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Article 1. Powers and Duties of the Commission.
Sec. 42.05.141. General powers and duties of the commission. - (a) The Regulatory Commission of Alaska may do all things...
Sec. 42.05.145. Telecommunications regulation policy; restriction on regulation of telephone directories. - (a) A utility that provides local exchange or interexchange telecommunications...
Sec. 42.05.151. Regulations and hearing procedures. - (a) The commission may adopt regulations, not inconsistent with the...
Sec. 42.05.161. Application of Administrative Procedure Act. - (a) The administrative adjudication procedures of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure...
Sec. 42.05.171. Formal hearings. - A formal hearing that the commission has power to hold...
Sec. 42.05.175. Timelines for issuance of final orders. - (a) The commission shall issue a final order not later...
Sec. 42.05.181. Notice and hearing before final orders. - A final order of the commission compelling affirmative action, denying...
Sec. 42.05.191. Contents and service of orders. - Every formal order of the commission shall be based upon...
Sec. 42.05.201. Publication of reports, orders, decisions, and regulations. - All reports, orders, decisions, and regulations of the commission shall...
Sec. 42.05.211. Annual report. - The commission shall, by November 15 of each year, publish...
Article 2. Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
Sec. 42.05.221. Certificates required. - (a) A public utility may not operate and receive compensation...
Sec. 42.05.231. Application. - Application for a certificate shall be in writing and shall...
Sec. 42.05.241. Conditions of issuance. - A certificate may not be issued unless the commission finds...
Sec. 42.05.251. Use of municipal public ways. - Public utilities have the right to a permit to use...
Sec. 42.05.254. Public utility regulatory cost charge. - (a) A regulated public utility or a certificated utility that...
Sec. 42.05.261. Discontinuance, suspension, or abandonment of certificated service. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a public...
Sec. 42.05.271. Modification, suspension, or revocation of certificates. - Upon complaint or upon its own motion the commission, after...
Sec. 42.05.281. Transfer of certificate. - A certificate may not be sold or leased, rented, transferred...
Article 3. Services and Facilities.
Sec. 42.05.291. Standards of service and facilities. - (a) Each public utility shall furnish and maintain adequate, efficient,...
Sec. 42.05.296. Telecommunications services for certain disabled subscribers. - (a) The commission shall adopt regulations to require telecommunications utilities...
Sec. 42.05.301. Discrimination in service. - Except as provided in AS 42.05.306, a public utility may...
Sec. 42.05.306. Discounted service and reduced rate. - A public utility may provide a discounted service or a...
Sec. 42.05.311. Joint use and interconnection of facilities. - (a) A public utility having sewers, conduits, utilidors, poles, pole...
Sec. 42.05.321. Failure to agree upon joint use or interconnection. - (a) In case of failure to agree upon the joint...
Sec. 42.05.331. Standards for measurement. - The commission shall establish by regulation adequate, fair, and realistic...
Sec. 42.05.341. Testing of meter standards. - The commission shall provide by regulation for the periodic testing...
Sec. 42.05.351. Testing of appliances. - The commission shall provide for the examination and testing of...
Article 4. Rates and Rate Schedules.
Sec. 42.05.361. Tariffs, contracts, filing, and public inspection. - (a) Under regulations the commission shall adopt, every public utility...
Sec. 42.05.365. Interest on deposits. - (a) A public utility may collect and retain a deposit...
Sec. 42.05.371. Adherence to tariffs. - The terms and conditions under which a public utility offers...
Sec. 42.05.381. Rates to be just and reasonable. - (a) All rates demanded or received by a public utility,...
Sec. 42.05.385. Charges for water and sewer line extensions. - (a) A water or sewer line extension may not be...
Sec. 42.05.391. Discrimination in rates. - (a) Except as provided in AS 42.05.306, a public utility...
Sec. 42.05.401. Apportionment of joint rates. - (a) If public utilities share in a joint rate the...
Sec. 42.05.411. New or revised tariffs. - (a) A public utility may not establish or place in...
Sec. 42.05.421. Suspension of tariff filing. - (a) When a tariff filing is made containing a new...
Sec. 42.05.431. Power of commission to fix rates. - (a) When the commission, after an investigation and hearing, finds...
Sec. 42.05.433. Review of certain contracts by the commission. - (a) A precedent agreement or contract entered into by a...
Sec. 42.05.441. Valuation of property of a public utility. - (a) The commission may, after providing reasonable notice and opportunity...
Article 5. Accounts, Records, and Reports.
Sec. 42.05.451. System of accounts and reports. - (a) The commission may classify the public utilities under its...
Sec. 42.05.461. Continuing property records. - The commission may require a public utility to establish, provide,...
Sec. 42.05.471. Depreciation rates and accounts. - (a) To provide for the loss in service value of...
Sec. 42.05.481. Separate Business Accounts. - A public utility engaged, directly or indirectly, in another business,...
Sec. 42.05.491. Records and accounts to be kept in state. - A public utility shall keep the books, accounts, papers, and...
Sec. 42.05.501. Inspection of books and records. - (a) The commission shall at all reasonable times have access...
Article 6. Financial and Management Regulation.
