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- W. Va. Code § 24-1-1c · Legislative findings.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-1d · Additional Legislative findings related to the coal industry.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-2 · Definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-3 · Commission continued; membership; chairman; compensation; quorum.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-4 · Appointment, duties and compensation of secretary and other employees; hearings generally; public comment; outside employment by certain employees prohibited.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-5 · Seal to be adopted; collection and disposition of fees.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-6 · Office of commission; time and place of hearings; number of commissioners required for taking action.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-7 · Rules of procedure; commission not bound by rules of evidence or pleadings; inscription on, use of and judicial notice of seal.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-8 · Legal counsel for the commission.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-9 · Recommended decision by hearing commissioner, hearing examiner or panel.
- W. Va. Code § 24-1-10 · §24-1-10.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1 · Jurisdiction of commission; waiver of jurisdiction.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1a · Authority of commission to enter and inspect railroad property.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1b · Additional jurisdiction of commission.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1c · Certificates of need required for solid waste facilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1d · Future electric generating capacity requirements.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1e · Rate recovery for construction of electric transmission facilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1f · Jurisdiction of commission over solid waste facilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1g · Rate incentives for utility investment in qualified clean coal and clean air control technology facilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1h · Additional powers and duties of commission to control flow of solid waste.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1i · Commission authorized to issue emergency certificate of need to certain commercial solid waste facilities; Division of Environmental Protection to modify facility permit; criteria for emergency certificates.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1j · Special rates for energy intensive industrial consumers of electric power.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1k · Natural gas infrastructure expansion, development, improvement and job creation; findings; expedited process; requirements; rulemaking.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1l · Modernization and improvement of coal-fired boilers at electric power plants; findings; expedited process; requirements; rulemaking.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1m · Commission jurisdiction does not extend to materials recovery facilities, mixed waste processing facilities, and certain mixed waste processing and resource recovery facilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1n · West Virginia Business Ready Sites Program.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1o · Renewable energy facilities program.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1p · Middle-Mile Fiber Broadband Infrastructure Expansion Program.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1q · Base fuel coal supply requirements for electric grid resiliency.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-1r · Authority of commission to adopt and enforce water hydrant practices.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-2 · General power of commission to regulate public utilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-3 · General power of commission with respect to rates.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-3a · Advance notice of filing of general rate case required.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-3b · Transitional suspension of schedule; legislative findings; procedure.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-3c · Cessation of jurisdiction over rates for certain services subject to competition.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4 · Procedure for changing rates.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4a · Procedure for changing rates after June 30, 1981.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4b · Procedures for changing rates of electric and natural gas cooperatives, local exchange services of telephone cooperatives, and municipally operated public utilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4c · Rate increases for natural gas public utilities relating to purchase of natural gas from suppliers; obtaining new supplies of natural gas to meet obligations.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4d · Procedures for intrastate rail carrier rate-making and compliants.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4e · Environmental control bonds.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4f · Consumer rate relief bonds.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4g · Establishing the value of utility assets in the context of the acquisition of a utility or utility assets and providing for the combination or allocation of water and wastewater revenue requirements.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-4h · Utility consumer rate relief bonds.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-5 · Supervision of public utilities licensed by municipalities, county courts or otherwise; right to enter premises, inspect and correct meters.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-6 · Power as to connecting telephone and telegraph services.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-7 · Unreasonable, etc., regulations, practices and services; receivership; procedures respecting receivership; appointment and compensation of receiver; liquidation.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-8 · System of accounts to be kept by public utilities; uniform accounting system for public service districts and municipally owned public utilities.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-9 · Information concerning rates, etc., of public utilities may be required and published by commission.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-10 · Power to subpoena witnesses, take testimony and administer oaths; contempt; self-incrimination.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-11 · Requirements for certificate of public convenience and necessity.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-11a · Requirement for certificate of public convenience and necessity before beginning construction of high voltage transmission line; contents of application; notice; hearing; criteria for granting or denying certificate; regulations.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-11b · Continuing prudence reviews.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-11c · Siting certificates for certain electric generating facilities or material modifications thereof.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-11d · Revocation of certificate of public convenience and necessity; acquisition of facilities by capable public utility.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-12 · What acts may not be done without consent of commission; consent in advance of exemption of transactions; when sale, etc., of franchises, mergers, etc., void.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-12a · Issuance of stock; requirement of applying to commission for orders authorizing issuance; hearing and investigation on application; order; when issuance is void.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-13 · Enforcement of federal acts.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-14 · Reports required to be filed by generating electric utilities; contents; powers of commission to obtain information; availability to the public; certain studies required.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-15 · Certain Automatic adjustment clauses, price indexes or fuel adjustment.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-16 · Anticompetitive clauses in natural gas contracts prohibited.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-17 · Registry of electric customers on life support systems; notification prior to scheduled outages; priority of service restoration; limitation of liability; life support defined.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-18 · Legislative findings on electric service; jurisdictionof the commission to determine public interest inpermitting retail access to competitive power supply markets; participation of interested parties; development of deregulation plan; legislative approval or rejection of plan; certain reports required or permitted; continuing jurisdiction.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-19 · Integrated Resource Planning Required.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-20 · Direct use of natural gas.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-21 · Required notice for power plant closure or sale.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-21a · Commission authority required when closing an electric generating plant and circumstances of closure in another jurisdiction.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2-22 · Service outage communication plans.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2A-1 · Special rates for gas and electric utility customers receiving Social Security Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Aid to Families with Dependent Children--Unemployed (AFDC-U) or food stamps.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2A-2 · Recovery of revenue deficiencies.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2A-3 · Limitation on and exemption from local business and occupation or privilege taxes and local public utility excise taxes.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2A-4 · Definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2A-5 · Special rates for certain water, sewer, or combined water and sewer utility customers.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2B-1 · Temporary suspension of rate increases.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2B-2 · Emergency rate increase; financial hardship procedure.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2C-1 · Legislative findings; utilities subject to Public Service Commission to file new rates.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2C-2 · Tel-assistance; definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2C-3 · Monthly rate set by Public Service Commission; prohibited and permissible charges.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2C-4 · Availability of tel-assistance service; determination of eligibility; promulgation of rules.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2C-5 · Recovery of revenue deficiencies.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2D-1 · Legislative findings.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2D-2 · Incentives for use of alternative fuels in new technologies.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2D-3 · Limitation on commission jurisdiction over sales by nonutilities of alternative fuel for certain purposes, limitations on jurisdiction for temporary electric charging of alternative fuel motor vehicles.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2E-1 · Transfer of phone service providers.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2E-2 · Telephone services agreements.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2E-3 · Telephone conduit; prohibition; rulemaking.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-1 · §24-2F-1.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-2 · §24-2F-2.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-3 · §24-2F-3.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-4 · §24-2F-4.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-5 · §24-2F-5.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-6 · §24-2F-6.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-7 · §24-2F-7.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-8 · Net metering and interconnection standards.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-9 · §24-2F-9.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-10 · §24-2F-10.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-11 · §24-2F-11.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2F-12 · §24-2F-12.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2G-1 · Public water utilities required to install monitor for contaminants.
- W. Va. Code § 24-2G-2 · Requirements.