § 4905.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.06 | General Supervision.

Effective: June 11, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|The public utilities commission has general supervision over all public utilities within its jurisdiction as defined in section 4905.05 of the Revised Code, and may examine such public utilities and keep informed as to their general condition, capitalization, and franchises, and as to the manner in which their properties are leased, operated, managed, and conducted with respect to the adequacy or accommodation afforded by their service, the safety and security of the public and their employees, and their compliance with all laws, orders of the commission, franchises, and charter requirements. The commission has general supervision over all other companies referred to in section 4905.05 of the Revised Code to the extent of its jurisdiction as defined in that section, and may examine such companies and keep informed as to their general condition and capitalization, and as to the manner in which their properties are leased, operated, managed, and conducted with respect to the adequacy or accommodation afforded by their service, and their compliance with all laws and orders of the commission, insofar as any of such matters may relate to the costs associated with the provision of electric utility service by public utilities in this state which are affiliated or associated with such companies. The commission, through the public utilities commissioners or inspectors or employees of the commission authorized by it, may enter in or upon, for purposes of inspection, any property, equipment, building, plant, factory, office, apparatus, machinery, device, and lines of any public utility. The power to inspect includes the power to prescribe any rule or order that the commission finds necessary for protection of the public safety. In order to assist the commission in the performance of its duties under this chapter, authorized employees of the motor carrier enforcement unit, created under section 5503.34 of the Revised Code in the division of state highway patrol, of the department of public safety may enter in or upon, for inspection purposes, any motor vehicle of any motor carrier. In order to inspect motor vehicles owned or operated by a motor carrier engaged in the transportation of persons, authorized employees of the motor carrier enforcement unit, division of state highway patrol, of the department of public safety may enter in or upon any property of any motor carrier engaged in the intrastate transportation of persons.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.07 | Information and Records to Be Public.

Effective: September 17, 1996|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 476 - 121st General Assembly|Except as provided in section 149.43 of the Revised Code and as consistent with the purposes of Title XLIX of the Revised Code, all facts and information in the possession of the public utilities commission shall be public, and all reports, records, files, books, accounts, papers, and memorandums of every nature in its possession shall be open to inspection by interested parties or their attorneys.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.09 | Substantial Compliance.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|A substantial compliance by the public utilities commission with the requirements of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code is sufficient to give effect to all its rules and orders. Those rules and orders shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for an omission of a technical nature. And, those chapters do not affect, modify, or repeal any law fixing the rate that a company operating a railroad may demand and receive for the transportation of passengers.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.12 | Forfeiture.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|A railroad company that violates section 4905.10, 4907.13, or 4907.15 of the Revised Code shall forfeit to the state one thousand dollars, and twenty-five dollars for each day the company fails to comply with a requirement of any such section. The forfeiture does not release the company from the assessment provided in section 4905.10 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.15 | Reports and Accounts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Each public utility shall furnish to the public utilities commission, in such form and at such times as the commission requires, such accounts, reports, and information as shall show completely and in detail the entire operation of the public utility in furnishing the unit of its product or service to the public.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.16 | Copy of Contract May Be Required by Commission.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|When and as required by the public utilities commission, every public utility shall file with it a copy of any contract, agreement, or arrangement, in writing, with any other public utility relating in any way to the construction, maintenance, or use of its plant or property, or to any service, rate, or charge.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.17 | Construction Accounts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission shall keep informed of all new construction, extensions, and additions to the property of public utilities, and may prescribe the necessary forms, regulations, and instructions to the officers and employees of such public utilities for the keeping of construction accounts. Such construction accounts shall clearly distinguish all operating expenses and new construction.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.18 | Depreciation Account.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|Every public utility shall carry a proper and adequate depreciation or deferred maintenance account, whenever the public utilities commission, after investigation, determines that a depreciation account can be reasonably required. The commission shall ascertain, determine, and prescribe what are proper and adequate charges for depreciation of the several classes of property for each public utility. The charge for depreciation shall be such as will provide the amount required over the cost and expense of maintenance to keep the property of the public utility in a state of efficiency corresponding to the progress of the art or industry. The commission may prescribe such changes in such charges for depreciation as it finds necessary.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.19 | Depreciation Fund.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The moneys for depreciation charges provided for by section 4905.18 of the Revised Code shall be set aside out of the earnings and carried as a depreciation fund. The moneys in such fund may be expended in new construction, extensions, or additions to the property of the public utility, or may be invested. If such moneys are invested, the income from the investment shall also be carried in the depreciation fund. Such fund and its proceeds may be used for the purpose of renewing, restoring, replacing, or substituting depreciated property in order to keep the plant in a state of efficiency. Such fund and the proceeds or income from it shall be used for no purpose other than those purposes provided in this section except upon the approval of the public utilities commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.20 | Abandonment of Facilities.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|No railroad as defined in section 4907.02 of the Revised Code, operating any railroad in this state, and no public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code furnishing service or facilities within this state, shall abandon or be required to abandon or withdraw any main track or depot of a railroad, or main pipe line, gas line, electric light line, water line, sewer line, steam pipe line, or any portion thereof, pumping station, generating plant, power station, sewage treatment plant, or service station of a public utility, or the service rendered thereby that has once been laid, constructed, opened, and used for public business, nor shall any such facility be closed for traffic or service thereon, therein, or thereover except as provided in section 4905.21 of the Revised Code. Any railroad or public utility violating this section shall forfeit and pay into the state treasury not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, and shall be subject to all other legal and equitable remedies for the enforcement of this section and section 4905.21 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.22 | Service and Facilities Required - Unreasonable Charge Prohibited.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every public utility shall furnish necessary and adequate service and facilities, and every public utility shall furnish and provide with respect to its business such instrumentalities and facilities, as are adequate and in all respects just and reasonable. All charges made or demanded for any service rendered, or to be rendered, shall be just, reasonable, and not more than the charges allowed by law or by order of the public utilities commission, and no unjust or unreasonable charge shall be made or demanded for, or in connection with, any service, or in excess of that allowed by law or by order of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.26 | Complaints as to Service.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|Upon complaint in writing against any public utility by any person, firm, or corporation, or upon the initiative or complaint of the public utilities commission, that any rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service, or any joint rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service rendered, charged, demanded, exacted, or proposed to be rendered, charged, demanded, or exacted, is in any respect unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unjustly preferential, or in violation of law, or that any regulation, measurement, or practice affecting or relating to any service furnished by the public utility, or in connection with such service, is, or will be, in any respect unreasonable, unjust, insufficient, unjustly discriminatory, or unjustly preferential, or that any service is, or will be, inadequate or cannot be obtained, and, upon complaint of a public utility as to any matter affecting its own product or service, if it appears that reasonable grounds for complaint are stated, the commission shall fix a time for hearing and shall notify complainants and the public utility thereof. The notice shall be served not less than fifteen days before hearing and shall state the matters complained of. The commission may adjourn such hearing from time to time.The parties to the complaint shall be entitled to be heard, represented by counsel, and to have process to enforce the attendance of witnesses.This section does not apply to matters governed by Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.261 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.261 | Telephone Call Center for Consumer Complaints.

