§ 80.28.005 Definitions
§ 80.28.010 Duties as to rates, services, and facilities — Limitations on termination of utility service for residential heating and of electric or water utility service during heat-related alerts
§ 80.28.020 Commission to fix just, reasonable, and compensatory rates
§ 80.28.022 Water company rates — Reserve account
§ 80.28.024 Legislative finding
§ 80.28.025 Encouragement of energy cogeneration, conservation, and production from renewable resources — Consideration of water conservation goals
§ 80.28.030 Commission may order improved quality of commodity — Ordering improvements to the storage, distribution, or supply of water — Ordering improvements to the system of sewerage
§ 80.28.040 Commission may order improved service — Water companies, system of sewerage noncompliance, receivership
§ 80.28.050 Tariff schedules to be filed with commission — Public schedules
§ 80.28.060 Tariff changes — Statutory notice — Exception — Waiver of provisions during state of emergency
§ 80.28.065 Tariff schedule — Energy conservation — Payment by successive property owners — Notice — Rules
§ 80.28.068 Rates — Low-income customers
§ 80.28.070 Sliding scale of charges permitted
§ 80.28.074 Legislative declaration
§ 80.28.075 Banded rates — Natural gas and electric services
§ 80.28.080 Published rates to be charged — Exceptions
§ 80.28.090 Unreasonable preference prohibited
§ 80.28.100 Rate discrimination prohibited — Exception
§ 80.28.110 Service to be furnished on reasonable notice
§ 80.28.120 Effect on existing contracts
§ 80.28.130 Repairs, improvements, changes, additions, or extensions may be directed
§ 80.28.140 Inspection of gas and water meters
§ 80.28.150 Inspection of electric meters
§ 80.28.160 Testing apparatus to be furnished
§ 80.28.170 Testing at consumer’s request
§ 80.28.180 Rules and regulations
§ 80.28.185 Water companies or wastewater companies within counties — Commission may regulate
§ 80.28.190 Gas companies — Certificate — Violations — Commission powers — Penalty — Fees
§ 80.28.200 Gas companies — Refunds of charges
§ 80.28.220 Gas companies — Right of eminent domain — Purposes
§ 80.28.230 Gas companies — Use for purpose acquired exclusive — Disposition of property
§ 80.28.240 Recovery of damages by utility company for tampering, unauthorized connections, diversion of services
§ 80.28.250 Water companies — Fire hydrants
§ 80.28.260 Adoption of policies to provide financial incentives for energy efficiency programs
§ 80.28.270 Water or wastewater companies — Extension, installation, or connection charges
§ 80.28.275 Water or wastewater companies — Assumption of substandard water system or system of sewerage — Limited immunity from liability
§ 80.28.280 Compressed natural gas — Motor vehicle refueling stations — Public interest
§ 80.28.290 Compressed natural gas — Refueling stations — Identify barriers
§ 80.28.300 Gas, electrical companies encouraged to provide customers with landscaping information and to request voluntary donations for urban forestry
§ 80.28.303 Conservation service tariff — Contents of filing — Rate base — Duties of commission
§ 80.28.306 Conservation bonds — Conservation investment assets as collateral — Priority of security interests — Transfers
§ 80.28.309 Costs as bondable conservation investment
§ 80.28.310 Tariff for irrigation pumping service — Authority for electrical companies to buy back electricity
§ 80.28.320 Regulation of battery charging facilities
§ 80.28.330 Certificate of public convenience and necessity — Bond or equivalent surety — Rule-making authority
§ 80.28.340 Determination that a wastewater company is unfit to provide wastewater service on a system of sewerage — Commission may order transfer — Power of eminent domain
§ 80.28.350 Petition to place a wastewater company in receivership — Power of eminent domain
§ 80.28.360 Electric vehicle supply equipment — Capital expenditures — Incentive rate of return on investment
§ 80.28.365 Electric vehicle supply equipment, programs, or services — Electrification of transportation plan — Review — Issuance of acknowledgment
§ 80.28.370 Community solar companies — Definitions
§ 80.28.375 Community solar companies — Requirements to engage in business — Registration
§ 80.28.380 Gas companies — Conservation targets
§ 80.28.385 Renewable natural gas program
§ 80.28.390 Tariff — Voluntary renewable natural gas service
§ 80.28.395 Natural gas — Cost of greenhouse gas emissions — Calculation
§ 80.28.400 Commission — Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions — Report
§ 80.28.405 Clean energy action plan — Greenhouse gas emissions — Calculation of cost
§ 80.28.410 Clean energy action plan — Account for and defer costs
§ 80.28.420 Gas company recovery of costs associated with replacing certain pipeline facilities — Information to be submitted to the commission — Definitions
§ 80.28.425 Multiyear rate plan
§ 80.28.430 Authority to enter into agreements with certain organizations — Agreement to govern manner in which financial assistance is provided to an organization — Requirements
§ 80.28.435 Replacement of natural gas with hydrogen — Notice to commission — Tariff approval
§ 80.28.440 Wildfire mitigation plan — Review/revision
§ 80.28.900 Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 80.28 - Gas, electrical, and water companies

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Commission: means the utilities and transportation commission. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: includes a corporation, company, association or joint stock association. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of health. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • 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.
  • Facilities: means lines, conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, cross-arms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances, instrumentalities and all devices, real estate, easements, apparatus, property and routes used, operated, owned or controlled by any telecommunications company to facilitate the provision of telecommunications service. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gas company: includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receiver appointed by any court whatsoever, and every city or town, owning, controlling, operating or managing any gas plant within this state. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Gas plant: includes all real estate, fixtures and personal property, owned, leased, controlled, used or to be used for or in connection with the transmission, distribution, sale or furnishing of natural gas, or the manufacture, transmission, distribution, sale or furnishing of other type gas, for light, heat or power. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • information: means knowledge or intelligence represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, or any other symbols. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: includes an individual, a firm or partnership. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Public service company: includes every gas company, electrical company, telecommunications company, wastewater company, and water company. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • System of sewerage: means collection, treatment, and disposal facilities and services for sewerage, or storm or surface water runoff. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Wastewater company: means a corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees, or receivers that owns or proposes to develop and own a system of sewerage that is designed for a peak flow of twenty-seven thousand to one hundred thousand gallons per day if treatment is by a large on-site sewerage system, or to serve one hundred or more customers. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Water company: includes every corporation, company, association, joint stock association, partnership and person, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, and every city or town owning, controlling, operating, or managing any water system for hire within this state. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Water system: includes all real estate, easements, fixtures, personal property, dams, dikes, head gates, weirs, canals, reservoirs, flumes or other structures or appliances operated, owned, used or to be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the supply, storage, distribution, sale, furnishing, diversion, carriage, apportionment or measurement of water for power, irrigation, reclamation, manufacturing, municipal, domestic or other beneficial uses for hire. See Washington Code 80.04.010