Sec. 16-1. Definitions.

Sec. 16-1a. Reference to Public Utilities Commission deemed to mean Public Utilities Control Authority.

Sec. 16-1b. Department of Public Utility Control. Department head.

Sec. 16-2. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Utility commissioners. Staff.

Sec. 16-2a. Office of Consumer Counsel. Office of State Broadband. Consumer Counsel. Staff.

Sec. 16-2b. Term “Office of Consumer Counsel” deemed to mean Division of Consumer Counsel within the Department of Business Regulation.

Sec. 16-2c. Division of Adjudication.

Sec. 16-2d. Office of energy efficient businesses.

Sec. 16-3. Vacancy.

Sec. 16-3a. Appointment of initial members. Transfer of business between commission and authority.

Sec. 16-4. Employees of public service companies, certified telecommunications providers and electric suppliers ineligible to serve on authority or in department.

Sec. 16-5. Removal.

Sec. 16-6. Office and records.

Sec. 16-6a. Participation in proceedings before federal agencies and federal courts. Expenses.

Sec. 16-6b. Regulations.

Sec. 16-6c. Power to delay implementation of electric suppliers' generation portfolio standards.

Sec. 16-7. Right of entry. Penalty.

Sec. 16-8. Examination of witnesses and documents. Hearing officers. Management audits.

Sec. 16-8a. Protection of employee of public service company, contractor or Nuclear Regulatory Commission from retaliation. Procedures. Regulations.

Sec. 16-8b. Labor disputes at public service companies. Determination of unreasonable profits during dispute. Refunds.

Sec. 16-8c. Examination of witnesses and documents. Audits. Relationship between public service companies and subsidiaries.

Sec. 16-8d. Recovery of costs, expenses, judgments or attorney's fees for an action brought under section 16-8a.

Sec. 16-9. Orders.

Sec. 16-9a. Party status in proceedings before authority.

Sec. 16-9b. Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to be party to proceedings before authority.

Sec. 16-10. Enforcement of statutes and orders.

Sec. 16-10a. Revocation of franchises. Procedure. Reassignment.

Sec. 16-11. Safety of public and employees. Powers.

Sec. 16-11a. Nuclear Energy Advisory Council; composition; duties.

Sec. 16-12. Complaints as to dangerous conditions.

Sec. 16-13. Procedure upon complaint.

Sec. 16-14. Powers concerning electrolysis or escape of electricity.

Sec. 16-15. Compliance with orders. Penalty.

Sec. 16-16. Report of accidents.

Sec. 16-17. Duties as to accidents.

Sec. 16-18. Powers concerning poles and wires.

Sec. 16-18a. Consultants: Retention, expenses, findings and recommendations.

Sec. 16-19. Amendment of rate schedule; investigations and findings by authority; hearings; deferral of municipal rate increases; refunds; notice of application for rate amendment, interim rate amendment and reopening of rate proceeding.

Sec. 16-19a. Periodic review re gas and electric distribution companies' rates, services and performance. Approval of performance-based incentives.

Sec. 16-19b. Purchased gas adjustment clauses, energy adjustment clauses and transmission rate adjustment clauses.

Sec. 16-19c. Investigation of fuel cost adjustment and purchased gas adjustment charges.

Sec. 16-19d. Advertising not to be deemed an operating expense for purposes of rate-making. Disclosure of source of payment for advertising.

Sec. 16-19e. Guidelines for transfer of assets and franchises, plant expansion, internal utility management and rate structures. Public hearing. Policy coordination among state agencies. Parties to rate proceeding.

Sec. 16-19f. Rate design standards for electric public service companies and municipal electric companies. Determination of appropriateness. Implementation. Electric vehicle charging stations.

Sec. 16-19g. Penalty for failure to report nuclear incident not an operating expense.

Sec. 16-19h. Reopening of water company rate proceedings.

Sec. 16-19i. Electric company residential customer service charge indicated on bill.

Sec. 16-19j. Portion of authority staff to be made party to certain rate proceedings.

Sec. 16-19k. Costs of educational materials or information on water conservation included as operating costs.

Sec. 16-19l. Authorization of rates that promote water conservation.

Secs. 16-19mto16-19q. Decommissioning of nuclear power generating facilities; definitions. Decommissioning financing plan; contents. Decommissioning finance plans; updates; hearing approval. Review of plan; changes. Decommissioning costs; liability.

