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NH Rev Stat § 365:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:22 - Railroads Which Are Common Carriers.

    365:22 Railroads Which Are Common Carriers. –||Whenever the commissioner shall be of the opinion, after a hearing had upon his own motion or upon complaint, that any part of any railroad operating as a common carrier of passengers or freight within the state reasonably requires alteration or reconstruction, or that the regulations, practices, equipment, appliances or service of any such railroad in respect to transportation of persons or property within the state are unjust, unreasonable, unsafe, improper or inadequate, the commissioner of the department of transportation shall determine the reconstruction or alteration reasonably required, or the just, reasonable, safe, adequate and proper regulations, practices, equipment, appliances and service thereafter to be in force or to be provided, and shall fix and prescribe the same by order to be served upon every such railroad to be bound thereby.|||Source. 1911, 164:11. 1913, 145:10. PL 238:21. RL 287:21. 1951, 203:11 par. 22. RSA 365:22. 1985, 402:6, I(e)(3). 1992, 150:7, eff. July 5, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:23 - Effect of Orders.

    365:23 Effect of Orders. –||Thereafter it shall be the duty of every such public utility to observe and obey every requirement of such order so served upon it, and to do everything necessary or proper in order to secure compliance with and observance of the same by all the officers, agents and employees.|||Source. 1911, 164:11. 1913, 145:11. PL 238:22. RL 287:22. 1951, 203:11 par. 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:24 - Repealed by 1989, 36:2, eff. June 11, 1989.

    365:24 Repealed by 1989, 36:2, eff. June 11, 1989. –|
NH Rev Stat § 365:24-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:24-a - Repealed by by 2001, 237:7, eff. July 1, 2001.

    365:24-a Repealed by by 2001, 237:7, eff. July 1, 2001. –|
NH Rev Stat § 365:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:25 - Duration of Established Rates.

    365:25 Duration of Established Rates. –||The rates, fares and charges fixed and allowed by the commission to be charged and collected by any public utility shall remain in effect until altered by a subsequent order of the commission or until a new schedule of rates, fares and charges shall have been filed or published by the utility in accordance with RSA 378:3.|||Source. 1911, 164:11. PL 238:23. RL 287:24. 1951, 203:11 par. 25, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:26 - Effective Period of Other Orders.

    365:26 Effective Period of Other Orders. –||Except as otherwise herein provided, every order of the commission requiring any public utility to do or not to do anything shall take effect at the time therein specified, and shall continue in effect for such period as shall be therein designated, and if no period shall be designated, until the same shall be altered, amended, suspended, annulled, set aside or otherwise modified by the commission or the court.|||Source. 1915, 99:4. PL 238:24. RL 287:25. 1951, 203:11 par. 26, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:27 - Notice.

    365:27 Notice. –||Orders of the commission granting authority or permission to do any act or thing need not be served; but the exercise in any part of the authority or permission granted in any such order shall charge the party so exercising such authority or permission with full knowledge of said order; and such party shall comply with all requirements thereof, and fully conform thereto.|||Source. 1915, 99:4. PL 238:25. RL 287:26. 1951, 203:11 par. 27, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:28 - Altering Orders.

    365:28 Altering Orders. –||At any time after the making and entry thereof, the commission may, after notice and hearing, alter, amend, suspend, annul, set aside, or otherwise modify any order made by it. This hearing shall not be required when any prior order made by the commission was made under a provision of law that did not require a hearing and a hearing was, in fact, not held.|||Source. 1915, 99:4. PL 238:26. RL 287:27. 1951, 203:11 par. 28. 2001, 237:5, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:29 - Orders for Reparation.

    365:29 Orders for Reparation. –||On its own initiative or whenever a petition or complaint has been filed with the commission covering any rate, fare, charge, or price demanded and collected by any public utility, and the commission has found, after hearing and investigation, that an illegal or unjustly discriminatory rate, fare, charge, or price has been collected for any service, the commission may order the public utility which has collected the same to make due reparation to the person who has paid the same, with interest from the date of the payment. Such order for reparation shall cover only payments made within 2 years before the earlier of the date of the commission's notice of hearing or the filing of the petition for reparation.|||Source. 1917, 76:3. PL 238:27. RL 287:28. 1951, 203:11 par. 29. 2008, 309:1, eff. Aug. 31, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:30 - Waiver of Hearing.

