Title XXV, INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

386.010. Short title of law. — This chapter* shall be known as the "Public Service Commission Law", and shall apply to the public services herein described and the commission herein created, and to the public service corporations, persons and public utilities mentioned and referr…

386.020. Definitions. — As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases mean: (1) "Alternative local exchange telecommunications company", a local exchange telecommunications company certified by the commission to provide basic or nonbasic local telecommunications servic…

386.030. Chapter not applicable to interstate commerce. — Neither this chapter, nor any provision of this chapter, except when specifically so stated, shall apply to or be construed to apply to commerce with foreign nations or commerce among the several states of this union, exce…

386.040. Commission established. — A "Public Service Commission" is hereby created and established, which said public service commission shall be vested with and possessed of the powers and duties in this chapter specified, and also all powers necessary or proper to enable it to …

386.050. Appointment of commissioners — qualifications — tenure. — The commission shall consist of five members who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, and one of whom shall be designated by the governor to be chair of the commission. Ea…

386.060. Removal of commissioners. — The governor may remove any commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in office, giving to him a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity of being publicly heard in person or by counsel, in his own defense, upon n…

386.071. General counsel authorized, qualifications, duties. — The public service commission may appoint and fix the compensation of a general counsel to serve at the pleasure of the commission. He shall be an attorney at law and shall have resided in this state prior to his* app…

386.090. Secretary to the commission — duties. — The commission may appoint a secretary who shall serve during the pleasure of the commission. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a full and true record of all the proceedings of the commission, of all books, maps, docume…

386.110. Oath of office — eligibility of commissioners and officers. — Each commissioner and each person appointed to office or employment by the governor or by the commission shall, before entering upon the duties of the commissioner's office or employment, take and subscribe to…

386.1100. Mandatory use of time-of-use rates, opt out, procedure. — If the commission has ordered adoption of time-of-use rates on a mandatory basis for an electrical corporation's residential customers before August 28, 2025, then within one year from August 28, 2025, the commis…

386.120. Office of commission, hours — meetings — official seal — equipment, supplies — commissioners to reside where — service upon commission, what constitutes, how made. — 1. The principal office of the commission shall be at the state capital at the city of Jefferson City. Th…

386.125. Public service commission, rulemaking authority. — Beginning January 1, 2007, any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under authority delegated to the public service commission shall become effective only if it complies …

386.130. Organization of commission — quorum — powers of a commissioner. — The commission shall promptly and duly organize. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty or for the exercise of any po…

386.135. Independent technical staff for commission authorized, qualifications — personal advisors permitted — corresponding elimination of positions required — duties of technical staff. — 1. The commission may retain an independent technical advisory staff of up to six full-tim…

386.140. Chairman — his powers. — The chairman of the commission shall designate from time to time, by order entered of record, some member of the commission to act as chairman during the absence or sickness of such chairman appointed by the governor, and during such time the com…

386.145. Records destroyed, when. — The chairman of the public service commission may destroy by burning, or otherwise dispose of as ordered by the public service commission, such records, financial statements and such public documents which shall at the time of destruction or di…

386.150. Commissioner's compensation — other employees' compensation, how fixed — reimbursement of expenses, when. — The annual salary of each commissioner shall be fifty-five hundred dollars plus any salary adjustment provided pursuant to section 105.055. The salary of the secre…

386.160. Payment of salaries and expenses. — All salaries and expenses of the commission shall be audited and allowed by the commissioner of administration and paid by the state treasurer upon warrants out of the funds provided therefor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5591, A. 1949 H.B.…

386.170. Publications commission, powers. — The members of the public service commission are hereby made and constituted a publications commission to select and designate what findings, orders and decisions of the public service commission shall be published in a series of volume…

386.180. Duties of publications commission. — 1. It shall be the duty of the publications commission to meet from time to time, as occasion may demand, and select from the findings, orders and decisions of the public service commission the decisions which in the judgment of the p…

386.190. Member of publications commission, compensation — report to governor on certain federal actions, when — compensation for extra duties. — 1. For his services each member of the publications commission shall annually receive from the state the sum of fifty-two thousand dol…

386.200. Conflicts of interest by commissioner or employees of commission prohibited — penalty for violation — violation by utility, penalty — violation by officer of utility, penalty. — 1. Every commissioner, the public counsel and every person employed or appointed to office, e…

386.210. Conferences, limitation on communications — cooperative agreements, investigations authorized — funds may be received and distributed, how — regulatory and judicial proceedings, intervening permitted. — 1. The commission may confer in person, or by correspondence, by att…

386.230. Act as arbitrators. — Whenever any public utility has a controversy with another public utility or person and all the parties to such controversy agree in writing to submit such controversy to the commission as arbitrators, the commission shall act as such arbitrators, a…

386.240. Powers of commission, how exercised. — The commission may authorize any person employed by it to do or perform any act, matter or thing which the commission is authorized by this chapter to do or perform; provided, that no order, rule or regulation of any person employed…

386.250. Jurisdiction of commission. — The jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the public service commission herein created and established shall extend under this chapter: (1) To the manufacture, sale or distribution of gas, natural and artificial, and electricity fo…

