Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 304 – Rate changes; notice
(a) Unless the Commission otherwise orders, no public utility shall make any change in any existing rate except after 60 days notice to the Commission, which notice shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the rates then in force and the time when the changes will go into effect. All proposed changes shall be shown by filing new schedules or shall be plainly indicated upon schedules filed and in force at the time and kept open to public inspection. Public notice of all proposed changes shall be given in a form and manner set by the Commission. The Commission, for good cause shown, may allow changes in rates without requiring the 60-days’ notice and/or public notice under such conditions as it may prescribe. All such changes shall be immediately indicated upon its schedules by such public utility.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 304
- Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
- 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
(b) In prescribing conditions for rate changes, the Commission is specifically authorized and empowered to conduct proceedings in which it limits the number or type of issues it will consider in determining whether or not to permit or allow such changes. The Commission may adopt or change regulations to govern such limited issue rate proceedings.
47 Del. Laws, c. 254, § ?5; 48 Del. Laws, c. 371, § ?10; 26 Del. C. 1953, § ?151; 59 Del. Laws, c. 397, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 48, § ?6; 70 Del. Laws, c. 585, § ?4;