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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 37-1-103 - Assessment of Interstate Public Utilities Generally.

37-1-103. Assessment of interstate public utilities generally.
(a) The public service commission of Wyoming is hereby authorized and empowered to collect for the actual costs incurred by the commission for necessary and reasonable services, investigations and other actions concerning the construction, operation, maintenance, safety and environment of interstate utilities and their facilities within Wyoming. This act [section] shall not apply to motor carriers or any services, investigations or other actions authorized by the statutes for intrastate utilities.
(b) The billing by the commission shall be directed to the involved interstate utility or utilities at intervals of no less than thirty (30) days as determined by the commission and shall detail and show the basis for the charges and all direct and allocated charges. Payment shall be made by the interstate public utility no later than thirty (30) days after receipt of the billing. Only those charges which are necessary and reasonable need be paid and if charges not necessary and reasonable are paid under protest, they may be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction in any action commenced against the public service commission of Wyoming within thirty (30) days after payment under protest and any amount recovered shall be paid out of the public service commission account.
(c) The funds collected shall be immediately remitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the public service commission account. The commission may immediately upon deposit expend such monies for payment of its costs incurred concerning interstate utilities, subject to the warrant of the state auditor, upon submission of properly executed vouchers authorized by the commission in the same manner as other funds are disbursed subject to other provisions of law.
(d) Any interstate utility which violates or fails to comply with any provision of this act shall be subject to a penalty of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each and every offense.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 37-1-104 - Reorganization of Public Utility; Definition; Approval.

37-1-104. Reorganization of public utility; definition; approval.
(a) No reorganization of a public utility shall take place without prior approval by the public service commission. The commission shall not approve any proposed reorganization if the commission finds, after public notice and opportunity for public hearing, that the reorganization will adversely affect the utility's ability to serve the public.
(b) For purposes of this section, "reorganization" means any transaction which, regardless of the means by which it is accomplished, results in a change in the majority ownership interest or control of a public utility, or the majority ownership interest or control of any entity which owns a majority interest in or controls a public utility. "Reorganization" as used in this section shall not include a mortgage or pledge transaction entered into to secure a bona fide borrowing by the party granting the mortgage or making the pledge.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 37-1-105 - Application for Reorganization; Fees; Reimbursement of Costs and Expenses to State; Expenses Not to Be Included in Rates.

37-1-105. Application for reorganization; fees; reimbursement of costs and expenses to state; expenses not to be included in rates.
(a) Every applicant for approval of a reorganization by the public service commission under this act shall pay a filing fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each application and ten dollars ($10.00) plus ten cents ($.10) per page for every amendment to any application. These fees shall be deposited in the general fund. In addition the applicant shall reimburse the state for the expenses of the state in reviewing and acting upon each application and defending any public service commission decision in case of legal appeal. The expenses of the state shall not be deemed to include the normal salary and benefits of the public service commissioners but shall include substantially all other actual expenses of the state in connection with the application. The public service commission may require the applicant to post a bond or make a prepayment to assure the required reimbursement. No charge for expenses in connection with any application under this act may be included in the rates charged to Wyoming customers. The reimbursements collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in a separate account and may be expended by the public service commission following appropriations by the legislature.
(b) No charge for any expenses of any reorganization shall be included in the rate base of any Wyoming public utility.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 37-1-107 - Department of Transportation; Appeals.

37-1-107. Department of transportation; appeals.
Any party in interest or any person or party authorized under chapters 9 through 11 of title 37 to file for an original hearing before the department of transportation may appeal to a hearing panel appointed by the transportation commission in the same manner, and to the same extent, as provided in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-101 - Creation; Composition; Appointment; Compensation; Terms and Oaths of Members; Removal; Chairman and Deputy Chairman; Vacancies.

