Utah Code — 54
Browse 396 sections in division 54 of the Utah code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 54-1-1. Establishment of commission -- Functions -- Participation in Risk Management Fund.
- § 54-1-1.5. Appointment of members -- Terms -- Qualifications -- Chairman -- Quorum -- Removal -- Vacancies -- Compensation.
- § 54-1-1.6. Pro tempore commissioner -- Appointment -- Qualifications.
- § 54-1-2. Powers and duties.
- § 54-1-2.1. Alignment with state energy policy.
- § 54-1-2.5. Procedures -- Adjudicative proceedings.
- § 54-1-3. Transaction of business by commissioners -- Quorum -- Proceedings by less than majority or administrative law judge -- Effect of actions.
- § 54-1-4. Official seal.
- § 54-1-5. Office and office hours.
- § 54-1-6. Employment of staff -- Status and compensation -- Employees not to be parties or witnesses and may not appeal commission decisions.
- § 54-1-6.5. Executive staff director -- Appointment -- Functions.
- § 54-1-7. Secretary of commission -- Appointment -- Functions.
- § 54-1-7.5. Adoption of internal organization measures.
- § 54-1-8. Expenses of commission.
- § 54-1-10. Conservation planning -- Annual reports.
- § 54-1-11. Prohibited interests, relationships and actions by commissioners and employees.
- § 54-1-12. Deposit of funds.
- § 54-1-13. Commission exploration and development of cleaner air options.
- § 54-2-1. Definitions.
- § 54-2-2. Definition of "person."
- § 54-2-201. Independent energy producer --- Exemption from commission jurisdiction.
- § 54-2-202. Out-of-state distribution electrical cooperative -- Exemption from commission jurisdiction.
- § 54-3-1. Charges must be just; service adequate; rules reasonable.
- § 54-3-2. Schedules of rates and classification -- Right of inspection -- Changes by commission -- Online consumer access to usage data.
- § 54-3-3. Changes by utilities in schedules -- Notice.
- § 54-3-4. Joint tariffs.
- § 54-3-7. Charges not to vary from schedules -- Refunds and rebates forbidden -- Exceptions.
- § 54-3-8. Preferences forbidden -- Power of commission to determine facts -- Applicability of section.
- § 54-3-8.5. Rate on electricity for agricultural irrigation or drainage.
- § 54-3-9. Sliding scale of charges -- Control by commission.
- § 54-3-10. Interchange of business required.
- § 54-3-19. Long and short distance service -- Through and intermediate rates.
- § 54-3-21. Commission to be furnished information and copies of records -- Hearings before commission to be public -- Privilege.
- § 54-3-22. Required reports.
- § 54-3-23. Commission's orders must be obeyed.
- § 54-3-24. Hostage situation -- Telephone communication prevention.
- § 54-3-26. Retention of unclaimed capital credits by electric and telephone cooperatives -- Use of retained money -- Reporting requirements.
- § 54-3-27. Public utility easement.
- § 54-3-28. Notice required of certain public utilities before preparing or amending a long-range plan or acquiring certain property.
- § 54-3-29. Removal, relocation, or alteration of utility facility in public highway construction or reconstruction -- Notice -- Cooperation.
- § 54-3-30. Electric utility service within a provider municipality -- Electrical corporation prohibited as provider -- Exceptions -- Notice and agreement -- Transfer of customer.
- § 54-3-31. Electric utility service within a provider municipality -- Electrical corporation authorized as continuing provider for service provided on or before June 15, 2013 -- Notice of service and agreement -- Transfer of customer.
- § 54-3-32. Public utility duties -- Procedure to transfer service to a nonutility energy supplier.
- § 54-3-33. Eligible customer energy supply contract.
- § 54-4-1. General jurisdiction.
- § 54-4-1.1. Wholesale electrical cooperative exempt from rate regulation -- Requirements for rate increase.
- § 54-4-1.5. Investigations, providing information, audits and recommendations by director.
- § 54-4-2. Investigations -- Hearings and notice -- Findings -- Applicability of chapter.
- § 54-4-4. Classification and fixing of rates after hearing.
- § 54-4-4.1. Rules to govern rates.
- § 54-4-7. Rules, equipment, service -- Regulation after hearing.
- § 54-4-8. Additions, improvements, extensions, repairs, or changes -- Apportioning costs.
