Public Service Commission

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.

103-502.8. Rate. The term ‘‘rate’’, when used in these rules and regulations, means and includes every compensa- tion, charge, toll, rental, classification, or availability fee, or any of them, including tap fee, or other non-recurring charges demanded, observed, charged, or coll…

103-502.9. The Office of Regulatory Staff. The executive director and employees of the Office of Regulatory Staff.

103-503. Authorization for Rates and Charges. A. No schedule of rates, contracts, or rules and regulations, shall be changed until after the proposed change has been approved by the commission. B. All rates, contract forms, and rules and regulations, proposed to be put into effec…

103-504. Territory and Certificates. No existing public utility supplying wastewater disposal to the public, or any individual, corporation, partnership, association, establishment, or firm undertaking the construction or acquisition of a utility, shall hereafter sell, acquire, t…

103-505. Utility Rules and Regulations. Each utility shall adopt rules, regulations, operation procedure policies, terms and conditions, etc., as may be necessary in the operation of the Utility. Such service conditions and/or regulations shall be approved by and filed with the c…

103-506. Security Issues. A. No utility shall issue any securities without the approval of the commission. This rule shall not apply to any issue of securities payable within one year from the date of issue, except in case of subsequent issues made to refund such short-term oblig…

103-51. Milling-in-Transit Rules. Section 1. Wheat or corn may be shipped from railway stations in South Carolina. Section 2. To milling points located on the railroads in South Carolina and milled and the product reshipped to stations in South Carolina under the following rules,…

103-510. Location of Records and Reports. All records required by these rules are necessary for the administration thereof, shall be available for inspection in this State, unless otherwise specifically authorized by the commission. These records shall be available for examinatio…

103-511. Retention of Records. Unless otherwise specified by the commission, or by regulations or commission Orders governing specific activities, all records required by these rules shall be preserved according to the most current edition of Regulations to Govern the Preservatio…

103-512. Data to be Filed with the Commission and Provided to the ORS.

103-512.1. Annual Report. Each utility operating in the State shall file an annual report with the commission and provide a copy to the ORS giving accounting and other information as the commission orders. The commis- sion or the ORS will provide an annual report form upon reques…

103-512.2. Current Information and Documents. The utility shall file with the commission and provide a copy to the ORS the following documents and information, and shall maintain such documents and information in a current status. 103-512.2.1. Tariff. A copy of each schedule of r…