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IN Code § 8-1-2-107 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-107. Damages; Loss or Injury Caused by Violation

Sec. 107. If any public utility shall do, or cause to be done or permit to be done, any matter, act, or thing in this chapter prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter, or thing required to be done by this chapter, such public utility shall be liable to the person, firm, limited liability company, or corporation injured thereby in the amount of damages sustained in consequence of such violation. Provided, that any recovery as in this section provided shall in no manner affect a recovery by the state of the penalty prescribed for such violation.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.116. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.43; P.L.8-1993, SEC.115.
IN Code § 8-1-2-108 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-108. Officers and Employees; Violations; Municipally Owned Utilities; Annual Reports

Sec. 108. (a) An officer, agent, or employee of any public utility, or a public utility (as defined in this chapter) who:(1) fails to fill out and return any blanks as required by this chapter;(2) fails to answer any question therein propounded;(3) knowingly gives a false answer to any such question or evades the answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his knowledge;(4) fails, upon proper demand, to exhibit to the commission, any commissioner, any administrative law judge, or any person authorized to examine the same, any book, paper, account, record, or memoranda of the public utility which is in his possession or under his control;(5) fails to keep his system of accounting, or any part thereof, which is required by the commission; or(6) refuses to do any act or thing in connection with the system of accounting when so directed by the commission or its authorized representative;commits a Class B infraction.(b) A municipally owned and operated utility under the jurisdiction of the commission for approval of rates and charges shall file with the commission, an annual report of the operation of said plant on forms to be furnished by the commission, which forms are to be substantially the same as for reports filed annually with the commission by public utilities. Such annual reports shall remain in the office of said commission as a public record. Whenever in this chapter public utilities are required to make reports to the commission or are otherwise subject to the commission, municipally owned utilities are exempted from making such reports and are not under the jurisdiction of the commission, except as otherwise provided.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.117; Acts 1933, c.190, s.21. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.99, SEC.1; Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.806; Acts 1979, P.L.84, SEC.4; P.L.23-1988, SEC.28; P.L.68-1990, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-2-109 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-109. General Penalty Provision

Sec. 109. A public utility that violates this chapter, or fails to perform any duty enjoined upon it, for which a penalty is not otherwise provided, commits a Class B infraction.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.118. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.807.
IN Code § 8-1-2-112 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-112. Continuing Acts as Separate Offenses

Sec. 112. Every day during which any public utility or any officer, agent, or employee thereof shall fail to observe and comply with any order or direction of the commission, or to perform any duty enjoined by this chapter, shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of such order or direction of this chapter, as the case may be.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.121. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.44.
IN Code § 8-1-2-113 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-113. Emergency Alteration, Amendment, or Suspension of Rates or Services

Sec. 113. (a) The commission may, when it considers necessary to prevent injury to the business or interests of the people or any public utility of this state in case of any emergency to be judged by the commission, temporarily alter, amend, or with the consent of the public utility concerned, suspend any existing rates, service, practices, schedules, and order relating to or affecting any public utility or part of any public utility in this state. The alterations, amendments, or suspensions of the rates, service, schedules, or practices made by the commission shall apply to one (1) or more of the public utilities in this state or to any portion thereof, as directed by the commission, and shall take effect at the time and remain in force for the length of time prescribed by the commission.(b) The commission may adopt emergency rules under IC 4-22-2-37.1 to carry out this section.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.122; Acts 1947, c.315, s.1. As amended by P.L.37-1989, SEC.3; P.L.1-1990, SEC.102.
IN Code § 8-1-2-114 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-114. Accidents, Investigation, and Report

Sec. 114. Every public utility shall, whenever an accident attended with loss of human life occurs within this state upon its premises, or directly or indirectly arising from or connected with its maintenance or operation, give immediate notice thereof to the commission. In the event of any such accident, the commission, if it deem the public interest requires it, shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith, which investigation shall be held in the locality of the accident unless, for greater convenience of those concerned, it shall order such investigation to be held at some other place; and said investigation may be adjourned from place to place as may be found necessary and convenient. The commission shall give due notice to the public utility of the time and place of the investigation.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.123.
IN Code § 8-1-2-115 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-115. Enforcement of Law; Recovery of Forfeitures or Penalties

