Title 66, PUBLIC UTILITIES

(a) Authorized vehicles.--Personal vehicles used by a transportation network company driver to provide transportation network service may be a coupe, sedan or other light-duty vehicle, including a van, minivan, sport utility vehicle, hatchback, convertible or pickup truck that is…

(a) Passenger receipt.--Upon completion of transportation under this chapter, each transportation network company shall transmit an electronic receipt to the passenger's e-mail address or account on a digital network documenting: (1) The origination, destination, mileage and time…

(a) Prohibition on disclosure.--A transportation network company shall not disclose to a third party any personally identifiable or financial information of a transportation network company passenger unless one of the following applies: (1) The customer knowingly consents. As use…

(a) Imposition.--The commission may, after notice and opportunity to be heard, impose civil penalties under section 3301 (relating to civil penalties for violations) and nonmonetary penalties, including license suspensions, revocations and other appropriate remedies for violation…

The program costs for commission implementation and enforcement of this chapter shall be included in the commission's proposed budget and shall be assessed upon transportation network companies in accordance with section 510 (relating to assessment for regulatory expenses upon pu…

(a) General rule.--Every public utility engaged in a railroad business shall, upon application of any owner or operator of any lateral railroad, or any private sidetrack, or of any shipper tendering property for transportation, or of any consignee, construct, maintain, and operat…

(a) General rule.--No public utility, engaged in the transportation of passengers or property, shall, without prior order of the commission, construct its facilities across the facilities of any other such public utility or across any highway at grade or above or below grade, or …

When any real property is appropriated by the commission in connection with a crossing improvement under this part, the commission may direct the removal of all structures within the lines of such appropriation. Cross References. Section 2703 is referred to in section 102 of this…

(a) General rule.--The compensation for damages which the owners of adjacent property taken, injured, or destroyed may sustain in the construction, relocation, alteration, protection, or abolition of any crossing under the provisions of this part, shall, after due notice and hear…

(a) General rule.--No railroad locomotive shall be operated in excess of 30 miles per hour in this Commonwealth without a device or devices making a record of the speed at which the locomotive is traveling and providing the engineer or operator of the locomotive with a view of su…

(a) General rule.--All railroads operating in this Commonwealth shall promulgate and maintain appropriate operating rules and special instructions for the government of their respective employees in conformity with the following: (1) When a train stops under circumstances in whic…

1990 Expiration Note. Section 2707 expired June 30, 1990. See Act 81 of 1988.

1990 Expiration Note. Section 2708 expired June 30, 1990. See Act 81 of 1988.

(a) Notice.--Before a public utility engaged in a railroad business disposes of real property previously used as a roadbed right-of-way, it must notify the county, city, borough, incorporated town or township in which the real property is located, and it must notify the Departmen…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Electricity Generation Customer Choice and Competition Act.

The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) Over the past 20 years, the Federal Government and State government have introduced competition in several industries that previously had been regulated as natural monopolies. (2) Many state governments are implementing or s…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Aggregator" or "market aggregator." An entity, licensed by the commission, that purchases electric energy and takes tit…

The following interdependent standards shall govern the commission's assessment and approval of each public utility's restructuring plan, oversight of the transition process and regulation of the restructured electric utility industry: (1) The commission shall ensure continuation…

(a) Other states.--The commission shall take all necessary and appropriate steps to encourage interstate power pools to enhance competition and to complement industry restructuring on a regional basis. The Commonwealth, the commission and Pennsylvania electric utilities shall wor…

(a) General rule.--The generation of electricity shall no longer be regulated as a public utility service or function except as otherwise provided for in this chapter at the conclusion of a transition and phase-in period beginning on the effective date of this chapter and ending,…

(a) Program.--The commission shall, by January 15, 2009, adopt an energy efficiency and conservation program to require electric distribution companies to adopt and implement cost-effective energy efficiency and conservation plans to reduce energy demand and consumption within th…

(a) Registry.--The commission shall, by March 1, 2009, establish a registry of approved persons qualified to provide conservation services to all classes of customers. In order to be included in the registry, a conservation service provider must meet experience and other qualific…

