§ 8-1-13-36 — Complaints against corporation; discriminatory rates or charges; inadequate service; investigation; hearing; order

Indiana § 8-1-13-36

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 1: UTILITIES GENERALLY
• Ch. 13: Rural Electric Membership Corporation Act

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Upon a complaint made against any
corporation by:
(1) any mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society;
(2) any body politic or municipal organization;
(3) ten (10) or more persons, firms, corporations, limited liability
companies, or associations;
(4) ten (10) or more complainants of any or all of the classes
described in subdivision (3); or
(5) any public utility or corporation;
that any of the rates, tolls, charges, schedules, or joint rates (with which
the petitioner is directly interested) are in any respect unreasonable or
unjustly discriminatory, or that any regulation, measurement, practice,
or act affecting or relating to the service of a corporation is in any
respect unreasonable, unsafe, insufficient, or unjustly discriminatory,
or that any service is inadequate or cannot be obtained, the commission
shall proceed to investigate with or without notice. However, the
commission may not enter an order affecting those rates, tolls, charges,
schedules, regulations, measurements, practices, or acts complained of
without a formal public hearing.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.121-1987, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.8-1993, SEC.124.