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...In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may consider the efficiency, sufficiency, and adequacy of the facilities provided and the services rendered by the public utility, the value of such service to the public, and the ability of the public utility to ...

...In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may hear service complaints, if any, that may be presented by customers and the public during any proceeding involving such rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals. No complaint shall be co...

...In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission shall consider the management policies, practices, and organization of the public utility. The commission shall require such public utility to supply information regarding its management policies, practices, and o...

...In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may require the utility to file a report showing: (A) The amounts, date of issuance, due date, terms, and rates of interest of all bonds and debentures outstanding against such utility; (B) The face value of any...

...In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission shall, in action upon an application filed pursuant to section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, require a public utility to file a report showing the proportionate amounts of the valuation of the property of the utili...

...ery mechanism to recover capital investment that would be in addition to the company's base rates. (B) Upon rates going into effect based on a company's use of a forecasted test period under division (C)(1)(a) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, any riders and other cost recovery mechanisms previously approved to recover capital investment for the company shall terminate. (C) Notwithstanding divisions (A) and...

.... The public utilities commission shall ensure appropriate protections against the disclosure of the company's trade secrets or proprietary information.

...mmission, and shall take effect at such time and remain in force for such length of time as the commission prescribes.

... with an order of the public utilities commission. Any public utility required to pay any such increased excise tax levy may file with the public utilities commission revised rate schedules that will permit full recovery on an interim or permanent basis in its rates, of the amount of any resultant increased tax payments and the commission shall promptly act to approve such schedules. (B) Notwithstanding Chapters 490...

...or rental of a public utility shall become effective until the public utilities commission, by order, determines it to be just and reasonable, except as provided in this section and sections 4909.18, 4909.19, and 4909.191 of the Revised Code. Such sections do not apply to any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or any regulation or practice affecting the same, of railroads, street and el...

...or, respectively, water or sewage treatment, if both of the following conditions are met: (1) The water or sewage treatment is provided to the company by either of the following: (a) A municipal corporation or other local governmental unit of this state whose rates are not subject to regulation by the commission; (b) Another waterworks company, or another sewage disposal system company, that is a public utility an...

...on as the commission prescribes. At the time of filing, the company shall serve a copy of the application upon the chief executive of each municipal corporation, the board of township trustees of each township, and the board of county commissioners of each county in which affected customers are located. A company for which an infrastructure improvement surcharge is authorized under this section may file an applicatio...

...y. (2) "Water-works company" means an entity defined under division (G) of section 4905.03 of the Revised Code that is a public utility under section 4905.02 of the Revised Code. (B) A water-works company may do any of the following: (1) Replace lead customer-owned water service lines concurrently with a scheduled utility main replacement project, an emergency replacement, or company-initiated lead water serv...

... law or a state or federal regulatory agency; (2) The customer submits the reimbursement request to the company not later than twelve months after the completion of the water line replacement. (B) A water-works company that provides a reimbursement to a customer under this section shall include the reimbursement amount in the valuation report of the property of the company as required under division (B)(6) of sec...

...proposed in the application and fix the time when such schedule shall take effect. If it appears to the commission that the proposals in the application may be unjust or unreasonable, the commission shall set the matter for hearing and shall give notice of such hearing by sending written notice of the date set for the hearing to the public utility and publishing notice of the hearing one time in a newspaper of genera...

...(A) As used in this section, "electric distribution utility" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than December 31, 2029, and at least every three years thereafter, each electric distribution utility shall file a rate case application regarding distribution service under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code.

...ree years thereafter, each natural gas company that provides utility service to two hundred fifty thousand or more customers shall file a rate case application under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code.

...he first publication. (2) At the same time the abbreviated notice is published, the notice in the first publication is posted in its entirety on the newspaper's web site, if the newspaper has a web site, and the commission's web site. (3) The abbreviated notice contains a statement of the web site posting or postings, as applicable, and instructions for accessing the posting or postings. (B) The commission shal...

...ised Code, incorporated proposed adjustments to revenues and expenses into the commission's determination under that section, the public utility shall, not later than ninety days after actual data for all of the incorporated adjustments becomes known, submit to the commission proposed rate or charge adjustments that provide for the recalculation of rates or charges, reflective of customer-class responsibility, corres...

...the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may approve the following: (A) Nondiscriminatory programs available for all energy-intensive customers to implement economic development, job growth, job retention, or interruptible rates that enhance distribution and transmission grid reliability and promote economic development. (B) Nondiscriminatory programs available for all mercantile customers, as defined in...

...es not issue a determination within the time period required by this section, the application shall be deemed complete by operation of law. (B) For purposes of section 4909.421 of the Revised Code, the date of the commission order determining that the application is complete, or the date the application is deemed complete by operation of law, shall be deemed to be the date of the filing of the application.

...shall charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of freight of like kind, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance, or charge any greater compensation as a through route than the aggregate of the intermediate rates, within the state. This section does not authorize any compa...

...tate, which receives livestock for shipment in carload lots, shall be governed and regulated by the following rules and regulations relative to the intrastate rates and minimum weights to be charged in carload lot shipments of livestock: (A) If such company receives hogs for carload lot shipments in cares: (1) Of a length of thirty-six and seven-tenths feet or under, the rate charged shall be on a basis of a minimu...

...oints in this state, and the railroad companies have made joint rates for the transportation of such passengers or property, such rates and all charges in connection therewith shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust and unreasonable charge is prohibited. A less charge by each of such railroads for its proportion of such joint rates than is made locally between the same points on their respective lines is no...

...sed Code do not prevent concentration, commodity, transit, and other special contract rates, but all such rates are subject to such chapters as to their printing and filing. Such rates shall be open to all shippers for a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions and shall be under the supervision and regulation of the public utilities commission.