Title XXXIV, Public Utilities

The state does pledge to and agree with the holders of the bonds or notes issued pursuant to authority contained in this chapter that the state will not limit or restrict the rights hereby vested in the bank to purchase, acquire, hold, sell or dispose of utility bonds or other in…

Any holder of bonds or notes issued under this chapter, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under a trust agreement or resolution securing the same, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust agreement or resolution, ma…

The department shall advocate for New Hampshire interests before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other regional and federal bodies. The commission shall participate in the activities of the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners, and the National Asso…

I. The commission may, whenever it deems it advisable, establish a system of accounts and records to be used by public utilities for their business within this state, may classify them and prescribe a system of accounts for each class, and may prescribe the manner in which said a…

Electric generating stations, electric substations, and lines for transmission of electricity which are electric power facilities, irrespective of the destination and ultimate use of the electricity to be so generated and transmitted, shall be electric generating stations, electr…

Nothing contained in RSA 374:8 shall be deemed to prevent public utilities from complying with any requirements made of them by the authority of the United States Government.

An electric distribution company shall not engage in the acquisition of natural gas capacity or supply, or purchase interests in natural gas infrastructure or the siting thereof, at the expense or financial risk of its ratepayers.

In any resolution of the bond bank authorizing or relating to the issuance of any bonds or notes of the division under this chapter, the bond bank, in order to secure the payment of such bonds or notes and in addition to other powers granted to it under this chapter, shall have p…

For purposes of RSA 674:30, an electric power facility located within the state and used or to be used by one or more domestic or foreign electric utilities pursuant to authority set forth in this chapter shall be considered a structure used or to be used by a public utility, and…

Bonds and notes issued under this chapter are securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, credit unions, building and loan associations, investment companies…

Bonds and notes issued under this chapter are securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, the New Hampshire municipal bond bank, all insurance companies, trust companies, banking associations, credit unions, building and …

To the extent that other securities of a public utility are legal investments under state law, the state and all public officers, and agencies thereof, public utilities, all banks, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan a…

Every public utility shall file with the public utilities commission, and shall print and keep open to public inspection, schedules showing the rates, fares, charges and prices for any service rendered or to be rendered in accordance with the rules adopted by the commission pursu…

Except as provided otherwise within this chapter and except for RSA 378:44 through RSA 378:48, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any end user of an excepted local exchange carrier, nor to any service provided to such end user. Excepted local exchange carriers shal…

No public utility shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person or corporation, or to any locality, or to any particular description of service in any respect whatever or subject any particular person or corporation or locality, or any particu…

The provisions of RSA 378:10 shall not require absolute uniformity in the charges made and demanded by public utilities when the circumstances render any lack of uniformity reasonable, nor prevent telephone, telegraph and cable companies from entering into contracts, subject to t…

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission shall establish procedures for the review and approval of tariffs for electric service rates that foster economic development and of tariffs for retention of existing load within the state. For the purp…

No public utility shall grant any free service, nor charge or receive a greater or lesser or different compensation for any service rendered to any person, firm or corporation than the compensation fixed for such service by the schedules on file with the commission and in effect …

Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 378:14, telephone companies authorized by the commission to do business in any town shall, at the customer's request, adjust the charges for tolls to such customer so that no toll charges shall be imposed for any call from any point within th…

I. Nothing herein shall prevent any public utility from granting free or reduced rate service to its officers and employees, nor any telephone or telegraph utility from granting franks for free service to the officials of other utilities engaged in the operation of telephone or t…

Statements shall be filed with the commission, in such form as the commission shall require, showing all service of any kind granted at less than the regular schedule rates.