37-2-101. Creation; composition; appointment; compensation; terms and oaths of members; removal; chairman and deputy chairman; vacancies.
(a) There is created a commission separate from the state board of equalization to which it has been joined which is known as the "public service commission of Wyoming". The commission shall consist of three (3) members appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate. Not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the members of the commission shall at any time be members of the same political party. Each member of the commission shall receive an annual salary as provided by law, to be paid in equal monthly installments in the same manner that other state salaries are paid.
(b) Biennially the members shall elect from among their number a chairman and a deputy chairman who shall serve in these offices for a period of two (2) years. The chairman shall receive an additional annual salary as provided by law during his tenure as chairman to be paid in equal monthly installments, in the same manner as other state salaries are paid.
(c) The present elected chairman and two (2) designated members now comprising the public service commission, or their successors, comprise the public service commission for purposes of this section.
(d) Upon the expiration of the term of any member he shall be reappointed or a successor shall be appointed for a term of six (6) years or except in case of a vacancy. Each member shall hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified. The governor may remove any member as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
(e) In case of a vacancy, it shall be filled by appointment by the governor in accordance with W.S. 28-12-101.
(f) Each member, within thirty (30) days after notice of his appointment and before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take, subscribe and file with the secretary of state the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this state. Effective July 1, 1979, appointments and terms under this act shall be in accordance with W.S. 28-12-101 through 28-12-103.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-102 - Quorum; Meetings; Investigations and Hearings by Single Commissioner.

37-2-102. Quorum; meetings; investigations and hearings by single commissioner.
A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum to transact business and for the performance of any duty or for the exercise of any powers of the commission and may hold meetings of the commission at any time or place within the state. A majority of the commission shall consist of two (2) of the three (3) members, including the chairman, that constitute the commission in the normal course of business. Any investigation, inquiry or hearing which the commission has power to hold may be held by or before any commissioner, or an employee of the commission acting in the capacity of a hearing officer, when an order is entered in the records of the office of the commission to that effect, and such an investigation, inquiry or hearing when approved and confirmed by the commission shall be the investigation, inquiry or hearing of the commission, but no finding or order of the commission shall be effective without the concurrence of a majority of the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-103 - Seal; May Sue and Be Sued.

37-2-103. Seal; may sue and be sued.
The commission shall have an official seal bearing the words "Public Service Commission of Wyoming", of which the courts shall take judicial notice, and may sue and be sued by its official name.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-104 - Gratuities Prohibited.

37-2-104. Gratuities prohibited.
No commissioner or person appointed and regularly employed and receiving a salary from the commission shall accept any gift, gratuity, emolument or employment from any public utility under the jurisdiction of the commission, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, nor shall any commissioner or person appointed or regularly employed by and receiving a salary from the commission solicit, request from, or recommend, directly or indirectly, to any such public utility or any officer or agent or employee thereof, the appointment of any person to any place or position.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-105 - Offices, Equipment and Facilities.

37-2-105. Offices, equipment and facilities.
The principal office of the commission shall be at the state capitol, and the commission shall be provided by the state with such offices, equipment and facilities as may be necessary for the performance of its duties.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-106 - Assessment Regarding Telecommunications, Gas, Electric, Water and Pipeline Service; Disposition of Revenue.

37-2-106. Assessment regarding telecommunications, gas, electric, water and pipeline service; disposition of revenue.
Monies derived from an assessment of persons subject to assessment under W.S. 37-2-107, except motor carriers as defined in W.S. 31-18-101(a)(x), shall be credited to the public service commission account for the purpose of defraying administrative expenses of the commission with respect to the persons assessed. At each regular session, the state legislature shall, under the budget provisions of Wyoming budget law, determine the amount to be collected. It shall be the duty of the director of the revenue department to ascertain and collect the proportional amount of the approved biennial budget to be paid by each person assessed and to remit the funds immediately to the state treasurer for deposit in the public service commission account. All expenditures therefrom shall be subject to the warrant of the state auditor, upon submission of properly executed vouchers authorized by the commission in the same manner as other funds are disbursed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-108 - Uniform Assessment Regarding Telecommunications, Gas, Electric, Water and Pipeline Service; Exempt Persons.

37-2-108. Uniform assessment regarding telecommunications, gas, electric, water and pipeline service; exempt persons.
Any person subject to the provisions of this act shall be exempt from any payments or assessments to be made hereunder for the fiscal budget year following the calendar year in which its gross intrastate retail operating revenues, as defined in W.S. 37-2-107, total less than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-109 - Uniform Assessment Regarding Telecommunications, Gas, Electric, Water and Pipeline Service; Penalty for Violations.

37-2-109. Uniform assessment regarding telecommunications, gas, electric, water and pipeline service; penalty for violations.
Any person who violates or fails to comply with any provision of this act, or fails, omits, neglects, or refuses to observe or comply with any requirement, direction or decision of the director of revenue relating thereto, or to file any report as may be required by him, within the time specified, shall be subject to a penalty of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each and every offense.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-110 - Secretary and Other Employees.

