Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 126 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Division 03 - Utilities Section › Rule 126.03.10-001 - Electronic Filing Rules

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
REVISIONS TO THE CURRENT RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
				TO IMPLEMENT ELECTRONIC FILING
Rule
			 2.08.
Service
(a) By the Commission
Process issued by the Commission, as well as notices,
				complaints, Rules, orders, and regulations of the Commission, may be served by
				any person authorized to serve process issued out of courts of law, by mail, by
				facsimile, by commercial delivery service, by electronic mail, or other method
				as directed by the Commission. Where service is by mail, a duplicate of the
				instrument served shall be enclosed, upon which duplicate the Person served
				shall endorse the date of receipt of the original and promptly return the
				duplicate to the Commission. Where service is by electronic mail, the Secretary
				shall request a read receipt or similar process to indicate reception of the
				electronic mail and shall preserve the receipt until the Docket is closed. The
				recipient shall have the duty to acknowledge receipt of the electronic
				mail.
(b) By Parties
(1) Except for a pleading which initiates a
			 Docket, and unless otherwise provided in the RPPs or by Commission order, all
			 documents a Party files shall include a certificate:
(A) showing simultaneous service of the
			 document upon all Persons on the Official Service List who do not have
			 electronic mail and noting the name of each and the method and date of service,
			 and
(B) noting electronic service
			 pursuant to the Commission's Electronic Filing System for Persons on the
			 Official Service List with an electronic mail address. No further service is
			 required.
(2) For
			 Persons on the Official Service List without electronic mail, service shall be
			 made by personal delivery; properly addressed first class mail or commercial
			 delivery service (with charges prepaid); facsimile transmission; or other
			 method approved by the Commission.
(c) Service is presumptively complete as
			 follows:
(1) When filing electronically, at
			 the time the document is filed electronically and sent to the Persons on the
			 Official Service List with an electronic mail address by the Secretary pursuant
			 to the electronic filing system;
(2) By electronic mail, upon sending to the
			 electronic mail address on the Official Service List;
(3) By facsimile, upon sending to the
			 facsimile number on the Official Service List;
(4) By personal delivery, upon delivery to
			 the address on the Official Service List;
(5) By mail, upon mailing to the address on
			 the Official Service List; or
(6)
			 By commercial delivery service, upon depositing the papers with the commercial
			 delivery company properly addressed to the address on the Official Service
			 List.
(d) Computation of
			 Time for Performance or Response
In computing the time within which an act must be performed or
				a response made, the day of the act from which the designated period of time
				begins to run shall not be included and the last day shall be included unless
				it is a Saturday, Sunday, Legal Holiday, or other day in which the Commission's
				office is closed, in which event the period shall extend to the next business
				day. If service to a Party is by mail, three (3) business days shall be added
				to the time allowed for that Party for response to, or compliance with, any
				pleading or order.
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THE FOLLOWING ARE NEW RULES TO BE ADDED TO SECTION 2 OF
				THE CURRENTLY-EFFECTIVE RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
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