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23-4-203. Water, gas, or electricity — Utility bills must show units charged for.
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23-4-203. Water, gas, or electricity — Utility bills must show units charged for.
(a)(1) All water, gas, or electric companies shall base their charges for their commodities upon the reading of the meters and shall charge for the commodities as per printed tables supplied to patrons.
(2) The bills or statements rendered to patrons shall show the number of units charged for.
(b)(1) Upon a finding by the Arkansas Public Service Commission that any jurisdictional water, gas, telephone, or electric public utility has knowingly, willfully, and purposefully violated any of the provisions of this section, by agent or otherwise, the commission shall assess a civil sanction of one thousand dollars ($1,000) on the utility.
(2) Each instance of violation shall constitute a separate violation. However, in case of a continued violation, each day's continuance thereof shall not be deemed to be a separate and distinct violation.
(3) The power and authority of the commission to impose the civil sanctions are not to be affected by any other proceeding, civil or criminal, concerning the same violation, nor shall the imposition of the sanction preclude the commission from imposing other sanctions as are provided for by law.
(4) The proceeds from the civil sanctions imposed under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury as special revenues and credited to the Public Service Commission Fund.
(5) The imposition of a civil sanction under this section is subject to review by the commission and by the Court of Appeals in the manner provided by §§ 23-2-422 — 23-2-424.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-4-203
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23-4-203. Water, gas, or electricity — Utility bills must show units charged for.
(a)(1) All water, gas, or electric companies shall base their charges for their commodities upon the reading of the meters and shall charge for the commodities as per printed tables supplied to patrons.
(2) The bills or statements rendered to patrons shall show the number of units charged for.
(b)(1) Upon a finding by the Arkansas Public Service Commission that any jurisdictional water, gas, telephone, or electric public utility has knowingly, willfully, and purposefully violated any of the provisions of this section, by agent or otherwise, the commission shall assess a civil sanction of one thousand dollars ($1,000) on the utility.
(2) Each instance of violation shall constitute a separate violation. However, in case of a continued violation, each day's continuance thereof shall not be deemed to be a separate and distinct violation.
(3) The power and authority of the commission to impose the civil sanctions are not to be affected by any other proceeding, civil or criminal, concerning the same violation, nor shall the imposition of the sanction preclude the commission from imposing other sanctions as are provided for by law.
(4) The proceeds from the civil sanctions imposed under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury as special revenues and credited to the Public Service Commission Fund.
(5) The imposition of a civil sanction under this section is subject to review by the commission and by the Court of Appeals in the manner provided by §§ 23-2-422 — 23-2-424.
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23-2-422. Commission orders — Rehearings.
(a) Any party to a proceeding before the Arkansas Public Service Commission aggrieved by an order issued by the commission may apply for a rehearing within thirty (30) days after the date of mailing of the order of the commission.
(b) The application for rehearing shall set forth specifically the grounds upon which the application is based.
(c) Upon receiving the application, the commission shall have power to grant or deny rehearing, to abrogate or modify its order without further hearing, or to reopen the record for the purpose of receiving and considering additional evidence.
(d) Unless the commission acts upon the application for rehearing within thirty (30) days after it is filed, the application shall be deemed to have been denied.
(e) An order or decision made after the rehearing abrogating, changing, or modifying the original order or decision shall have the same force and effect as an original order or decision but shall not affect any right or the enforcement of any right arising from or by virtue of the original order or decision unless so ordered by the commission.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-2-422
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 23-2-422. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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23-2-424. Commission orders — Rehearing or judicial review — Effect on order, stocks, etc.
(a)(1) The filing of an application for rehearing under § 23-2-422 shall not, unless specifically ordered by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, operate as a stay of the commission's order.
(2) The commencement of proceedings under § 23-2-423 shall not, unless specifically ordered by the Court of Appeals, operate as a stay of the commission's order.
(b) The Court of Appeals may enter an order suspending or staying the operation of an order of the commission pending review of the order, provided the other parties are adequately secured against loss due to the delay in the enforcement of the order, in case the order involved is affirmed. The security is to take such form as shall be directed by the court.
(c)(1) Any provision of this section, § 23-2-401, and §§ 23-2-421 — 23-2-423 notwithstanding, if the commission order involves rate changes which have already been made effective under bond pursuant to § 23-4-408, then the order shall take effect not less than twenty (20) days following service.
(2) If in this period an application for rehearing is filed, then the order shall be stayed until such time as the application is ruled on and any judicial appeals are concluded.
(d) Stocks or stock certificates, bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to and in accordance with an order of the commission shall be valid and binding in accordance with their terms, notwithstanding that the order of the commission may be or is later abrogated, vacated, changed, modified, or otherwise held to be wholly or partially invalid, unless, prior to issuance, the operation or effectiveness of the order has been stayed or suspended by the commission or a reviewing
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-2-424
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 23-2-424. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.