Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1317 – Regulation by the Public Service Commission
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1317
- Commission: means the Public Service Commission or, solely with respect to an electric or gas utility furnishing electric or natural gas service within the city of New Orleans, the council of the city of New Orleans, as applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Corporation: means the Louisiana Utilities Restoration Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
- Financing order: means an order of the commission, if granted by the commission in its sole discretion, which allows for all of the following:
(a) The assessment, imposition, and periodic adjustment of system restoration charges by the corporation and the collection thereof by a utility as an agent on behalf of the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
- Utility: means an electric utility or a gas utility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
A. The Public Service Commission shall regulate the corporation as provided for in this Part with the same plenary regulatory authority as provided under the Constitution of Louisiana with respect to public utilities. Such regulation shall be concomitant with the Public Service Commission’s regulation of public utilities. Notwithstanding such regulation, as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 45:1327, the corporation is not a public utility. Although the organization and operations of the corporation shall be regulated exclusively by the Public Service Commission, any financing order pertaining to a utility furnishing utility service within the city of New Orleans shall be issued by the council of the city of New Orleans and be binding on such utility and the corporation.
B. To the extent that La. Rev. Stat. 45:1180 through 1182 permit the commission to recover expenses of examination, such expenses of examination will be charged only to the utility or utilities acting as collection agent for the corporation and on whose bills the charges of the corporation appear. Such expenses of examination will be considered to be legitimate operating expenses of the utility and therefore recovered by the utility from its customers.
Acts 2007, No. 55, §3, eff. June 18, 2007; Acts 2021, No. 293, §4, eff. June 14, 2021.