Title 66, PUBLIC UTILITIES

2004 Repeal. Section 3009 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Amendment. Section 3010 (Reserved) was added November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

The General Assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of this Commonwealth to: (1) Strike a balance between mandated deployment and market-driven deployment of broadband facilities and advanced services throughout this Commonwealth and to continue alternative regulation o…

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: "Advanced service." A retail telecommunications service that, regardless of transmission medium or technology, is capabl…

(a) General rule.--An alternative form of regulation plan and network modernization plan approved by the commission for a local exchange telecommunications company as of December 31, 2003, shall remain valid and effective except as may be amended at the election of the local exch…

(a) Continuation of approved plan.--A local exchange telecommunications company that does not elect an option under subsection (b) shall remain subject to its network modernization plan in effect as of December 31, 2003, without revision or modification except by agreement under …

(a) Inflation offset.-- (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), a local exchange telecommunications company with an alternative form of regulation containing a price stability mechanism that files an amended network modernization plan under section 3014(b)(1),…

(a) Commission determination of protected, retail nonprotected and retail noncompetitive services as competitive.-- (1) A local exchange telecommunications company may petition the commission for a determination of whether a protected or retail noncompetitive service or other bus…

(a) General rule.--The commission may not require a local exchange telecommunications company to reduce access rates except on a revenue-neutral basis. (b) Refusal to pay access charges prohibited.--No person or entity may refuse to pay tariffed access charges for interexchange s…

(a) Competitive and noncompetitive services.--Interexchange services provided by interexchange telecommunications carriers shall be competitive services. (b) Rate regulation.-- (1) The commission may not fix or prescribe the rates, tolls, charges, rate structures, rate base, rate…

(a) General rule.--The commission may certify more than one telecommunications carrier to provide local exchange telecommunications service in a specific geographic location. The certification shall be granted upon a showing that it is in the public interest and that the applican…

Each foreign trade zone established and maintained within the limits of this Commonwealth as set forth in this chapter shall be operated as a public utility, and all rates and charges for all services or privileges within the zone shall be fair and reasonable, but no such rates o…

Any private corporation formed in this Commonwealth for the purposes expressed in this part and any municipality of this Commonwealth, is hereby authorized to make application in accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress of the United States, approved June 18, 1934, e…

1988 Repeal. Section 3103 was repealed December 21, 1988, P.L.1444, No.177, effective October 1, 1989.

Each municipality and private corporation establishing, operating, and maintaining a foreign trade zone shall fully comply with all of the provisions of the act of Congress and the rules and regulations prescribed by the board thereunder, and shall have all the powers, rights, pr…

Each municipality and private corporation operating a foreign trade zone within the limits of this Commonwealth shall file a copy of every report which it shall make, or be required to make, under the act of Congress with the Department of Community Affairs. Transfer of Functions…

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: "Authority." A body politic or corporate established by a city of the second class, except a joint authority established…

(a) Application.--The following apply: (1) Beginning on April 1, 2018, unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of this title, except Chapters 11 (relating to certificates of public convenience) and 21 (relating to relations with affiliated interests), shall appl…

(a) Service.--An authority shall continue to provide service to the authority's customers in accordance with a prior tariff until the effective date of a commission's order approving a new tariff. If the effective date of a commission's order approving a new tariff has been staye…

(a) Filing.--An authority shall file a tariff and supporting data with the commission within 90 days of the effective date of this section. The commission shall conduct a rate proceeding in accordance with the commission's procedures for tariff filings. To the extent practical, p…

(a) Authorization.--The commission may require an authority to maintain, repair and replace facilities and equipment used to provide services under this chapter to ensure that the equipment and facilities comply with section 1501 (relating to character of service and facilities).…

(a) Office of Consumer Advocate.--The Office of Consumer Advocate shall represent the interests of consumers as a party, or otherwise participate for the purpose of representing the interests of consumers, in any matter properly before the commission relating to an authority. (b)…

