Chapter 196 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES

Section 196.01 - Definitions
Section 196.012 - Interstate commerce
Section 196.015 - Total service long-run incremental cost
Section 196.016 - Relationship to certain federal telecommunications law
Section 196.02 - Commission's powers
Section 196.025 - [Effective Until 7/1/2024] Duties of the commission
Section 196.025 - [Effective 7/1/2024] Duties of the commission
Section 196.026 - Settlements
Section 196.027 - Environmental trust financing
Section 196.029 - [Renumbered from 16.955] Energy administration
Section 196.03 - Utility charges and service; reasonable and adequate
Section 196.04 - Facilities granted other utilities; physical telecommunications connections; petition; investigation
Section 196.05 - Public utility property; valuation; revaluation
Section 196.06 - Uniform accounting; forms; books; office
Section 196.07 - Balance sheet filed annually
Section 196.08 - Audit and inspection
Section 196.09 - Depreciation rates and practices; findings by commission; dividends from reserves; retirements
Section 196.10 - Construction; accounting
Section 196.11 - Profit sharing and sliding scales
Section 196.12 - Report by public utilities; items
Section 196.13 - Commission's report
Section 196.135 - Confidential handling of records
Section 196.137 - Municipal utility customer information
Section 196.14 - Public record exception
Section 196.15 - Units of product or service
Section 196.16 - Standard measurements; accurate appliances
Section 196.17 - Tests of meters; fees
Section 196.171 - Examination of meters, pipes, fittings, wires and works; entering buildings for
Section 196.175 - Construction and occupancy standards
Section 196.18 - Entry upon premises
Section 196.19 - Publish schedules; regulations; files; joint rates
Section 196.191 - Telecommunications utility and alternative telecommunications utility tariffs
Section 196.192 - Market-based compensation, rates and contracts
Section 196.193 - Water and sewer rate increases without hearings
Section 196.194 - Gas utility individual contracts
Section 196.195 - Alternative telecommunications regulation plans
Section 196.197 - Unbundled network elements
Section 196.198 - Local measured telecommunications service
Section 196.199 - Interconnection agreements
Section 196.20 - Rules on service; changes in rates
Section 196.201 - Regulation of private shared telecommunications systems
Section 196.202 - Exemption of commercial mobile radio service providers
Section 196.203 - Exemption of alternative telecommunications utilities
Section 196.204 - Local government telecommunications utilities
Section 196.205 - Election of rate regulation
Section 196.206 - Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service
Section 196.207 - Telephone caller identification services
Section 196.208 - Telecommunications pay-per-call and toll-free services
Section 196.212 - Switched access rates
Section 196.216 - Small telecommunications utilities as small businesses
Section 196.217 - Average toll rates
Section 196.218 - Universal service fund
Section 196.219 - Protection of telecommunications consumers
Section 196.22 - Discrimination forbidden
Section 196.23 - Utility service for victims of misappropriated identifying information
Section 196.24 - Agents of commission; powers
Section 196.25 - Questionnaires
Section 196.26 - Complaint by consumers; hearing; notice; order; costs
Section 196.28 - Summary investigations
Section 196.30 - Utilities may complain
Section 196.31 - Intervenor financing
Section 196.315 - Consumer advocate funding
Section 196.32 - Witness fees and mileage
Section 196.33 - Depositions
Section 196.34 - Commission records
Section 196.36 - Transcripts and tapes
Section 196.37 - Lawful rates; reasonable service
Section 196.371 - Rate-making principles for electric generation facilities
Section 196.372 - Financial assistance for lead-containing customer-side water service lines
Section 196.373 - Water heater thermostat settings
Section 196.374 - Energy efficiency and renewable resource programs
Section 196.375 - Adequate service; reasonable rates
Section 196.377 - Renewable energy sources
Section 196.378 - Renewable resources
Section 196.39 - Change, amendment and rescission of orders; reopening cases
Section 196.395 - Test, conditional, emergency and supplemental orders; order conditions
Section 196.40 - Orders and determinations; time of taking effect
Section 196.41 - Court review
Section 196.43 - Injunction procedure
Section 196.44 - Law enforcement
Section 196.48 - Incriminating evidence
Section 196.485 - Transmission system requirements
Section 196.487 - Reliability of electric service
Section 196.49 - Authorization from commission before transacting business; extensions and improvements to be approved; enforcement of orders; natural gas
Section 196.491 - Strategic energy assessment; electric generating facilities and transmission lines; natural gas lines
Section 196.494 - Regional transmission planning
Section 196.495 - Avoidance of duplication in electric facilities
Section 196.496 - Distributed generation facilities
Section 196.497 - State policy regarding the long-term disposal of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste
Section 196.499 - Regulation of telecommunications carriers
Section 196.50 - Competing public utilities; indeterminate permits; telecommunications utility certification
Section 196.503 - Telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations
Section 196.504 - Broadband expansion grant program; Broadband Forward! community certification
Section 196.5045 - Telecommuter Forward! certification
Section 196.505 - Construction of chapter
Section 196.51 - Prior permits and franchises validated
Section 196.52 - Relations with affiliated interests; definition; contracts with affiliates filed and subject to commission control
Section 196.525 - Loans to officers or directors and loans to and investments in securities of holding companies; penalty
Section 196.53 - Franchise, foreign corporation not to have
Section 196.54 - Indeterminate permits
Section 196.58 - Municipality to regulate utilities; appeal
Section 196.59 - Merchandising by utilities
Section 196.595 - Utility advertising practices
Section 196.60 - Discrimination prohibited; penalty
Section 196.604 - Rebates, concessions and discriminations unlawful
Section 196.605 - Telecommunications cooperatives with federal loans
Section 196.61 - Facilities in exchange for compensation prohibited
Section 196.625 - Discrimination by telecommunications utilities
Section 196.63 - Telecommunications interruption in crisis situation
Section 196.635 - Unbilled utility service
Section 196.64 - Public utilities, liability for treble damages
Section 196.642 - Customer liability for treble damages
Section 196.643 - Public utility service to rental dwelling unit
Section 196.645 - Rate changes
Section 196.65 - Penalties relating to information and records
Section 196.66 - General forfeiture provisions
Section 196.665 - Unlawful combinations, trusts
Section 196.67 - Warning signs
Section 196.675 - Unlawful for carriers and public utilities to employ assistant district attorneys or judicial officers
Section 196.68 - Municipal officers, malfeasance
Section 196.69 - Interference with commission's equipment
Section 196.70 - Temporary alteration or suspension of rates
Section 196.71 - Municipal public utility contracts
Section 196.72 - Accidents; public utility report; investigation
Section 196.74 - Electric lines; safety and interference
Section 196.745 - Construction and operation; safety; commission orders
Section 196.76 - Other rights of action; penalties cumulative
Section 196.78 - Voluntary dissolution
Section 196.79 - Reorganization subject to commission approval
Section 196.795 - Public utility holding companies
Section 196.796 - Real estate activities
Section 196.80 - Consolidation or merger of utilities
Section 196.807 - Energy affiliate and utility employees
Section 196.81 - Abandonment; commission approval required
Section 196.84 - Commission's holding company and nonutility affiliate regulation costs
Section 196.85 - Payment of commission's expenditures
Section 196.855 - Assessment of costs against municipalities
Section 196.857 - Stray voltage program
Section 196.858 - Assessment for telephone relay service
Section 196.859 - Assessment for telecommunications utility trade practices
Section 196.86 - Assessments for air quality improvement program
Section 196.91 - Acquisition of existing dams
Section 196.92 - Procedure for acquiring dams