Secs. 16-19rto16-19t. Three Mile Island nuclear power generating facility damage costs prohibited from being placed in rate base or included as operating expenses. Revenues associated with construction of electric company facilities and Millstone 3 and Seabrook 1 nuclear power generating facilities; rate treatment; proceedings on economic viability of Seabrook 1; low power startup decontamination costs of Seabrook 1 not included in rates. Excess construction costs of Millstone 3 nuclear power generating facility not included in rates.

Secs. 16-19uto16-19w. Monthly reports from nuclear power generating facility licensees re construction costs and progress. Excess construction costs of Seabrook 1 nuclear power generating facility not included in rates. Prohibition on inclusion of certain costs associated with construction of Seabrook 2 nuclear power generating facility in rates.

Sec. 16-19x. Phase-in of costs of certain large electric generating facilities.

Sec. 16-19y. Rate treatment of enhanced 9-1-1 service costs.

Sec. 16-19z. Rate treatment of land purchased, owned or retained by water companies for water supply protection or future water supply use.

Sec. 16-19aa. Excess generating capacity. Exclusion of costs associated with. Return on and depreciation of unrecovered investment in generating facilities.

Sec. 16-19bb. Application or refund of electric distribution company rate moderation funds.

Sec. 16-19cc. Semiannual reports from nuclear generating facility licensees re maintenance, refueling and shutdown schedules. Penalty for shutdown for a significant period of time.

Sec. 16-19dd. Conservation and load management programs for agricultural customers.

Sec. 16-19ee. Reports from electric distribution companies concerning electrical outages from power surges.

Sec. 16-19ff. Submetering. Regulations. Application process.

Sec. 16-19gg. Factors to be considered during a rate proceeding.

Sec. 16-19hh. Implementation of flexible pricing and rates. Special contracts for electric service. Exemption from competitive transition assessment. Regulations. Gas rates for certain manufacturers.

Sec. 16-19ii. Use of electric resistance space heating. Differential rates.

Sec. 16-19jj. Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

Sec. 16-19kk. Finding re conservation and load management programs. Rates of return for conservation and load management programs and programs promoting the state's economic development. Considerations in establishing company's authorized return. Performance-based incentives. Consumer Counsel authorized to retain experts. Regulations.

Sec. 16-19ll. Submittal of legislation re encouraging conservation and load management programs, etc.

Sec. 16-19mm. Consideration of external costs and benefits.

Sec. 16-19nn. Encouragement of specific end uses of electricity and gas.

Sec. 16-19oo. Approval of rate amendments for conservation and load management programs or programs promoting the state's economic development in proceedings other than rate proceedings. Approval of rate mechanisms to recover costs of natural gas infrastructure expansion plan in contested proceedings.

Sec. 16-19pp. Uncontested proceedings before the authority. Participating parties.

Sec. 16-19qq. Outages of nuclear power generating facilities; rate proceedings; rebuttable presumption of imprudent management.

Sec. 16-19rr. Rates charged by electric distribution companies and electric utilities to veterans' organizations.

Sec. 16-19ss. Solicitations for the provision of temporary electric generation facilities.

Sec. 16-19tt. Gas and electric distribution companies' distribution revenue decoupling.

Sec. 16-19uu. Adjustments to competitive transition assessment with respect to economic recovery revenue bonds.

Sec. 16-19vv. Public service companies' customer deposits.

Sec. 16-19ww. Natural gas infrastructure expansion plan. Hurdle rate; rate for new customers added pursuant to the plan; rate mechanism for gas companies to recover prudent investments made pursuant to the plan outside a rate proceeding; assignment of nonfirm margin credit.

Sec. 16-19xx. Deferral of public service company tax expense increase.

Secs. 16-19yyto16-19ddd. [Reserved]

Sec. 16-19eee. Definitions.

Sec. 16-19fff. Electric vehicle charging load projections.

Sec. 16-19ggg. Public electric vehicle charging stations. Parking restrictions.

Sec. 16-20. Inadequate service or unreasonable rates; petition to authority. Small community water system rates and service.

Sec. 16-21. Change of rates fixed pursuant to charter or contract.

Sec. 16-22. Rates; transfer of assets or franchise; burden of proof.

Sec. 16-23. Regulations and service prescribed by authority deemed reasonable.

Sec. 16-24. Classification of service.

Sec. 16-24a. Low-income discounted rates for electric and gas service.

