2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-107 - Assessment Regarding Telecommunications, Gas, Electric, Water and Pipeline Service; Assessment Generally.

37-2-107. Assessment regarding telecommunications, gas, electric, water and pipeline service; assessment generally.
(a) On or before the first day of July of each year the director of revenue shall, by requiring special reports or otherwise, determine the total aggregate amount of the gross Wyoming intrastate retail revenues of all public utilities, entities utilizing public utility facilities in the state to furnish retail utility commodities or services to the public, and providers of telecommunication services, except motor carriers, and those utilities exempted under W.S. 37-2-108, for the preceding calendar year. The director shall then determine the ratio that one-half (1/2) of the total authorized budgeted amount for the biennium is to the total aggregate gross retail Wyoming intrastate operating revenues. The resulting percentage factor shall then be applied to the annual intrastate gross retail operating revenues of each of such persons for the preceding calendar year and the result shall be the assessment of each such person for the ensuing budget fiscal year. However, the assessment rate against the persons for any one (1) year shall not exceed three-thousandths (.003) of the gross Wyoming intrastate retail revenues of the persons unless the assessment of three-thousandths (.003) is insufficient to produce the amount to be collected. If the amount to be collected exceeds the amount produced by the application of the percentage factor to the gross Wyoming intrastate retail revenue of the persons, an additional assessment sufficient to produce the amount to be collected but not to exceed two-thousandths (.002) shall be made against those persons defined as public utilities in W.S. 37-1-101(a)(vi)(C), (D) or (G) but not cooperative utilities that are eligible for exemption and that choose to opt out from retail rate regulation. By the first day of August the director shall assess the persons, and one-half (1/2) of the assessed fees shall be paid to the director by the persons on or before the first day of October and one-half (1/2) of the fees shall be paid to the director by the persons on or before the first day of April in the ensuing year. The director, in computing the percentage upon which fees for the first fiscal year of the ensuing biennium shall be based, shall deduct any unexpended balance in the commission's account, less an amount equal to the total of all properly authorized outstanding accounts payable, from one-half (1/2) the total authorized budgeted amount for the biennium, and the resultant figure shall be used instead of the one-half (1/2) of the total authorized budgeted amount for the biennium, as above provided. Any unexpended balance in the commission's account shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal period. "Intrastate gross retail operating revenues" as used in this section shall mean intrastate gross revenues derived from the provision of telecommunications, gas, electric, water and pipeline service offered for final consumption and not for resale.
(b) Repealed By Laws 2012, Ch. 84, 102.