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...dered in the determination of rates and charges for the company's nonexempt services, including rates and charges determined pursuant to section 4905.302 of the Revised Code.

...ion shall adopt rules to carry out this chapter. Initial rules shall be adopted within one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section.

...n may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism or device in a natural gas company's rate schedules that allows a natural gas company's rates or charges for a regulated service or goods to fluctuate automatically in accordance with changes in a specified cost or costs. (B) Upon an application filed under section 4909.18 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code, the commission may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism...

...all, upgrade, or replace information technology systems; (3) Any program reasonably necessary to comply with any rules, regulations, or orders of the commission or other governmental entity having jurisdiction. (B) An application submitted under division (A) of this section shall specify the total cost of the capital expenditure program. (C) If the commission finds that the capital expenditure program is con...

...Except as otherwise provided in the amendment of sections 4901.12, 4905.02, 4905.07, 4905.35, 4911.10, and 5727.33 and the enactment of sections 4929.01 to 4929.15 of the Revised Code by House Bill No. 476 of the 121st general assembly, the general assembly does not intend any modification to the existing powers of the public utilities commission under Title XLIX of the Revised Code.

...ted services and goods. Nothing in this chapter affects the right of appropriation of a natural gas company under law in support of its regulated services and goods.

...Sections 1345.01 to 1345.13 of the Revised Code shall apply to transactions between a natural gas company and its customers that involve natural gas services or goods that are exempt from or otherwise not subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4929.03 to 4929.05 of the Revised Code.

...his section. If the natural gas company fails to provide the information requested within twenty days after the date of receipt of notice from the consumers' counsel, the consumers' counsel may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, adduce evidence, and require the production of relevant matter. (B) Within ten days after the date a subpoena has been served pursuant to division (A) of this section, an application to e...

...or economic development project that is supported by JobsOhio, any JobsOhio network or regional partner, or the department of development. (2) "Infrastructure development costs" includes all of the following: (a) Planning, development, and construction costs, including costs incurred prior to the approval of an economic development project pursuant to section 4929.163 of the Revised Code; (b) Costs associated w...

...general assembly shall continue until such time as all costs eligible for recovery under sections 4929.16 to 4929.163 of the Revised Code are recovered.

... infrastructure development rider, in each monthly billing period: (A) The natural gas company may not recover more than one dollar and fifty cents from any single customer in this state, for all projects that were approved under section 4929.163 of the Revised Code and for which recovery was authorized under that rider. (B) The company shall recover the same amount from every customer. (C)(1) If requested by t...

...division (D) of this section; (4) The support for the project by an economic development entity or chamber of commerce. For purposes of this application requirement, "economic development entity" includes any of the following: (a) JobsOhio or any JobsOhio network or regional partner; (b) Department of development; (c) Port authority created under Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code; (d) Special improvement di...

... amount approved for recovery through each natural gas company infrastructure development rider and the total monetary amount approved for recovery through all infrastructure development riders for all natural gas companies; (4) The number of approved economic development projects on which all construction has been completed; (5) A list containing the construction status of all approved economic projects, includi...

...Any property installed or constructed by a natural gas company to enable the provision of natural gas service to an economic development project approved under section 4929.163 of the Revised Code shall be considered used and useful in rendering public utility service for purposes of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code.

...The public utilities commission may, at its discretion, conduct a financial audit of a natural gas company that has established an infrastructure development rider under section 4929.161 of the Revised Code to determine if the infrastructure development costs incurred by the natural gas company and collected pursuant to the rider are in conformance with the commission's orders.

...thane gas, or to enable the blending or supply of biologically derived methane gas to consumers within this state; (b) Any property, equipment, or facilities to enable interconnection with or receipt from any property, equipment, or facilities used to generate, collect, gather, or transport hydrogen, or to enable the blending of hydrogen with natural gas for supply to consumers within this state. (2) If the com...

...supplier or governmental aggregator has failed to comply with any applicable certification standards prescribed in rules adopted pursuant to this section or section 4929.22 of the Revised Code. (2) An affected natural gas company may file an application with the commission for approval of authority to recover in accordance with division (C)(2) of this section incremental costs reasonably and prudently incurred by t...

...ceeding arising out of or relating to such operation, by providing that irrevocable consent in accordance with division (A)(4) of this section; (b) Designates an agent authorized to receive that service of process in this state, by filing with the public utilities commission a document designating that agent. (2) Beginning on the effective date of initial rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4929.20 o...

...itive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification. Rules adopted under this section shall include additional consumer protections concerning all of the following: (A) Contract disclosure. The rules shall include requirements that a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code do both of the following: (1) Provide co...

...he supplier shall send two notices to each residential customer and non-mercantile commercial customer that enters into such a contract. Each notice shall provide all of the following information to the customer: (1) The fixed rate that is expiring under the contract; (2) The expiration date of the contract's fixed rate; (3) The public utilities commission web site that, as a comparison tool, lists rates offere...

...hange in competitive retail natural gas supplier by using customer account information. A customer who consents to a change of supplier shall not be required to provide customer account information to the supplier if the customer provides a valid form of government-issued identification issued to the customer or a sufficient alternative form of identification that allows the supplier to establish the customer's ident...

... the public utilities commission with such information, regarding a competitive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification, as the commission considers necessary to carry out sections 4929.20 to 4929.24 of the Revised Code. The commission shall take such measures as it considers necessary to protect the confidentiality of any such information. (B) The commission shall require each retail nat...

....20 of the Revised Code has violated or failed to comply with any provision of sections 4929.20 to 4929.23 of the Revised Code regarding a competitive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification or any rule or order adopted or issued by the commission for purposes of those sections. (B) In addition to its authority under division (C)(1) of section 4929.20 of the Revised Code and to any other ...

...plication by a natural gas company in such form and pursuant to such procedures as shall be prescribed by rule of the commission under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code for the purpose of this division, the commission shall determine the total allowable amount of capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto, of the company to be received as revenues under this division. Such amount shall be the just a...

...nty and for which there is a choice of supplier of that service as a result of revised schedules approved under division (C) of section 4929.29 of the Revised Code, a rule or order adopted or issued by the commission under Chapter 4905. of the Revised Code, or an exemption granted by the commission under sections 4929.04 to 4929.08 of the Revised Code. An ordinance or a resolution adopted under this section sh...