In any case where the commission shall investigate the rates, charges or prices of any public utility in any town or city, if it shall be of the opinion that the furnishing of free or reduced rate service under the authority hereof operates unreasonably to increase the rates, cha…

I. In this section, "local calling area" means the area which may be called from a telephone calling exchange without paying toll charges or access charges. II. If the commission uses a community of interest standard to limit requests to add additional exchanges to a local callin…

I. The commission is authorized to require telephone utilities that are also providers of competitive telephone services within New Hampshire or outside of New Hampshire to provide information to the commission concerning potential separation or divestiture. The information shall…

I. In this section, "nonpublic utility provider of telephone services" includes, but is not limited to, a hotel, motel, hospital, university, or similar place of temporary accommodation. II. Every nonpublic utility provider of telephone services shall display or post on or near t…

Nothing herein shall prevent a public utility from making a contract for service at rates other than those fixed by its schedules of general application, if special circumstances exist which render such departure from the general schedules just and consistent with the public inte…

I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, for the purposes of ratemaking, an electric utility that has adopted special contracts prior to June 3, 1996 shall not be allowed to recover from other ratepayers the difference between the regular tariffed rate and the spe…

I. In this section: (a) "Toll service" means switched telephone calls to locations outside of the local service area of the caller, as defined in the serving telephone utility's tariffs on file with the commission. (b) "Incumbent local exchange carrier" means a local exchange car…

Such contracts shall be filed and made public in such manner as the commission shall require, and shall constitute a part of the published schedules of the public utility making the same.

In the case of public utilities subject to regulation by duly constituted federal authority, the requirements relative to the filing of schedules with the commission and to the publication thereof shall conform as nearly as may be to the requirements of said federal authority.

Any public utility shall make, renew, or extend any contract for the delivery of electrical energy to a municipality, or political subdivision thereof, or to another utility upon such terms and conditions consistent with the public good as the commission shall order.

No public utility shall, directly or indirectly or by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device or method, make any deviation from the rates, fares, charges or prices for any service rendered by it specified in its schedules on file and in effect at the time such service…

No public utility shall demand or receive less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, by such public utility in consideration of the furnishing of any part of the facilities incident thereto.

Nothing herein shall prohibit any public utility from renting any facilities incident to its service and paying a reasonable rental therefor, or require any public utility to furnish any part of such appliances which are situated in and upon the premises of any consumer, except t…

All advertising contracts of public utilities shall be made at regular, established, commercial advertising rates; and such contracts shall be open to inspection by the commission and the department of energy at all times.

A copy of such list for the preceding year shall be filed with the commission and the department of energy, in such form and under such regulations as they may prescribe. Such list, together with the books, records and papers of the carrier so far as relevant, shall be open at al…

In any proceeding involving the rates of a public utility brought either upon motion of the commission or the department of energy or upon complaint, the commission may, after reasonable notice and hearing, if it be of the opinion that the public interest so requires, immediately…

So far as possible, the provisions of RSA 378:27 shall be applied by the commission in fixing and determining permanent rates, as well as temporary rates. The commission shall not include in permanent rates any return on any plant, equipment, or capital improvement which has not …

Temporary rates so fixed, determined, and prescribed under this subdivision shall be effective until the final determination of the rate proceeding, unless terminated sooner by the commission. In every proceeding in which temporary rates are fixed, determined, and prescribed unde…

Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made in any rate, fare, charge or price, which shall have been filed or published by a public utility in compliance with the requirements hereof, except after 30 days' notice to the commission and such notice to the publi…

I. In this section "fuel adjustment charge" means a charge designed to cover increases and decreases in the cost of purchased electric power for a public utility purchasing electric power and increases and decreases in the delivered cost of fuel to the generating plant site for a…

If temporary rates are prescribed under RSA 378:27 which are higher than those previously in effect, the commission may require the public utility to file a bond in such form and with such sureties, if any, as the commission may determine, to secure the repayment to the customers…

Public utility rates or charges shall not in any manner be based on the cost of construction work in progress. At no time shall any rates or charges be based upon any costs associated with construction work if said construction work is not completed. All costs of construction wor…

The commission may include the cost or value of capital improvements or programs in the rates of a utility when the capital improvement or program provides for the conservation of the energy or water provided by the utility, regardless of whether the utility's capital improvement…

The commission shall exclude any grants provided by the department of environmental services under RSA 486-A from the rates of water utilities. Utilities shall comply with the notice provisions of RSA 486-A:10 concerning such grants.

Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 378:30-a, the commission may include the cost or value of capital improvements or programs in the rates of a utility when the capital improvement or program is directly related to technical planning of regional water supply development or is …