Hawaii · statute · Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 269 · 143 active provisions
As used in this chapter: "Agricultural activities" means a commercial agricultural, silvicultural, or aquacultural facility or pursuit conducted, in whole or in part, including the care and production of livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, apiary products, and plant and animal production for…
(a) There shall be a public utilities commission of three members, to be called commissioners, and who shall be appointed in the manner prescribed in section 26-34, except as otherwise provided in this section. All members shall be appointed for terms of six years each, except that the terms of the members first appoin…
(a) The chairperson of the public utilities commission may appoint and employ professional staff and other assistants for the public utilities commission as the chairperson finds necessary for the performance of the commission's functions and define their powers and duties. Notwithstanding section 26-35(a)(4) to the co…
The public utilities commission shall prepare and present to the governor in the month of January in each year a report respecting its actions during the preceding fiscal year. This report shall include summary information and analytical, comparative, and trend data concerning major regulatory issues acted upon and pen…
(a) The public utilities commission shall have the general supervision hereinafter set forth over all public utilities, and shall perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon it by this chapter. Included among the general powers of the public utilities commission is the authority to adopt rules…
(a) No later than July 1, 2011, the public utilities commission shall accept from any person who submits a document to the commission the original or one electronic copy of each application, complaint, pleading, brief, or other document required to be filed with the commission pursuant to this chapter, and the consumer…
(a) The public utilities commission and each commissioner shall have power to examine into the condition of each public utility, the manner in which it is operated with reference to the safety or accommodation of the public, the safety, working hours, and wages of its employees, the fares and rates charged by it, the v…
(a) No public utility, as defined in section 269-1, shall commence its business without first having obtained from the commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Applications for certificates shall be made in writing, on paper or electronically, to the commission and shall comply with the requirement…
Every public utility or other person subject to investigation by the commission, shall at all times, upon request, furnish to the public utilities commission all information that it may require respecting any of the matters concerning which it is given power to investigate, and shall permit the examination of its books…
A public utility shall keep and maintain within the State such records, books, papers, accounts, and other documents as the public utilities commission may determine are necessary to its effective regulation.
All annual financial reports required to be filed with the commission by public utilities shall include a certification that such report conforms with the applicable uniform system of accounts adopted by the commission.
Every public utility shall report to the public utilities commission all accidents caused by or occurring in connection with its operations and service, and the commission shall investigate the causes of any accident which results in loss of life, and may investigate any other accidents which in its opinion require inv…
In all investigations made by the public utilities commission, and in all proceedings before it, the commission and each commissioner shall have the same powers respecting administering oaths, compelling the attendance of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence, examining witnesses, and punishing for conte…
(a) Whenever an investigation is undertaken by the public utilities commission, reasonable notice in writing of such fact and of the subject or subjects to be investigated shall be given to the public utility or the person concerned, and when based upon complaints made to it as prescribed in section 269-7, a copy of th…
At any investigation by or proceeding before the public utilities commission the public utility or the person concerned, or other respondent or party and any complainant or permitted intervenor shall have the right to be present and represented by counsel, to present any evidence desired, and to cross-examine any witne…
(a) Whenever the commission finds that a regulated water utility, regulated investor-owned electric utility, or regulated sewer utility is failing, or that there is an imminent threat of the utility failing, to provide adequate and reasonable service to its customers, and that the failure is a serious and imminent thre…
(a) If the public utilities commission is of the opinion that any public utility or any person is violating or neglecting to comply with any provision of this chapter or of any rule, order, or other requirement of the commission, or of any provisions of its franchise, charter, or articles of association, if any, or tha…
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an appeal from an order of the public utilities commission under this chapter shall lie, subject to chapter 602, in the manner provided for civil appeals from the circuit courts. Only a person aggrieved in a contested case proceeding provided for in this chapter may appeal…
(a) Chapter 91 shall apply to every contested case arising under this chapter except where chapter 91 conflicts with this chapter, in which case this chapter shall apply. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, including chapter 91, any contested case under this chapter shall be appealed from a final decision an…
The commission may require the parties in any matter before the commission to participate in nonbinding arbitration, mediation, or other alternative dispute resolution process prior to the hearing.
(a) All rates, fares, charges, classifications, schedules, rules, and practices made, charged, or observed by any public utility or by two or more public utilities jointly shall be just and reasonable and shall be filed with the public utilities commission. The rates, fares, classifications, charges, and rules of every…
(a) On or before January 1, 2020, the public utilities commission shall establish performance incentives and penalty mechanisms that directly tie an electric [utility's] revenues to that utility's achievement on performance metrics and break the direct link between allowed revenues and investment levels. The performanc…
Any rules, guidelines, or other standards of a public utility which interpret federal or state laws governing nonutility generators, or which make a nonutility generator monetarily responsible for the public utility's costs and profits of doing business as a public utility, shall be approved by the public utilities com…
All power purchase costs, including costs related to capacity, operations and maintenance, and other costs that are incurred by an electric utility company, arising out of power purchase agreements that have been approved by the public utilities commission and are binding obligations on the electric utility company, sh…
(a) Any utility that sustains damage to its facilities as a result of a state of emergency or local state of emergency, including emergencies as defined in chapter 127A, and incurs costs related to the restoration and repair of its facilities which, if assessed only on the utility ratepayers of the affected utility ser…