    365:30 Waiver of Hearing. –||Such order may be made without formal hearing whenever the public utility affected shall assent in writing thereto, or file or join in a petition therefor.|||Source. 1917, 76:3. PL 238:28. RL 287:29. 1951, 203:11 par. 30, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:31 - Upon Agent.

    365:31 Upon Agent. –||Every order required to be served shall, where the public utility affected has an agent in the city of Concord, appointed as provided herein, be served upon said agent by giving a certified copy thereof to him in hand, or by leaving a like copy at his office or residence.|||Source. 1915, 99:4. PL 238:29. RL 287:30. 1951, 203:11 par. 31, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:32 - If No Agent.

    365:32 If No Agent. –||If no agent has been so appointed, service may be made by giving a like copy to any person upon whom service could be made in an action at law against such public utility, or by sending the same by mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such public utility at any usual post office address of the same.|||Source. 1915, 99:4. PL 238:30. RL 287:31. 1951, 203:11 par. 32, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:33 - Appointment of Agent.

    365:33 Appointment of Agent. –||Any public utility may, by writing filed with the commission, appoint an agent who shall reside and have an office in the city of Concord, upon whom service for and on its behalf may be made by the commission. Such appointment may at any time be revoked or a new appointment made by like writing similarly filed.|||Source. 1915, 99:4. PL 238:31. RL 287:32. 1951, 203:11 par. 33, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:34 - Failure to Pay.

    365:34 Failure to Pay. –||Any public utility ordered to make reparation hereunder shall conform to said order and make payment as required therein. Upon failure to make such payment upon demand, the amount ordered paid may be recovered with interest in an action of debt brought by the person to whom payment was ordered; except that, in the case of costs ordered paid to the commission, suit shall be brought in the name of the state. Like action may also be brought to recover fees due the commission.|||Source. 1911, 164:18. 1913, 145:18. PL 238:32. RL 287:33. 1951, 203:11 par. 34, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:35 - Costs.

    365:35 Costs. –||In any action brought to recover costs, fees or reparation ordered the plaintiff shall be entitled to tax as costs all of his necessary expenses in the action, including reasonable attorney's fees.|||Source. 1913, 145:18. PL 238:33. RL 287:34. 1951, 203:11 par. 35, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:36 - Fees for Copies.

    365:36 Fees for Copies. –||The commission may fix and collect reasonable fees for copies of its records, certified or otherwise, for copies of testimony taken before the commission and for its publications.|||Source. 1915, 99:3. PL 238:34. RL 287:35. 1951, 203:11 par. 36, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:38 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:38 - Rate Proceeding.

    365:38 Rate Proceeding. –||Whenever any investigation or proceeding shall be necessary to enable the commission to pass upon the reasonableness of the rates or charges by a public utility, the utility shall pay to the department of energy the expenses involved in the investigation, including the amounts expended by the commission and the department of energy for attorneys, experts, accountants, or other assistants, but not including any part of the salaries or expenses of the commissioners or of employees of the commission or department of energy; provided, that the amount charged to the utility in any such case shall not exceed 3/4 of one percent of the existing valuation of the utility investigated, such expenses with 6 percent interest to be charged by the utility to operating expenses and amortized over such period as the commission shall deem proper and allowed for in the rates to be charged by the utility.|||Source. 1921, 138:1. PL 238:36. 1931, 127:1. RL 287:37. 1951, 203:11 par. 38. RSA 365:38. 1959, 242:4, eff. Oct. 20, 1959. 2021, 91:252, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:38-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:38-a - Proceeding Costs.

