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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19tt. - Gas and electric distribution companies' distribution revenue decoupling.

(a) In any rate case initiated on or after June 4, 2007, and for which a final decision has not been issued prior to July 8, 2013, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall order the state's gas and electric distribution companies to decouple distribution revenues from the volume of natural gas or electricity sales through any of the following strategies, singly or in combination: (1) A mechanism that adjusts actual distribution revenues to allowed distribution revenues, (2) rate design changes that increase the amount of revenue recovered through fixed distribution charges, or (3) a sales adjustment clause, rate design changes that increase the amount of revenue recovered through fixed distribution charges, or both. In making its determination on this matter, the authority shall consider the impact of decoupling on the gas or electric distribution company's return on equity and make necessary adjustments thereto.
(b) In any rate case initiated on or after July 8, 2013, or in a pending rate case for which a final decision has not been issued prior to July 8, 2013, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall order the state's gas and electric distribution companies to decouple distribution revenues from the volume of natural gas and electricity sales. For electric distribution companies, the decoupling mechanism shall be the adjustment of actual distribution revenues to allowed distribution revenues. For gas distribution companies, the decoupling mechanism shall be a mechanism that does not remove the incentive to support the expansion of natural gas use pursuant to the 2013 Comprehensive Energy Strategy, such as a mechanism that decouples distribution revenue based on a use-per-customer basis. In making its determination on this matter, the authority shall consider the impact of decoupling on the gas or electric distribution company's return on equity and make any necessary adjustments thereto.
(P.A. 07-242, S. 107; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-298, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 07-242 effective June 4, 2007; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-298 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same by making a technical change and adding “and for which a final decision has not been issued prior to July 8, 2013,” and added Subsec. (b) re decoupling mechanisms for any rate case initiated on or after July 8, 2013, or in a pending rate case for which a final decision has not been issued prior to July 8, 2013, effective July 8, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19u to 16-19w. - Monthly reports from nuclear power generating facility licensees re construction costs and progress. Excess construction costs of Seabrook 1 nuclear power generating facility not included in rates. Prohibition on inclusion of certain costs associated with construction of Seabrook 2 nuclear power generating facility in rates.

Sections 16-19u to 16-19w, inclusive, are repealed, effective May 8, 2013.
(P.A. 83-99, S. 2, 3; P.A. 84-201, S. 2
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4; P.A. 85-519, S. 3, 4; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-5, S. 52.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19uu. - Adjustments to competitive transition assessment with respect to economic recovery revenue bonds.

(a) At such time as economic recovery revenue bonds are issued to fund the economic recovery transfer, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall ensure that the competitive transition assessment charged to customers of each electric distribution company is adjusted to reflect the lower charge to be paid by customers. No electric distribution company may bill any customer an amount for the competitive transition assessment that is in excess of the amount necessary to fund the economic recovery transfer.
(b) At such time as the competitive transition assessment charged to customers has allowed full or partial recovery by the financing entity of any economic recovery revenue bonds and full or partial recovery by the electric distribution company of stranded costs not funded with the proceeds of economic recovery revenue bonds, the authority shall ensure that the competitive transition assessment charged to customers of each electric distribution company is adjusted to reflect, in the case of a partial recovery, the lower charge to be paid by customers, and, in the case of a full recovery, the absence of such assessment. No electric distribution company may bill any customer an amount for the competitive transition assessment that is in excess of the amount necessary to fund economic recovery revenue bonds or stranded costs.
(P.A. 10-179, S. 138; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 65.)
History: P.A. 10-179 effective May 7, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-134 deleted references to electric company, effective June 6, 2014.
See Secs. 16-245e to 16-245k re economic recovery revenue bonds.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19vv. - Public service companies' customer deposits.