Effective: September 29, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly|The public utilities commission shall operate a telephone call center for consumer complaints, to receive complaints by any person, firm, or corporation against any public utility. The commission shall expeditiously provide the consumers' counsel with all information concerning residential consumer complaints received by the commission in the operation of the telephone call center and with any materials produced in the operation of the telephone call center by the commission concerning residential consumer complaints. If technology is reasonably available, the commission shall provide the consumers' counsel with real-time access to the commission's residential consumer complaint information.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.27 | Standard Units.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission shall ascertain and prescribe suitable and convenient standard commercial units of the product or service of any public utility when the character of its product or service is such that it can be determined. Such units shall be the lawful units for the purposes of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.28 | Standards of Measurement.

Effective: October 26, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 134 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission may ascertain and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, initial voltage, or other conditions pertaining to the supply or quality of the product furnished or adequacy of service rendered by any public utility and may prescribe reasonable regulations for examination, testing, and measurement of such product or service. It may establish reasonable rules, regulations, specifications, and standards to secure the accuracy of all meters and appliances for measurements.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.29 | Examinations and Tests.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission may provide instruments for, and carry on, the examination and testing of all appliances used for the measurement of any product or service of a public utility or for the examination and testing of any devices or appliances of such public utility used for testing for accuracy any appliance used for the measurement of any product or service of such public utility. Any consumer or user may have any such appliance tested upon payment of the fees fixed by the commission. The commission may establish reasonable fees to be paid for testing such appliances on the request of the consumers or users. The fees shall be paid by the consumer or user at the time the request is made, but shall be paid by the public utility and repaid to the consumer or user if the appliance is found commercially defective or incorrect, to the disadvantage of the consumer or user.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.30 | Printed Schedules of Rates Must Be Filed.

