PRINTER'S NO. 2334
No. 1825 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY REED, COLE, MILLIRON, PRATT, FLAHERTY AND MRKONIC,
OCTOBER 2, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, OCTOBER 2, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 31, 1937 (P.L.160, No.43), entitled
2 "An act creating a commission to be known as the Pennsylvania
3 Public Utility Commission; defining in part the powers and
4 duties of such commission; abolishing The Public Service
5 Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, terminating
6 the terms of the members thereof, and transferring to the
7 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission the records, employes,
8 property, and equipment of The Public Service Commission of
9 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; authorizing the
10 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to appear in and
11 complete all pending proceedings, legal or otherwise,
12 instituted before, by or against The Public Service
13 Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; providing
14 that all certificates of public convenience, contracts,
15 orders, and rules and regulations of the latter commission
16 shall remain effective until repealed, changed or modified by
17 the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and transferring
18 and appropriating to the Pennsylvania Public Utility
19 Commission any unexpended balance of any existing
20 appropriation to The Public Service Commission of the
21 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," requiring special agents and
22 hearing examiners to be fulltime employes and placing certain
23 restrictions thereon.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. Section 8, act of March 31, 1937 (P.L.160,
27 No.43), entitled "An act creating a commission to be known as
28 the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission; defining in part the
1 powers and duties of such commission; abolishing The Public
2 Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
3 terminating the terms of the members thereof, and transferring
4 to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission the records,
5 employes, property, and equipment of The Public Service
6 Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; authorizing the
7 Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to appear in and complete
8 all pending proceedings, legal or otherwise, instituted before,
9 by or against The Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth
10 of Pennsylvania; providing that all certificates of public
11 convenience, contracts, orders, and rules and regulations of the
12 latter commission shall remain effective until repealed, changed
13 or modified by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and
14 transferring and appropriating to the Pennsylvania Public
15 Utility Commission any unexpended balance of any existing
16 appropriation to The Public Service Commission of the
17 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," is amended to read:
18 Section 8. The commission may authorize the chairman--(1) To
19 designate the time and place for the conducting of
20 investigations, inquiries and hearings; (2) to assign cases to a
21 commissioner or commissioners for hearing, investigation,
22 inquiry, study or other similar purposes; (3) to assign cases to
23 fulltime special agents or examiners for the taking and
24 receiving of evidence, the number of which shall be determined
25 on the basis of a forty hour per week workload. Their starting
26 salary shall be fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) a year. None
27 shall engage in any other occupation or profession. They shall,
28 on the last day of January of each year after their assignment,
29 file with the secretary of the commission a statement of the
30 value of each of their personal assets and their sources of
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1 income as of the last day of the preceding year; and (4) to
2 direct and designate officers and employes of the commission to
3 make investigations, inspections, inquiries, studies and other
4 like assignments for report to the commission.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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