Section 15-2000. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

2000.1The purpose of this chapter shall be to implement the Utility Regulatory Assessment Clarification Act of 1984, D.C. Law 5-153, as required by §3(e)(5), by providing procedural and substantive rules governing determinations by the Office of the People's Council (the "Office") of the need for deposits to the People's Counsel Agency Fund ("Agency Fund") and requests for the issuance of special franchise tax deposit orders by the Public Service Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to D.C. Code §43-612(a)(5) (1981 Ed.).

 

2000.2This chapter shall provide for full disclosure of any determination and deposit order request by the Office prior to the issuance of an Order by the Commission directing a public utility to deposit funds into the Agency Fund.

 

2000.3This chapter shall govern the procedures by which the Office shall determine reasonable and necessary expenditures for a proceeding as set for in D.C. Law 5-153, for purposes of requesting a Commission order directing a deposit into the Agency Fund by an affected utility to pay the expenses associated with such determined needs.

 

2000.4For the purposes of D.C. Law 5-153 and except as provided in §2000.6 of this chapter, the People's Counsel is the person authorized to determine the resource requirements of the Office, and to issue a Notice of Agency Fund Requirements and proposed order to the Commission on behalf of the Office.

 

2000.5In the absence of the People's Counsel, the Deputy People's Counsel is authorized to perform any function or duty prescribed in this chapter to be performed by the People's Counsel, except whenever the Deputy People's Counsel has served, or is serving, as Case Manager with respect to the matter which is the subject of the Notice of Agency Fund Requirements.

 

2000.6Functions or duties prescribed in this chapter to be performed by the Agency Administrator or the Case Manager may be delegated to their respective subordinate employees with the written approval of the People's Counsel.

 

authority

Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is Paragraph 42(a)(1) of An Act Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen and for other purposes, approved March 4, 1913; as amended by §3 of the Utility Regulatory Assessment Clarification Act of 1984, D.C. Law 5-153, D.C. Code §43-612 (1981 Ed.).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 32 DCR 5615 (October 4, 1985).