(a) No public service company, other than a telephone company, shall require a deposit from any customer or prospective customer, other than a residential customer or prospective residential customer, in excess of an amount equal to such company's charges for one and one-half months.
(b) The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to examine the collection of deposits by public service companies, other than telephone companies, from any customer or prospective customer, other than a residential customer or prospective residential customer. Such examination shall include, but not be limited to, consideration of (1) criteria used to determine creditworthiness of such customers, (2) criteria for when the public service company shall return the deposit plus interest, and (3) provisions for collecting deposits from such customers moving from one location to another within the same service area of the same company. On or before January 1, 2011, the authority shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, the results of such proceeding to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy.
(P.A. 10-190, S. 2; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 10-190 effective June 9, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19x. - Phase-in of costs of certain large electric generating facilities.

If the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority finds that a public service company, as defined in section 16-1, plans to begin operation of a new electric generating facility having a capacity of one hundred megawatts or more and operation of the facility would increase the company's revenue requirements by ten per cent or more if all costs associated with construction of the facility were to be included in determining the rates to be charged by the company when the facility becomes commercially operational, the authority shall include such costs as it deems appropriate in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, over a period (A) beginning on the date the facility begins commercial operation, and (B) having a duration of not less than three nor more than ten years, in approximately equal installments, in a manner which will provide optimal short-term and long-term benefits to customers of the company.
(P.A. 84-343, S. 1; P.A. 85-519, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 85-519 required department to phase-in construction costs if conditions met instead of considering phase-in of such costs, changed conditions for phase-in, required such costs as department deems appropriate in accordance with chapter 277 to be included in rates and required phase-in to begin on date facility begins commercial operation, to be in approximately equal installments and to be in a manner providing optimal short-term and long-term benefits to customers; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19xx. - Deferral of public service company tax expense increase.

Any public service company, as defined in section 16-1, shall be permitted to defer for recovery in its next general rate case any increase in tax expense, pursuant to public act 15-244*, which is not currently authorized in such company's rates.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 468.)
*Note: Public act 15-244 is entitled “An Act Concerning the State Budget for the Biennium Ending June 30, 2017, and Making Appropriations Therefor, and Other Provisions Related to Revenue, Deficiency Appropriations and Tax Fairness and Economic Development”. (See Reference Table captioned “Public Acts of 2015” in Volume 16 which lists the sections amended, created or repealed by the act.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective July 1, 2015.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19y. - Rate treatment of enhanced 9-1-1 service costs.

Section 16-19y is repealed, effective May 31, 1996.
(P.A. 84-416, S. 9, 15; P.A. 96-150, S. 4, 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19yy. - Compensation rate recovery for electric distribution companies, gas companies or water companies.

Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, in exercising its discretion regarding whether to allow the recovery through rates of any portion of the compensation package for executives or officers or of any portion of any incentive compensation for employees of any electric distribution company, gas company or water company, as defined in section 16-1, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall consider whether to require that any such compensation that is recoverable through rates be dependent upon the achievement of performance targets established pursuant to section 16-244aa.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 4.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 effective October 2, 2020.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19z. - Rate treatment of land purchased, owned or retained by water companies for water supply protection or future water supply use.

In any proceeding pursuant to section 16-19 on a rate amendment proposed by a water company, as defined in section 16-1, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall consider including the cost to the company of purchasing, owning or retaining land for water supply protection or future water supply use in the current rate base of the company, subject to the following conditions: (1) The land shall be included in a water supply plan filed and approved pursuant to section 25-32d or shall otherwise be approved by the Commissioner of Public Health pursuant to the general statutes or regulations adopted under the general statutes; (2) the land shall include (A) an area necessary for surface and groundwater supply protection, (B) the impoundment area, (C) a well site, or (D) other appropriate appurtenances such as a tank site or filtration plant site or other necessary facilities; and (3) the purchase, ownership or retention of the land is found by the authority to be prudent considering cost, availability and need. The authority may not require any such company to sell any such land owned by such company as of October 1, 1997, except as provided in section 16-262n.
(P.A. 85-315; P.A. 88-354, S. 9; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 97-314, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 88-354 deleted provision requiring that sale of land “be used for the net economic benefit of consumers of the water company”; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 97-314 added water supply protection as a reason why a company may retain land under this section and prohibited the department from requiring companies from selling land owned as of October 1, 1997, except as provided in Sec. 16-262n; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-19zz. - Interim rate decreases, low-income rates and economic development rates for customers of electric distribution companies.

