Missouri Laws 386.180 – Duties of publications commission
1. It shall be the duty of the publications commission to meet from time to time, as occasion may demand, and select from the findings, orders and decisions of the public service commission the decisions which in the judgment of the publications commission should, for public information and use, be officially reported and published and when sufficient of such decisions have been designated to constitute a volume to cause same to be published in an electronic or bound volume numbered serially and designated, “Reports of the Public Service Commission of the State of Missouri”.
2. The publications commission shall cause to be published from time to time an advance sheet of the public service commission reports containing all decisions of the public service commission theretofore selected and designated by the publications commission for official publication and not before officially published. Such reports shall be competent evidence of the findings, orders and decisions of the public service commission therein contained without any further proof or authentication thereof.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 386.180
- Commission: the "Public Service Commission" hereby created. See Missouri Laws 386.020
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- information: means knowledge or intelligence represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, or any other symbols. See Missouri Laws 386.020
- Service: includes not only the use and accommodations afforded consumers or patrons, but also any product or commodity furnished by any corporation, person or public utility and the plant, equipment, apparatus, appliances, property and facilities employed by any corporation, person or public utility in performing any service or in furnishing any product or commodity and devoted to the public purposes of such corporation, person or public utility, and to the use and accommodation of consumers or patrons. See Missouri Laws 386.020
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
3. The publications commission shall also supervise and cause to be prepared all syllabi or headnotes prefixed to such published findings, orders and decisions of the public service commission and shall cause to be prepared and published as a part of each publication herein provided an adequate index, table of cases and digest of the cases reported therein.
4. The publications commission shall also from time to time select and designate such other works, papers or studies of the public service commission relating to the field of public utilities regulation that may in the judgment of the publications commission be of interest to the public and cause same to be published in pamphlet, book, or electronic form. The official reports, advance sheets and other publications published by the publications commission shall be made available for sale to the public at a price to be fixed by the publications commission, which price shall approximate the actual cost of printing.