37-1-5
Section 37-1-5 Commissioners and clerks not to render professional service to utilities. No public service commissioner or clerk of the commission shall, during his continuance in office, personally or through any partner or agent, render any professional service for public utilities. (Code 1886, §1127; Code 1896, §3488; Code 1907, §5646; Code 1923, §9624; Code 1940, T. 48, §26.)...
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37-4-83
Section 37-4-83 Powers of commission - Promulgation of rules; requiring records; inspections. In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline system is operating in compliance with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Alabama Public Service Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to facilitate such purposes. It may require each such pipeline system to make, maintain and file such books, papers, records and documents as the commission may deem necessary, which books, papers, records and documents shall be made available to members of the commission and their employees upon request. Authorized personnel of the commission shall be authorized to inspect all such pipeline systems, facilities and equipment and shall have the right of access and entry to all buildings and property owned, leased or operated by such systems. (Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §4.)...
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37-8-3
Section 37-8-3 Compelling testimony of employees who violate Code. The agent or employee who locally, in any county, violates any of the provisions of this Code relating to the Public Service Commission or any of the rules or orders of the commission, in pursuance of the direction or authority of his superior officer or agent of the common carrier, may be called as a witness and be compelled to testify, showing the authority by which he acted, and such testimony shall not be used against him, nor shall he thereafter be subject to indictment for said offense. (Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Acts 1923, No. 82, p. 62; Code 1923, §5401; Code 1940, T. 48, §408.)...
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41-8-5
Section 41-8-5 Powers and duties of Public Library Service generally. (a) The Alabama Public Library Service shall give advice to all free public, regional, municipal and county libraries and to all communities in the state which may propose to establish public libraries, in the manner provided in this article, as to the best means of establishing and administering such Public Library Service, selecting and cataloging books and other details of library management and may send any of its staff to aid in organizing such libraries or to assist in the improvement of those already established. The service may advise as to the proper qualifications of librarians of free public, regional, municipal and county libraries and shall perform such other services consistent with and in furtherance of the purpose of this article as shall from time to time appear feasible. Moreover, the service shall advise as to arrangements as provided in Section 11-90-4, by which local governmental agencies may...
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11-50-265
Section 11-50-265 Transfer of gas plant or system to waterworks board; sale or transfer of plant or system by board to utility regulated by state Public Service Commission. (a) Every city or town now or hereafter owning and operating a municipal gas plant or distribution system and in which municipality a waterworks board is now or hereafter incorporated under the provisions of Division 1 of this article is hereby authorized to transfer and convey such gas plant or system or both to such waterworks board pursuant to the provisions of an ordinance theretofore duly enacted by the governing body of such city or town and without the necessity of authorization at an election of the qualified voters thereof; provided, that if at the time of such transfer the city or town has outstanding any bonds or other obligations payable from or secured by the revenues or earnings of such gas plant or system, it shall be incumbent upon the waterworks board of such city or town to pay the amount thereof...
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37-1-60
Section 37-1-60 Requiring reports and information from utilities - Form of reports and records. The Public Service Commission shall prescribe the form of the annual or other reports and records required to be made by utilities. The form of such reports and records shall conform as near as may be to that required from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission or other federal agency where applicable, but the commission may from time to time make such changes therein and additions thereto as it may deem proper. The commission shall prepare and distribute to every utility blank forms for any reports required under this title. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 15, p. 29; Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Code 1923, §§9789, 9858; Code 1940, T. 48, §§44, 46.)...
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37-2-89
Section 37-2-89 Railroad fences; liability for injury to stock. (a) Whenever the Public Service Commission deems it necessary that any railroad in this state, or any portion thereof, shall be fenced, it shall notify the person or corporation operating such railroad of their conclusion. (b) Upon failure, after a reasonable notice, to fence such railroad or the portion thereof designated, the person or corporation operating such railroad shall be liable in damages for the value of any stock killed or injured upon the portion of the line so designated to be fenced, whether with or without negligence; but if the fence is erected in conformity to the notice, no liability shall attach for stock killed or injured upon the portion of the line so fenced, unless the killing or injury was committed willfully. (Code 1886, §1134; Code 1896, §3495; Code 1907, §§5653, 5654; Code 1923, §§9635, 9636; Code 1940, T. 48, §§183, 184.)...
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37-4-1
Section 37-4-1 Definitions. Unless otherwise specified, when used in this article, these terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission. (2) COMMISSIONER. A member of the commission. (3) MUNICIPALITY. Any municipal corporation organized under the laws of this state. (4) PERSON. Such term shall mean and include individuals, associations of individuals, firms, partnerships, companies, corporations, municipalities, governmental agencies, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, in the singular number as well as in the plural. (5) NONUTILITY. Any federal agency, instrumentality, or corporation, owned by the United States, and any corporation or joint stock company in which the United States or any of its departments, establishments, or agencies, owns more than 50 percent of the voting shares of stock of such corporation or joint stock company. (6) SECURITIES. Such term shall mean and include stock, stock...
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37-4-114
Section 37-4-114 Appeals. From any final action or order of the commission in the exercise of the jurisdiction, power and authority conferred upon it by this article, an appeal shall lie to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, and thence to the Supreme Court of Alabama. All appeals to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County shall be taken within 30 days from the date of such action or order and shall be granted as a matter of right and be deemed perfected by filing with the Public Service Commission a bond for security of cost of said appeal; except, that when the appellant is the State of Alabama, no bond shall be required and the same shall be deemed perfected by filing notice of an appeal. Appeals to the supreme court shall be taken in accordance with the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure. (Acts 1971, No. 1595, p. 2733, §15.)...
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37-4-62
Section 37-4-62 Forced sales - Application to commission; notice and hearing; order. If acquisition of the property sought to be acquired by the agency is not consummated under the provisions of Sections 37-4-60 and 37-4-61, the agency, before proceeding to engage in the proposed business, shall take such steps as may be provided in this division. If the agency and the owner fail within 60 days after written notice to the owner of the utility as provided in this division to consummate the proposed acquisition, either the agency or the owner may apply to the commission within 15 days after the expiration of such 60 days for a determination as to what property ought in the public interest to be included in the purchase and what price ought to be paid, having in view the cost of the property less a reasonable allowance for depreciation and obsolescence, and any other element which may enter into a determination of the fair value of the property to be purchased; but such price shall be...
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