§ 16-33 — Obstructing authority; false entries and returns to; penalty.

Any person who wilfully makes any false return or report to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or to any member thereof, or to any agent or any employee acting therefor, or who testifies falsely to any material fact in any matter wherein an oath or affirmation is required or authorized, or who makes any false entry or memorandum upon any account, book, paper, record, report or statement of any company, or who wilfully destroys, mutilates, alters or by any other means or device falsifies or destroys the record of any such account, book, paper, record, report or statement, with the intent to mislead or deceive the authority, or any member thereof, or any agent or employee acting therefor, or who wilfully obstructs or hinders the authority, or any of its members, agents or employees, in the making of any examination of the accounts, affairs or condition of any company, and any person who, with like intent, aids or abets another in any of the acts hereinbefore set forth, shall be guilty of a class D felony.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 5423, 8708; P.A. 75-486, S. 1, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 71, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 62.) History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division an independent department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” and “department” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority” and “authority”, respectively, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony. Cited. 159 C. 556.