37-2-110. Secretary and other employees.
(a) The commission is authorized to employ a secretary and such other persons as may be necessary to enable it to perform the duties imposed upon it by this act and to designate the duties of such employees.
(b) Repealed By Laws 2003, Ch. 172, 2.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-111 - Attorney General to Be Legal Adviser; Duties; Representation by Commission Attorneys.

37-2-111. Attorney general to be legal adviser; duties; representation by commission attorneys.
The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the commission and it shall be his duty to represent the commission in all proceedings in any court, before any other agency or before any departments of the federal government. Upon the request of the commission, the attorney general may designate any duly qualified attorney employed by the commission to function as an assistant attorney general to assist the attorney general in representing the commission in all proceedings in any court, before any agency or before any departments of the federal government. Wherever he deems it appropriate, the attorney general may authorize a commission attorney to act without his assistance.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-113 - Arbitration of Controversies.

37-2-113. Arbitration of controversies.
Whenever any Wyoming public utility has a controversy with any other person and all the parties to such controversy agree in writing to submit such controversy to the commission as arbitrators, the commission may act as such arbitrators, and after due notice to all parties interested may proceed to hear such controversy, and their award shall be final.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-114 - Authority to Confer With Other State and Federal Commissions; Expenses.

37-2-114. Authority to confer with other state and federal commissions; expenses.
(a) The commission may confer in person, by attending conventions or otherwise, with the members of railroad or other public utility commissions of other states and with the surface transportation board on any matters relating to public utilities, and shall be allowed actual traveling expenses when engaged in such work.
(b) In regulating the transmission of electricity:
(i) The commission may meet in conjunction with public utility commissions of other states as it determines necessary or convenient to develop common sets of fact finding for regulation of the transmission of electricity in the region. Any common set of facts developed under this paragraph shall only be developed under a docketed commission proceeding with opportunity for participation by the public in compliance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and commission rules;
(ii) The commission may meet jointly with public utility commissions of other states to conduct hearings on the regulation of the transmission of electricity. The commission shall act independently in entering any order as a result of such hearings;
(iii) Subject to W.S. 37-2-122, the commission may consider regional effects of its orders upon the utility and may consider requirements imposed upon the utility by the laws of other states within the region or the orders of other commissions within the region.
(c) As used in subsection (b) of this section, "region" includes any state with a border contiguous to Wyoming and the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-115 - Examination of Records of Intrastate Business of Utilities; Authority Generally.

37-2-115. Examination of records of intrastate business of utilities; authority generally.
The commission, or upon order of the commission, any commissioner, or any person or persons employed by the commission, shall upon demand have the right, insofar as applies to intrastate business, to inspect or examine the books, papers, accounts, documents, plant, property and facilities of any public utility operating in Wyoming, and to examine under oath any officer, agent or employee of such public utility in relation to its business and affairs; provided, that any person other than one (1) of the commissioners shall produce when so requested his authority to make inspections or examinations under the hand of a commissioner or of the secretary and under the seal of the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-116 - Ordering Production of Records.

37-2-116. Ordering production of records.
The commission, by order, may require any public utility or any officer or agent thereof to produce within the state at such time and place as it may designate, any accounts, records, memoranda, books or papers kept in any office or place without or within the state, or in its discretion may in lieu of originals order the production of verified copies thereof in order that an examination thereof insofar as they relate to intrastate business, may be made by the commission or by any person under its direction.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-117 - Commission May Initiate Investigation.

37-2-117. Commission may initiate investigation.
Whenever the commission shall believe that an investigation of any act or omission to act, accomplished or proposed, or an investigation of any rate, service, facility or service regulation of any public utility should be made in order to secure compliance with the provisions of this act and orders of the commission, it may of its own motion summarily investigate the same.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-118 - Who May Make Complaint.

37-2-118. Who may make complaint.
Any public utility, person, municipality or the attorney general may complain to the commission of anything, actual or proposed, done or omitted to be done in violation of W.S. 37-1 through 37-64 [ 37-1-101 through 37-3-114] or W.S. 37-260 through 37-272 [ 37-12-201 through 37-12-213], or of an order of the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-119 - Matters to Be Considered and Determined in Investigation.