- § 54-4-12. Telegraph and telephone -- Connections -- Joint rates -- Division of costs.
- § 54-4-13. Joint use of properties by utilities -- Adjustment of costs -- Cable television easement rights.
- § 54-4-13.1. Natural gas vehicle rate -- Natural gas clean air programs.
- § 54-4-13.4. Natural gas fueling stations and facilities -- Recovery of expenditures for stations and facilities.
- § 54-4-14. Safety regulation.
- § 54-4-16. Investigation and report of accidents.
- § 54-4-18. Electric, gas, and water service.
- § 54-4-19. Right to enter upon public utility premises.
- § 54-4-20. Consumer may have meter tested upon paying fee.
- § 54-4-21. Valuation of public utilities.
- § 54-4-22. Statements of valuations -- Affidavits -- Records of valuation.
- § 54-4-23. Accounts and records of utilities.
- § 54-4-24. Depreciation accounts and fund.
- § 54-4-25. Certificate of convenience and necessity prerequisite to construction and operation -- Electrical suppliers.
- § 54-4-26. Contracts calling for expenditures -- Commission to approve.
- § 54-4-27. Payment of dividends -- Notice -- Restraint.
- § 54-4-28. Merger, consolidation, or combination.
- § 54-4-29. Acquiring voting stock or securities of like utility only on consent of commission.
- § 54-4-30. Acquiring properties of like utility only on consent of commission.
- § 54-4-31. Electrical corporation to issue securities only on consent of commission -- Exceptions -- Validity of securities.
- § 54-4-37. Definitions -- Unauthorized charge to account -- Penalties -- Procedures for verification -- Authority of commission and Division of Public Utilities.
- § 54-4-39. Natural gas derived from new technologies -- Long-term contracts.
- § 54-4-40. Approval of certain agreements between an electrical corporation and a municipality.
- § 54-4-41. Recovery of investment in utility-owned vehicle charging infrastructure.
- § 54-4-42. Utility Bill Assistance Program.
- § 4a-1. Establishment of division -- Functions.
- § 4a-2. Director of division -- Appointment -- Authority and responsibility.
- § 4a-3. Budget of division -- Employment of personnel.
- § 4a-4. Legal counsel.
- § 4a-5. Interests, relationships, and actions by employees prohibited.
- § 4a-6. Objectives.
- § 54-5-1.5. Special regulation fee -- Supplemental Levy Committee -- Supplemental fee -- Fee for electrical cooperatives.
- § 54-5-2. How gross operating revenue is determined.
- § 54-5-3. Default in payment of fee -- Procedure to collect -- Penalties.
- § 54-5-4. Penalties.
- § 54-7-1. Settlement -- Limitation of issues.
- § 54-7-1.5. Communications between commission personnel and parties restricted.
- § 54-7-2. Process -- Service -- Fees.
- § 54-7-3. Subpoena -- Witness fees -- Depositions.
- § 54-7-4. Copies, competent evidence.
- § 54-7-5. Orders and certificates to be in writing and entered on records of commission -- Recordation.
- § 54-7-6. Fees.
- § 54-7-7. Books and records of utilities subject to inspection.
- § 54-7-8. Offices for utility's books and records -- Production for examination.
- § 54-7-9. Complaints against utilities -- Scope.
- § 54-7-10. Orders on hearings -- Time effective.
- § 54-7-11. Complaints by utilities -- Procedure.
- § 54-7-12. Rate increase or decrease -- Procedure -- Effective dates -- Electrical or telephone cooperative.
- § 54-7-12.1. Depreciation expense.
- § 54-7-12.8. Electric energy efficiency, sustainable transportation and energy, and conservation tariff.
- § 54-7-12.9. Gross receipts tax decrease on electrical corporations -- Tariffs -- Procedure.
- § 54-7-13.4. Alternative cost recovery for major plant addition -- Procedure.
- § 54-7-13.5. Energy balancing accounts.
- § 54-7-13.6. Low-income assistance program.
- § 54-7-13.7. Energy rebate program -- Requirement -- Reporting to Office of Energy Development.
- § 54-7-14. Orders and decisions conclusive on collateral attack.
- § 54-7-14.5. Rescission or amendment of orders or decisions.
- § 54-7-15. Review or rehearing by commission -- Application -- Procedure -- Prerequisite to court action -- Effect of commission decisions.