Not later than November 1, 2020, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority may initiate a proceeding or proceedings to consider the implementation of an interim rate decrease, low-income rates and economic development rates for customers of electric distribution companies, pursuant to its authority in subsection (g) of section 16-19 and sections 16-19e and 16-19oo.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 5.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 effective October 2, 2020.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-21. - Change of rates fixed pursuant to charter or contract.

Whenever any rate of any public service company chartered by or organized under the laws of this state exists or is charged pursuant to charter, contract or any agreement or understanding, and is in whole or in any respect discriminatory or more or less than just, reasonable and adequate to provide properly for the public convenience, necessity and welfare, such company or any town, city or borough within which, or between which and any other town, city or borough in this state, any such company is furnishing service, or any ten patrons of any such company, may bring a written petition to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority alleging that such rate is discriminatory or more or less than just, reasonable and adequate. Thereupon, the authority shall fix a time and place for a hearing upon such petition and shall mail notice thereof to the parties in interest and give public notice thereof at least one week prior to such hearing. Upon such hearing, the authority may, if it finds such rate to be discriminatory or more or less than just, reasonable and adequate to enable such company to provide properly for the public convenience, necessity and welfare, determine and prescribe just and reasonable maximum rates or charges to be thereafter made by such company.
(1949 Rev., S. 5411; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 61, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
Is declaratory of power already possessed by commission; power to make rates includes power to modify rate-fixing contracts; municipal charter held to give no power to fix rates on water. 101 C. 156. Application to contracts between water company and city fixing rates. 106 C. 577. Company may increase rates above those specified in contract only by petition to commission and on its finding and order. 132 C. 496. Cited. 169 C. 344.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-22. - Rates; transfer of assets or franchise; burden of proof.

At any hearing involving a rate or the transfer of ownership of assets or a franchise of a public service company, the burden of proving that said rate under consideration is just and reasonable or that said transfer of assets or franchise is in the public interest shall be on the public service company. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the regulation of a telecommunications service which is a competitive service, as defined in section 16-247a.
(1949 Rev., S. 5412; P.A. 75-486, S. 13, 69; P.A. 94-83, S. 14, 16.)
History: P.A. 75-486 made section applicable to transfers of asset ownership or franchise; P.A. 94-83 added provision re applicability to competitive telecommunications service, effective July 1, 1994.
Cited. 158 C. 626; 183 C. 128.
Cited. 24 CS 446; 29 CS 253; Id., 379; 30 CS 36; Id., 149.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-23. - Regulations and service prescribed by authority deemed reasonable.

All regulations, practices and service prescribed by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall be in force and prima facie reasonable, unless suspended or found otherwise in an action brought for that purpose or until changed or modified by the authority.
(1949 Rev., S. 5413; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 62, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-24. - Classification of service.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall have power to require each public service company furnishing gas or electricity to establish classifications of service based upon the quantity used, the time when used, the purpose for which used, the duration of use and any other reasonable consideration, and to establish all relevant factors, including rates and charges, that take into consideration competition from alternative services and the interest of all parties concerned.
(1949 Rev., S. 5414; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 63, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-25. - Time and place of hearings. Notice.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall fix a time and place for all hearings and shall mail notice thereof to such parties in interest as the authority deems necessary and give public notice thereof at least one week prior to any such hearing.
(1949 Rev., S. 5415; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 64, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
Cited. 162 C. 51.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-25a. - Hearings on Office of Consumer Counsel petitions.

If the Office of Consumer Counsel files a petition with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority concerning matters affecting utility services for consumers in the state, the authority shall, not later than thirty days after receiving the petition, notify the Office of Consumer Counsel whether it will hold a hearing on the petition. If the authority so notifies the Office of Consumer Counsel, it shall hold the hearing not later than ninety days after providing such notice.
(P.A. 83-37; P.A. 88-22, S. 3; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 88-22 substituted office of consumer counsel for the division of consumer counsel; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-28. - Correction of returns and reports.