37-2-119. Matters to be considered and determined in investigation.
In conducting any investigation pursuant to the provisions of this act the commission may investigate, consider and determine such matters as the cost or value, or both, of the property and business of any public utility, used and useful for the convenience of the public, and all matters affecting or influencing such cost or value, the operating statistics for any public utility both as to revenues and expenses and as to the physical features of operation in such detail as the commission may deem advisable; the earnings, investment and expenditures of any such corporation as a whole within this state, and as to rates in plants of any water, electrical or gas corporations, the geographical location thereof shall be considered as well as the population of the municipality in which such plant is located.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-120 - Order in Case of Violation; Public Hearing Required for Change in Rate or Service.

37-2-120. Order in case of violation; public hearing required for change in rate or service.
Whenever, after investigation in accordance with the provisions of this act, the commission shall be of the opinion that any provisions or requirements of this act, or any order of the commission is being, has been, or is about to be violated, it may make and enter of record an order in the premises, specifying the actual or proposed acts or omissions to act which constitute such real or proposed violations, and require that such violations be discontinued or rectified, or both, or that it be prevented. No order, however, shall be made by the commission which requires the change of any rate or service, facility or service regulation except as otherwise specifically provided, unless or until all parties are afforded an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-121 - When Rate to Be Changed by Commission; Nontraditional Rate Making.

37-2-121. When rate to be changed by commission; nontraditional rate making.
If upon hearing and investigation, any rate shall be found by the commission to be inadequate or unremunerative, or to be unjust, or unreasonable, or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential or otherwise in any respect in violation of any provision of this act, the commission, within the time periods provided under W.S. 37-3-106(c) may fix and order substituted therefor a rate as it shall determine to be just and reasonable, and in compliance with the provisions of this act. The rate so ascertained, determined and fixed by the commission shall be charged, enforced, collected and observed by the public utility for the period of time fixed by the commission. The rates may contain provisions for incentives for improvement of the public utility's performance or efficiency, lowering of operating costs, control of expenses or improvement and upgrading or modernization of its services or facilities. Any public utility may apply to the commission for its consent to use innovative, incentive or nontraditional rate making methods. In conducting any investigation and holding any hearing in response thereto, the commission may consider and approve proposals which include any rate, service regulation, rate setting concept, economic development rate, service concept, nondiscriminatory revenue sharing or profit-sharing form of regulation and policy, including policies for the encouragement of the development of public utility infrastructure, services, facilities or plant within the state, which can be shown by substantial evidence to support and be consistent with the public interest.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-123 - Order Apportioning Expenses Between Joint Public Utilities.

37-2-123. Order apportioning expenses between joint public utilities.
Whenever any order of the commission involves expenditures of any sum or sums by public utilities rendering any joint service or services, and the public utilities affected thereby shall fail to agree upon the division or apportionment thereof within a reasonable time after the service of such order, the commission may issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment or division of such expense.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-124 - Records Open to Inspection by Public; Exceptions.

37-2-124. Records open to inspection by public; exceptions.
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 in this act or as ordered by the commission and under rules prescribed by the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-125 - Collection and Disposition of Fees.

37-2-125. Collection and disposition of fees.
(a) The public service commission is hereby authorized and empowered in the conduct of business coming before it to collect in advance the following fees:
(i) For filing application for permit, five dollars ($5.00) and for certificate of convenience and necessity, fifteen dollars ($15.00);
(ii) For filing applications for amendment or assignment of certificates of convenience and necessity, five dollars ($5.00);
(iii) For filing contests, five dollars ($5.00);
(iv) For each certificate and seal, two dollars ($2.00);
(v) For copies of records, judgments, and orders, one dollar ($1.00) for the first one hundred (100) words, and twenty-five cents ($.25) per folio for each subsequent folio, and if certified under seal, one dollar ($1.00) additional;
(vi) For issuing summons or subpoenas, one dollar ($1.00) each;
(vii) For service of summons or subpoenas by registered mail, fifty cents ($.50) and for personal service, by a person authorized to make such service, the same fee that sheriffs receive for such service;
(viii) In all hearings on contests or on investigations, the fees for witnesses and all other costs shall be taxed against the parties in interest as determined by the commission;
(ix) For petitions filed under W.S. 37-6-102, fifteen dollars ($15.00) each.
(b) All fees collected by the commission shall be paid to the state treasurer as collected, and shall be credited to the general fund.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-126 - Report to the Governor.