- § 54-7-17. Stay of commission's order or decision pending appeal.
- § 54-7-18. Preference of actions and proceedings on courts' calendars.
- § 54-7-19. Valuation of utilities -- Procedure -- Findings conclusive evidence.
- § 54-7-20. Reparations -- Courts to enforce commission's orders -- Limitation of action.
- § 54-7-21. Commission charged with enforcing laws -- Attorney general to aid.
- § 54-7-23. Penalties.
- § 54-7-24. Injunction to stop violations or threatened violations.
- § 54-7-25. Violations by utilities -- Penalty.
- § 54-7-26. Violations by officers or agents of utility -- Penalty.
- § 54-7-27. Violations by corporations other than utilities -- Penalty.
- § 54-7-28. Violations by individuals -- Penalty.
- § 54-7-29. Actions to recover fines and penalties.
- § 54-7-30. Interstate commerce -- Title does not apply.
- § 54-8-1. Short title.
- § 54-8-2. Legislative purpose.
- § 54-8-3. Definitions.
- § 54-8-4. Creation of local improvement districts authorized.
- § 54-8-5. Apportionment of costs -- Assessment against benefitted property -- Public lands not subject to assessment.
- § 54-8-6. Creation of improvement district -- Petition by property owners -- Resolution of governing body -- Utilities to submit reports.
- § 54-8-7. Reports of utilities -- Recommendations -- Estimate of costs.
- § 54-8-8. Approval of utilities' report by governing body -- Passage of resolutions -- Contents.
- § 54-8-9. Public hearing -- Notice -- Contents.
- § 54-8-10. Public hearing -- Notice -- Publication.
- § 54-8-11. Protests -- Hearings -- Representatives of utilities to be present -- Changes in proposal -- Adoption or abandonment of project.
- § 54-8-12. Property owners failing to appear at hearings -- Waiver of rights.
- § 54-8-13. Assessment list to be prepared.
- § 54-8-14. Declaration of costs -- Contents of resolution.
- § 54-8-15. Board of equalization and review -- Appointment -- Functions and authority.
- § 54-8-16. Notice of assessment -- Publication.
- § 54-8-17. Assessments -- Hearings on -- Corrections of -- Assessment not to exceed benefit.
- § 54-8-18. Assessments -- Resolution to adopt.
- § 54-8-19. Assessments -- Right to levy against property -- Due date -- Notice -- Payment in annual installments.
- § 54-8-20. Assessments -- Failure to pay installment -- Interest and penalties -- Lien on property -- Sale of property -- Disposition of proceeds.
- § 54-8-21. Assessments -- Prepayment of unpaid installments.
- § 54-8-22. Bonds -- Issuance authorized -- Amount -- Interest -- Additional requirements.
- § 54-8-23. Objection to amount of assessment -- Civil action -- Litigation to question or attack proceedings or legality of bonds -- Notice.
- § 54-8-24. Payment to utilities -- Allowable costs.
- § 54-8-25. Utilities responsible for work -- May subcontract -- Title to converted facilities retained.
- § 54-8-26. Notice that service from underground facilities is available -- Consequences of failure to convert overhead facilities.
- § 54-8-27. Bill for conversion costs -- Not to exceed estimate -- Payment within 30 days -- Accounting procedures.
- § 54-8-28. Additional overhead facilities prohibited -- Exception.
- § 54-8-29. Jurisdiction over public utilities.
- § 54-8-30. Commencement of conversion -- When required.
- § 8a-2. Definitions.
- § 8a-3.5. Excavation-related information included with construction and building permit.
- § 8a-4. Notice of excavation.
- § 8a-5. Marking of underground facilities.
- § 8a-5.5. Determining the precise location of marked underground facilities.
- § 8a-5.8. Excavator access.
- § 8a-6. Duties and liabilities of an excavator.
- § 8a-7. Notice of contact or damage -- Repairs.
- § 8a-7.5. Third-party damages caused by failure to mark a facility.
- § 8a-8. Civil penalty -- Exceptions -- Other remedies.
- § 8a-9. Association for mutual receipt of excavation notices.
- § 8a-9.5. Inspection of records.
- § 8a-10. Installation of nonmetallic facilities.
- § 8a-10.5. Installation and location of sewer lateral cleanouts -- Records.