Sec. 115. The commission shall inquire into any neglect or violation of the statutes of this state or the ordinances of any city or town by any public utility doing business therein, or by the officers, agents, or employees of the public utility, or by any person operating the plant of any public utility, and shall have the power, and it shall be its duty, to enforce this chapter, as well as all other laws, relating to public utilities. Any forfeiture or penalty provided in this chapter shall be recovered and suit shall be brought in the name of the state of Indiana in the circuit or superior court where the public utility has its principal place of business. Complaint for the collection of any such forfeiture may be made by the commission or any member of the commission, and, when so made, the action so commenced shall be prosecuted by the general counsel for the commission.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.124. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.45; P.L.136-2018, SEC.55.
IN Code § 8-1-2-116 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-116. Orders and Decisions; Compliance

Sec. 116. A substantial compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be sufficient to give effect to all the rules, orders, acts, and regulations of the commission, and they shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.125. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.46.
IN Code § 8-1-2-117 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-117. Rates, Penalties, or Forfeitures; Recovery Action

Sec. 117. This chapter shall not have the effect to release or waive any right of action by the state or by any person for any right, penalty, or forfeiture which may have arisen before May 1, 1913, or which may arise under any statute of this state; and all penalties and forfeitures accruing under this chapter shall be cumulative and a suit for any recovery of one shall not be a bar to the recovery of any other penalty.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.126. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.47.
IN Code § 8-1-2-118 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-118. Public Service Commission; Traveling Expenses and per Diem

Sec. 118. The members of said commission, its secretary and clerk, and such other persons as it may appoint or employ, as provided in this chapter, shall be entitled to receive from the state their actual necessary traveling expenses, which shall include the cost of transportation, hotel, telegraph, and telephone bills while traveling on the business of the commission, which amount shall be paid by the treasurer of state, on warrant of the auditor of state, upon an itemized statement thereof, sworn to by the party who incurred such expense in traveling, and after the same shall have been approved by the commission.Formerly: Acts 1913, c.76, s.127. As amended by P.L.59-1984, SEC.48.
IN Code § 8-1-2-121 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-121. Termination of Residential Electric or Gas Service

Sec. 121. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from December 1 through March 15 of any year, no electric or gas utility, including a municipally owned, privately owned, or cooperatively owned utility, shall terminate residential electric or gas service for persons who are eligible for and have applied for assistance from a heating assistance program administered under IC 4-4-33. The commission shall implement procedures to ensure that electric or gas utility service is continued while eligibility for such persons is being determined.(b) Any electric or gas utility, including a municipally owned, privately owned, or cooperatively owned utility, shall provide any residential customer whose account is delinquent an opportunity to enter into a reasonable amortization agreement with such company to pay the delinquent account. Such an amortization agreement must provide the customer with adequate opportunity to apply for and receive the benefits of any available public assistance program. An amortization agreement is subject to amendment on the customer's request if there is a change in the customer's financial circumstances.(c) The commission may establish a reasonable rate of interest which a utility may charge on the unpaid balance of a customer's delinquent bill that may not exceed the rate established by the commission under section 34.5 of this chapter.(d) The commission shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to carry out the provisions of this section.(e) This section does not prohibit an electric or gas utility from terminating residential utility service upon a request of a customer or under the following circumstances:(1) If a condition dangerous or hazardous to life, physical safety, or property exists.(2) Upon order by any court, the commission, or other duly authorized public authority.(3) If fraudulent or unauthorized use of electricity or gas is detected and the utility has reasonable grounds to believe the affected customer is responsible for such use.(4) If the utility's regulating or measuring equipment has been tampered with and the utility has reasonable grounds to believe that the affected customer is responsible for such tampering.As added by P.L.43-1983, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.41-1987, SEC.6; P.L.2-1992, SEC.78; P.L.181-2006, SEC.48.
IN Code § 8-1-2-122 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-122. Notice of Termination of Service; Requisites

