Public Service Commission

103-450. Service Entrance Changes. Whenever a customer requests the gas utility to relocate the gas utility’s service entrance, the gas utility may require reasonable charges to cover costs incurred to be paid prior to the relocation. HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 32,…

103-451. Temporary Service. When the gas utility renders temporary service to a customer, it may require that the customer bear all cost of installing and removing the service in excess of any salvage realized. HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 5, eff May 23…

103-452. Procedures for Termination of Service. Prior to the termination of gas service pursuant to 103-442 e-m, the following procedures shall be employed by the gas utility: a. Not less than ten days prior to termination of service, the gas utility shall mail a notice of termin…

103-46. Time Tables. All railroads in South Carolina shall furnish the Public Service Commission complete time tables covering schedules of all regular trains carrying passengers over their respective roads; and shall furnish new time tables or schedules, whenever changes are mad…

103-460. Criteria for Good Engineering Practice. The gas plant of a gas system shall be constructed, installed, maintained, and operated in accordance with good engineering practices and regulations included by reference as part of these rules to assure, as far as reasonably poss…

103-461. Acceptable Standards. Unless otherwise specified by the commission, after hearing if requested, the gas system shall use the applicable provisions in the publications listed below as operational references, where applicable, and as standards of accepted good engineering …

103-462. Acceptable References. The following publications are considered by this commission to be acceptable references: a. ‘‘Accuracy of the Recording Gas Calorimeter When Used With Gases of High BTU Content’’, by John H. Eisemen, National Bureau of Standards, and Elwin A. Pott…

103-463. Adequacy of Service. The source of supply and transmission facilities for gas, and/or production and/or storage capacity of the gas utility’s plant, supplemented by the gas supply regularly available from other sources, must to the extent reasonably practicable, be suffi…

103-464. Inspection of Plant. Each gas system shall adopt a program of inspection of its gas plant in order to determine the necessity for replacement and repair. The frequency of the various inspections shall be based on the gas system’s experience and accepted good practice. HI…

103-465. Inactive Service Lines. 1. Service Lines. Each gas system shall conduct a study at intervals not exceeding twenty-four months to determine the number of inactive service lines in their system and shall take necessary steps to meet the following: a. Inactive service lines…

103-47. Weighing Carload Shipments. Any consignee of coal or other articles to be delivered to him in carload lots by any common carrier at any point within the limits of this State where such common carrier maintains track scales or track scales are accessible, shall have the ri…

103-470. Utility Inspection and Tests. A. Each gas utility shall make such tests as are prescribed under these rules with such frequency and in such manner and at such places as is herein provided, as requested by the ORS or as may be approved or ordered by the commission. Unless…

103-471. Periodic Tests. These test periods may be extended upon application and approved by the commission, providing that the gas utility can prove by its own records that different test periods are adequate for the protection of the public. Meters may be tested and calibrated …

103-472. Meter Testing on Request of Customer. A. Each gas utility shall, at any time when requested in writing by a customer upon reasonable notice, test the accuracy of the meter in use by him. B. No deposit or payment shall be required from the customer for such meter test exc…

103-473. ORS Inspection and Tests. The ORS shall make tests of meters as follows: a. Upon order of the commission or request to the ORS by a customer or gas utility, a test will be made of customer’s meters as soon as practicable. b. On receipt of such request the ORS shall notif…

103-474. Facilities and Equipment for Testing. 1. General. Each gas utility shall, unless specifically excused by the commission, provide such laboratory, meter-testing equipment and other equipment and facilities as may be necessary to make the tests required of it by these rule…

103-475. Test Procedures and Accuracies. 1. Pre-Installation Inspection. a. Every meter and/or associated metering device shall be inspected and sealed before being placed in service. b. New or reconditioned meters which have been sealed at the factory need not be resealed in the…

103-48. Handling Freight at Non-Agency Stations. At all non-agency stations the railroads shall load and unload all less than carload shipments. The consignor or consignee shall load or unload all carload shipments. When a shipper at a non-agency station desires to make a carload…

103-480. Quality of Service. A. Each gas utility shall provide the best gas service that can be reasonably expected from the facilities of that gas utility. When the quality of gas service falls below what can be reasonably expected, the gas utility shall, as soon as practicable,…

103-481. Interruption of Service. A. Each gas utility shall make reasonable efforts to avoid interruptions of service but when interruptions occur, service shall be re-established within the shortest time practicable, consistent with safety of its employees, customers and the gen…

103-482. Restrictions on Use of Service. A. The gas utility may impose reasonable restrictions on the use of service during periods of shortage of supply, excessive demand or other difficulty which jeopardizes the supply of service to any group of customers. B. Restrictions on th…

103-483. Special Tests. Before permitting the initial use of gas at any location, a certificate of inspections and tests of the customer-owned piping shall be furnished the gas system by the customer or by the local inspecting authority. All such inspections and tests shall be ma…