37-2-126. Report to the governor.
The commission shall, as required by W.S. 9-2-1014, report to the governor, including in such detail as the commission may deem expedient all proceedings and investigations of the commission during such period and shall contain abstracts of the reports of public utilities prepared by the commission. It shall also contain the recommendations of the commission for new legislation and any other matters the commission desires to call to the attention of the governor and the legislature.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-127 - Implied and Incidental Powers; Requiring Information From Local Utilities.

37-2-127. Implied and incidental powers; requiring information from local utilities.
In addition to the powers herein specifically granted, the commission shall have such implied or incidental powers as may be necessary and proper, effectually to carry out, perform and execute all the powers so granted. The commission shall have the power to require public utilities whose operations are purely local in extent and use to file in the office of the commission a list of their stockholders, officers and directors, with the residence and post office address of, and the amount of stock held by each.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-128 - Civil Penalty for Violation of Federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011; Generally.

37-2-128. Civil penalty for violation of federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011; generally.
Where the commission has exercised authority under the provisions of the federal Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011, 49 U.S.C. 60101, et seq., and amendments thereto, to regulate gas safety in the state of Wyoming, any person or persons as defined in that act who hereafter violate any provision of that act as made applicable to jurisdictional activities within the state of Wyoming may be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for violation for each day that the violation persists. However, the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) for any related series of violations.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-129 - Civil Penalty for Violation of Federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968; Compromise and Recovery Thereof.

37-2-129. Civil penalty for violation of federal Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968; compromise and recovery thereof.
(a) Such civil penalty may be compromised by the commission, and such determination shall be in the nature of a final order appealable by the person alleged to have committed the violation only upon his refusal to pay. In determining the amount of the penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the size of the business of the person charged, the gravity of the violation and the good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve compliance after notification of a violation shall be considered. The amount of the penalty when finally determined, or the amount agreed upon in compromise may be deducted from any sums owing by the state to the person charged or may be recovered in a civil action in the state courts.
(b) Any action to recover said sums shall be commenced in the courts in and for the county or district in which the principal office of the commission is located.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-130 - Right of Review.

37-2-130. Right of review.
A person adversely affected or aggrieved by any action, findings, conclusions or decision of the public service commission is entitled to judicial review thereof according to the procedures established by the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and the Wyoming Rules of Appellate Procedure. The standards to be applied, to judicial review proceedings, including scope of review, shall be those standards established in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-131 - Supplemental Safety Jurisdiction of Commission.

37-2-131. Supplemental safety jurisdiction of commission.
(a) The commission shall have regulatory safety jurisdiction over any "intrastate gas pipeline facility" as defined under the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006, 49 U.S.C. 60101, et seq., as amended, for the sole purpose of implementing the safety standards and practices of the federal act to such intrastate gas pipeline facility. This jurisdiction shall not apply to an "intrastate gas pipeline facility" which is otherwise subject to federal regulatory jurisdiction for safety purposes. The commission is authorized under this section to implement such safety standards and practices only to the extent the secretary of transportation is so authorized under the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006. The commission's jurisdiction under this section shall only apply where the secretary of transportation has delegated, or otherwise authorized, the state of Wyoming to act on his behalf, and the state of Wyoming has formally accepted the delegation or other authorization prior to the exercise of the jurisdiction by the commission.
(b) The commission shall have safety jurisdiction over any new or existing electrical lines used by the owner to transmit electricity which is generated by the owner for resale, and which are located upon property not exclusively controlled by the owner of the line for the purpose of enforcement of the safety requirements of the National Electrical Safety Code and those safety standards adopted by the commission. This section shall not apply to any incorporated or chartered city or town established under Wyoming law or joint powers board created under the Wyoming Joint Powers Act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-132 - Determination of Telephone Prefixes; Report to National Do-Not-Call List.

37-2-132. Determination of telephone prefixes; report to national do-not-call list.
The public service commission may determine which prefixes or telephone numbers are used in Wyoming primarily for cellular telephone service by determining prefixes or telephone numbers or by utilizing information available from the North American numbering plan administrator, the national pooling administrator, the local number portability administrator or any suitable least cost alternative as determined by the commission. The commission shall report these prefixes and telephone numbers to the national do-not-call list.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 1 - In General › Section 37-2-134 - Electric Generation Facility Closures; Presumption; Commission Review.