When a report filed by a public service company under subsection (a) of section 16-27 or an annual report filed by a community antenna television company under subsection (b) of said section seems to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority defective or erroneous, the authority may notify the company making the same and require the amendment of such report within fifteen days from the time of giving such notice, under the same penalty as is provided for refusing or neglecting to make such report; and the authority may examine the officers, agents, employees, books, records, accounts, vouchers, plant and equipment of such company and may correct such items in such report as, upon such examination, the authority may find ought to be corrected.
(1949 Rev., S. 5419; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 67, 348; P.A. 85-509, S. 4, 11; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 85-509 made technical changes for consistency with amendments to Sec. 16-27; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-30. - Returns from motor bus companies. Penalty.

Section 16-30 is repealed, effective June 29, 1993.
(1949 Rev., S. 5421; P.A. 73-334; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 79-610, S. 8, 43; P.A. 93-307, S. 32, 34.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-31. - Remission of forfeitures by the Attorney General.

Section 16-31 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5145; P.A. 90-221, S. 14, 15.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32a. - Filing re procurement practices. Public hearing. Regulations re competitive bidding.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall by regulation require public service companies to file statements of their procurement policies and practices whenever there is a material change to such policies or practices. Where, after investigation, the authority determines that competitive bidding seems likely to reduce procurement costs without impairing quality, continuity or dependability of service or the ability to respond to emergencies, the authority may, after notice and public hearing, establish such regulations as it deems necessary to provide for competitive bidding in appropriate cases, but only if the contract price exceeds fifty thousand dollars in each such case.
(P.A. 75-486, S. 12, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 70, 348; P.A. 98-121, S. 1; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 98-121 inserted “whenever there is a material change to such policies or practices”; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32b. - Regional water authority or water district to submit annual report.

Each regional water authority and each regional water district shall, annually, submit to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, on or before May thirty-first, its annual report for the preceding calendar year, in such form and manner as the authority may prescribe. The authority may, for good cause shown, grant an extension of such deadline of up to sixty days, provided the regional water authority or regional water district desiring an extension files a request in writing setting forth the reasons for such request.
(P.A. 90-221, S. 4, 15; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32g. - Electric wire maintenance plans. Regulations.

Not later than January 1, 2008, and annually thereafter, each electric distribution company shall submit to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority a plan for the maintenance of poles, wires, conduits or other fixtures, along public highways or streets for the transmission or distribution of electric current, owned, operated, managed or controlled by such company, in such format as the authority shall prescribe. Such plan shall include a summary of appropriate staffing levels necessary for the maintenance of said fixtures and a program for the trimming of tree branches and limbs located in close proximity to overhead electric wires where such branches and limbs may cause damage to such electric wires. The authority shall review each plan and may issue such orders as may be necessary to ensure compliance with this section. The authority may require each electric distribution company to submit an updated plan at such time and containing such information as the authority may prescribe. The authority shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 87-68, S. 1, 2; P.A. 98-28, S. 97, 117; P.A. 07-242, S. 6; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 14-134, S. 67.)
History: P.A. 98-28 added electric distribution companies and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 07-242 changed “January 1, 1988,” to “January 1, 2008, and annually thereafter” and required summary of appropriate staffing levels in plan; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 14-134 deleted references to electric company, effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32i. - Performance review of electric distribution companies and gas companies after emergencies. Hearing. Penalty.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall review the performance of each electric distribution company and gas company, as those terms are defined in section 16-1, after any emergency, as defined in section 16-32e, (1) in which more than ten per cent of any such company's customers were without service for more than forty-eight consecutive hours, or (2) at the authority's discretion. The authority, upon a finding that any such company failed to comply with any standard of acceptable performance in emergency preparation or restoration of service in an emergency, adopted pursuant to section 16-32h, or with any order of the authority, shall make orders, after a hearing that is conducted as a contested case in accordance with chapter 54, to enforce such standards or orders and may levy civil penalties against such company, pursuant to section 16-41, not to exceed a total of four per cent of such electric distribution or gas company's annual distribution revenue, for noncompliance in any such emergency. In determining the amount of any penalty, the authority shall consider whether such company received approval and reasonable funding allowances, as determined by the authority, from the authority to meet infrastructure resiliency efforts to improve such company's performance. Any such penalty shall be assessed in the form of credits to the accounts of ratepayers of such electric distribution or gas company. Any such penalty shall not be included as an operating expense of such company for purposes of ratemaking.
(P.A. 12-148, S. 4; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 9.)
History: P.A. 12-148 effective June 15, 2012; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 increased potential civil penalty to 4 per cent of annual distribution revenue and replaced “a credit to” with “credits to the accounts of”, effective October 2, 2020.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32j. - Procedures for expedited road clearing after emergencies.

