15USC717o

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15 USC 717o: Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders
Text contains those laws in effect on February 24, 2016
From Title 15-COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 15B-NATURAL GAS
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§717o. Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and
orders
The Commission shall have power to perform any and all acts, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and
rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out the
provisions of this chapter. Among other things, such rules and regulations may define accounting, technical,
and trade terms used in this chapter; and may prescribe the form or forms of all statements, declarations,
applications, and reports to be filed with the Commission, the information which they shall contain, and the
time within which they shall be filed. Unless a different date is specified therein, rules and regulations of the
Commission shall be effective thirty days after publication in the manner which the Commission shall
prescribe. Orders of the Commission shall be effective on the date and in the manner which the Commission
shall prescribe. For the purposes of its rules and regulations, the Commission may classify persons and
matters within its jurisdiction and prescribe different requirements for different classes of persons or matters.
All rules and regulations of the Commission shall be filed with its secretary and shall be kept open in
convenient form for public inspection and examination during reasonable business hours.
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, §16, 52 Stat. 830 .)

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