District of Columbia Administrative Code

519 [REPEALED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 6170 (June 11, 2021). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Public Utilities and Cable Television 15 DCMR § 519 AUTHORITY: DC-DCMR D.C. Official Code 34-802 (2012 Repl.); 2-505 (2016 Repl.).…

520 [REPEALED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 5130, 5135 (November 19, 1982); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 34 DCR 1568 (March 6, 1987); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 6170 (June 11, 2021). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations…

521 [REPEALED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 5130, 5139 (November 19, 1982); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 6170 (June 11, 2021). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Public Utilities and Cable Television 15 DCMR § 521 AUTHORITY: DC-DCMR D…

522 [REPEALED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 5130, 5140 (November 19, 1982); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 42 DCR 5540 (October 6, 1995); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 6170 (June 11, 2021). District of Columbia Municipal Regulatio…

523 [REPEALED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 29 DCR 5130, 5140 (November 19, 1982); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 6170 (June 11, 2021). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Public Utilities and Cable Television 15 DCMR § 523 AUTHORITY: DC-DCMR D…

524 [REPEALED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 67 DCR 11091 (September 18, 2020); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 68 DCR 6170 (June 11, 2021). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Public Utilities and Cable Television 15 DCMR § 524 AUTHORITY: DC-DCMR D.C. …

600 APPLICABILITY 600.1 The provisions in this Chapter shall apply exclusively to outdoor pay telephones unless otherwise specified. 600.2 The provisions in this Chapter do not apply to outdoor pay telephones installed and operated on federal military installations and federal mi…

601 PAY TELEPHONE PROVIDER CERTIFICATION 601.1 A Pay Telephone Service Provider ("PSP") seeking to provide pay telephone services within the District of Columbia ("District") shall be certified by the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia. This certification shall…

602 CANCELLATION OF CERTIFICATE 602.1 The Commission may cancel a PSP's certificate, after providing the PSP notice and an opportunity to be heard, for any of the following reasons: (a) Failure to register any pay telephone with the Commission; (b) Improper installation or reloca…

603 [DELETED] SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 48 DCR 1151 (February 9, 2001); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 66 DCR 0664 (January 18, 2019). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Public Utilities and Cable Television 15 DCMR § 603 AUTHORITY: DC-DCMR D.C. C…

604 PAY TELEPHONE REGISTRATION 604.1 A PSP shall not install and/or operate a pay telephone in the District until the instrument is registered with the Commission. 604.2 Registration Applications shall be submitted for each proposed pay telephone. 604.3 Each Registration Applicat…

605 COMPLAINTS REGARDING THE INSTALLATION OF A PAY TELEPHONE 605.1 Any interested party may challenge a Registration Application by filing a written complaint with the Commission within forty-five (45) days of the date that notice of the Registration Application is served pursuan…

606 TWO YEAR REGISTRATION RENEWAL 606.1 The registration for each pay telephone shall be renewed every two (2) years. 606.2 PSPs shall submit a completed Pay Telephone Registration Renewal Form by March 31 of the year in which the existing registration expires. The Renewal Form m…

607 INSTALLATION 607.1 An outdoor pay telephone shall be installed within ninety (90) days after receiving approval by the Commission unless the PSP can show good cause, in writing, for delaying installation. 607.2 Failure to install an outdoor pay telephone within ninety (90) da…

608 REMOVAL 608.1 A PSP shall notify the Commission, in writing, no later than ten (10) days after removing a pay telephone, and may not install the same or another pay telephone after removal before registering that pay telephone pursuant to § 604 of this Chapter. 608.2 If the C…

609 PAY TELEPHONE SERVICES 609.1 All pay telephones shall provide the following operational characteristics: (a) Free access to dial tone, 911 emergency service, and toll-free numbers without having to deposit a coin(s); (b) Free access to all locally available long distance carr…