Sec. 16-25. Time and place of hearings. Notice.

Sec. 16-25a. Hearings on Office of Consumer Counsel petitions.

Sec. 16-26. Public hearing to be held in locality affected.

Sec. 16-27. Returns from public service companies. Reports from community antenna television companies. Penalty. Form 8-K reports.

Sec. 16-28. Correction of returns and reports.

Sec. 16-29. Reports from municipalities.

Sec. 16-30. Returns from motor bus companies. Penalty.

Sec. 16-31. Remission of forfeitures by the Attorney General.

Sec. 16-32. Annual audit report.

Sec. 16-32a. Filing re procurement practices. Public hearing. Regulations re competitive bidding.

Sec. 16-32b. Regional water authority or water district to submit annual report.

Sec. 16-32c. Water company rate adjustments. Application. Notice to customers.

Sec. 16-32d. [Reserved]

Sec. 16-32e. Emergency plans to be filed by public service companies, telecommunications companies, voice over Internet protocol service providers and municipal utilities. Hearings. Revisions. Staffing of electric distribution companies' emergency operations centers.

Sec. 16-32f. Gas company supply and demand forecast reports.

Sec. 16-32g. Electric wire maintenance plans. Regulations.

Sec. 16-32h. Performance standards for electric distribution companies and gas companies in emergencies. Emergency response report.

Sec. 16-32i. Performance review of electric distribution companies and gas companies after emergencies. Hearing. Penalty.

Sec. 16-32j. Procedures for expedited road clearing after emergencies.

Sec. 16-32k. Vegetation management practices review. Report.

Sec. 16-33. Obstructing authority; false entries and returns to; penalty.

Sec. 16-34. Annual reports to Governor.

Sec. 16-34a. Annual report re lost and unaccounted for gas. Docket to investigate.

Sec. 16-35. Appeals to Superior Court. Uncontested proceedings re acquiring electricity products or services.

Secs. 16-36to16-39. Venue. Procedure on appeal. Notice when parties are numerous. Supersedeas.

Sec. 16-40. Rights and duties of trustees and receivers.

Sec. 16-41. Imposition of civil penalties by authority.

Sec. 16-42. Not to affect labor contracts.

Sec. 16-43. Merger or sale of public service companies. Issuance and approval of securities. Net proceeds from sale of water company land. Allocation of economic benefits of sale of water company land.

Sec. 16-43a. Validity of securities issued pursuant to order of authority.

Sec. 16-43b. Definitions applicable to apportionment of land sales benefits.

Sec. 16-43c. Sale of water company land to certain municipal corporations for construction of a school.

Sec. 16-43d. Sale of existing electric generation plants.

Sec. 16-44. Notice of formation, consolidation or discontinuance of public service companies; change of name. Penalty.

Sec. 16-44a. Disclosure of salaries of directors and officers of public service companies.

Sec. 16-45. Increase or reduction of capital stock by public service companies.

Sec. 16-46. Dissolution or termination of public service company. Cessation of public service operations.

Sec. 16-47. Holding companies. Approval of authority re exercise of control. Investigation and hearing. Annual reports. Injunctive relief.

Sec. 16-47a. Code of conduct for gas company transactions with affiliates.

Sec. 16-48. Electricity and gas; transmission between this state and other states.

Sec. 16-48a. Consumer Counsel and Public Utility Control Fund established.

Sec. 16-49. Expenses of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's Bureau of Energy, the Office of Consumer Counsel and the operations of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Assessment of regulated companies.

Secs. 16-49ato16-49c. Appropriation. Council on water company lands established. Moratorium on sale of water company lands; duties of council.

Sec. 16-49d. Applications for sales of water company lands submitted prior to June 25, 1975.

Sec. 16-49e. Public service company may request identification from person opening an account. Telecommunications company may request identification prior to providing service.

Sec. 16-49f. Verification of Social Security number prior to opening new account. Minor not liable for services fraudulently obtained using minor's Social Security number.

Sec. 16-50. Employees. Consultants.

Sec. 16-50a. Local filing of maps on acquisition of property.

Sec. 16-50b. Declaration of policy.

Sec. 16-50c. Notification of intent to dispose of unimproved real property. Approval or disapproval by authority. Hearing.

Sec. 16-50d. Action to acquire property.

Sec. 16-50e. Notices to town clerk.

Sec. 16-50f. Solicitation of insurance applications from employees of public service companies. Payroll deductions.