(a) Sworn statement.--In order to allow the commission to carry out the commission's duties under this chapter, the chairperson, vice chairperson or executive director of an authority shall file, within 30 days of the effective date of this section and on or before March 31 of ea…

(a) Power.--Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to rescind or limit the power of a city of the second class to establish an authority or determine the powers and functions of an authority. (b) Audits.--Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or prevent a city o…

Proprietary information, trade secrets and competitively sensitive information of an authority shall not be public records under the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law, and shall not be subject to mandatory public disclosure. Nothing in this ch…

(a) General rule.--If any public utility, or any other person or corporation subject to this part, shall violate any of the provisions of this part, or shall do any matter or thing herein prohibited; or shall fail, omit, neglect, or refuse to perform any duty enjoined upon it by …

Any person, including an officer, agent or employee of any public utility, or any corporation, who or which shall knowingly fail, omit, neglect or refuse to obey, observe, and comply with any regulation or final order, direction, or requirement of the commission, or any order of …

(a) Public utilities.--No public utility, nor any officer, agent or employee thereof, shall be liable for any penalty or forfeiture, or be subject to any prosecution, on account of demanding, collecting, or receiving any rate for any service, or for enforcing any regulation, or p…

Any individual who shall knowingly affix his name or attestation to any stock certificate or other evidence of equitable interest, or any bond, note, trust certificate, or other security issued or assumed by any public utility, or any director who shall knowingly assent to the is…

Any individual who shall knowingly make or assent to any application or disposition of any stock certificate, or other evidence of equitable interest, or any bond, note, trust certificate, or other evidence of indebtedness, or other security, or the proceeds of the sale or pledge…

Any individual who shall knowingly affix his name or attestation to any written contract or arrangement, or who shall enter into any written contract or arrangement, or any individual who shall knowingly assent to the entering into of any written or verbal contract, in violation …

If any individual who shall be subpoenaed to attend before the commission, or its representative, shall fail to obey the command of such subpoena, or if any individual in attendance before the commission, or its representative, shall refuse to be sworn or to be examined, or to an…

If any individual shall absent himself from the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth or conceal himself for the purpose of avoiding service of a subpoena issued by the commission, or its representative; or shall remove relevant data, books, records, papers, or other documents out of…

(a) General rule.--If any person or corporation shall do or cause to be done any act, matter, or thing prohibited or declared to be unlawful by this part, or shall refuse, neglect, or omit to do any act, matter, or thing enjoined or required to be done by this part, such person o…

(a) General rule.--Any person or corporation operating as a motor carrier or as a common carrier by airplane, and any operator or employee of such carrier, and any person or corporation operating as a broker, without a certificate of public convenience, permit or license, authori…

Any officer, attorney, agent, or employee of any public utility who offers to any commissioner, or to any person appointed or employed by the commission, any office, place, appointment, or position, or offers to give to any commissioner, or to any person employed in the service o…

Any person, whether carrier, shipper, consignee, or broker, or any officer, employee, agent, or representative thereof, who shall knowingly offer, grant, or give, or solicit, accept, or receive any rebate, concession, or discrimination, in violation of any provision of this part …

Any person, corporation or other entity violating the provisions of section 1313 (relating to price upon resale of public utility services) shall be guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $100 multiplied by the number of residential …

(a) General rule.--No action for the recovery of any penalties or forfeitures incurred under the provisions of this part, and no prosecutions on account of any matter or thing mentioned in this part, shall be maintained unless brought within three years from the date at which the…

All fines imposed, and all penalties recovered, under the provisions of this part, shall be paid to the commission, and by it paid into the State Treasury, through the Department of Revenue, to the credit of the General Fund. Cross References. Section 3315 is referred to in secti…

(a) Persons not to be discharged.--No employer may discharge, threaten or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against an employee regarding the employee's compensation, terms, conditions, location or privileges of employment because the employee or a person acting on behalf of th…