Title 54, Title 54: Public Utilities

54-1-11. Prohibited interests, relationships and actions by commissioners and employees. (1) No person employed as a commissioner or as personnel of the commission shall, while so employed: Have any pecuniary interest, whether as the holder of stock or other securities, or otherw…

54-1-12. Deposit of funds. All money collected by the commission under any provision of this title shall be deposited without deduction in the state treasury on or before the 15th day of each month next succeeding the month in which the same was received, accompanied by a stateme…

54-1-13. Commission exploration and development of cleaner air options. The commission shall immediately initiate and conduct proceedings to explore and develop options and opportunities for advancing and promoting measures designed to result in cleaner air in the state through t…

54-1-2. Powers and duties. (1) The Public Service Commission shall succeed to all powers and discharge all duties and perform all the functions which by existing and continuing law are conferred upon and required to be discharged or performed by the Public Utilities Commission of…

54-1-2.1. Alignment with state energy policy. When exercising the powers granted in this title, the commission shall act in accordance with the state energy policy provided in Title 79, Chapter 6, Part 3, State Energy Policy, unless the state energy policy is inconsistent with sp…

54-1-2.5. Procedures -- Adjudicative proceedings. Except as specifically provided to the contrary in, the commission shall comply with the procedures and requirements of, in its adjudicative proceedings.

54-1-3. Transaction of business by commissioners -- Quorum -- Proceedings by less than majority or administrative law judge -- Effect of actions. (1) A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty or …

54-1-4. Official seal. The commission shall adopt and use an official seal with the words "Public Service Commission of Utah" and such other designations as the commission may prescribe engraved thereon; by which seal it shall authenticate its acts, orders, and proceedings; and o…

54-1-5. Office and office hours. The office of the commission shall be at the state capital in such rooms in the capitol or in such other public building as shall be assigned to it, and such office shall be open for business between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each business da…

54-1-6. Employment of staff -- Status and compensation -- Employees not to be parties or witnesses and may not appeal commission decisions. (1) The annual budget of the Public Service Commission shall provide sufficient funds for the commission to hire, develop, and organize an a…

54-1-6.5. Executive staff director -- Appointment -- Functions. The commission shall appoint an executive staff director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission and shall supervise and coordinate staff functions, assist the chairman of the commission with administrativ…

54-1-7. Secretary of commission -- Appointment -- Functions. The commission may appoint a secretary of the commission, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep a full and true record of all the proceedings of the commission …

54-1-7.5. Adoption of internal organization measures. The commission shall have authority to adopt internal organizational measures to effectuate efficiency and economy in the management and operations of the commission.

54-1-8. Expenses of commission. The Public Service Commission shall be provided by the state with such offices, equipment and facilities as may be proper and necessary for the performance of its duties. All necessary expenses of the commission including salaries of the secretary,…

54-2-1. Definitions. As used in this title: (1) "Avoided costs" means the incremental costs to an electrical corporation of electric energy or capacity or both that, due to the purchase of electric energy or capacity or both from small power production or cogeneration facilities,…

54-2-2. Definition of "person." As used in this chapter, "person" includes all individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, trusts, and companies and their lessees, trustees, and receivers.

54-2-201. Independent energy producer --- Exemption from commission jurisdiction. (1) As used in this section: "Customer generation system" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 54-15-102 "Net metering program" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 54-15…

54-2-202. Out-of-state distribution electrical cooperative -- Exemption from commission jurisdiction. (1) As used in this section, "out-of-state distribution electrical cooperative" means an electrical corporation that: is a distribution electrical cooperative; is headquartered a…

54-3-1. Charges must be just; service adequate; rules reasonable. All charges made, demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished, or for any service rendered or to be rendered, shall …

54-3-10. Interchange of business required. Every telephone corporation and telegraph corporation operating in this state shall receive, transmit, and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations and messages of every other telephone or telegraph corporation with wh…

54-3-19. Long and short distance service -- Through and intermediate rates. (1) A telephone or telegraph corporation may not charge or receive any greater compensation, in the aggregate, for the transmission of any long distance message or conversation for a shorter than for a lo…

54-3-2. Schedules of rates and classification -- Right of inspection -- Changes by commission -- Online consumer access to usage data. (1) Under the rules and regulations made by the commission, each public utility, shall file with the commission within the time and in the form a…

54-3-21. Commission to be furnished information and copies of records -- Hearings before commission to be public -- Privilege. (1) Every public utility shall furnish to the commission in such form and such detail as the commission shall prescribe all tabulations and computations …

54-3-22. Required reports. Every public utility shall furnish to the commission at such time and in such form as the commission may require a report in which the public utility shall specifically answer all questions propounded by the commission upon or concerning any matter upon…

