North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 1 › Section 11 R01-28 - GIVING NOTICE OR FILING PAPERS WITH THE COMMISSION BY MAIL; ELECTRONIC FILING

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) Any notice, motion, pleading, or other
				document or paper may be filed with or served on the Commission by hand
				delivery, courier service, or United States mail, unless required by statute to
				be filed or served by some other means, but the same shall not be deemed filed
				or served until the day and date actually received at the office of the
				Commission in Raleigh. Rule R1-27 also applies to giving notice of filing
				papers by mail. In addition, any notice, motion, pleading, or other document
				may be electronically filed with the Commission using the Commission's online
				electronic filing system.
(b) An
				electronic filing may consist of one or multiple files. Confidential
				information must be redacted from public filings. Each filing must be either
				public or confidential, and confidential files must be so marked when filed.
				When a party files confidential information, the party must make two separate
				filings. The first is a complete copy of the confidential version of the filing
				with the word "confidential" in the description of the filing. The second is a
				public filing constituting a complete copy of the filing with confidential
				information redacted in such a way that the pagination of both the confidential
				and public filings is the same and with the word "redacted" included in the
				description of the filing. Except as provided in Section (e) below, do not file
				paper copies of documents that are filed electronically. Other provisions of
				any statute, rule, or order regarding the content and format of specific
				filings remain applicable.
(c) All
				documents filed electronically should be filed in a text-based, searchable,
				noncompressed Portable Document Format (i.e., PDF) format rather than in an
				image file format.
(d) The typed
				characters representing the name of a person shall be sufficient to show that
				such person has signed the pleading or other document for purposes of
				electronic filing. Verification pages, when required, shall be printed, signed,
				notarized, converted to an electronic format, and included in the electronic
				filing as a separate file.
(e) The
				following documents should be filed electronically; provided, however, fifteen
				(15) three-hole punched paper copies of the entire filing, one of which shall
				be single-sided, must be provided to the Commission on the following business
				day in lieu of the number of copies required pursuant to the applicable
				statute, rule, or order. If such filing is made electronically on the day of or
				day before a hearing on the matter, the paper copies shall be provided to the
				Commission no later than one (1) hour prior to the scheduled start of the
				hearing. The failure to provide the required number of paper copies within the
				prescribed timeframe may result in the electronic filing being rejected and
				excluded from the record in that proceeding.
(1) For all Class A and B electric,
				telephone, natural gas, water, and sewer utilities, applications for or filings
				of a general increase in rates, fares, or charges for revenue purposes or to
				increase the rate of return on investment or to change transportation rates,
				fares, etc. pursuant to Rule R1-17, and all testimony and exhibits of expert
				witnesses filed by any party to the general rate case proceeding.
(2) For all Class A and B electric utilities,
				applications for changes in rates in annual rate rider proceedings pursuant to
				G.S.
				62-133.2,
				62-133.8, and
				62-133.9, and Rules R8-55, R8-67,
				and R8-69, and all testimony and exhibits of expert witnesses filed by any
				party to such proceeding.
(3) For
				all Class A and B natural gas utilities, applications for changes in rates in
				annual prudency review proceedings pursuant to
				G.S.
				62-133.4 and Rule R1-17(k), and all testimony
				and exhibits of expert witnesses filed by any party to such
				proceeding.
(4) Other documents,
				such as testimony and exhibits of expert witnesses, as ordered in specific
				proceedings.
In addition to the above requirements, when applicable,
				  copies of testimony and exhibits of each expert witness shall be separated, one
				  from the other, by the use of colored paper dividers such that one witness'
				  testimony or separate exhibit shall not begin on the reverse side of the same
				  page as another when provided to the Chief Clerk's Office.