Title XXXIV, Public Utilities

No commissioner, or former executive director, finance director, or general counsel of the commission shall accept any employment with any utility under the control of the commission until one year after he or she shall become separated from the commission.

Any record, order, certificate, or other process, document, or paper, issued or made by the commission may be signed by such member of the staff as the commission may authorize for such purpose.

The commission shall have an official seal in such form as the commission may prescribe, and all copies of official documents and orders filed or deposited with or made by said commission, duly certified and authenticated by said seal, shall be received in evidence in any court i…

The commission shall be provided with an office in which its records, documents and books shall be kept, and with a suitable room in which it may hold hearings.

A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum to issue orders, and any hearing may be held or conducted by 2 commissioners or by a single commissioner.

No hearing, except in accident cases, shall be held or conducted by a single commissioner if any party whose interests may be affected shall, 5 days before the date of hearing, file a request in writing that the same be held or conducted by the full commission, or a majority ther…

The commission shall be the arbiter between the interests of the customer and the interests of the regulated utilities as provided by this title and all powers and duties provided to the commission by RSA 363 or any other provisions of this title shall be exercised in a manner co…

The commission shall issue a final order on all matters presented to it. Matters resolved by final order of the commission shall be exempt from RSA 541-A:29 and RSA 541-A:29-a, but shall be subject to federal and state time limitations applicable to specific matters. The transcri…

The commission's deliberative processes in adjudicatory proceedings held pursuant to RSA 541-A and investigations held pursuant to its authority under Title 33 shall be privileged and exempt from the public meeting, notice, and disclosure provisions of RSA 91-A. Decisions and ord…

The commission may confer and cooperate with any other state, federal, or local agency in any matter relating to its duties.

No commissioner shall sit upon the hearing of any question which the commissioner is to decide in a judicial capacity who would be disqualified for any cause, except exemption from service and knowledge of the facts involved gained in the performance of his official duties, to ac…

The members of the public utilities commission in office on August 1, 1979, shall continue in office as public utilities commissioners for the balance of their respective terms. Any member appointed prior to January 1, 1979, shall not be required to be a full-time employee and ma…

If at any time a commissioner shall be disqualified or unable to perform the duties of his office, the governor, upon application of the commission, may, with the consent of the council, appoint a special commissioner to act in his place during the period of the commissioner's di…

The commissioner so appointed shall be paid a reasonable compensation per day for his services, and his necessary expenses, to be allowed by the governor and council and paid from the state treasury.

Except as pertains to any end user of an excepted local exchange carrier or services provided to such end user, the commission may investigate all existing or proposed interstate rates, fares, charges, classifications and rules and regulations relating thereto, where any act ther…

When the same are found to be, in the opinion of the commission, unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory or otherwise in any respect in violation of the provisions of the act to regulate commerce, or of any other act of Congress, or in conflict with the rules and orders of …

The commission shall publish and file with the governor and council, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the appropriate standing committees of the senate and the house of representatives a report not later than December 1 of each odd num…

The commission may, from time to time, subject to the approval of the governor and council, publish such of its reports and orders and such statistics and other information concerning public utilities doing business in this state as the commission may deem to be of public interes…

I. In the exercise of the jurisdiction and performance of the duties prescribed by law, the commission shall have the power, subject to the state personnel regulations and within the limits of the appropriation for such purpose, to employ and fix the compensation of such regular …

I. The office of the consumer advocate shall be an independent agency administratively attached to the department of energy pursuant to RSA 21-G:10. The office shall consist of the following: (a) A consumer advocate, appointed by the governor and council, who shall be a qualified…

I. There is established the residential ratepayers advisory board which shall provide oversight of the office of the consumer advocate as established by RSA 363:28 and ensure that the consumer advocate shall focus exclusively on assuring that residential utility customers receive…

In each odd numbered year, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council following a public hearing before the council, shall appoint one commissioner to take office on July 1 of that year. Vacancies shall be filled in like manner for the unexpired term.

In this subdivision: I. "Individual customer data" means information that is collected as part of providing electric, natural gas, water, or related services to a customer that can identify, singly or in combination, that specific customer, including the name, address, account nu…

I. No service provider shall: (a) Share, disclose, or otherwise make accessible to any third party a customer's individual customer data, except as provided in paragraph V or upon the express consent of the customer. (b) Sell individual customer data for any purpose without the e…

When complaints to the department of energy are initiated by residential customers, the department shall provide to the consumer advocate access to the complaint, by paper or electronically, with the customer name blocked out, at the same time as the department forwards the compl…

The chairman of the commission shall be appointed and commissioned as such and shall be the administrative head of the agency.

No person who owns stock in, or is employed by or otherwise pecuniarily interested in any public utility in this state, or any affiliate thereof, shall be appointed upon said commission.

If, after his appointment, any commissioner shall voluntarily become interested pecuniarily in any such public utility, or affiliate, he shall be removed by the governor and council, and if he shall become so interested otherwise than voluntarily, and shall not within a reasonabl…

The governor and council may at any time remove any commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office; but no commissioner shall be removed without a hearing after notice in writing of the charges against him.

No member of the commission shall render any professional service for any public utility in this state, or any affiliate thereof, or act as attorney or render professional service against any such public utility or affiliate; nor shall he be a member of a firm which renders any s…

No commissioner shall hold any national or other state office of profit except the office of justice of the peace or notary public.