Sec. 122. (a) As used in this section:"Dwelling" means an individual residence, including a mobile home or trailer, or a room or combination of rooms, with facilities for living for a single household."Heating season" means the period beginning on November 1 of any year and ending on the following April 1.(b) A utility, including a municipally owned utility, that provides energy or fuel to an occupied dwelling may not, during the heating season, terminate service to the dwelling because of the failure of the customer to pay his energy or fuel bills until fourteen (14) days after it serves notice upon the customer of its intent to terminate service.(c) A notice served under this section must be in language that is clear, concise, and easily understandable to a layman. It must, in separately numbered paragraphs:(1) indicate the date on which service will be terminated;(2) state the reason and factual basis for the termination of service;(3) list the telephone number of the utility office that the customer may call during regular business hours in order to question the proposed termination of service or to seek information concerning his rights; and(4) state that the customer may refer to the pamphlet furnished to him under 170 IAC 4-1-18 for information as to his rights.(d) Service of a notice under this section must be by:(1) mail addressed to the customer; or(2) personal delivery to the customer or to a responsible member of his household;at the address listed for the customer in the records of the utility.(e) No notice may be served under this section before the date on which the customer's account becomes delinquent.As added by P.L.43-1983, SEC.11.
IN Code § 8-1-2-126 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-126. Electrical Power Generated Outside the United States

Sec. 126. A public utility or municipally owned utility may not purchase or transmit any electrical power generated in a country outside of the borders of the United States, unless the commission determines that the purchase or transmission is necessary for the health and welfare of the citizens of Indiana.As added by P.L.119-1987, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-2-127 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2. Utility Regulation|8-1-2-127. Customer Billing; Indication of Amount of Federal Energy Tax

Sec. 127. A public utility shall:(1) indicate separately and conspicuously on each customer's bill the total charge attributable to any tax imposed under federal law on the basis of British Thermal Units or any other measure of the energy content of energy consumed by the customer during the billing period; and(2) identify the charge described under subdivision (1) as a federal energy tax.As added by P.L.35-1993, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-1. Findings and Purpose

Sec. 1. Municipalities owning facilities for the distribution of electric power and energy are required by law to provide, and serve a public purpose by providing, customers with an adequate, a reliable, and an economical supply of electric power and energy. Individually, such municipalities or joint agencies are not financially capable of providing the planning, financing, locating, and building of needed new facilities for generation and transmission or operating or managing these facilities. Therefore, the general assembly finds it necessary and proper to provide a method for certain of those municipalities to jointly finance, develop, own, manage, and operate, either by themselves or with public utilities, electric generation and transmission facilities appropriate to the present and projected electric energy needs of such municipalities and to the changes in the electric utility industry affecting these municipalities or joint agencies.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.54-1992, SEC.1; P.L.81-1997, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-3. Authorization to Cooperate

Sec. 3. Authorization to Cooperate. (a) In addition and supplemental to the powers otherwise conferred on municipalities by law, and in order to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, a municipality may plan, finance, develop, construct, reconstruct, acquire, improve, enlarge, own, operate and maintain an undivided interest as a tenant in common in a project jointly with one (1) or more municipalities, joint agencies or public utilities, and may plan and enter into contracts in this connection with them, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.(b) Prior to acquiring any undivided interest, the governing body shall determine the present and future needs of the municipality for power and energy based upon engineering studies and reports, and may not acquire an undivided interest as a tenant in common in a project in excess of that amount of capacity and the energy required to provide for its projected needs for power and energy for such reasonable period of time as shall be determined by the governing body and approved by the commission in a proceeding pursuant to section 19 of this chapter.(c) The future power requirements of a municipality shall be evaluated by the governing body in accordance with the following:(1) the economies and efficiencies to be achieved in constructing large scale facilities for the generation and transmission of electric power and energy;(2) the municipality's needs for reserve and peaking capacity and obligations reasonably related to its needs for power and energy under pooling and reserve sharing agreements to which it is or may become a party;(3) the estimated useful life of the project; and(4) the estimated time for planning, development, acquisition or construction of the project and the time required in advance to obtain, acquire or construct additional power supply.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-5. Sale of Capacity or Output by a Municipality

