Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 196 - Regulation of public utilities.
196.012 - Interstate commerce.

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 196 - Regulation of public utilities.

196.01 - Definitions.

196.012 - Interstate commerce.

196.015 - Total service long-run incremental cost.

196.016 - Relationship to certain federal telecommunications law.

196.02 - Commission's powers.

196.025 - Duties of the commission.

196.026 - Settlements.

196.027 - Environmental trust financing.

196.029 - Energy administration.

196.03 - Utility charges and service; reasonable and adequate.

196.04 - Facilities granted other utilities; physical telecommunications connections; petition; investigation.

196.05 - Public utility property; valuation; revaluation.

196.06 - Uniform accounting; forms; books; office.

196.07 - Balance sheet filed annually.

196.08 - Audit and inspection.

196.09 - Depreciation rates and practices; findings by commission; dividends from reserves; retirements.

196.10 - Construction; accounting.

196.11 - Profit sharing and sliding scales.

196.12 - Report by public utilities; items.

196.13 - Commission's report.

196.135 - Confidential handling of records.

196.137 - Municipal utility customer information.

196.14 - Public record exception.

196.15 - Units of product or service.

196.16 - Standard measurements; accurate appliances.

196.17 - Tests of meters; fees.

196.171 - Examination of meters, pipes, fittings, wires and works; entering buildings for.

196.175 - Construction and occupancy standards.

196.18 - Entry upon premises.

196.19 - Publish schedules; regulations; files; joint rates.

196.191 - Telecommunications utility and alternative telecommunications utility tariffs.

196.192 - Market-based compensation, rates and contracts.

196.193 - Water and sewer rate increases without hearings.

196.194 - Gas utility individual contracts.

196.195 - Alternative telecommunications regulation plans.

196.197 - Unbundled network elements.

196.198 - Local measured telecommunications service.

196.199 - Interconnection agreements.

196.20 - Rules on service; changes in rates.

196.201 - Regulation of private shared telecommunications systems.

196.202 - Exemption of commercial mobile radio service providers.

196.203 - Exemption of alternative telecommunications utilities.

196.204 - Local government telecommunications utilities.

196.205 - Election of rate regulation.

196.206 - Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service.

196.207 - Telephone caller identification services.

196.208 - Telecommunications pay-per-call and toll-free services.

196.212 - Switched access rates.

196.216 - Small telecommunications utilities as small businesses.

196.217 - Average toll rates.

196.218 - Universal service fund.

196.219 - Protection of telecommunications consumers.

196.22 - Discrimination forbidden.

196.23 - Utility service for victims of misappropriated identifying information.

196.24 - Agents of commission; powers.

196.25 - Questionnaires.

196.26 - Complaint by consumers; hearing; notice; order; costs.

196.28 - Summary investigations.

196.30 - Utilities may complain.

196.31 - Intervenor financing.

196.315 - Consumer advocate funding.

196.32 - Witness fees and mileage.

196.33 - Depositions.

196.34 - Commission records.

196.36 - Transcripts and tapes.

196.37 - Lawful rates; reasonable service.

196.371 - Rate-making principles for electric generation facilities.

196.372 - Financial assistance for lead-containing customer-side water service lines.

196.373 - Water heater thermostat settings.

196.374 - Energy efficiency and renewable resource programs.

196.375 - Adequate service; reasonable rates.

196.377 - Renewable energy sources.

196.378 - Renewable resources.

196.39 - Change, amendment and rescission of orders; reopening cases.

196.395 - Test, conditional, emergency and supplemental orders; order conditions.

196.40 - Orders and determinations; time of taking effect.

196.41 - Court review.

196.43 - Injunction procedure.

196.44 - Law enforcement.

196.48 - Incriminating evidence.

196.485 - Transmission system requirements.

196.487 - Reliability of electric service.

196.49 - Authorization from commission before transacting business; extensions and improvements to be approved; enforcement of orders; natural gas.

196.491 - Strategic energy assessment; electric generating facilities and transmission lines; natural gas lines.

196.494 - Regional transmission planning.

196.495 - Avoidance of duplication in electric facilities.

196.496 - Distributed generation facilities.

196.497 - State policy regarding the long-term disposal of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste.

196.499 - Regulation of telecommunications carriers.

196.50 - Competing public utilities; indeterminate permits; telecommunications utility certification.

196.503 - Telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations.

196.504 - Broadband expansion grant program; Broadband Forward! community certification.

196.5045 - Telecommuter Forward! certification.

196.505 - Construction of chapter.

196.51 - Prior permits and franchises validated.

196.52 - Relations with affiliated interests; definition; contracts with affiliates filed and subject to commission control.

196.525 - Loans to officers or directors and loans to and investments in securities of holding companies; penalty.

196.53 - Franchise, foreign corporation not to have.

196.54 - Indeterminate permits.

196.58 - Municipality to regulate utilities; appeal.

196.59 - Merchandising by utilities.

196.595 - Utility advertising practices.

196.60 - Discrimination prohibited; penalty.

196.604 - Rebates, concessions and discriminations unlawful.

196.605 - Telecommunications cooperatives with federal loans.

196.61 - Facilities in exchange for compensation prohibited.

196.625 - Discrimination by telecommunications utilities.

196.63 - Telecommunications interruption in crisis situation.

196.635 - Unbilled utility service.

196.64 - Public utilities, liability for treble damages.

196.642 - Customer liability for treble damages.

196.643 - Public utility service to rental dwelling unit.

196.645 - Rate changes.

196.65 - Penalties relating to information and records.

196.66 - General forfeiture provisions.

196.665 - Unlawful combinations, trusts.

196.67 - Warning signs.

196.675 - Unlawful for carriers and public utilities to employ assistant district attorneys or judicial officers.

196.68 - Municipal officers, malfeasance.

196.69 - Interference with commission's equipment.

196.70 - Temporary alteration or suspension of rates.

196.71 - Municipal public utility contracts.

196.72 - Accidents; public utility report; investigation.

196.74 - Electric lines; safety and interference.

196.745 - Construction and operation; safety; commission orders.

196.76 - Other rights of action; penalties cumulative.

196.78 - Voluntary dissolution.

196.79 - Reorganization subject to commission approval.

196.795 - Public utility holding companies.

196.796 - Real estate activities.

196.80 - Consolidation or merger of utilities.

196.807 - Energy affiliate and utility employees.

196.81 - Abandonment; commission approval required.

196.84 - Commission's holding company and nonutility affiliate regulation costs.

196.85 - Payment of commission's expenditures.

196.855 - Assessment of costs against municipalities.

196.857 - Stray voltage program.

196.858 - Assessment for telephone relay service.

196.859 - Assessment for telecommunications utility trade practices.

196.86 - Assessments for air quality improvement program.

196.91 - Acquisition of existing dams.

196.92 - Procedure for acquiring dams.