(1) "Commission" means the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.
(2) "Commissioner" means a member of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.
(3) "Customer" includes the patrons, passengers, shippers, subscribers, users of the service and consumers of the product of a public utility or telecommunications utility.
(4) "Environmental justice" means equal protection from environmental and health hazards and meaningful public participation in decisions that affect the environment in which people live, work, learn, practice spirituality and play.
(5) "Environmental justice communities" includes communities of color, communities experiencing lower incomes, tribal communities, rural communities, coastal communities, communities with limited infrastructure and other communities traditionally underrepresented in public processes and adversely harmed by environmental and health hazards, including but not limited to seniors, youth and persons with disabilities.
(6) "Municipality" means any city, municipal corporation or quasi-municipal corporation.
(7) "Person" includes individuals, joint ventures, partnerships, corporations and associations or their officers, employees, agents, lessees, assignees, trustees or receivers.
(8) "Public utility" has the meaning given that term in ORS 757.005.
(9) "Rate" means any fare, charge, joint rate, schedule or groups of rates or other remuneration or compensation for service.
(10) "Service" is used in its broadest and most inclusive sense and includes equipment and facilities related to providing the service or the product served.
(11) "Telecommunications utility" has the meaning given that term in ORS 759.005. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §2; 1973 c.776 §14; 1977 c.337 §1; 1985 c.834 §6; 1987 c.447 §75; 1991 c.841 §1; 1995 c.733 §52; 2021 c.90 §1]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation
Chapter 756 - Public Utility Commission
Section 756.010 - Definitions.
Section 756.014 - Public Utility Commission; appointment; confirmation; term; removal.
Section 756.016 - Quorum; seal; individual commissioner authorized to act for commission.
Section 756.026 - Prohibited interests of commissioner and family.
Section 756.036 - Duties and functions.
Section 756.040 - General powers.
Section 756.047 - Authority of commission to require fingerprints.
Section 756.050 - Office, office supplies and sessions of commission.
Section 756.055 - Delegation of authority.
Section 756.090 - Maintaining and producing records; expenses of examining out-of-state records.
Section 756.105 - Duty to furnish information to commission.
Section 756.115 - Failure to furnish requested information.
Section 756.160 - Enforcement of statutes and ordinances relating to utilities.
Section 756.180 - Enforcing utility laws.
Section 756.185 - Right to recover for wrongs and omissions; treble damages.
Section 756.305 - Public Utility Commission Account.
Section 756.310 - Annual fees payable by utilities and telecommunications providers.
Section 756.325 - Distribution of information filed with commission; fees; rules.
Section 756.360 - Disposal and use of fees and penalties collected.
Section 756.500 - Complaint; persons entitled to file; contents; amendments.
Section 756.512 - Notice of complaint to defendant; responsive pleadings; setting cause for hearing.
Section 756.518 - Procedures applicable to all matters before commission; oral hearing; rules.
Section 756.525 - Parties to proceedings.
Section 756.538 - Taking and use of depositions; rules.
Section 756.543 - Issuance of subpoenas; failure to comply.
Section 756.549 - Self-incrimination of witnesses in commission proceedings.
Section 756.558 - Taking of evidence; findings; issuance of orders; providing copies of orders.
Section 756.561 - Rehearing; reconsideration.
Section 756.572 - Effect of orders on successors in interest.