CHAPTER 24. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

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§24-2-1. Jurisdiction of commission; waiver of jurisdiction.
§24-2-1a. Authority of commission to enter and inspect railroad property.
§24-2-1b. Additional jurisdiction of commission.
§24-2-1c. Certificates of need required for solid waste facilities.
§24-2-1d. Future electric generating capacity requirements.
§24-2-1e. Rate recovery for construction of electric transmission facilities.
§24-2-1f. Jurisdiction of commission over solid waste facilities.
§24-2-1g. Rate incentives for utility investment in qualified clean coal and clean air control technology facilities.
§24-2-1h. Additional powers and duties of commission to control flow of solid waste.
§24-2-1i. Commission authorized to issue emergency certificate of need to certain commercial solid waste facilities; Division of Environmental Protection to modify facility permit; criteria for emergency certificates.
§24-2-1j. Special rates for energy intensive industrial consumers of electric power.
§24-2-1k. Natural gas infrastructure expansion, development, improvement and job creation; findings; expedited process; requirements; rulemaking.
§24-2-1l. Modernization and improvement of coal-fired boilers at electric power plants; findings; expedited process; requirements; rulemaking.
§24-2-1m. Commission jurisdiction does not extend to materials recovery facilities, mixed waste processing facilities, and certain mixed waste processing and resource recovery facilities.
§24-2-1n. West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program.
§24-2-1o. Renewable energy facilities program.
§24-2-1p. Middle-Mile Fiber Broadband Infrastructure Expansion Program.
§24-2-1q. Base fuel supply requirements for electric grid resiliency.
§24-2-1r. Authority of commission to adopt and enforce water hydrant practices.
§24-2-2. General power of commission to regulate public utilities.
§24-2-3. General power of commission with respect to rates.
§24-2-3a. Advance notice of filing of general rate case required.
§24-2-3b. Transitional suspension of schedule; legislative findings; procedure.
§24-2-3c. Cessation of jurisdiction over rates for certain services subject to competition.
§24-2-4. Procedure for changing rates.
§24-2-4a. Procedure for changing rates after June 30, 1981.
§24-2-4b. Procedures for changing rates of electric and natural gas cooperatives, local exchange services of telephone cooperatives, and municipally operated public utilities.
§24-2-4c. Rate increases for natural gas public utilities relating to purchase of natural gas from suppliers; obtaining new supplies of natural gas to meet obligations.
§24-2-4d. Procedures for intrastate rail carrier rate-making and compliants.
§24-2-4e. Environmental control bonds.
§24-2-4f. Consumer rate relief bonds.
§24-2-4g. Establishing the value of utility assets in the context of the acquisition of a utility or utility assets and providing for the combination or allocation of water and wastewater revenue requirements.
§24-2-4h. Utility consumer rate relief bonds.
§24-2-5. Supervision of public utilities licensed by municipalities, county courts or otherwise; right to enter premises, inspect and correct meters.
§24-2-6. Power as to connecting telephone and telegraph services.
§24-2-7. Unreasonable, etc., regulations, practices and services; receivership; procedures respecting receivership; appointment and compensation of receiver; liquidation.
§24-2-8. System of accounts to be kept by public utilities; uniform accounting system for public service districts and municipally owned public utilities.
§24-2-9. Information concerning rates, etc., of public utilities may be required and published by commission.
§24-2-10. Power to subpoena witnesses, take testimony and administer oaths; contempt; self-incrimination.
§24-2-11. Requirements for certificate of public convenience and necessity.
§24-2-11a. Requirement for certificate of public convenience and necessity before beginning construction of high voltage transmission line; contents of application; notice; hearing; criteria for granting or denying certificate; regulations.
§24-2-11b. Continuing prudence reviews.
§24-2-11c. Siting certificates for certain electric generating facilities or material modifications thereof.
§24-2-11d. Revocation of certificate of public convenience and necessity; acquisition of facilities by capable public utility.
§24-2-12. What acts may not be done without consent of commission; consent in advance of exemption of transactions; when sale, etc., of franchises, mergers, etc., void.
§24-2-12a. Issuance of stock; requirement of applying to commission for orders authorizing issuance; hearing and investigation on application; order; when issuance is void.
§24-2-13. Enforcement of federal acts.
§24-2-14. Reports required to be filed by generating electric utilities; contents; powers of commission to obtain information; availability to the public; certain studies required.
§24-2-15. Automatic adjustment clauses or fuel adjustment clauses prohibited.
§24-2-16. Anticompetitive clauses in natural gas contracts prohibited.
§24-2-17. Registry of electric customers on life support systems; notification prior to scheduled outages; priority of service restoration; limitation of liability; life support defined.
§24-2-18. Legislative findings on electric service; jurisdictionof the commission to determine public interest inpermitting retail access to competitive power supply markets; participation of interested parties; development of deregulation plan; legislative approval or rejection of plan; certain reports required or permitted; continuing jurisdiction.
§24-2-19. Integrated Resource Planning Required.
§24-2-20. Direct use of natural gas.
§24-2-21. Required notice for power plant closure or sale.
§24-2-21a. Commission authority required when closing an electric generating plant and circumstances of closure in another jurisdiction.
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