386.260. Commission to fix units of service. — The commission shall ascertain, determine and fix for each kind of public utility suitable and convenient standard commercial units of service, product or commodity, which units shall be lawful units for the purposes of this chapter.…

386.266. Rate schedules for interim energy charges or periodic rate adjustment — application for approval, procedure — adjustment mechanisms — rulemaking authority — task force to be appointed — surveillance monitoring, requirements. — 1. Subject to the requirements of this secti…

386.270. All orders prima facie lawful and reasonable. — All rates, tolls, charges, schedules and joint rates fixed by the commission shall be in force and shall be prima facie lawful, and all regulations, practices and services prescribed by the commission shall be in force and …

386.280. Orders to be written — recording — effect — utility office, where kept. — 1. Every order, authorization or certificate issued or approved by the commission under any provision of this chapter shall be in writing and entered on the records of the commission. Any such orde…

386.290. Certified copies of papers filed to be evidence. — Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited according to law in the office of the commission, certified by a commissioner or by the secretary of the commission to be true copies of the originals, under…

386.300. Fees authorized — deposited, where, how. — 1. The commission may adopt rules establishing charges for copies of papers and records, official documents and orders filed with the commission, certificates under seal, certified copies of the annual report of the commission, …

386.310. Safety and health of public and employees — promulgation of rules — territorial rights, rules. — 1. The commission shall have power, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, by general or special orders, rules or regulations, or otherwise, to require ev…

386.315. Commission shall not change terms of employment subject to collective bargaining or certain accounting standards — use of accounting standard by utility, requirements — tariff filing allowed, conditions — examination of tariffs, review period. — 1. In establishing public…

386.320. General supervision of telegraph and telephone corporations. — 1. The commission shall have the general supervision of all telegraph corporations or telephone corporations, and telegraph and telephone lines, as herein defined, and shall have power to and shall examine th…

386.330. Investigatory power of commission, exception, telephone yellow page listings — complaint by public, how made — final order to be made, when. — 1. The commission may, of its own motion, investigate or make inquiry, in a manner to be determined by it, as to any act or thin…

386.360. Commission to investigate mandamus or injunctive actions, when — hearings, when held — parties, when joined — form of final judgment. — 1. Whenever the commission shall be of the opinion that a public utility, municipal gas system, person or corporation is failing or omi…

386.370. Estimate of expenses — assessments against utilities — public service commission fund — statement on gross intrastate operating revenues. — 1. The commission shall, prior to the beginning of each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year commencing on July 1, 1947, make…

386.371. Taxes and costs paid by public utility on reclassification of personal property to real property, recoverable in service rates, when — commission's duties. — All taxes and costs of financing taxes which are paid subsequent to August 1, 1992, by a public utility, as defin…

386.380. Reports of commission. — 1. All proceedings of the commission and all documents and records in its possession shall be public records. The commission shall make and submit to the governor on or before the second Monday in January in each year a report containing a full a…

386.390. Complaint, who may make — procedure to hear — service of process, how had — time and place of hearing, how fixed. — 1. Complaint may be made by the commission of its own motion, or by the public counsel or any corporation or person, chamber of commerce, board of trade, o…

386.400. Utilities, corporations and persons may file complaint. — Any corporation, person or public utility shall have the right to complain on any of the grounds upon which complaints are allowed to be filed by other parties, and the same procedure shall be adopted and followed…

386.410. Commission to adopt rules of procedure, technical rules of evidence not to apply — proceedings to be informal. — 1. All hearings before the commission or a commissioner shall be governed by rules to be adopted and prescribed by the commission. And in all investigations, …

386.420. Persons entitled to be heard — commission to make report, when — depositions authorized — may enforce attendance at hearings — record of proceedings to be kept — detailed reconciliation required, when. — 1. At the time fixed for any hearing before the commission or a com…

386.430. Burden of proof on adverse party. — In all trials, actions, suits and proceedings arising under the provisions of this chapter or growing out of the exercise of the authority and powers granted herein to the commission, the burden of proof shall be upon the party adverse…

386.440. Subpoenas, how issued — witness fees, how paid — subpoena service costs, how paid — certified copies of public records to be furnished to commission. — 1. All subpoenas shall be signed and issued by a commissioner or by the secretary of the commission, and shall extend t…

386.450. Inspection of out of state records. — At the request of the public counsel and upon good cause shown by him the commission shall require or on its own initiative the commission may require, by order served upon any corporation, person or public utility in the manner prov…

386.460. Refusal to attend or produce books or papers, guilty of misdemeanor — penalty. — If a person subpoenaed to appear before the commission or a commissioner fails to obey the command of such subpoena, without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance upon the commissio…

386.470. Immunity of witnesses to prosecution. — No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any books or papers in any investigation or inquiry by or upon any hearing before the commission or any commissioner, when ordered to do so by the commission, upon the gr…

386.480. Information not to be divulged — exception — penalty. — No information furnished to the commission by a corporation, person or public utility, except such matters as are specifically required to be open to public inspection by the provisions of this chapter, or chapter 6…