Sec. 42.05.511. Unreasonable management practices. - (a) The commission may investigate the management of a public...
Sec. 42.05.521. Impaired capital. - When the commission finds that the capital of a public...
Sec. 42.05.531. Distribution of surplus and profits. - The surplus and profits of a public utility shall be...
Article 7. Judicial Review, Penalties, and Enforcement.
Sec. 42.05.541. Effect of regulations. - Regulations adopted and issued by the commission in accordance with...
Sec. 42.05.551. Review and enforcement. - (a) All final orders of the commission are subject to...
Sec. 42.05.561. Injunctions and monetary sanctions. - (a) A person who violates a provision of AS 42.05.291...
Sec. 42.05.571. Civil penalties. - (a) In addition to all other penalties and remedies provided...
Sec. 42.05.581. Each violation a separate offense. - Each violation of a provision of this chapter or of...
Sec. 42.05.601. Actions to recover penalties; disposition. - (a) Actions to recover penalties under this chapter shall be...
Sec. 42.05.611. Penalties cumulative. - (a) All penalties imposed under this chapter are cumulative and...
Sec. 42.05.621. Joinder of actions. - Under the applicable court rules, appeals from orders of the...
Article 8. Miscellaneous Provisions.
Sec. 42.05.631. Eminent domain. - A public utility may exercise the power of eminent domain...
Sec. 42.05.641. Regulation by municipality. - The commission's jurisdiction and authority extend to public utilities operating...
Sec. 42.05.651. Expenses of investigation or hearing. - (a) During a hearing or investigation held under this chapter,...
Sec. 42.05.661. Application fees. - With each application relating to a certificate the applicant shall...
Sec. 42.05.671. Public records. - (a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, records...
Sec. 42.05.681. Validity of certain certificates. - A certificate issued before July 29, 1968, to a public...
Sec. 42.05.691. Utility classes. - The commission may by regulation provide for the classification of...
Sec. 42.05.711. Exemptions. - (a) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to...
Sec. 42.05.712. Deregulation ballot. - (a) A utility or cooperative that may elect to be...
Article 9. On-Bill Financing of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Improvements.
Sec. 42.05.750. On-bill financing of energy efficiency and conservation improvements; authorization and eligibility. - (a) A utility may enter into a written on-bill financing...
Sec. 42.05.751. Meter conservation charge. - (a) A meter conservation charge assessed under AS 42.05.750(a) may...
Sec. 42.05.752. Notice of on-bill financing agreement and meter conservation charge. - (a) A utility that enters into an on-bill financing agreement...
Sec. 42.05.753. Transferability of on-bill financing balances to subsequent owners. - A utility that enters into an on-bill financing agreement may...
Sec. 42.05.754. Rental property. - A utility may recover the costs under an on-bill financing...
Sec. 42.05.755. Third parties; contracting and liability. - (a) A utility may contract with a third party to...
Sec. 42.05.756. Definitions. - In AS 42.05.750 - 42.05.756, (1) “energy conservation system” includes...
Article 10. Electric Reliability Organizations, Plans, and Standards.
Sec. 42.05.760. Electric reliability organizations. - (a) An electric utility must participate in an electric reliability...
Sec. 42.05.762. Duties of an electric reliability organization. - An electric reliability organization shall (1) develop reliability standards that...
Sec. 42.05.765. Reliability standards. - (a) An electric reliability organization shall file each reliability standard...
Sec. 42.05.767. Electric reliability organization rules; approval. - An electric reliability organization shall file with the commission each...
Sec. 42.05.770. Regulations. - The commission shall adopt regulations governing electric reliability organizations, reliability...
Sec. 42.05.772. Duties of load-serving entities. - All load-serving entities, including load-serving entities otherwise exempt from regulation...
Sec. 42.05.775. Penalties. - (a) An electric reliability organization may impose a penalty on...
Sec. 42.05.780. Integrated resource planning. - (a) An electric reliability organization shall file with the commission...
Sec. 42.05.785. Project preapproval for large energy facilities. - (a) A public utility, including a public utility that is...
Sec. 42.05.790. Definitions. - In AS 42.05.760 - 42.05.790, (1) “cybersecurity incident” means a...
Article 11. Competitive Intrastate Long Distance Telephone Service.
Sec. 42.05.800. Findings. - The legislature finds that (1) modern, affordable, efficient, and universally...
Sec. 42.05.820. No municipal regulation. - A long distance telephone company or a local exchange carrier...
Sec. 42.05.830. Exchange access charges. - In providing for competition under AS 42.05.800 - 42.05.890, the...
Sec. 42.05.840. Universal service fund. - The commission may establish a universal service fund or other...
Sec. 42.05.850. Exchange carrier association. - The commission may require the local exchange carriers to form...
Sec. 42.05.860. Restrictions on resale of telecommunications services prohibited. - A telephone company may not prohibit or restrict the resale...
Sec. 42.05.890. Definitions. - In AS 42.05.800 - 42.05.890, (1) “local exchange carrier” means...
Article 12. General Provisions.
Sec. 42.05.990. Definitions. - In this chapter, (1) “affiliated interest” includes (A) a person...
Sec. 42.05.995. Short title. - This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Public Utilities...