37-2-134. Electric generation facility closures; presumption; commission review.
(a) As used in this section:
(i) "Dispatchable" means as defined in W.S. 37-18-101(a)(ii) and includes dispatchability;
(ii) "Retirement" or "retired" means the closure of or the complete and permanent cessation of operations at an electric generation facility. "Retirement" or "retired" shall not include:
(A) An electric generation facility that is closed in order to facilitate a conversion to, or replacement with, an advanced nuclear reactor that is operated in accordance with W.S. 35-11-2101;
(B) Any closure mandated by federal law; or
(C) Any closure resulting from federal environmental requirements to where it is no longer cost effective for the facility to continue operating.
(iii) "Electric generation facility" means a facility located in Wyoming that uses coal or natural gas to generate reliable and dispatchable electricity for provision to customers;
(iv) "Reliable" means as defined in W.S. 37-18-101(a)(iv).
(b) Before authorizing or approving the retirement of an electric generation facility as proposed in a rate case, integrated resource plan or other submission to the commission, the commission shall consider the effect on available reliable, dispatchable electricity to Wyoming customers and the impact that any shortage of available energy nationwide may have on Wyoming customers.
(c) There shall be a rebuttable presumption against the retirement of an electric generation facility. The commission shall not approve the retirement of an electric generation facility unless the presumption created by this subsection is rebutted by evidence deemed sufficient by the commission to establish that:
(i) Cost savings will result to customers as a result of the retirement of the electric generation facility;
(ii) The retirement will not result in an insufficient amount of reliable and dispatchable capacity to serve Wyoming customers; and
(iii) The retirement will not adversely impact the dispatchability or reliability of electric service to customers of the public utility.
(d) The rate recovery limitations of W.S. 37-3-118 shall apply to a public utility that completes a retirement of an electric generation facility without rebutting the presumption specified in this section.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to relieve a public utility of the requirements to comply with W.S. 37-2-133 and 37-3-117 before the retirement of an electric generation facility.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-201 - Fixing Time and Place of Public Hearing; Notice and Conduct.

37-2-201. Fixing time and place of public hearing; notice and conduct.
Whenever the commission shall determine to conduct an investigation of any matter provided for in W.S. 37-1-101 through 37-3-114 and 37-12-201 through 37-12-213, either with or without complaint as in such chapter provided for, it shall fix a time and place for a public hearing of the matters under investigation, and shall notify, by registered letter requiring receipt, the complainant, the persons complained of and such other persons, as it may deem proper, of such time and place of hearing, at least twenty (20) days in advance thereof. At the hearing held pursuant to such notice, the commission, commissioner or commission employee authorized by order of the commission to conduct such hearing, may take such testimony as may be offered, or as they may desire, and may make such other and further investigation as in its opinion, is desirable.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-202 - Service of Notice.

37-2-202. Service of notice.
Service on any person of any notice or order or other matter under the provisions of this act may be made by mailing such notice, or order or other matter, or a certified copy thereof, in a registered letter requiring receipt, directed to the public utility at the principal office of such public utility in this state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-204 - Rules for Proceedings and Investigations.

37-2-204. Rules for proceedings and investigations.
The commission may from time to time make, publish or amend rules for the order and regulation of all proceedings and investigations which under the provisions of this act it is authorized to conduct.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-205.1 - Nonsitus Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.

