MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
- Section 460.1 - Public service commission; creation; members, appointment, qualifications, terms, vacancies
- Section 460.2 - Public service commission; oath, chairman, removal, quorum, seal, offices
- Section 460.3 - Public service commission; salary and expenses of members; appointment of secretary, deputies, clerks, assistants, inspectors, heads of divisions, and employees; payment of salaries and expenses; employment and compensation of engineers and experts; actual and necessary expenses; duties
- Section 460.4 - Michigan public service commission; rights, privileges, and jurisdiction; meaning of certain references; review of order or decree
- Section 460.4a - Effect of executive reorganization orders; funding; commission as autonomous entity; appointment of chairperson; transfers of authority
- Section 460.5 - Public service commission; books, records, files
- Section 460.5a - Annual report
- Section 460.6 - Public service commission; power and jurisdiction; "private, investor-owned wastewater utilities" defined
- Section 460.6a - Gas, electric, or steam utility; commission approval to increase rates and charges or to amend rate or rate schedules; petition or application; notice and hearing; partial and immediate relief; issuance of temporary order; refund; interest; automatic fuel, purchased gas, or purchased steam adjustment clause; rules and procedures; adjustment clauses operating without notice and hearing abolished; separate hearing; recovery of cost; final decision; filing time extension; approval of transportation rate schedules or transportation contracts; forms and instructions; recovery of amount by merchant plant; limitation; adjustment; orders to permit recovery under subsections (9) and (10); revenue decoupling mechanism; tariff; definitions
- Section 460.6b - Gas utility rates based upon cost of purchased natural gas; authority of commission; acceptance of employment with utility by member of legislature
- Section 460.6c - [Repealed]
- Section 460.6d - Owner of renewable resource power production facility; exemption from regulation and control of public service commission; definition
- Section 460.6e - [Repealed]
- Section 460.6f - [Repealed]
- Section 460.6g - Definitions; regulation of rates, terms, and conditions of attachments by attaching parties; hearing; authorization; applicable procedures
- Section 460.6h - Incorporation of gas cost recovery clause in rate or rate schedule of gas utility; definitions; order and hearing; filing gas cost recovery plan and 5-year forecast; gas supply and cost review; final or temporary order; incorporating gas cost recovery factors in rates; filing revised gas cost recovery plan; reopening gas supply and cost review; monthly statement of revenues; gas cost reconciliation; commission order; refunds, credits, or additional charges to include interest; apportionment; exemption; setting gas cost recovery factors in general rate case order
- Section 460.6i - Initial gas cost recovery plan; filing; alteration of rate schedule in accordance with existing purchased gas adjustment clause; charges in excess of base rates; revenues subject to existing reconciliation proceedings; purchased gas revenues subject to annual reconciliation; procedures; adjustment of rates pending approval or disapproval of gas cost recovery clause in final commission order
- Section 460.6j - Definitions; incorporation of power supply cost recovery clause in electric rates or rate schedule of electric utility; order and hearing; filing power supply cost recovery plan and 5-year forecast; power supply and cost review; final or temporary order; incorporating power supply cost recovery factors in rates; filing revised power supply cost recovery plan; reopening power supply and cost review; monthly statement of revenues; power supply cost reconciliation; commission order; refunds or credits or additional charges to customers; apportionment; interest; exemption; setting power supply cost recovery factors in general rate case order
- Section 460.6k - Initial power supply cost recovery plan; filing; alteration of rate schedule in accordance with adjustment clause; charges in excess of base rate; revenues subject to existing reconciliation proceedings; revenues resulting from certain adjustment clauses subject to existing reconciliation proceedings; revenues subject to annual reconciliation; procedures; lag correction provision; adjustment of rates pending approval or disapproval of power supply cost recovery clause
- Section 460.6l - Insuring equitable representation of interests of energy utility customers; definitions; utility consumer participation board; creation; powers and duties; number and appointment of members; "utility" defined; member requirements; terms; vacancy; removal of member; meetings; quorum; election of chairperson and vice-chairperson; conducting business of board at public meeting; public notice; availability of writings to public; expense reimbursement and remuneration
