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AL Code § 37-1-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-53 - Providing for Accuracy of Meters or Measuring Devices, Etc.

Section 37-1-53Providing for accuracy of meters or measuring devices, etc. (a) The commission may prescribe reasonable rules, regulations and standards to secure the substantial accuracy of all meters, safety devices, regulators and mileage indicators and appliances for measurement which shall be complied with by the utility and consumer. (b) The commission may provide for the inspection of the manner in which any utility complies with the rules, regulations and standards fixed by the commission to secure the accuracy of all meters, safety devices, regulators, mileage indicators and appliances for measurement, and the commission may examine and test the same under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe. At all inspections and tests made in pursuance of complaints, representatives of the utility complained of and of the complainant may be present. (c) Any consumer or user may have any meter or appliance for measuring tested by the commission upon payment of fees fixed by the commission. The commission shall declare and establish reasonable fees to be paid for examining and testing such appliances on the request of consumers, the fee to be paid by the consumer or user at the time of his request, but to be paid by the utility and refunded to the consumer or user if the measuring appliances are found unreasonably defective or incorrect to the substantial disadvantage of the consumer or user. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §§9783-9785; Code 1940, T. 48, §§38-40.)
AL Code § 37-1-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-54 - Establishing Uniform Systems of Accounts for Utilities.

Section 37-1-54Establishing uniform systems of accounts for utilities. (a) The commission may, when it deems it advisable to do so, establish a uniform system of accounts for each utility, which system shall be uniform for all utilities of the same kind and class, and may make such regulations regarding the accounts and statistics of each utility for the purpose of insuring uniform and correct books of account and record as in the judgment of the commission may be necessary to carry out any of the provisions of this title. (b) Every utility shall keep its books, papers and records accurately and faithfully according to the system of accounts and regulations prescribed by the commission, and shall comply with all reasonable directions of the commission relating thereto. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §§9786, 9788; Code 1940, T. 48, §§41, 42.)
AL Code § 37-1-55 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-55 - Separation of Intrastate Railroad Operations for Accounting Purposes.

Section 37-1-55Separation of intrastate railroad operations for accounting purposes. Where railroads are required to keep their accounts and records and do keep them in accordance with the requirements of any law of the United States or uniform system of accounts prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the information therein reflected shall be sufficient, and they shall not be required to make any further or other separation of intrastate operations than is reflected and required by such federal law or uniform system of accounts prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, unless additional or more detailed information from the records of the company is deemed necessary and is ordered by the commission relating to intrastate commerce in Alabama. (Acts 1949, No. 89, p. 113; Acts 1971, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 97, p. 171, §1.)
AL Code § 37-1-56 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-56 - Prescribing Changes in Form for Schedules and Service Regulations.

Section 37-1-56Prescribing changes in form for schedules and service regulations. The commission may prescribe such changes in the form in which the schedules and service regulations are issued by any utility as may be found to be expedient. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9790; Code 1940, T. 48, §43.)
AL Code § 37-1-57 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-57 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Generally.

Section 37-1-57Requiring reports and information from utilities - Generally. Every utility, when and as required by the commission, shall file with the commission such annual, or other reports, and such other information as the commission may desire. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9789; Code 1940, T. 48, §44.)
AL Code § 37-1-58 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-58 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Annual Return of Business.

Section 37-1-58Requiring reports and information from utilities - Annual return of business. Every utility doing business in this state must, within 90 days after the close of business for its preceding fiscal or calendar year, make to the commission in the manner prescribed, and upon the blanks to be furnished by said commission, annual returns of the business of such utility, and any such utility failing to make such reports unless granted an extension by the Alabama Public Service Commission, shall forfeit to the state $50.00 for each day of failure. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §9739; Code 1940, T. 48, §45; Acts 1982, No. 82-555, p. 916.)
AL Code § 37-1-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-59 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Additional Reports of Earnings and Operating Expenses.

Section 37-1-59Requiring reports and information from utilities - Additional reports of earnings and operating expenses. The commission may also require utilities to file additional reports of earnings and operating expenses within a specified time, and may require specific answers to questions upon which it may desire information to be made in such reports. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 15, p. 29; Code 1923, §9861; Code 1940, T. 48, §47.)
AL Code § 37-1-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-60 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Form of Reports and Records.

Section 37-1-60Requiring reports and information from utilities - Form of reports and records. The Public Service Commission shall prescribe the form of the annual or other reports and records required to be made by utilities. The form of such reports and records shall conform as near as may be to that required from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission or other federal agency where applicable, but the commission may from time to time make such changes therein and additions thereto as it may deem proper. The commission shall prepare and distribute to every utility blank forms for any reports required under this title. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 15, p. 29; Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §§9789, 9858; Code 1940, T. 48, §§44, 46.)
AL Code § 37-1-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-61 - Requiring Reports and Information From Utilities - Originals to Be Subscribed and Sworn To; Preservation in Office of Commission.