37-2-205.1. Nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity.
(a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section and unless otherwise waived by the commission, no public utility shall begin construction or complete the purchase of a line or plant, or of any extension of a line or material addition to a plant, outside the state of Wyoming without having first obtained from the commission a nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity determining that the present or future need for the nonsitus resource is prudent and in the public interest.
(b) A certificate shall only be required under this section if:
(i) The nonsitus resource is intended by the public utility to be a capital investment in a plant on which return is earned in Wyoming; and
(ii) The capital investment in the nonsitus resource exceeds one percent (1%) of the total capital investment in the plant on which return is earned, that is assigned or allocated to Wyoming customers, based on the public utility's most recent general rate case determination.
(c) No public utility shall include a capital investment in a nonsitus resource in rates charged to Wyoming customers without having first obtained from the commission a nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to this section.
(d) Unless otherwise determined by the commission, issuance of a nonsitus certificate of public convenience and necessity shall not confer the right to recover a specific amount of the costs of the nonsitus resource in rates charged to Wyoming customers. Actual costs of the capital investment may be considered by the commission in a separate rate case determination.
(e) As used in this section:
(i) "Nonsitus resource" means construction or complete the purchase of a line or plant, or of any extension of a line or material addition to a plant, outside the state of Wyoming;
(ii) "Public utility" shall not include any cooperative electric utility as defined in W.S. 37-17-101(a)(i) that is exempt from public service commission retail rate regulation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-206 - Powers of Commission; Court to Compel Obedience to Lawful Orders.

37-2-206. Powers of commission; court to compel obedience to lawful orders.
The commission, commissioner or commission employee acting in the capacity of a hearing officer for the purpose mentioned in W.S. 37-1-101 through 37-3-114, and 37-12-201 through 37-12-213, may administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents and testimony. If any person fails to comply with any lawful order of the commission, commissioner or commission employee acting in the capacity of a hearing officer, or any subpoena, or if any witness refuses to testify to any matter regarding which he may be interrogated lawfully, the district court of any county on application of the commission, a commissioner or commission employee acting in the capacity of a hearing officer, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from the court or a refusal to testify therein.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-207 - Attendance of Witnesses, Production of Books.

37-2-207. Attendance of witnesses, production of books.
Any party to a proceeding before the commission with the consent of the commission shall have process to enforce the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books, papers, maps, contracts, reports and records of every description affecting the subject matter of the investigation.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-208 - Witness Fees.

37-2-208. Witness fees.
Witnesses who are summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid to witnesses in the district courts of this state. Witnesses whose depositions are taken pursuant to the provisions of this act and the magistrate or officer taking the same shall be entitled severally to the same fees as are paid for like services in the district courts of the state. All such fees shall be paid in the first instance by the party requesting the process and shall be taxed the same as costs and included in the order of the commission.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-209 - Plea of Self-Incrimination Unavailable; Use of Testimony in Criminal Prosecution Prohibited; Exception.

37-2-209. Plea of self-incrimination unavailable; use of testimony in criminal prosecution prohibited; exception.
No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing books, accounts and papers in any investigation or inquiry by or hearing before the commission or any commissioner, when ordered so to do, based upon or growing out of any violation of the provisions of this act, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture but no person having so testified shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may have testified or produced any documentary evidence; provided, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for perjury in so testifying.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-210 - Depositions; Rules as to Hearings and Investigations.

37-2-210. Depositions; rules as to hearings and investigations.
The commission, or with the consent of the commission, any party to the proceedings before the commission, may, in any investigation, cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in the courts of this state. All hearings and investigations before the commission shall be conducted under such rules as the commission may prescribe and adopt.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-211 - Minutes of Hearings; Parties Entitled to Transcripts.

37-2-211. Minutes of hearings; parties entitled to transcripts.
The minutes of all hearings had before or by the commission shall be kept, and shall include the names of all persons who appear and witnesses who are sworn, with the identification of any documentary evidence produced. Parties to any proceeding before the commission shall be entitled to transcripts of the testimony taken in such proceedings, subject to such reasonable rulings and regulations as the commission may prescribe.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-212 - Orders to Be in Writing; Opinions to Be Published.

37-2-212. Orders to be in writing; opinions to be published.
Every order of the commission shall be in writing and in cases of importance may be accompanied by an opinion setting forth in brief the facts on which the commission has based its order. The commission shall provide for the publication from time to time and for the assembling of its opinions and orders.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 37 - Public Utilities › Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission › Article 2 - Reports, Investigations and Hearings › Section 37-2-213 - Orders Effective Within 30 Days; Notice to Parties; Amendment or Annulment of Order.

37-2-213. Orders effective within 30 days; notice to parties; amendment or annulment of order.
Unless a different time is prescribed by the commission, every order of the commission shall be effective within thirty (30) days after the service thereof. Straightway after the entry of record of any order of the commission, notice thereof shall be given to every party required to obey the order. At any time after the entry thereof the commission in the manner provided for the making thereof may alter, amend, annul or otherwise modify any order.