(a) General rule.--Each electric distribution company shall maintain the integrity of the distribution system at least in conformity with the National Electric Safety Code and such other standards practiced by the industry in a manner sufficient to provide safe and reliable servi…

(a) General rule.--To provide each electric utility with an opportunity to recover its transition or stranded costs following the commission's determination under subsection (c), every customer accessing the transmission or distribution network shall pay a competitive transition …

(a) License requirement.--No person or corporation, including municipal corporations which choose to provide service outside their municipal limits except to the extent provided prior to the effective date of this chapter, brokers and marketers, aggregators and other entities, sh…

(a) General intent of revenue-neutral reconciliation.--It is the intention of the General Assembly that the restructuring of the electric industry be accomplished in a manner that allows Pennsylvania to enjoy the benefits of competition, promotes the competitiveness of Pennsylvan…

(a) Monitoring competitive conditions.--The commission shall monitor the market for the supply and distribution of electricity to retail customers and take steps as set forth in this section to prevent anticompetitive or discriminatory conduct and the unlawful exercise of market …

(a) Qualified rate orders.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission is authorized to issue qualified rate orders in accordance with the provisions of this subsection to facilitate the recovery or financing of qualified transition expenses of an electric utility…

Except as provided under the act of November 30, 2004 (P.L.1672, No.213), known as the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act, the commission may not order a default service provider to procure power from a specific generation supplier, from a specific generation fuel type or…

(a) Alternative energy sources.--The term "alternative energy sources" as defined under section 2 of the act of November 30, 2004 (P.L.1672, No.213), known as the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act, shall also include low-impact hydropower consisting of any technology tha…

(a) Assessment.-- (1) By April 1, 2009, the department shall complete a study to identify suitable geological formations, including sites within or in proximity to the Medina, Tuscarora or Oriskany Sandstone formation for the location of a State network. (2) By June 1, 2009, the …

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section: "Dissemination." The act of transmitting, distributing, advising, spreading, communicating, conveying or making known.…

(a) General rule.--It is unlawful for any public utility knowingly to furnish to any person or corporation any private wire for use or intended for use in the dissemination of information in furtherance of gambling or for gambling purposes. Any contract shall constitute prima fac…

(a) General rule.--It is unlawful for any public utility to furnish to any person or corporation any private wire, except in pursuance of a written contract signed by the public utility, by the person or corporation contracting for said private wire and responsible under the term…

(a) Through lines for continuous service.--The commission may, upon complaint or upon its own motion, after reasonable notice and hearing, by order, require any two or more public utilities, whose lines or wires form a continuous line of communication, or could be made to do so b…

(a) Notice.--Any telephone message service that provides a commercial, informational, public service or other message for a specific charge billed to the caller by a local phone company, prior to the presentation of the message, shall warn the caller that the cost of the call wil…

(a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, but subject to the provisions of this title, any telephone call identification service offered in this Commonwealth by a public utility or by any other person, partnership, association or corporation that makes use of…

(a) Identification of calls.--Telecommunication service providers which provide telecommunication services to State correctional institutions shall identify to the called party any call made by an inmate as originating from a correctional institution. (b) Payment of calls.-- (1) …

The General Assembly finds and declares as follows: (1) It is in the public interest of the citizens of this Commonwealth to maintain and promote the availability and affordability of public coin telephone service. (2) The public safety, health and welfare requires that public co…

(a) General rule.--All public utilities, as defined in this chapter, shall maintain a sufficient number of public coin telephone stations within its service territory to provide adequate access to emergency telephone service, to ensure that there is adequate access to the telepho…

(a) General rule.--All public and semipublic coin telephone stations maintained by a public utility or provided, maintained or sold in this Commonwealth by any other person, partnership, association or corporation shall, except in extraordinary circumstances, provide two-way serv…

The commission shall ensure that all public and semipublic coin telephone service rates for local and intrastate calls are just and reasonable.

The commission shall ensure that the provisions of this subchapter are implemented by all public utilities, coin telephone station manufacturers, vendors, owners and lessors doing business in this Commonwealth. The commission shall, within 120 days after the effective date of thi…

2004 Repeal. Section 3001 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Repeal. Section 3002 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Repeal. Section 3003 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.