Effective: December 20, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 360 - 129th General Assembly|(A) A public utility shall print and file with the public utilities commission schedules showing all rates, joint rates, rentals, tolls, classifications, and charges for service of every kind furnished by it, and all rules and regulations affecting them. The schedules shall be plainly printed and kept open to public inspection. The commission may prescribe the form of every such schedule, and may prescribe, by order, changes in the form of such schedules. The commission may establish and modify rules and regulations for keeping such schedules open to public inspection. A copy of the schedules, or so much thereof as the commission deems necessary for the use and information of the public, shall be printed in plain type and kept on file or posted in such places and in such manner as the commission orders. (B) Division (A) of this section applies to a telephone company only regarding rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, rules, and regulations established pursuant to sections 4905.71, 4927.12, 4927.13, 4927.14, 4927.15, and 4927.18 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.303 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.303 | Approving Purchases of Synthetic Natural Gas.

Effective: December 14, 1977|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 415 - 112th General Assembly|(A) Before entering into an agreement to purchase synthetic natural gas or other fuels produced by a facility originated under the auspices of the federal government pursuant to a contract with the federal energy research and development administration or its successor agencies for the purpose of converting coal to gaseous, liquid, or solid fuels or by-products of such fuels, and the construction of which began on or after July 1, 1975, but not later than December 31, 1982, a gas company or natural gas company shall obtain approval of such agreement from the public utilities commission, which approval shall be granted if the purchase price is to be based on the total cost of service of the facility developer or developers in producing the synthetic natural gas or other fuels for a reasonable profit to said developer or developers, taking into account the desirability of encouraging energy research and development, the developmental nature of the facility involved, and the attendant risks for the developer or developers. Promptly after the filing with it of an application to obtain such approval, the public utilities commission shall set the matter for public hearing and shall render a final decision on such application within sixty days of its filing.(B) Notwithstanding division (B) of section 4905.302 of the Revised Code, any gas company or natural gas company that, pursuant to terms approved by the public utilities commission, enters into an agreement to purchase synthetic natural gas or fuels produced by such a facility for distribution to some or all of its customers shall adjust its rates pursuant to and in accordance with a purchased gas adjustment rule promulgated by the commission pursuant to this section.(C) The commission may adjust any proposed rate change under division (B) of this section on account of arithmetic or clerical error.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.304 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.304 | Examining Coal Research and Development Costs Incurred by Gas or Natural Gas Company.

Effective: April 5, 1986|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 750 - 116th General Assembly|Once in every six months, the public utilities commission shall examine Ohio coal research and development costs incurred by a gas or natural gas company. The commission shall adopt a rule that:(A) Requires periodic reports, audits, and hearings and establishes investigative procedures for the purposes of this section;(B) Allows recovery on a uniform basis per unit of sale of the Ohio coal research and development costs incurred by a gas or natural gas company;(C) Requires the reporting of such data by gas and natural gas companies as the commission considers necessary for the purposes of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.32 | Schedule Rate Collected.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No public utility shall charge, demand, exact, receive, or collect a different rate, rental, toll, or charge for any service rendered, or to be rendered, than that applicable to such service as specified in its schedule filed with the public utilities commission which is in effect at the time.No public utility shall refund or remit directly or indirectly, any rate, rental, toll, or charge so specified, or any part thereof, or extend to any person, firm, or corporation, any rule, regulation, privilege, or facility except such as are specified in such schedule and regularly and uniformly extended to all persons, firms, and corporations under like circumstances for like, or substantially similar, service.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.33 | Rebates, Special Rates, and Free Service Prohibited.

Effective: January 1, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) No public utility shall directly or indirectly, or by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device or method, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person, firm, or corporation a greater or lesser compensation for any services rendered, or to be rendered, except as provided in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., and 4923. of the Revised Code, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person, firm, or corporation for doing a like and contemporaneous service under substantially the same circumstances and conditions. (B) No public utility shall furnish free service or service for less than actual cost for the purpose of destroying competition.
Ohio Rev Code § 4905.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Commission - General Powers|Section 4905.34 | Free Service or Reduced Rates.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|Except as provided in sections 4905.33 and 4905.35 and Chapter 4928. of the Revised Code, Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code do not prevent any public utility or railroad from granting any of its property for any public purpose, or granting reduced rates or free service of any kind to the United States, to the state or any political subdivision of the state, for charitable purposes, for fairs or expositions, to a law enforcement officer residing in free housing provided pursuant to section 3735.43 of the Revised Code, or to any officer or employee of such public utility or railroad or the officer's or employee's family. All contracts and agreements made or entered into by such public utility or railroad for such use, reduced rates, or free service are valid and enforcible at law. As used in this section, "employee" includes furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees.