Title 61 — PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION

61-301. Charges just and reasonable. All charges made, demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two (2) or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or any service rendered or to be rendered shall be just and reasonable. Every u…

61-301A. requiring social security number — prohibited — EXCEPTION. No public utility shall require an applicant for any product or commodity furnished by the public utility or service rendered by the public utility to disclose more than four (4) digits of the applicant’s social …

61-302. Maintenance of adequate service. Every public utility shall furnish, provide and maintain such service, instrumentalities, equipment and facilities as shall promote the safety, health, comfort and convenience of its patrons, employees and the public, and as shall be in al…

61-303. Rules and regulations just and reasonable. All rules and regulations made by a public utility affecting or pertaining to its charges or service to the public shall be just and reasonable.

61-305. Schedules of PUBLIC UTILITIES. Under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, every public utility shall file with the commission within such time and in such form as the commission may designate and shall print and keep open to public inspection schedu…

61-306. Schedules — Change in form. The commission shall have the power, from time to time, in its discretion, to determine and prescribe by order such changes in the form of the schedules referred to in the two (2) preceding sections as it may find expedient, and to modify the r…

61-307. Schedules — Change in rate and service. Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any public utility in any rate, rental, charge or classification, or in any rule, regulation or contract relating to or affecting any rate, rental, charge, classific…

61-308. Schedules — Joint rates. The names of the several public utilities that are parties to any joint tariff, rate, contract, classification or charge shall be specified in the schedule or schedules showing the same. Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, a schedule showi…

61-313. Schedule charges only permitted. Except as in this act otherwise provided, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or lesser or different compensation from any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or for any service rendered or to…

61-313A. existing agreements. (1) No public utility that purchases, acquires, combines with, or merges with another public utility shall fail to honor an agreement entered into between the predecessor utility and a developer, property owner, or public utility customer unless: (a)…

61-314. Schedule of rates within and without state. Every telephone corporation shall print and file or cause to be filed with the commission schedules showing all rates, rentals, charges and classifications for the transmission of messages or conversations between all points wit…

61-315. Discrimination and preference prohibited. No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any corporation or person or subject any corporation or person to any prejudice or disadvanta…

61-316. Profits. Nothing in this act shall be taken to prohibit any public utility from itself profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies or improvements which it may make, and from distributing by way of dividends or otherwise disposin…

61-317. Sliding scale of charges — Automatic adjustment. Nothing in this act shall be taken to prohibit a corporation or person engaged in the production, generation, transmission or furnishing of heat, light, water or power, or telephone service, from establishing a sliding scal…

61-318. Interchange of traffic — Duty of establishing joint rates. Every common carrier shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the prompt and efficient interchange and transfer of passengers, tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, between the lines owned, operat…

61-319. Interchange of telephone messages. Every telephone corporation operating in this state shall receive, transmit, and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations and messages of every other telephone corporation with whose line a physical connection may have…

61-320. False billing — Transportation at less than scheduled rates prohibited. No common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall, by means of known false billing, classification, weight, weighing or report of weight, or by any …

61-321. False claim for damages. No person or corporation, or any officer, agent or employee of a corporation, shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, by any false statement or representation as to cost or value, or the nature or extent of an injury, or by the use of any false b…

61-323. Telephone companies — Long and short distance service. No telephone corporation subject to the provisions of this act shall charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transmission of any long distance message or conversation for a shorter than for…

61-324. Railroads — Switch connection. Any railroad company subject to the provisions of this act, upon application of any lateral, branch line of railroad or of any shipper tendering traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain and operate upon reasonable terms a switch…

61-325. Railroads — Spurs. Under the conditions specified in the proviso in section 61-324, every railroad corporation, upon the application of any corporation or person being a shipper or receiver or contemplated shipper or receiver of freight, or when ordered by the commission,…

61-327. Electric utility property — Acquisition by certain public agencies prohibited. No title to or interest in any public utility (as such term is defined in chapter 1, title 61, Idaho Code) property located in this state which is used in the generation, transmission, distribu…