    365:38-a Proceeding Costs. –||The commission may allow recovery of costs associated with utility proceedings before the commission, provided that recovery of costs for utilities and other parties shall be just and reasonable and in the public interest. For purposes of this section, other parties shall be defined as retail customers that are subject to the rates of the utility and who demonstrate financial hardship; other parties shall not include New Hampshire municipalities. Recovery by other parties shall be deemed to be in the public interest when, in any commission proceeding, the other party substantially contributes to the adoption by the commission, in whole or in part, of a position advocated by the other party in that proceeding, or in a judicial review of that proceeding. Another party shall not recover more than $10,000 from any utility for any single proceeding. The commission may allow recovery of less than $10,000 depending upon the scope of the proceeding. The utility shall pay the other party an award of costs if such award is granted by the commission in accordance with the procedures and requirements of the commission and the award is subsequently approved by the governor and council. The utility shall not be liable for any award of costs except in accordance with the procedures and requirements of the commission. If the commission proceeding involves more than one utility, the liability of each utility for the award shall be determined by dividing the amount of the award among the utilities in a manner approved by the commission. If an award of costs is granted in a proceeding involving a change in a utility's rates, the entire amount of the award shall be recovered by the utility in that proceeding. If an award of costs is granted in a proceeding other than one involving a change in a utility's rates, the entire amount of the award shall be immediately recovered by the utility through measures approved on a timely basis by the commission.|||Source. 1999, 131:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:39 - Disposal of Fees.

    365:39 Disposal of Fees. –||All sums collected in fees by the commission or paid to it as costs shall be paid to the state treasurer at least once each month, with an itemized statement of the same.|||Source. 1913, 145:21. PL 238:37. RL 287:38. 1951, 203:11 par. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:40 - Compliance Required.

    365:40 Compliance Required. –||Every public utility and all officers and agents of the same shall obey, observe, and comply with every order made by the commission under authority of this title so long as the same shall be and remain in force.|||Source. 1911, 164:18. 1913, 145:18. PL 238:38. RL 287:39. 1951, 203:11 par. 40, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:41 - Penalty Against Utility.

    365:41 Penalty Against Utility. –||Any public utility which shall violate any provisions of this title, or fails, omits or neglects to obey, observe or comply with any order, direction or requirement of the commission or the department of energy, shall be subject to a civil penalty, as determined by the commission, not to exceed $250,000 or 2.5 percent of the annual gross revenue that the utility received from sales in the state, whichever is lower. Such penalties shall be applied to the benefit of the utility's ratepayers through a credit to bills, or, if the credit is of an amount determined by the commission to be insignificant on a per customer basis, to programs that benefit low income ratepayers. No portion of any fine, nor any costs associated with an administrative or court proceeding which results in a fine pursuant to this section, shall be considered by the commission in fixing any temporary, permanent, or emergency rates or charges of such utility.|||Source. 1911, 164:18. 1913, 145:18. PL 238:39. RL 287:40. 1951, 203:11 par. 41. RSA 365:41. 1973, 528:257; 529:87. 1988, 255:1. 2007, 25:3. 2008, 309:2, eff. Aug. 31, 2008. 2021, 91:253, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:42 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:42 - Penalty Against Agent.

    365:42 Penalty Against Agent. –||Every officer and agent of any such public utility who shall wilfully violate, or who procures, aids, or abets any violation of this title, or who wilfully fails to obey, observe, and comply with any order of the commission, or procures, aids or abets any such public utility in its failure to obey, observe, and comply with any such order or provision, shall be subject to a civil penalty, as determined by the commission, not to exceed $100,000 for each violation. Such penalties shall be distributed to the benefit of the utility's ratepayers through a credit to bills, or, if the credit is of an amount determined by the commission to be insignificant on a per customer basis, to programs that benefit low income ratepayers.|||Source. 1911, 164:18. PL 238:40. RL 287:41. 1951, 203:11 par. 42. RSA 365:42. 1973, 528:258. 1988, 255:2. 2007, 25:3. 2008, 309:3, eff. Aug. 31, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:43 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:43 - Recovery of Forfeiture.