610 TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OF REGISTERED PAY TELEPHONES 610.1 PSPs shall not transfer ownership of registered pay telephones without the Commission's prior approval. 610.2 Pay telephones may be transferred only to PSPs that have been granted a certificate by the Commission to prov…

611 COMPLAINTS REGARDING EXISTING PAY TELEPHONES 611.1 Pay telephones associated with illegal activity or found to be a public nuisance may be subject to termination or alteration of service. 611.2 Any interested person may file a complaint concerning the operation of a pay telep…

612 INFORMAL COMPLAINTS 612.1 A complaint regarding the operation of a pay telephone may be filed with the Office of Consumer Services, which shall handle the matter as an informal complaint for resolution. 612.2 The procedures for informal complaints in § 323 shall apply to info…

613 FORMAL COMPLAINTS AND HEARINGS 613.1 A formal complaint shall conform to the requirements of § 324. Formal hearings shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures in § 325. 613.2 Within two (2) Business Days of the filing of the Complaint, the Office of the Commission S…

614 BURDEN OF PROOF 614.1 The burden of proof shall be by a preponderance of the evidence. 614.2 A preponderance of the evidence is that degree of relevant evidence which a reasonable mind, considering the record as a whole, would accept as sufficient to find a contested fact mor…

615 DECISIONS AND APPEALS 615.1 The Hearing Officer shall render a decision within thirty (30) days after the close of the record. 615.2 Any party may appeal the Hearing Officer’s decision to the Commission pursuant to § 326. The appeal shall be served on the Complainant(s), the …

616 WAIVER 616.1 The Commission may upon request, or on its own initiative after notice to the parties of its intention do so, waive any provision of this chapter for good cause. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 48 DCR 1151 (February 9, 2001); as amended by Final Rulemaking …

617 PENALTIES 617.1 Pursuant to D.C. Official Code §§ 34-706 and 34-708, a PSP that fails to comply with any lawful requirement or order of the Commission shall be subject to a fine of up to $5,000 for each day that the PSP willfully fails to comply with the Commission’s order or…

618 SUSPENSION FOR VIOLATION 618.1 If a PSP fails to adhere to the provisions of this Chapter, the Commission may suspend service to that instrument and may order the termination of service to the PSP's other pay telephones until such time as the pay telephone(s) is brought into …

699 DEFINITIONS ANC – Advisory Neighborhood Commission. MPD – Metropolitan Police Department. OPC – Office of the People’s Counsel. Pay Telephone Service Provider (“PSP”) – Any corporation, company, association, partnership or person engaged in the business of providing pay telep…

700 PURPOSE AND APPLICATION 700.1 This chapter shall apply to all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for access to or copies of Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia records made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act of 1976, effective March 25, 1977 …

701 REQUEST FOR RECORDS 701.1 A request for copies of Commission records or access to Commission records pursuant to the FOIA Act may be made orally or in writing, with the following stipulations: (a) The Commission may require an oral request to be reduced to writing and submitt…

702 TIME LIMITATIONS 702.1 Within fifteen (15) days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays) of the receipt of a request, the FOIA Officer shall determine whether to comply with or to deny the request and shall dispatch their determination to the requesting party…

703 EXEMPTIONS FROM DISCLOSURE 703.1 The classes of records authorized to be exempted from disclosure under this chapter shall be the same as those provided in D.C. Official Code § 2-534 (2016 Repl.). 703.2 Any reasonably separable portion of a record shall be provided to any per…

704 RESPONSE TO REQUESTS 704.1 When a requested record has been identified and is available, the FOIA Officer shall notify the person requesting the record where and when the record is available for inspection or copies will be available. The notification shall also advise the pe…

705 FEES 705.1 Charges for services rendered in response to FOIA requests shall be as follows: Searching for records, four dollars ($4.00) per quarter-hour, after the first hour, by clerical personnel (DS 1 through 8); Searching for records, seven dollars ($7.00) per quarter-hour…