- § 8a-11. Applicability of federal law.
- § 8a-12. Enforcement -- Attorney general.
- § 8a-13. Underground Facilities Damage Dispute Board -- Arbitration -- Relationship with Public Service Commission.
- § 8b-1. Title.
- § 8b-1.1. Legislative policy declarations.
- § 8b-2. Definitions.
- § 8b-2.1. Competitive entry.
- § 8b-2.2. Interconnection.
- § 8b-2.3. Pricing flexibility.
- § 8b-3. Exemptions from requirements.
- § 8b-3.3. Services that must be offered on a nondiscriminatory basis -- Public telecommunications to be cost-based -- Packaged services -- Quality of service standards.
- § 8b-3.4. Exemption from merger and acquisition approval by commission.
- § 8b-4.5. Commission order -- Negotiated provisions of services -- Contracts under this section.
- § 8b-6. Prohibition on subsidization of telecommunications services.
- § 8b-7. Continuous jurisdiction of commission -- Orders.
- § 8b-8. Antitrust and restraint of trade laws not affected by chapter.
- § 8b-9. Commission's jurisdiction under other provisions of title not enlarged or reduced by chapter.
- § 8b-10. Imposing a surcharge to provide deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired individuals with telecommunication devices -- Definitions -- Procedures for establishing program -- Surcharge -- Administration and disposition of surcharge money.
- § 8b-11. Establishing just and reasonable rates.
- § 8b-13. Rules governing operator assisted services.
- § 8b-14. Intrastate interexchange toll service prices.
- § 8b-15. Universal Public Telecommunications Service Support Fund -- Commission duties -- Charges -- Lifeline program.
- § 8b-16. Public Service Commission authority to enforce interconnection service quality standards and interconnection agreements -- Grounds for filing complaint.
- § 8b-17. Procedures for enforcement of interconnection service quality -- Penalties for violation -- Funds collected.
- § 8b-18. Definitions -- Unauthorized change of telecommunications provider -- Unauthorized charges -- Procedures for verification -- Penalties -- Authority of commission.
- § 8c-1. Definitions.
- § 8c-2. Notification to public utility -- Protective measures -- Procedures -- Payment.
- § 8c-3. Information filed with county clerk.
- § 8c-4. Violation.
- § 8c-5. Exemptions.
- § 8c-6. Association for mutual receipt of notification of activities close to high voltage overhead lines.
- § 54-9-101. Title.
- § 54-9-102. Definitions.
- § 54-9-103. Public power entity authority regarding common facilities -- Determination of needs -- Agreement requirements -- Ownership interest.
- § 54-9-104. Joint owners to supply materials, arrange for own financing, and share in costs and taxes -- Public power entity authority to finance through financing agent -- Common facilities owners authority to appoint an agent.
- § 54-9-105. Limitations on liability.
- § 54-9-106. Funding -- Power sales contracts -- Revenue bonds -- Fee in lieu of ad valorem property taxes -- Bond issues -- Public purpose.
- § 54-9-107. Disposition of proceeds and revenues.
- § 54-9-108. Scope -- Ownership or use of works or facilities.
- § 10a-101. Title.
- § 10a-102. Definitions.
- § 10a-201. Office of Consumer Services -- Director.
- § 10a-202. Committee of Consumer Services.
- § 10a-203. Attorney general to represent office.
- § 10a-301. Powers and duties of office.
- § 10a-302. Powers of committee.
- § 10a-303. Representation of municipal electrical energy utility prohibited.
- § 54-12-1. Legislative policy.
- § 54-12-2. Purchase of power from qualifying power producers.
- § 54-12-3. Recovery of investment costs.
- § 54-13-1. Definitions.
- § 54-13-2. Commission's responsibilities.
- § 54-13-3. Rules.
- § 54-13-4. Inspection and examination of records and properties.
- § 54-13-5. Establishment of fee.
- § 54-13-7. Minimum distances for placement of structures and facilities near main and transmission lines.
- § 54-13-8. Violation of chapter -- Penalty.
- § 54-14-101. Title.
- § 54-14-102. Legislative findings.
- § 54-14-103. Definitions.
- § 54-14-104. Rules and procedures.
- § 54-14-201. Conditions on siting of facilities by local governments -- Payment of actual excess costs.
- § 54-14-202. Public utility to provide standard cost and estimated excess cost.
