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RSA 363-A:1 · Ascertainment of Expenses

Title: XXXIV: PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter: 363-A · EXPENSES OF PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION AGAINST CERTAIN UTILITIES
Status: current
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363-A:1 Ascertainment of Expenses. – The department of energy shall annually, after the close of the fiscal year, ascertain the total of its expenses attributable to support of the public utilities commission and to performance of all duties and responsibilities transferred to the department from the public utilities commission, in addition to the total of the public utilities commission's expenses during such year incurred in the performance of its duties relating to public utilities as defined in RSA 362 and other entities subject to its regulatory and enforcement authority and relating to the office of the consumer advocate. In the determination of such expenses there shall be excluded the expenses which have been or may be charged and recovered under the provisions of RSA 365:37, RSA 365:38, and RSA 374-F:7, I. Source. 1955, 203:1 par. 1. 1959, 242:1. 1971, 557:62. 1981, 568:118. 1987, 136:4, eff. May 7, 1987. 2014, 136:1, eff. July 1, 2014. 2021, 91:242, eff. July 1, 2021.

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Source. 1955, 203:1 par. 1. 1959, 242:1. 1971, 557:62. 1981, 568:118. 1987, 136:4, eff. May 7, 1987. 2014, 136:1, eff. July 1, 2014. 2021, 91:242, eff. July 1, 2021.

Source history

1955, 203:1 par. 1
1959, 242:1
1971, 557:62
1981, 568:118
1987, 136:4, eff. May 7, 1987
2014, 136:1, eff. July 1, 2014
2021, 91:242, eff. July 1, 2021

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