Sec. 5. Sale of Capacity or Output by a Municipality. Whenever a municipality has capacity or output derived from its ownership share of a project or otherwise in excess of its current needs or which cannot be economically utilized immediately, it may sell or exchange the excess capacity or output, by agreement, to any municipality owning electric distribution facilities, to any joint agency, or to any public utility. Sales of excess capacity or output of a project to public utilities shall not be made in such amounts, for such periods of time, and under such conditions as will cause the interest on bonds issued to finance the cost of a project to become taxable by the federal government.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.36-2017, SEC.2.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-6. Licenses and Approvals

Sec. 6. Licenses and Approvals. Municipalities and joint agencies proposing to jointly plan, finance, develop, and operate a project are authorized to jointly or separately apply to any agency of the state or federal government for licenses, permits, certificates, or approvals.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-7. Authority to Contract for Energy Exchange

Sec. 7. Authority to Contract for Energy Exchange. Municipalities participating in a project or projects are hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the exchange, interchange, wheeling, pooling, and transmission of electric power and energy produced by the project or projects with any municipality, joint agency, or public utility.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-13. Revenues

Sec. 13. (a) A municipality or joint agency may fix, charge and collect rents, rates, fees and charges for electric power and energy and other services, facilities and commodities sold, furnished or supplied through the facilities of its electric system or its interests in any project. For so long as any bonds of a municipality or joint agency issued under this chapter are outstanding and unpaid, the rents, fees and charges shall be so fixed as to provide revenues sufficient to pay:(1) all costs of and charges and expenses in connection with the proper operation and maintenance of the municipality's or joint agency's electric system;(2) the municipality's or joint agency's interest in any project;(3) all necessary repairs, replacements or renewals of the municipality's or joint agency's interest in any project;(4) when due (whether at maturity, upon acceleration, or by sinking fund requirements), the principal, premium, if any, and interest on all bonds payable from said revenues;(5) to create and maintain reserves as may be required by any resolution or trust agreement authorizing and securing bonds;(6) when due (whether at maturity, upon acceleration, or by sinking fund requirements), the principal, premium, if any, and interest on all general obligation bonds issued to finance additions and improvements to its electric system;(7) any and all amounts which the municipality may be obligated to pay from these revenues by law or contract; and(8) any additional amounts which must be realized in order to meet the requirements of any rate covenant imposed by any resolution or trust agreement authorizing and securing bonds.(b) Any pledge made by a municipality or joint agency pursuant to this chapter shall be valid and binding from the date the pledge is made. The revenues, securities, and other moneys so pledged and then held or thereafter received by the municipality or joint agency or any fiduciary shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery of the lien of the pledge or further act, and the lien of the pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the municipality or joint agency without regard to whether such parties have notice of the lien of the pledge. The resolution or trust agreement or any financing statement, continuation statement or other instrument by which a pledge is created need not be filed or recorded in any manner.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.58.
IN Code § 8-1-2.2-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 8. Utilities and Transportation|Article 1. Utilities Generally|Chapter 2.2. Municipal Electric Utility Programs|8-1-2.2-14. Trust Funds

Sec. 14. Trust Funds. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, all moneys received pursuant to the authority of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the sale of bonds or as revenues, shall be considered trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter. The resolution authorizing the bonds of any issue, or the trust agreement securing such bonds, may provide that any of those moneys may be temporarily invested and reinvested pending the disbursements of those moneys in securities and other investments as shall be provided in the resolution or trust agreement, and shall also provide that any officer with whom, or any bank or trust company with which, such moneys shall be deposited shall act as trustee of those moneys and shall hold and apply them as directed, subject to such regulation as this chapter and the resolution or trust agreement may provide.As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1.