Title 37

All facilities used in this state for the transportation of hazardous liquids and the liquification of natural gas shall be constructed, operated and maintained in such safe manner as at all times to be in compliance with the defined federal minimum standards. (Acts 1988, 1st Ex.…

The commission shall have the right, power and authority: to provide and make certification, reports and information to the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; to enter into agreements with said secretary to carry out the purposes of this article; to enfo…

In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline facility is operating in compliance with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Alabama Public Service Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regula…

Upon petition of the commission, the circuit court in any county in which a violation of this article exists shall have jurisdiction to restrain such violations and to enforce compliance with the safety standards herein required. (Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-915, p. 508, §5.…

The Alabama Public Service Commission shall be authorized to employ, subject to the provisions of the Merit System Act, such inspectors or other qualified employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. (Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-915, p. 508, §6.…

(a) Any person who violates any provision of this article or any regulation issued hereunder shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for each violation for each day that the violation persists. However, the maximum civil penalty s…

Nothing in this article shall be deemed to confer upon the commission any additional power or jurisdiction to supervise or regulate the rates, services, franchises, or other matters pertaining to pipeline facilities or transportation of hazardous liquids except with respect to th…

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Alabama Radio Utility Act.” (Acts 1971, No. 1595, p. 2733, §1.)

The following words, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context: (1) COMMISSION. The Public Service Commission of Alabama. (2) PERSON. Such term shall include any individual, partnerships, corporations, compani…

No person shall begin or continue the construction or operation of any radio utility system, or any geographical extension thereof, or acquire ownership or control thereof either directly or indirectly without first obtaining from the public service commission a certificate that …

(a) Upon the filing of an application for such certificate, the commission shall fix the time and place for a hearing thereon and shall cause notice thereof to be given to such parties in interest as the commission may deem necessary. In the event the applicant proposes to interc…

Any person who, on September 28, 1971, either is engaged in the construction or operation of any radio utility system licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, or who holds a valid existing certificate previously issued by the commission to provide interconnected radio u…

No such certificate of public convenience and necessity may be transferred, assigned or encumbered unless such transaction is first approved, after hearing, by the commission. (Acts 1971, No. 1595, p. 2733, §6.)

No radio utility shall combine, merge or consolidate with, or acquire control of, another organization without first obtaining the approval of the commission, which shall be granted only after hearing and finding that such proposed combination, merger, consolidation or acquisitio…

The commission may, after affording the holder an opportunity to be heard, revoke, suspend or alter any such certificate of public convenience and necessity for the willful violation of any provision of this article or the rules and regulations or orders of the commission made un…

(a) The commission shall have the power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate every radio utility operating within this state and its property, property rights, equipment, facilities, contracts, certificates and franchises so far as may be necessary to carry out the purposes…

The commission shall prescribe just and reasonable rates, charges and classifications for the services rendered by a radio utility to subscribers, and the tariffs therefor shall be in such form and shall be filed and published in such manner and on such notice as the commission m…

Except as provided in Section 37-4-104, the commission shall not grant a certificate for a proposed radio utility operation, or extension thereof, into an established service area, which will be in competition with, or duplication of the service of, any other radio utility unless…

The provisions of this article relate only to “radio utilities” as defined in this article and shall not apply to mobile radio telephone service offered by landline telephone or telegraph utilities regulated by the commission. (Acts 1971, No. 1595, p. 2733, §12.)

Each radio utility holding a certificate from the commission may interconnect its facilities with the communication facilities of any other regulated communication company operating in the area in which the radio utility is located, provided an agreement can be reached between th…

Any radio utility operating a radio system under authority of a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Alabama Public Service Commission shall, where necessary and upon making due compensation, have the right to construct, maintain and operate antennas and …

From any final action or order of the commission in the exercise of the jurisdiction, power and authority conferred upon it by this article, an appeal shall lie to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, and thence to the Supreme Court of Alabama. All appeals to the Circuit Court…

(a) Any person or the officer, agent or employee of any organization who willfully violates any provision of this article or of any rule, regulation or order adopted thereunder, or who willfully procures, aids or abets any violation of such a provision, shall be guilty of a misde…

(a) Each radio utility, as defined in this article, doing business in this state and subject to the control and jurisdiction of the commission with respect to its rates and service regulations, shall pay quarterly to the commission, beginning on November 1, 1988, and on each quar…

For all the purposes of this article, the commission may, in its discretion, deem and treat any radio utility, the property of which is operated in connection with or as a part of a general system of any other radio utility and all of the capital stock of which or substantially a…

Every electric public utility corporation organized under the laws of this state, and every such corporation organized under the laws of any other state of the United States and which has complied with the constitution and laws of this state as to foreign corporations, may in add…

The procedure for condemnation under Section 37-4-130 shall be in the manner provided for the condemnation of lands and rights-of-way or easements for public use in Chapter 1A of Title 18; or, at the option of the condemning party, in the manner provided in any other statute conf…

(a) For purposes of this section only, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) AVOIDED COSTS. Costs that a utility or a commission non-jurisdictional electric supplier which purchases electrical energy from a distributed generation facility would have been requ…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Energy Security Act of 2015. (b) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that due to the economic, financial, and service impacts associated with the development of electric transmission facilities used for the furnishing …

For the purposes of this article the following terms have the following meanings: (1) AFFILIATED SYSTEM. A sewer or wastewater system that is both under common ownership or control with a regulated sewer or wastewater entity and not subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Servi…

(a) An affiliated system may elect to become subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission by filing a notice with the commission. (b) The Public Service Commission shall certify and regulate an affiliated system making an election under this section in …

An affiliated system making an election under Section 37-4-161 shall be subject to the fees established by the Public Service Commission for wastewater management entities under Section 22–25B–7. (Act 2025-106, §3.)

(a) Nothing in this article shall infringe upon or replace the authority granted to the Jefferson County Board of Health pursuant to Act No. 659 (1978). (b) This article shall not apply in any county that has a local constitutional amendment authorizing the regulation of wastewat…