On or before January 1, 2013, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, in coordination and consultation with each public service company, as defined in section 16-1, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and an association of municipalities, shall develop procedures to expedite the process of road clearing for public safety personnel after an emergency, as defined in section 16-32e.
(P.A. 12-148, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 12-148 effective June 15, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32k. - Vegetation management practices review. Report.

On and after June 6, 2014, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection shall review the vegetation management practices of each electric distribution company. Not later than one year after the final decision has been issued by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for the docket described in subsection (c) of section 16-32h, and every two years thereafter, the authority shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy. Such report shall include a review of the vegetation management practices of each electric distribution company.
(P.A. 14-151, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 14-151 effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32l. - Residential customer credits for distribution-system service outage. Recovery of costs. Waiver of requirements.

(a) For the purposes of this section, “emergency” has the same meaning as provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-32e and “electric distribution company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, on and after July 1, 2021, each electric distribution company shall provide to residential customers of such company a credit of twenty-five dollars, on the balance of such customer's account, for each day of distribution-system service outage that occurs for such customers for more than ninety-six consecutive hours after the occurrence of an emergency.
(c) Any costs incurred by an electric distribution company pursuant to this section shall not be recoverable.
(d) Not later than fourteen calendar days after the occurrence of an emergency, an electric distribution company may petition the authority for a waiver of the requirements of this section. Any petition for a waiver made under this subsection shall include the severity of the emergency, employee safety issues and conditions on the ground, and shall be conducted as a contested case proceeding. The burden of proving that such waiver is reasonable and warranted shall be on the electric distribution company. In determining whether to grant such waiver, the authority shall consider whether the electric distribution company received approval and reasonable funding allowances, as determined by the authority, to meet infrastructure resiliency efforts to improve such company's performance.
(e) On or before January 1, 2021, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to consider the implementation of the residential customer credit and waiver provisions of this section and establish circumstances, standards and methodologies applicable to each electric distribution company and necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including any modifications to the ninety-six-consecutive-hour standard in subsection (b) of this section. The authority shall issue a final decision in such proceeding on or before July 1, 2021.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 10.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 effective October 2, 2020.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-32m. - Residential customer compensation for expiration of medicine and food due to distribution-system service outage. Recovery of costs. Waiver of requirements.

(a) For the purposes of this section, “emergency” has the same meaning as provided in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 16-32e and “electric distribution company” has the same meaning as provided in section 16-1.
(b) On and after July 1, 2021, each electric distribution company shall provide to each residential customer compensation in an amount of two hundred fifty dollars, in the aggregate, for any medication and food that expires or spoils due to a distribution-system service outage that lasts more than ninety-six consecutive hours in duration after the occurrence of an emergency.
(c) Any costs incurred by an electric distribution company pursuant to this section shall not be recoverable.
(d) Not later than fourteen calendar days after the occurrence of an emergency, an electric distribution company may petition the authority for a waiver of the requirements of this section. Any petition for a waiver made under this subsection shall include the severity of the emergency, employee safety issues and conditions on the ground, and shall be conducted as a contested case proceeding. The burden of proving that such waiver is reasonable and warranted shall be on the electric distribution company. In determining whether to grant such waiver, the authority shall consider whether the electric distribution company received approval and reasonable funding allowances, as determined by the authority, to meet infrastructure resiliency efforts to improve such company's performance.
(e) On or before January 1, 2021, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall initiate a proceeding to consider the implementation of the compensation reimbursement and waiver provisions of this section and establish circumstances, standards and methodologies applicable to each electric distribution company and necessary to implement the provisions of this section, including any modifications to the ninety-six-consecutive-hour standard in subsection (b) of this section. The authority shall issue a final decision in such proceeding on or before July 1, 2021.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5, S. 11.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 20-5 effective October 2, 2020.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-33. - Obstructing authority; false entries and returns to; penalty.