61-328. Electric utilities — Sale of property to be approved by commission. (1) No electric public utility or electrical corporation as defined in chapter 1, title 61, Idaho Code, owning, controlling or operating any property located in this state which is used in the generation,…

61-329. Unlawful transfer or acquisition — Escheat. Any such property or interest in property hereafter transferred or acquired in violation of this act shall escheat to the state of Idaho. The attorney general of the state shall institute proceedings in the district court of any…

61-330. Evasions of act — Conclusive presumptions. Every conveyance or transfer of property, or any interest therein, in violation of the provisions of this act, whether voluntary or involuntary, or though colorable in form, or if made with the intent or purpose to evade or avoid…

61-331. Violation of act — Criminal penalty. If any person, or two (2) or more persons, act, negotiate, participate, attempt, arrange or conspire to make or effect, or to receive or take, a transfer of any real or personal property used for the purposes specified in section 61-32…

61-332. Purpose of electric supplier stabilization act. (1) This act includes sections 61-332 through 61-334C, Idaho Code, and shall be referred to herein as "this act" and may be cited and referred to as the "Electric Supplier Stabilization Act." (2) This act and its amendments …

61-332A. Definitions for electric supplier stabilization act. As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Public utility" means an electric utility regulated by the Idaho public utilities commission. (2) "Cooperative" means a cooperative corporation furnishin…

61-332B. Electric supplier prohibited from serving consumers or former consumers of another electric supplier. No electric supplier shall supply or furnish electric service to any electric service entrance that is then or had at any time previously been lawfully connected for ele…

61-332C. Provisions for selecting electric supplier for new electric service entrances. (1) In determining which electric supplier will provide electric service for a new service entrance, the following provisions will govern: (a) If no electric supplier has an existing service l…

61-332D. Wheeling services. (1) An electric supplier shall not be required to provide wheeling service over its system if such service results in retail wheeling and/or a sham wholesale transaction. (2) An electric supplier declining to furnish wheeling service pursuant to this s…

61-333. Authorizing contracts among electric suppliers to resolve territories, consumers and to transfer facilities. (1) Any electric supplier may contract in writing with any other electric supplier for the purpose of allocating territories, consumers, and future consumers betwe…

61-333A. Increased area — Extension of service permitted. In the event an area hereafter shall be included as a result of incorporation or annexation within the boundaries of a city, town or village, any public utility and any cooperative association organized for the purpose of …

61-333B. Municipal corporation restricted in serving new area previously served by utility or cooperative association — Voluntary agreements — Election — Appeals. In the event the annexing municipality has been furnishing electric service to its residents at the time of such anne…

61-333C. Nonmunicipal service organizations prohibited from extending service. Nothing contained herein shall authorize any cooperative association or public utility having transmission lines presently within corporate limits of any municipal corporation, presently engaged in the…

61-334. Special rules of interpretation. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to: (1) Grant the commission jurisdiction over cooperatives or municipalities except as authorized in this act. (2) Apply to controversies between two (2) or more public utilities. (3) Precl…

61-334A. Remedies for violation of this act. (1) Any electric supplier or consumer whose rights under this act shall be violated or threatened with violation may file a complaint with the commission against an electric supplier and any other person responsible for the violation. …

61-334B. Commission supervision and authority. (1) Upon a petition by an electric supplier or consumer for an exception to the provisions of section 61-332B or 61-332C(1)(a), (b) or (c), Idaho Code, the commission shall issue an order granting such request only upon finding that …

61-334C. Electric supplier immunity. No action under the Idaho competition act, chapter 1, title 48, Idaho Code, or any other provision or doctrine of law of the state of Idaho shall lie against an electric supplier for action or inaction that is in compliance with the provisions…

61-336. Additional authorities of electrical or natural gas corporations. The commission may authorize any public utility that is an electrical or natural gas corporation to file and place into effect schedules establishing rates or charges for energy conservation measures, servi…

61-337. Fish and wildlife mitigation information. (1) On and after July 1, 2004, each electric utility with one thousand (1,000) customers or more may provide information in its bills to its customers regarding the percentage of the electric utility’s costs of supplying electric …