New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Chapter I - RULES OF PROCEDURE
Subchapter D - Rate Proceedings
Part 61 - Rate Proceedings
- Section 61.1 - Burden of proof
- Section 61.2 - Presumption as to existing rates
- Section 61.3 - Matters to be established by utility
- Section 61.4 - Expected changes
- Section 61.5 - Establishment of original cost and accrual depreciation
- Section 61.6 - Property acquired from affiliated interests
- Section 61.7 - Reproduction cost
- Section 61.8 - Working capital
- Section 61.9 - Amounts previously charged to other than capital accounts
- Section 61.10 - Restriction on rate filings
Statutory authority: Public Service Law, §§20, 142
Proceedings involving the reasonableness of existing or proposed rates vary so greatly in character and scope that it is impossible to prescribe rules of universal application that are suited to all rate proceedings. These proceedings range all the way from a simple proposal to change a rule which would increase or decrease the bills being paid by a few consumers to a broad proceeding involving all of the rates of a utility rendering service in the entire State. The former may require only one brief hearing because of the simplicity of the questions involved. The latter, as the experience of the commission has demonstrated, may consume years, require scores of hearings and thousands of pages of testimony preceded by long and tedious investigations of property, inventories and values together with extended analyses of operating costs, etc. Because of these facts, no attempt is here made to specify the data that must be supplied in all rate proceedings, but the following are of general application. Possibly the only one of universal application is the one first mentioned [see section 61.1 of this Part] which finds its origin in the Public Service Law.