16 U.s.c. 812

16 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2021 Edition
Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12 - FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
SUBCHAPTER I - REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES
Sec. 812 - Public-service licensee; regulations by State or by commission as to service, rates, charges, etc.
From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§812. Public-service licensee; regulations by State or by commission as to service,
rates, charges, etc.
As a condition of the license, every licensee under this chapter which is a public-service
corporation, or a person, association, or corporation owning or operating any project and developing,
transmitting, or distributing power for sale or use in public service, shall abide by such reasonable
regulation of the services to be rendered to customers or consumers of power, and of rates and
charges of payment therefor, as may from time to time be prescribed by any duly constituted agency
of the State in which the service is rendered or the rate charged. That in case of the development,
transmission, or distribution, or use in public service of power by any licensee under this chapter or
by its customer engaged in public service within a State which has not authorized and empowered a
commission or other agency or agencies within said State to regulate and control the services to be
rendered by such licensee or by its customer engaged in public service, or the rates and charges of
payment therefor, or the amount or character of securities to be issued by any of said parties, it is
agreed as a condition of such license that jurisdiction is conferred upon the commission, upon
complaint of any person aggrieved or upon its own initiative, to exercise such regulation and control
until such time as the State shall have provided a commission or other authority for such regulation
and control: Provided, That the jurisdiction of the commission shall cease and determine as to each
specific matter of regulation and control prescribed in this section as soon as the State shall have
provided a commission or other authority for the regulation and control of that specific matter.
(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, §19, 41 Stat. 1073; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II,
§212, 49 Stat. 847.)