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Section 756.010 - Definitions. - (1) "Commission" means the Public Utility Commission of Oregon. (2)...
Section 756.014 - Public Utility Commission; appointment; confirmation; term; removal. - (2) Each commissioner shall hold office for the term of...
Section 756.016 - Quorum; seal; individual commissioner authorized to act for commission. - (2) The commission shall have a seal with the words...
Section 756.026 - Prohibited interests of commissioner and family. - (a) Hold any other office of profit; (b) Hold any...
Section 756.032 - Employee dismissal for retention of prohibited interests or failure to file statements. - (a) Who fails to file the statement required by ORS...
Section 756.036 - Duties and functions. - (a) Organize and reorganize the office of the Public Utility...
Section 756.040 - General powers. - (a) Commensurate with the return on investments in other enterprises...
Section 756.047 - Authority of commission to require fingerprints. - (1)(a) Is employed or applying for employment by the commission;...
Section 756.050 - Office, office supplies and sessions of commission. - (2) The commission may hold sessions and maintain offices at...
Section 756.055 - Delegation of authority. - (2) The commission may not delegate to any commissioner, named...
Section 756.062 - Substantial compliance with laws adequate for commission activities; construction of laws generally. - (2) The provisions of such laws shall be liberally construed...
Section 756.075 - Right of entry for examination of equipment, records or employees; use of findings. - (2) The commission or authorized representatives shall, upon demand, have...
Section 756.090 - Maintaining and producing records; expenses of examining out-of-state records. - (2) When a public utility or telecommunications utility keeps and...
Section 756.105 - Duty to furnish information to commission. - (2) If a public utility or telecommunications utility is unable...
Section 756.115 - Failure to furnish requested information. - (1) Fail or refuse to fill out and return any...
Section 756.160 - Enforcement of statutes and ordinances relating to utilities. - (2) The Attorney General, district attorney of each county, all...
Section 756.180 - Enforcing utility laws. - (2) Such court, without bond, has jurisdiction to enforce obedience...
Section 756.185 - Right to recover for wrongs and omissions; treble damages. - (2) The court may not award attorney fees to a...
Section 756.200 - Effect of utility laws on common law and other statutory rights of action, duties and liabilities. - (2) All penalties and forfeiture accruing under said statutes and...
Section 756.305 - Public Utility Commission Account. - (2) The Public Utility Commission shall keep a record of...
Section 756.310 - Annual fees payable by utilities and telecommunications providers. - (2) In each calendar year the percentage rate of the...
Section 756.325 - Distribution of information filed with commission; fees; rules. - (2) In the ordinary course of distribution, no fee shall...
Section 756.360 - Disposal and use of fees and penalties collected. - (1) Public utilities shall be used only for the purpose...
Section 756.500 - Complaint; persons entitled to file; contents; amendments. - (2) It is not necessary that a complainant have a...
Section 756.512 - Notice of complaint to defendant; responsive pleadings; setting cause for hearing. - (2) If the defendant fails to file a responsive pleading...
Section 756.515 - Investigations and hearings on commission’s own motion; hearings for aggrieved persons. - (2) If after making such investigation the commission is satisfied...
Section 756.518 - Procedures applicable to all matters before commission; oral hearing; rules. - (2) Upon request of any party in a major proceeding...
Section 756.525 - Parties to proceedings. - (2) At any time before the final taking of evidence...
Section 756.538 - Taking and use of depositions; rules. - (2) In any proceeding requiring a hearing, the commission or...
Section 756.543 - Issuance of subpoenas; failure to comply. - (2) If any person fails to comply with any subpoena...
Section 756.549 - Self-incrimination of witnesses in commission proceedings. - (a) The person has been directed by the commission to...
Section 756.558 - Taking of evidence; findings; issuance of orders; providing copies of orders. - (2) After the completion of the taking of evidence, and...
Section 756.561 - Rehearing; reconsideration. - (2) No such application shall excuse any party against whom...
Section 756.572 - Effect of orders on successors in interest. - (2) Any investigation, hearing or other proceeding involving the issuance...
Section 756.610 - Judicial review. - (b) Binding rulings issued under ORS 756.450 are subject to...
Section 756.990 - Penalties. - (2) Except where a penalty is otherwise provided by law,...