Section 37-1-61Requiring reports and information from utilities - Originals to be subscribed and sworn to; preservation in office of commission. The originals of the reports shall be subscribed and sworn to, and shall be preserved in the office of the commission. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 15, p. 29; Code 1923, §9860; Code 1940, T. 48, §48.)
AL Code § 37-1-62 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-62 - Reports, Records and Accounts to Be Open for Public Inspection.

Section 37-1-62Reports, records and accounts to be open for public inspection. All reports, records and accounts in the possession of the commission shall be open to inspection by the public at all times, except as otherwise provided for in this title, or as ordered by the commission, and under the rules prescribed by the commission. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9812; Code 1940, T. 48, §49.)
AL Code § 37-1-63 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-63 - Powers of Commissioners and Examiners to Administer Oaths, Issue Subpoenas, Etc.

Section 37-1-63Powers of commissioners and examiners to administer oaths, issue subpoenas, etc. Each of the commissioners, and any examiners appointed by the commission, for the purposes mentioned in this title, and in all hearings before the commission, may administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9800; Code 1940, T. 48, §74.)
AL Code § 37-1-64 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-64 - Attorney General to Represent Commission in Legal Proceedings; Employment of Special Counsel.

Section 37-1-64Attorney General to represent commission in legal proceedings; employment of special counsel. The Attorney General shall represent the Public Service Commission in any and all legal proceedings which it may have the power to institute and which, pursuant to such power, it has instituted, and in all legal proceedings against it, and shall institute such legal proceedings which the commission may request or deem necessary, provided it has the power to institute them, to enforce the provisions of this title or compel obedience to and observance of the same by any person, firm, company, or corporation, upon which such obedience or observance is imposed. The Attorney General, with the approval of the Governor, may employ any special counsel to institute or defend such legal proceedings or to assist the Attorney General therein, and to contract with the special counsel concerning a reasonable compensation for his or their services, which compensation shall be paid out of the treasury on a warrant drawn by the comptroller on the treasury upon approval by the Governor. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 21, p. 43; Code 1907, §5723; Code 1923, §9672; Code 1940, T. 48, §50.)
AL Code § 37-1-65 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-65 - Actions to Enforce Penalties or Forfeitures.

Section 37-1-65Actions to enforce penalties or forfeitures. Unless otherwise in this title provided, all actions to enforce penalties or forfeitures under this title shall be brought in the name of the State of Alabama in a court of competent jurisdiction in Montgomery County, Alabama. Whenever any utility is subject to a penalty or forfeiture under this title, the commission shall certify the facts to the Attorney General, who shall institute and prosecute an action for recovery of such penalty; provided, the commission may compromise such action and dismiss the same on such terms as the court will approve. All penalties and forfeitures recovered by the state in such actions shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the general fund. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §§9755, 9756, 9819; Code 1940, T. 48, §51.)
AL Code § 37-1-66 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 37-1-66 - Powers of Members of Enforcement Division.

Section 37-1-66Powers of members of enforcement division. Members of the enforcement division of the Public Service Commission designated in writing by the Public Service Commission shall have the powers of peace officers and deputy sheriffs in this state, and may exercise such powers anywhere within the state as to the provisions of this title and as to the rules and regulations of the Public Service Commission only. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 257, p. 4522.)
AL Code § 37-1-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 2 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-1-80 - Rates to Be Just and Reasonable; Right of Utility to Earn Fair Net Return; Alternative Methods of Regulation.

Section 37-1-80Rates to be just and reasonable; right of utility to earn fair net return; alternative methods of regulation. (a) The rates and charges for the services rendered and required shall be reasonable and just to both the utility and the public. Every utility shall be entitled to such just and reasonable rates as will enable it at all times to fully perform its duties to the public and will, under honest, efficient and economical management, earn a fair net return on the reasonable value of its property devoted to the public service. For the purpose of fixing rates, such reasonable value of a public utility's property shall be deemed to be the original cost thereof, less the accrued depreciation, as of the most recent date available. In any determination of the commission as to what constitutes such a fair return, the commission shall give due consideration among other things to the requirements of the business with respect to the utility under consideration, and the necessity, under honest, efficient and economical management of such utility, of enlarging plants, facilities and equipment of the utility under consideration, in order to provide that portion of the public served thereby with adequate service. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other provision to the contrary, the commission retains its authority to consider and adopt alternative methods of regulation of a utility as defined in Section 37-1-30 to establish rates and regulations for services furnished by the utility that are fair, just, and reasonable to the public and that provide fair, just, and reasonable compensation to the utility for the services. (1) For the purposes of this subsection, the phrase "alternative methods of regulation" means the regulation of utility rates and service regulations by methods other than a determination of net return on a predetermined rate base. (2) After June 20, 1995, any proceeding to adopt an alternative method of regulation as defined in subdivision (1) shall be initiated by application of the utility seeking such alternative regulation, by the commission on its own motion, or by the Attorney General as provided in Section 37-1-16. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §9770; Code 1940, T. 48, §52; Acts 1949, No. 89, p. 113; Acts 1971, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 97, p. 171, §1; Acts 1978, No. 850, p. 1273, §1; Acts 1995, No. 95-210, p. 340, §1.)
AL Code § 37-1-80.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 2 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-1-80.1 - Review and Adjustment of Rates of Connecting Telephone Companies When South Central Bell Telephone Company Receives Increase in Net Return.