103-485. System Pressure Monitoring. A. Each gas system shall maintain on its distribution system in each city in which it supplies gas a sufficient number of recording devices, but not less than one, to ensure detections of abnormal system pressures. No gas system shall maintain…

103-49. Handling Freight Cars on First Class Passenger Trains. No railroad operating trains in South Carolina shall be allowed to handle any freight cars, loaded or empty, on a train that is operated as a first class passenger train, or shown as such in the published time tables …

103-490. General. A. The commission hereby adopts the Federal Minimum Safety Standards for the Transportation of Natural and Other Gas, 49 C.F.R. as applicable to gas systems and as amended from time to time, except where otherwise ordered by the commission. B. Under the authorit…

103-491. Protective Measures. A. Each gas system shall exercise reasonable care to reduce the hazards to which its employees, its customers, and the general public may be subjected. B. The gas system shall give reasonable assistance to the ORS in the investigation of the cause of…

103-492. Safety Program. Each gas system shall adopt and execute a safety program, fitted to the size and type of its operations. As a minimum, the safety program should comply with the Federal Regulations: Minimum Safety Standards for the Transportation of Natural and Other Gas,…

103-493. Leakage. 1. General. Any notice to the gas system of a leak or odor or notification of damage to gas facilities reported by any source shall constitute the need for immediate action by the gas system. In the event that the response time exceeded one (1) hour, the reason …

103-494. Interruptions in Service. A. Each gas system shall adopt and file with the commission, for approval, and provide a copy to the ORS procedures to protect customers during periods when operating conditions require interrup- tions in service due to scheduled or unscheduled …

103-50. Grain-Cleaning in Transit. The rate on all movement of grains in South Carolina where grain in transit is stopped at intermediate points for cleaning and grading purposes shall be the present through rate from point of origin to destination, plus 20 per cent for each and …

103-500. Authorization of Rules. A. Section 58-5-210 of the Code of laws of South Carolina, 1976, provides: ‘‘That the Public Service Commission, is hereby, to the extent granted, vested with power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate the rates and service of every public u…

103-501. Application of Rules. 1. Jurisdiction. These rules shall apply to any person, firm, partnership, or association, establish- ment, corporation (except public utilities owned or operated by any municipality or agency thereof and/or any sewer authority specifically exempted…

103-502. Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in these rules and regulations, shall have the meaning indicated below:

103-502.1. Commission. The Public Service Commission of South Carolina.

103-502.10. Tap Fee. A non-recurring, non-refundable charge related to connecting the customer to the utility’s system which includes the cost of installing the utility’s service line from the main to the customer’s premises and a portion of plant capacity which will be used to p…

103-502.11. Utility. Every person, firm, partnership, association, establishment or corporation furnishing or supplying in any manner sewerage collection and/or sewerage disposal service to the public or any portion thereof, for compensation. A ‘‘homeowners association’’, as defi…

103-502.12. Utility Service Line. The portion of pipe which runs from the customer’s premises to the main, and which receives sewerage from the ‘‘customer service line’’.

103-502.13. Sewerage or Wastewater Plant. Plant and property owned by a utility, used in its business operations of providing sewerage collection and/or sewerage disposal service to its customers.

103-502.14. Local Office or Business Office. These terms mean that in the event a sewer utility operates a local office or business office set forth in this article, then the sewer utility shall comply with the requirements of the section or subsection of the regulation addressin…

103-502.15. Mail. The term ‘‘mail’’ means a communication sent by U.S. Mail or the notice method selected by the sewer utility customer and maintained in the customer’s records at the sewer utility.

103-502.16. Municipality. ‘‘Municipality’’ includes a city, town, county, township, and any other corporation existing, created or organized as a governmental unit under the constitution and laws of this State. HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 14, Issue No. 3, eff March …

103-502.2. Customer. Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation, or any agency of the Federal, State, or Local Government, being supplied with service by a utility under the jurisdiction of this commission. Customers shall be classified for purposes of applying rates as ‘‘resi…

103-502.3. Customer Main Extension Fee. A fee paid by a customer under a contract entered into by and between the utility and its customer providing terms for the extension of the utility’s mains to service the customer.

103-502.4. Customer Service Line. The portion of pipe on the customer’s premises which transports sewerage from the customer’s premises to the ‘‘utility service line’’.

103-502.5. Homeowners Association. An association of lot owners located in a particular subdivision or development incorporated under the laws of this State as a non-profit corporation, including as one of its purposes, the operation of a sewerage system to serve the particular s…

103-502.6. Main. A sewerage pipe owned, operated, or maintained by a utility, which is used to transport sewerage, but does not include the ‘‘utility service line’’, or ‘‘customer service line’’.

103-502.7. Premises. A piece or tract of land or real estate, including buildings and other appurtenances thereon.