- Section 460.6m - Utility consumer representation fund; creation as special fund; investment and release of money; remittance by energy utility; factor; action for recovery of disputed amount; action on application for energy cost recovery proceedings; conditions; acceptance of gift or grant; payment of operating costs and expenses; net grant proceeds to finance grant program; application form; consideration; encouraging representation of different consumer interests; criteria; joint filing; disbursements; notice of availability of fund; use of annual receipts and interest; retention of certain amounts; conditions applicable to grants; reports
- Section 460.6n - Restructuring of residential electric rates; hearings; revenue impact; purpose and basis of restructured rates; penalizing residential customers prohibited; informing public of conservation advantages; contents of customer's bill; costs; applicability of section
- Section 460.6o - Definitions; power purchase agreements for purchase of capacity and energy from resource recovery facilities; rates, charges, terms, and conditions of service; scrap tire; applicability of section; dispute provisions; filing agreement; commencement of contested case proceeding; approval of agreement; energy rate component; capacity rate component; determination of reserve margin, reserve capacity, or other resource capability measurement; annual accounting
- Section 460.6p - Rates subject to electric transmission line certification act
- Section 460.6q - Acquisition, control, or merger with jurisdictional regulated utility; approval of commission; notice and hearing; issuance of order; rules; filing comments; access to data and information; evaluation factors; terms and conditions; confidential information; definitions
- Section 460.6r - Definitions; steam supply cost recovery clause; filing steam supply cost recovery plan and 3-year forecast; requirements; steam supply and cost review; temporary or final order; filing detailed statement; commencement of steam supply cost reconciliation; order of refunds or credits; rate of interest; filing report with governor and legislature
- Section 460.6s - Electric generation facility; application; review criteria and approval standards; order granting or denying certificate of necessity; hearing; reports; inclusion of costs in utility's retail rates; refunds; interest; modifying or canceling approval of certificate of necessity; filing forms and instructions; integrated resource plan; financing interest cost recovery in utility's base rates; submission of alternative proposal; order subject to judicial review
- Section 460.6t - Integrated resource plan
- Section 460.6u - Study; review of performance-based regulation systems; report; authority of commission
- Section 460.6v - Proceeding to reevaluate procedures and rates schedules; report; definitions
- Section 460.6w - Resource adequacy tariff that provides for capacity forward auction; option for state to implement prevailing state compensation mechanism for capacity; order to implement prevailing state compensation mechanism; contested case proceeding; finding; order to implement state reliability mechanism; capacity charge; establishment; determination; failure to meet requirements in subsection (8)(b); civil action for injunctive relief; definitions
- Section 460.6x - [Repealed]
- Section 460.6z - Discontinuing utility service to geographic area; abandonment application; proposal to retire electric generating plant; proposal to revise existing load balancing authority
- Section 460.6aa - Commission; public meetings
- Section 460.7 - Railroad labor unions; representatives; right to participate in hearings
- Section 460.8 - Voluntary associations; hearings; persons entitled to appear; industrial representative
- Section 460.9 - Definitions; customer switched to alternative gas supplier or natural gas utility; prohibitions; standards; rules; violation; remedies and penalties
- Section 460.9b - Alternative gas suppliers; licensing procedure; maintenance of office; capabilities; records; tax remittance
- Section 460.9c - Customer on active duty in military; shut-off protection
- Section 460.9d - Unauthorized use of electric or natural gas service causing unsafe connection; action to be taken by utility; reestablishment of service; abandonment or surrender of property; scope of section; definitions
- Section 460.9m - Service shutoff resulting in death or serious injury; notice to commission; investigation; civil action; "provider" defined
- Section 460.9o - Identification of senior citizen customers; methods; compliance within certain time period; extension; definitions
- Section 460.9p - Failure of utility to meet requirements of act; commencement of civil action; notice; compliance agreement; final order; costs of litigation; fines; construction and limitation of act