Section 37-1-80.1Review and adjustment of rates of connecting telephone companies when South Central Bell Telephone Company receives increase in net return. When South Central Bell Telephone Company receives an increase in its net return as the result of any order issued by the Alabama Public Service Commission or a contingent increase as the result of a supersedeas order issued by a court of proper jurisdiction, which results in an increase in settlement revenues paid by South Central Bell Telephone Company to any connecting telephone company through any interconnecting agreement or otherwise, the Alabama Public Service Commission will review the financial earnings of each affected connecting company, and if such earnings exceed that authorized by the Public Service Commission and the law, will direct such companies to reduce local exchange rates and charges in such amounts as to comply with authorized earnings; provided, that where the connecting telephone company receives a contingent increase in settlement revenues from South Central Bell Telephone Company as the result of a supersedeas order issued to South Central Bell Telephone Company by the court, such connecting telephone company shall have the right to file a new schedule of rates and charges with the commission recovering any repayment which may be required by it arising out of any judicial modification or vacation of said supersedeas order. This section shall apply to any increase in net return to South Central Bell Telephone Company or its successors or assigns. (Acts 1978, No. 817, p. 1191.)
AL Code § 37-1-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 2 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-1-81 - Schedules of Rates or Service Regulations.

Section 37-1-81Schedules of rates or service regulations. (a) Whenever a utility desires to put in operation a new rate or service regulation or to change any existing rate or service regulation, it shall file with the commission a new schedule embodying the same, not less than 30 days prior to the time it desires to make the same effective; but the commission may, upon application of the utility, prescribe a less time within which the same may be made effective. In the absence of suspension or disapproval by the commission, as herein provided, the new rate or service regulation embodied in any such new schedule shall become effective at the time specified in such schedule, subject however to the power of the commission at any time thereafter to take any action respecting the same authorized by this title. (b) To enable it to make such investigation as, in its opinion, the public interest requires, the commission, in its discretion, for a period not exceeding six months may suspend the operation of any new schedule of rates or service regulations filed with the commission. Unless as a result of its investigation the commission otherwise orders before the termination of such period of six months, such rate or service regulation shall thereupon become effective. The commission may make any order in the premises which it is authorized by any of the provisions of this title to make in any investigation or complaint or on its own motion without complaint. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §§9771, 9772; Code 1940, T. 48, §§53, 54; Acts 1971, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 89, p. 144, §1.)
AL Code § 37-1-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 2 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-1-82 - Production and Inspection of Books or Records, etc., of Utilities.

Section 37-1-82Production and inspection of books or records, etc., of utilities. (a) The commission, by order, may require any utility or any officer or agent thereof to produce within the state, at such reasonable time and place as it may designate, any books, records, accounts or documents kept in any office or place without or within the state, or certified copies thereof, whenever the production thereof is reasonably required and pertinent to any matter under investigation before the commission, in order that an examination thereof may be made by the commission, or by any person employed by the commission. (b) The commission shall examine and inspect, or cause to be examined and inspected, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, under its authority, the books, records, accounts, documents, plant, property and facilities of any utility, whether there is any proceeding by or against the utility then pending before the commission or not. Every utility, its officers and agents shall make all its books, records, accounts and documents available at its principal office or place of business in this state, for examination and inspection by the commission or its authorized representatives or employees, whenever the commission may deem it in the public interest that such examination or inspection should be made. Every utility, its officers and agents shall make available all and every part of its plant, property and facilities for examination and inspection by the commission or its authorized representatives or employees, whenever the commission may deem it in the public interest that such examination or inspection should be made; and any person shall produce, when so required, his authority from the commission to make such examination or inspection under the seal of the commission. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Acts 1923, No. 82, p. 62; Code 1923, §§9780, 9781; Code 1940, T. 48, §§55, 56.)