    365:43 Recovery of Forfeiture. –||Any forfeiture incurred under the provisions of this chapter shall be recovered in an action brought by the attorney general in the name of the state, and when recovered shall be paid to the state treasurer.|||Source. 1911, 164:19. PL 238:41. RL 287:42. 1951, 203:11 par. 43, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 365:44 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 365 - Complaints to the Department of Energy and Proceedings Before the Commission|Section 365:44 - Institution of Action.

    365:44 Institution of Action. –||The commission shall have authority to direct the institution of such action, and the attorney general may institute it without direction whenever he shall have knowledge that such forfeiture has been incurred.|||Source. 1911, 164:19. PL 238:42. RL 287:43. 1951, 203:11 par. 44, eff. Sept. 1, 1951.|
NH Rev Stat § 366:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 366 - Affiliates of Public Utilities|Section 366:1 - Definition of Terms.

    366:1 Definition of Terms. –||Terms used in this chapter shall be construed as follows unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context:||I. "Person" shall mean and include individuals, corporations, trustees, lessees, holders of beneficial equitable title, voluntary associations, receivers, and partnerships.||II. "Affiliate" shall mean and include the following:||(a) Any person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote a majority of the outstanding voting securities or such minority thereof as to give him substantial control of such a public utility.||(b) Every person who the commission may determine as a matter of fact, after investigation and hearing, is either directly or indirectly through intermediate persons, or otherwise, actually exercising any substantial influence over the policies and actions of a public utility, whether or not in conjunction with one or more persons.||(c) Any person with whom a public utility has a management or service contract or arrangement of the character set forth in RSA 366:3, but not including contracts for personal services with persons not otherwise affiliated.||(d) Any person that is directly or indirectly owned, controlled or held by any person described in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph through either power to vote a majority of the outstanding voting securities, or such a minority so as to maintain substantial control.|||Source. 1933, 182:1. RL 305:1. 1951, 203:64. RSA 366:1. 1991, 86:2, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.|
NH Rev Stat § 366:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 366 - Affiliates of Public Utilities|Section 366:1-a - Exceptions.

    366:1-a Exceptions. –||The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any excepted local exchange carrier.|||Source. 2012, 177:6, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 366:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 366 - Affiliates of Public Utilities|Section 366:2 - Sale of Securities to or by Employees.

    366:2 Sale of Securities to or by Employees. –||No public utility shall, without the approval of the department of energy, permit any employee to sell, offer for sale, or solicit the purchase of any security issued by an affiliate during such hours as such employee is engaged to perform any duty of such public utility; nor shall any public utility by any means or device whatsoever require any employee to purchase or contract to purchase any of its securities or those of any other person or corporation; nor shall any public utility require any employee to permit the deduction from his wages or salary of any sum as a payment or to be applied as a payment on any purchase or contract to purchase any security of such public utility or of any other person.|||Source. 1933, 182:1. RL 305:1. 2021, 91:254, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 366:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 366 - Affiliates of Public Utilities|Section 366:3 - Filing of Contracts.

    366:3 Filing of Contracts. –||The original or a verified copy of any contract or arrangement and of any modification thereof or a verified summary of any unwritten contract or arrangement, the consideration of which exceeds $500, hereafter entered into between a public utility and an affiliate providing for the furnishing of managerial, supervisory, construction, engineering, accounting, purchasing, financial, or any other services either to or by a public utility or an affiliate shall be filed by the public utility with the department of energy within 10 days after the date on which the contract is executed or the arrangement entered into. The department may also require a public utility to file in such form as the department may require full information with respect to any purchase from or sale to an affiliate, whether or not made in pursuance of a continuing contract or arrangement.|||Source. 1933, 182:1. RL 305:2. 2021, 91:254, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 366:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV - Public Utilities|Title 366 - Affiliates of Public Utilities|Section 366:4 - Failure to File.

    366:4 Failure to File. –||Any contract or arrangement not filed with the department of energy pursuant to RSA 366:3 shall be unenforceable in any court in this state and payments thereunder may be disallowed by the department unless the later filing thereof is approved in writing by the department. The commission shall disallow payment if recommended by the department.|||Source. 1933, 182:1. RL 305:3. 2021, 91:254, eff. July 1, 2021.|