- Section 460.9q - Shut off or termination of service; conditions; reasons; notice requirements; prohibitions; attempts to contact customer; documentation; restoration of service; vulnerable household warmth fund; creation; use of funds; payments; distribution; priority; definitions
- Section 460.9r - Shut off of service by municipally owned electric utility; prohibitions; requirements; definitions
- Section 460.9s - Postponement of service shutoff; conditions; definitions
- Section 460.9t - Low-income energy assistance fund
- Section 460.10 - MCL 460.10a to 460.10bb; purpose
- Section 460.10a - Alternative electric suppliers; orders establishing rates, terms, and conditions of service; licensing procedure; switching or billing for services without consent; self-service power; affiliate wheeling; rights of parties to existing contracts and agreements; receipt of standard tariff service; recovery of costs by electric utility offering retail open access service; definitions
- Section 460.10b - Rates, terms, and conditions of new technologies; application to unbundle existing rate schedules; providing reliable and lower cost competitive rates; standby generation service; identification of retail market prices
- Section 460.10c - Determination of noncompliance; order of remedies and penalties; contested case; violation as unintentional and bona fide error; finding of frivolous complaint
- Section 460.10d - Electric utility serving less than 1, 000, 000 retail customers; utility issuing securitization bonds; compliance with federal rules, regulations, and standards; security recovery factor; protective orders; low-income and energy efficiency fund; refund; definitions
- Section 460.10e - Connection of merchant plants to transmission and distribution systems; finding of prevention or delay; remedies; merchant plant; standards; exception
- Section 460.10f - Generation capacity in excess of utility's retail sales load; determination of total generating capacity; market power mitigation plan; application; approval; requirements of independent brokering trustee
- Section 460.10g - Definitions; school properties
- Section 460.10h - Definitions
- Section 460.10i - Financing order; recovery of qualified costs; conditions; amount; limitation on period for recovery of securitization charges; financing order as effective and irrevocable; evidence of indebtedness; time period to issue or reject; rehearing; appeal; retiring and refunding securitization bonds; retention of financial or legal services by commission
- Section 460.10j - Securitization property; rights and interests
- Section 460.10k - Financing order; effect in connection with bankruptcy
- Section 460.10l - Agreement to transfer securitization property as true sale
- Section 460.10m - Lien and security interest; creation; changes in order or charges attachment; perfection; priority; sequestration and payment of revenues
- Section 460.10n - Securitization bonds; state pledge of certain conduct
- Section 460.10o - Securitization bond; direct interest in acquisition, ownership, and disposition not used in determining tax; obligations of electric utility successor; assignee or financing party as public utility
- Section 460.10p - Establishment of industry worker transition program; adoption of service quality and reliability standards; compliance report; rules; benchmarks; method for gathering data; incentives and penalties; "jurisdictional utility" or "jurisdictional entity" defined
- Section 460.10q - Alternative electric supplier; license requirements
- Section 460.10r - Dissemination of disclosures, explanations, or sales information; standards; establishment of Michigan renewables energy program; plan
- Section 460.10s - Low-income and energy assistance programs; availability of federal funds
- Section 460.10t - Shut off of service; conditions; procedures; definitions
- Section 460.10u - Report
- Section 460.10v - Joint plan to expand available transmission capability
- Section 460.10w - Investor-owned electric utility; FERC approval
- Section 460.10x - Cooperative electric utility; requirements
- Section 460.10y - Municipally owned utility; requirements
- Section 460.10z - Provisions of act as severable
- Section 460.10aa - Impairment of contractual rights under existing contract
- Section 460.10bb - Aggregation; use; definition
- Section 460.10cc - Provisions as severable; certain rate reductions as void
- Section 460.10dd - Appropriation; hiring full-time positions to implement act
- Section 460.10ee - Code of conduct; value-added programs and services; definitions
- Section 460.10ff - Energy ombudsman
- Section 460.10gg - Long-term industrial load rate; findings of commission
- Section 460.10hh - Nuclear energy generation feasibility study
- Section 460.11 - Establishment of electric rates; establishment of eligible low-income customer or senior citizen customer rates; public and private schools, universities, and community colleges rate schedules