54-3-23. Commission's orders must be obeyed. Every public utility shall obey and comply with each and every requirement of every order, decision, direction, rule or regulation made or prescribed by the commission in the matters herein specified, or in any other matter in any way …

54-3-24. Hostage situation -- Telephone communication prevention. The supervising law enforcement official having jurisdiction in a geographical area where hostages are held, who has probable cause to believe that the holder of one or more hostages is committing a crime, may orde…

54-3-26. Retention of unclaimed capital credits by electric and telephone cooperatives -- Use of retained money -- Reporting requirements. (1) As used in this section: "Cooperative" means a: distribution electrical cooperative, as defined in Section, that is incorporated in the s…

54-3-27. Public utility easement. (1) As used in this section: "Protected utility easement" means a recorded easement or right-of-way: for the use and installation of a utility facility; and the ownership of which a gas corporation, electric corporation, or telephone corporation …

54-3-28. Notice required of certain public utilities before preparing or amending a long-range plan or acquiring certain property. (1) As used in this section: "Affected entity" means each county, municipality, special district under, special service district, school district, in…

54-3-29. Removal, relocation, or alteration of utility facility in public highway construction or reconstruction -- Notice -- Cooperation. (1) As used in this section: "Design-build" means a design-build transportation project for which a design-build transportation project contr…

54-3-3. Changes by utilities in schedules -- Notice. Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any public utility in any rate, fare, toll, rental, charge or classification, or in any rule, regulation or contract relating to or affecting any rate, toll, fa…

54-3-30. Electric utility service within a provider municipality -- Electrical corporation prohibited as provider -- Exceptions -- Notice and agreement -- Transfer of customer. (1) This section applies to an electrical corporation that intends to provide electric service to a cus…

54-3-31. Electric utility service within a provider municipality -- Electrical corporation authorized as continuing provider for service provided on or before June 15, 2013 -- Notice of service and agreement -- Transfer of customer. (1) This section applies to an electrical corpo…

54-3-32. Public utility duties -- Procedure to transfer service to a nonutility energy supplier. (1) A transmission provider shall offer to an eligible customer available transmission service under the transmission provider's applicable Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approv…

54-3-33. Eligible customer energy supply contract. (1) The commission may approve a contract between a large-scale electric utility and a customer of a large-scale electric utility that is eligible to transfer electric service to a non-utility energy supplier under Section. 54-3-…

54-3-4. Joint tariffs. The names of the several public utilities which are parties to any joint tariff, rate, fare, toll, contract, classification or charge shall be specified in the schedule or schedules showing the same. Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, a schedule sh…

54-3-7. Charges not to vary from schedules -- Refunds and rebates forbidden -- Exceptions. Except as provided in this chapter or, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any product or commodity furnished or to be…

54-3-8. Preferences forbidden -- Power of commission to determine facts -- Applicability of section. (1) Except as provided in, a public utility may not: Chapter 8b, Public Telecommunications Law as to rates, charges, service, facilities or in any other respect, make or grant any…

54-3-8.5. Rate on electricity for agricultural irrigation or drainage. The commission in approving any rate applicable to customers who use electric power for agricultural irrigation or soil drainage purposes which includes a demand or power charge as a separate charge shall take…

54-3-9. Sliding scale of charges -- Control by commission. Nothing in this title shall be taken to prohibit a corporation or person engaged in the production, generation, transmission, or furnishing of heat, light, water or power, or telegraph or telephone service, from establish…

54-4-1. General jurisdiction. The commission is hereby vested with power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate every public utility in this state, and to supervise all of the business of every such public utility in this state, and to do all things, whether herein specifical…

54-4-1.1. Wholesale electrical cooperative exempt from rate regulation -- Requirements for rate increase. The commission does not have the authority under the provisions of this title to regulate, fix, or otherwise approve or establish the rates, fares, tolls, or charges of a who…

54-4-1.5. Investigations, providing information, audits and recommendations by director. In addition to its other powers and duties provided by law, the Public Service Commission may, with respect to any matter within its jurisdiction, order the director of the Division of Public…

54-4-12. Telegraph and telephone -- Connections -- Joint rates -- Division of costs. Whenever the commission shall find, after a hearing, that a physical connection can reasonably be made between the lines of two or more telephone corporations, or two or more telegraph corporatio…

54-4-13. Joint use of properties by utilities -- Adjustment of costs -- Cable television easement rights. (1) Whenever the commission shall find that public convenience and necessity require the use by one public utility of the conduits, subways, tracks, wires, poles, pipes or ot…

54-4-13.1. Natural gas vehicle rate -- Natural gas clean air programs. (1) The commission may find that a gas corporation's request for a natural gas vehicle rate that is less than full cost of service is: in the public interest; and just and reasonable. (2) If the commission app…