706 APPEALS 706.1 When a request for records has been denied in whole or in part by an agency, the requester may appeal the denial to the Mayor as set forth in 1 DCMR § 412. 706.2 An appeal to the Mayor shall be in writing. The appeal letter shall include “Freedom of Information …

707 MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS 707.1 The Secretary of the Commission shall maintain a FOIA Docket of requests for public inspection. 707.2 Where the release of the identity of the person requesting the record, or other identifying details related to the request would constitute a cle…

801 COLLOCATION 801.1 The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company shall not be required to offer physical collocation for intrastate service, but shall be permitted to determine, on a central office-by-central office basis, whether interconnection shall be accomplished by physic…

898 WAIVER 898.1 The Commission may upon request, or on its own initiative after notice to the parties of its intention do so, waive any provision of this chapter for good cause. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 67 DCR 11091 (September 18, 2020). District of Columbia Municip…

899 DEFINITIONS 899.1 When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall having the meaning ascribed: Physical Collocation - a form of interconnection with local telephone company facilities whereby the interconnector is allowed to occupy a portion of the telephone …

900 GENERAL PROVISIONS 900.1 The purpose of this chapter is to set forth the policies and procedures for implementation of the net energy metering and community net metering provisions of the “Retail Electric Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 1999,” as amended, the “Clea…

901 ELIGIBLE CUSTOMER-GENERATORS 901.1 Eligible customer-generators utilizing renewable resources, cogeneration, fuel cells, or microturbines may elect and shall be afforded the opportunity to participate in net energy metering. An eligible customer-generator’s facility shall mee…

902 NET ENERGY BILLING AND CREDITING FOR CUSTOMERS OF COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERS 902.1 A customer that has elected net energy billing may obtain generation service from any Competitive Electricity Supplier that agrees to provide service on a net energy basis. In such circu…

903 NET ENERGY BILLING AND CREDITING FOR SOS CUSTOMERS 903.1 This section governs the billing practices applicable to participating net energy billing customers receiving SOS generation service during a billing period. In no event shall transmission or distribution-related usage …

904 NET METERING-RELATED EQUIPMENT 904.1 The metering equipment installed for net energy metering shall be capable of measuring the flow of electricity in two directions. 904.2 Nothing in this section shall prohibit the Electric Company from installing additional meters to separa…

905 STANDARD CONTRACT 905.1 The Electric Company shall develop a standard contract that implements these rules, which shall be subject to the review and approval of the Commission. Such standard contract shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter, as well as with the…

906 COMMUNITY RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES 906.1 A CREF: (a) shall be interconnected with the Electric Company’s distribution system and shall execute an Interconnection Agreement and CREF Rider with the Electric Company; (b) may be built, owned or operated by a third party under …

907 BILLING AND CREDITING FOR COMMUNITY NET METERING CUSTOMERS 907.1 Each Subscription is intended to offset part or all of the Subscriber’s own historical electrical requirements. In no event may a Subscriber offset more than one hundred and twenty percent (120%) of the Subscrib…

908 REPORTING AND CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMUNITY RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES 908.1 Each CREF shall register with the Electric Company. The Electric Company shall develop a Registration Form within thirty (30) days of these rules becoming final. The Registration Form shall…

909 DISPUTE RESOLUTION 909.1 Any dispute related to the CREF Subscriber’s bill regarding the accuracy or calculation of the bill is subject to the Commission’s Complaint Procedures under Chapter 3 of Title 15 of the DCMR (rules for residential customer complaints), or Chapter 18 …

910 WAIVER 910.1 The Commission may upon request, or on its own initiative after notice to the parties of its intention do so, waive any provision of this chapter for good cause. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 5694 (May 8, 2015); as amended by Final Rulemaking publi…

999 DEFINITIONS When used in this chapter; the following terms and phrases shall have the following meaning: “Back-up generation” – Any electric generating facility, as defined in D.C. Official Code Section 34-205, which is connected to the electric distribution system in the Dis…