Any person who wilfully makes any false return or report to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or to any member thereof, or to any agent or any employee acting therefor, or who testifies falsely to any material fact in any matter wherein an oath or affirmation is required or authorized, or who makes any false entry or memorandum upon any account, book, paper, record, report or statement of any company, or who wilfully destroys, mutilates, alters or by any other means or device falsifies or destroys the record of any such account, book, paper, record, report or statement, with the intent to mislead or deceive the authority, or any member thereof, or any agent or employee acting therefor, or who wilfully obstructs or hinders the authority, or any of its members, agents or employees, in the making of any examination of the accounts, affairs or condition of any company, and any person who, with like intent, aids or abets another in any of the acts hereinbefore set forth, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 5423, 8708; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 71, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 62.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
Cited. 159 C. 556.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-34. - Annual reports to Governor.

Section 16-34 is repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5424; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 4, 40, 345, 348; P.A. 81-348, S. 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-34a. - Annual report re lost and unaccounted for gas. Docket to investigate.

(a) Not later than July 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy. Such report shall include (1) a description of the reasons for each gas company's percentage of lost and unaccounted for gas, (2) recommendations for each gas company's gas leak reduction strategy, (3) a description of each gas company's current gas leak monitoring system program, and (4) the number of leaks and causes of such leaks throughout the entire gas distribution system in the state and any other information the authority determines to be relevant.
(b) The authority shall initiate a docket to investigate the lost and unaccounted for gas of a gas company if the percentage of lost and unaccounted for gas of such gas company in any calendar year exceeds a total of three per cent. In such docket, a gas company shall report (1) leak detection and monitoring procedures, (2) emissions reduction strategies in addition to leak repair, and (3) any additional requirements the authority determines to be relevant. In such docket, the authority shall establish a cost mechanism to comply with long-term emissions reductions required by section 22a-200a and to incentivize a gas company to (A) reduce lost and unaccounted for gas, including the number of leaks throughout the entire gas distribution system in the state, (B) replace aging infrastructure, and (C) comply with any additional requirements the authority determines to be relevant. Such cost mechanism may be incorporated in the purchased gas adjustment clause pursuant to section 16-19b.
(P.A. 14-152, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 14-152 effective June 6, 2014.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-36 to 16-39. - Venue. Procedure on appeal. Notice when parties are numerous. Supersedeas.

Sections 16-36 to 16-39, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 5426
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5429; 1971, P.A. 179, S. 6; 870, S. 43, 106; P.A. 76-436, S. 358, 359, 681; P.A. 77-603, S. 42, 125.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-40. - Rights and duties of trustees and receivers.

When any company is operated by a trustee or receiver, such trustee or receiver shall have all the powers and shall be subject to all the duties, obligations and penalties which such company would otherwise have or to which it would be subject under the provisions of this title, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the rights, duties or obligations of such trustee or receiver as an officer of the court appointing him.
(1949 Rev., S. 5430.)
Cited. 162 C. 51.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 16 - Public Service Companies › Chapter 277 - Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Office of Consumer Counsel. Miscellaneous Provisions › Section 16-42. - Not to affect labor contracts.

Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to interfere in any manner with contracts between public service companies and their employees.
(1949 Rev., S. 5432; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 74, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.