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Title 30 : Public Service

Chapter 005 : State Policy; Plans; Jurisdiction and Regulatory Authority of Commission and Department

• Subchapter 001: General Powers
•    § 201. Definitions

•    § 202. Electrical energy planning

•    § 202a. State energy policy

•    § 202b. State Comprehensive Energy Plan

•    § 202c. State telecommunications; policy and planning

•    § 202d. Telecommunications Plan

•    § 202e. Telecommunications and connectivity

•    § 202f. Repealed. 2025, No. 97 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 13, 2026.

•    § 203. Jurisdiction of certain public utilities

•    § 203a. Fuel Efficiency Fund

•    § 204. Organization; reports of public utility corporations

•    § 205. Duty to furnish copies of contracts

•    § 206. Information to be furnished to Department

•    § 207. Report of accidents; investigation

•    § 208. Complaints; investigations; procedure

•    § 208a. Selection of telecommunications carrier

•    § 208b. Unauthorized billing

•    § 209. Jurisdiction; general scope

•    § 209a. Qualified cost mitigation charge orders

•    § 209b. [Reserved for future use.]

•    § 209c. Electricity affordability program

•    § 210. Electric companies; interconnection facilities

•    § 211. Electric energy from inside or outside State

•    § 212. Niagara power project

•    § 212a. Retail sales by Department; statutory authorization

•    § 212b. Repealed. 2023, No. 53, § 136, eff. June 8, 2023.

•    § 212c. Retail sale by the Department; Commission approval

•    § 212d. Access; negotiations; Commission order

•    § 212e. Representation of public; production of records

•    § 212f. Identification of Department sales on bills

•    § 213. Interchange of electric facilities; power shortage

•    § 214. Application for interconnection; joint use of facilities; and resolution of transmission disputes

•    § 215. Natural gas

•    § 216. Gas rate fixing

•    § 217. Department to prosecute

•    § 218. Jurisdiction over charges and rates

•    § 218a. Permanent telecommunications relay service

•    § 218b. Farm customers; energy efficiency; electric energy generation

•    § 218c. Least-cost integrated planning

•    § 218d. Alternative regulation of electric and natural gas companies

•    § 218e. Implementing State energy policy; manufacturing

•    § 219. Service

•    § 219a. Repealed. 2013, No. 99 (Adj. Sess.), § 10(c), effective January 1, 2017.

•    § 219b. Repealed. 2013, No. 99 (Adj. Sess.), § 10(c), effective January 1, 2017.

•    § 220. Repealed. 1975, No. 56, § 2.

•    § 221. Forms; orders

•    § 222. Exceptions

•    § 223. Appeal from municipal authorities

•    § 224. Special authority to municipality, to be under supervision of Commission

•    § 225. Rate schedules

•    § 226. Rates, hearings, bond

•    § 226a. Contracts regarding basic exchange telecommunications services

•    § 226b. Incentive regulation of basic exchange telecommunications providers

•    § 227. Suspension; refund

•    § 227a. Pricing of competitive telecommunications services

•    § 227b. Wireless telecommunications

•    § 227c. Nondominant carriers

•    § 227d. Small eligible telecommunications carriers

•    § 227e. Leasing or licensing of State land; public notice

•    § 228. Copy of schedules

•    § 229. Rebates; exceptions

•    § 230. Special rate or rebate; penalty

•    § 231. Certificate of public good; abandonment of service; hearing

•    § 231a. Registration of billing aggregators

•    § 232. Sales, leases, pledges, bonds, notes; hearings

•    § 233. Repealed. 1995, No. 99 (Adj. Sess.), § 16(1).

•    § 234. Appeal

•    § 235. Heating and process fuel efficiency program

•    §§ 236-245. Repealed. 1985, No. 224 (Adj. Sess.), § 8.

•    § 246. Temporary siting of meteorological stations

•    § 247. Penalty

•    § 248. New gas and electric purchases, investments, and facilities; certificate of public good

•    § 248a. Certificate of public good for communications facilities

•    § 248b. Fees; Agency of Natural Resources; participation in siting proceedings

•    § 248c. Fees; Department of Public Service and Public Utility Commission; participation in certification and siting proceedings

•    § 248d. Fee refund

•    § 249. Service territories; Commission jurisdiction

•    § 249a. Campground submetering

•    § 250. Application; maps

•    § 251. Areas served by several companies

•    § 252. Experts, payment of expense

•    § 253. National Environmental Policy Act review

•    § 254. Construction or extended operation of nuclear plant; public engagement process

•    § 254a. Joint Fiscal Committee; nuclear energy analysis

•    § 255. Regional coordination to reduce greenhouse gases

•    § 256. Plug-in photovoltaic devices

• Subchapter 002: Emergency Public Motor Bus Transportation
•    §§ 271-273. [Expired].

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