Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 80.04 - Regulations—General.
80.04.020 - Procedure before commission and courts.

RCW 80.04.020
Procedure before commission and courts.

Each commissioner shall have power to administer oaths, certify to all official acts, and to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents, and testimony in any inquiry, investigation, hearing, or proceeding in any part of the state.
The superior court of the county in which any such inquiry, investigation, hearing, or proceeding may be had, shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents, and testimony as required by such subpoena. The commission or the commissioner before which the testimony is to be given or produced, in case of the refusal of any witness to attend or testify or produce any papers required by the subpoena, shall report to the superior court in and for the county in which the proceeding is pending by petition, setting forth that due notice has been given of the time and place of attendance of said witnesses, or the production of said papers, and that the witness has been summoned in the manner prescribed in this chapter, and that the fees and mileage of the witness have been paid or tendered to the witness for his or her attendance and testimony, and that the witness has failed and refused to attend or produce the papers required by the subpoena, before the commission, in the cause or proceedings named in the notice and subpoena, or has refused to answer questions propounded to him or her in the course of such proceeding, and ask an order of said court, compelling the witness to attend and testify before the commission. The court, upon the petition of the commission, shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before said court at a time and place to be fixed by the court in such order, and then and there show cause why he or she has not responded to said subpoena. A copy of said order shall be served upon said witness. If it shall appear to the court that said subpoena was regularly issued by the commission, the court shall thereupon enter an order that said witness appear before the commission at said time and place as fixed in said order, and testify or produce the required papers, and upon failing to obey said order, said witness shall be dealt with as for contempt of court.

[ 2013 c 23 § 270; 1961 c 14 § 80.04.020. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 75, part; RRS § 10413, part.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 80 - Public Utilities

Chapter 80.04 - Regulations—General.

80.04.010 - Definitions.

80.04.015 - Conduct of business subject to regulation—Determination by commission.

80.04.020 - Procedure before commission and courts.

80.04.030 - Number of witnesses may be limited.

80.04.040 - Witness fees and mileage.

80.04.050 - Protection against self-incrimination.

80.04.060 - Depositions—Service of process.

80.04.070 - Inspection of books, papers, and documents.

80.04.075 - Manner of serving papers.

80.04.080 - Annual reports.

80.04.090 - Forms of records to be prescribed.

80.04.095 - Protection of records containing commercial information.

80.04.100 - Production of out-of-state books and records.

80.04.110 - Complaints—Hearings—Water systems not meeting board of health standards—Drinking water standards—Nonmunicipal water systems audits.

80.04.120 - Hearing—Order—Record.

80.04.130 - Suspension of tariff change—Mandatory measured telecommunications service—Washington telephone assistance program service—Effect of abandonment of electrical generation facility on which tax exemption for pollution control equipment is cl...

80.04.140 - Order requiring joint action.

80.04.150 - Remunerative rates cannot be changed without approval.

80.04.160 - Rules and regulations.

80.04.170 - Review of orders.

80.04.180 - Supersedeas—Water companies seeking supersedeas.

80.04.190 - Appellate review.

80.04.200 - Rehearing before commission.

80.04.210 - Commission may change orders.

80.04.220 - Reparations.

80.04.230 - Overcharges—Refund.

80.04.240 - Action in court on reparations and overcharges.

80.04.250 - Valuation of public service property—Authority of commission.

80.04.260 - Summary proceedings.

80.04.270 - Merchandise accounts to be kept separate.

80.04.280 - Purchase and sale of stock by employees.

80.04.290 - Sales of stock to employees and customers.

80.04.300 - Budgets to be filed by companies—Supplementary budgets.

80.04.310 - Commission's control over expenditures.

80.04.320 - Budget rules.

80.04.330 - Effect of unauthorized expenditure—Emergencies.

80.04.350 - Depreciation and retirement accounts.

80.04.360 - Earnings in excess of reasonable rate—Consideration in fixing rates.

80.04.380 - Penalties—Violations by public service companies.

80.04.385 - Penalties—Violations by officers, agents, and employees of public service companies.

80.04.387 - Penalties—Violations by other corporations.

80.04.390 - Penalties—Violations by persons.

80.04.400 - Actions to recover penalties—Disposition of fines, penalties, and forfeitures.

80.04.405 - Additional penalties—Violations by public service companies and officers, agents, and employees thereof.

80.04.410 - Orders and rules conclusive.

80.04.420 - Intervention by commission where order or rule is involved.

80.04.430 - Findings of commission prima facie correct.

80.04.440 - Companies liable for damages.

80.04.450 - Certified copies of orders, rules, etc.—Evidentiary effect.

80.04.460 - Investigation of accidents.

80.04.470 - Commission to enforce public service laws—Employees as peace officers.

80.04.480 - Rights of action not released—Penalties cumulative.

80.04.500 - Application to municipal utilities.

80.04.510 - Duties of attorney general.

80.04.520 - Approval of lease of utility facilities.

80.04.530 - Local exchange company that serves less than two percent of state's access lines—Regulatory exemptions—Reporting requirements.

80.04.550 - Thermal energy—Restrictions on authority of commission.

80.04.560 - Finding.

80.04.570 - Power purchase agreement for acquisition of coal transition power.

80.04.580 - Regulatory fee on wastewater companies regulated by the commission—Rule-making authority.