- § 54-14-203. Actual excess cost.
- § 54-14-204. Requirements or conditions on facility considered waived if local government does not pay for actual excess cost 30 days before construction.
- § 54-14-301. Creation, purpose, and composition of board.
- § 54-14-302. Staff and support for board.
- § 54-14-303. Actions or disputes for which board review may be sought.
- § 54-14-304. Initial hearing.
- § 54-14-305. Written decisions of board.
- § 54-14-306. Action required of local government following board decision.
- § 54-14-307. Stay of board's decision pending review or appeal.
- § 54-14-308. Judicial review in formal adjudicative proceedings.
- § 54-15-101. Title.
- § 54-15-102. Definitions.
- § 54-15-103. Net metering program -- Metering equipment -- Interconnection agreement.
- § 54-15-104. Charges or credits for net electricity.
- § 54-15-105.1. Determination of costs and benefits -- Determination of just and reasonable charge, credit, or ratemaking structure.
- § 54-15-106. Customer to provide equipment necessary to meet certain requirements -- Governing authority may adopt additional reasonable requirements -- Testing and inspection of interconnection.
- § 54-15-107. Application to out-of-state electrical corporation.
- § 54-15-108. Damages and fines for connecting a customer generation system to more than one customer.
- § 54-15-601. Portable solar generation device -- Exemptions -- Requirements.
- § 54-17-101. Title.
- § 54-17-102. Definitions.
- § 54-17-103. Rulemaking.
- § 54-17-201. Solicitation process required -- Exception.
- § 54-17-202. Requirements for solicitation.
- § 54-17-203. Independent evaluator.
- § 54-17-301. Review of integrated resource plan action plans.
- § 54-17-302. Approval of a significant energy resource decision required.
- § 54-17-303. Cost recovery.
- § 54-17-304. Order to proceed.
- § 54-17-305. Demand management programs.
- § 54-17-401. Definitions -- Rules.
- § 54-17-402. Request for review of resource decision.
- § 54-17-403. Cost recovery.
- § 54-17-404. Order to proceed.
- § 54-17-501. Waiver of requirement for solicitation or approval.
- § 54-17-502. Clean energy source -- Solicitation -- Consultant.
- § 54-17-601. Definitions.
- § 54-17-602. Target amount of qualifying electricity -- Renewable energy certificate -- Cost-effectiveness -- Cooperatives.
- § 54-17-603. Renewable energy certificate -- Issuance -- Use to satisfy other requirements.
- § 54-17-604. Plans and reports.
- § 54-17-605. Recovery of costs for clean energy activities.
- § 54-17-606. Commission rules.
- § 54-17-607. Procedure and appeals under this chapter.
- § 54-17-801. Definitions.
- § 54-17-802. Contracts for the purchase of electricity from a clean energy facility.
- § 54-17-803. Ownership of a clean energy facility -- Joint ownership -- Ownership of environmental attributes.
- § 54-17-804. Exemption from certificate of convenience and necessity requirements.
- § 54-17-805. Costs associated with delivering electricity from a clean energy facility to a contract customer.
- § 54-17-806. Qualified utility clean energy tariff.
- § 54-17-807. Solar photovoltaic or thermal solar energy facilities.
- § 54-17-901. Community Clean Energy Act.
- § 54-17-902. Definitions.
- § 54-17-903. Program requirement for a municipality or county.
- § 54-17-904. Authority of commission to approve a community clean energy program.
- § 54-17-905. Customer participation -- Election not to participate.
- § 54-17-906. Customer billing.
- § 54-17-907. Rate adjustment filing -- Modification of rates for participating customers.
- § 54-17-908. Acquisition of clean energy resources.
- § 54-17-909. Commission rulemaking authority.
- § 54-17-1001. Acquiring excess proven dispatchable generation capacity.
- § 54-17-1002. Cost recovery for proven dispatchable generation assets.
- § 54-17-1101. Advanced transmission technologies.
- § 54-17-1201. Definitions.
- § 54-17-1202. Eligibility for state incentives.
- § 54-17-1203. Consultation requirements.
- § 54-17-1204. Decommissioning plan.
- § 54-17-1205. Permit application and review.
- § 54-17-1206. Severability.
- § 54-17-1301. Wildlife consultation required for utility scale renewable energy facilities.
- § 54-18-101. Title.