NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 510

HOUSE BILL 506

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE UTILITIES COMMISSION TO ESTABLISH RULES FOR FILING RATE CASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 62-134 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end thereof to read as follows:

"(e)       The Commission may adopt rules prescribing the information and exhibits required to be filed with any applications, or tariff for an increase in utility rates, including but not limited to all of the evidence or proof through the end of the test period which the utility will rely on at any hearing on such increase, and the Commission may suspend such increase until such data, information or exhibits are filed, in addition to the time provided for suspension of such increase in other provisions of this Chapter."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1975.