Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 217 – Compliance with Commission’s orders; penalty
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In default of compliance with any order of the Commission when the same becomes effective, the public utility affected thereby shall be subject to a penalty of up to $1,000 per day for every day during which such default continues, to be recovered in an action in the name of the State. Observance of the orders of the Commission may be compelled by mandamus or injunction in appropriate cases, or by an action to compel the specific performance of the orders so made or of the duties imposed by law upon such public utility.
47 Del. Laws, c. 254, § ?13; 26 Del. C. 1953, § ?191; 57 Del. Laws, c. 643, § ?2; 59 Del. Laws, c. 397, § ?1;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 217
- Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
- Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
- Public utility: includes every individual, partnership, association, corporation, joint stock company, agency or department of the State or any association of individuals engaged in the prosecution in common of a productive enterprise (commonly called a "cooperative"), their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, that now operates or hereafter may operate for public use within this State, (however, electric cooperatives shall not be permitted directly or through an affiliate to engage in the production, sale or distribution of propane gas or heating oil), any natural gas, electric (excluding electric suppliers as defined in § 1001 of this title), electric transmission by other than a public utility over which the Commission has no supervisory or regulatory jurisdiction pursuant to § 202(a) or (g) of this title, water, wastewater (which shall include sanitary sewer charge), telecommunications (excluding telephone services provided by cellular technology or by domestic public land mobile radio service) service, system, plant or equipment. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302