Code of Colorado Regulations
700 - Department of Regulatory Agencies
723 - Public Utilities Commission
4 CCR 723-4 - RULES REGULATING GAS UTILITIES


Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 5, March 10, 2024

BASIS, PURPOSE, AND STATUTORY AUTHORITY.

The basis and purpose of these rules is to set forth rules describing the service to be provided by jurisdictional gas utilities and master meter operators to their customers and describing the manner of regulation over jurisdictional gas utilities, master meter operators, and the services they provide. These rules address a wide variety of subject areas including, but not limited to, service interruption, meter testing and accuracy, safety, customer information, customer deposits, rate schedules and tariffs, discontinuance of service, master meter operations, transportation service, flexible regulation, procedures for administering the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act, gas service low-income program, cost allocation between regulated and unregulated operations, recovery of gas costs, appeals regarding local government land use decisions, and authority of the Commission to impose civil penalties on public utilities. The statutory authority for these rules can be found at §§ 29-20-108, 40-1-103.5, 40-2-108, 40-3-102, 40-3-103, 40-3-104.3, 40-3-106, 40-3-111, 40-3-114, 40-3-101, 40-4-101, 40-4-106, 40-4-108, 40-4-109, 40-5-103, 40-7-117, 40-7-113.5, 40-7-116.5; and 40-8.7-105(5), C.R.S.

Entire rule eff. 08/01/2007.
Rules SB&P, 4005, 4006, 4406, 4750-4760 eff. 05/30/2008.
Rules SB&P, 4900, 4901, 4902, 4905, 4910-4917, 4932, 4935, 4950-4954, 4970 eff. 11/30/2008.
Rules 4918-4921 repealed eff. 11/30/2008.
Rule 4975 emer. rule eff. 03/05/2009.
Rule 4975 emer. rule eff. 09/23/2009; expired eff. 04/21/2010.
Rules 4750-4754 eff. 11/30/2009.
Rules SB&P, 4009-4010, 4976 eff. 09/14/2010.
Rules SB&P, 4900-4932, 4950-4975, 4977-Glossary of Acronyms eff. 11/30/2011.
Rules SB&P, 4006.(f)-4006.(l), 4400, 4412 eff. 12/15/2011.
Rules 4900.(b), 4901, 4902.(a)-(c), 4903, 4905.(d), 4911.(b), 4952.(d)(I), 4953, 4954.(a) eff. 08/30/2013.
Rules 4001, 4025-4036, 4976 eff. 09/30/2015.
Rule 4412 eff. 01/30/2017.
Rules 4000-4008, 4100-4110, 4201-4210, 4300.(c), 4303.(a), 4304-4309, 4400-4412, 4501.(f), 4502-4504, 4600-4609, 4702, 4703, 4705, 4750-4758, 4760, 4801, 4803-4805 eff. 06/30/2018.
Rule 4008.(c) eff. 04/30/2019.
Rule 4412.(c) emer. rule eff. 10/18/2019.
Rule 4412.(c) eff. 05/15/2020.
Rule 4412(g)(II)(B) emer. rule eff. 12/16/2020; expired 07/14/2021.
Rules SB&P, 4000, Glossary of Acronyms eff. 03/17/2021. Rules 4900-4975 repealed eff. 03/17/2021.
Rules 4403, 4404, 4407-4409, 4976 eff. 01/14/2022.
Rule 4412 eff. 10/15/2022.

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