Mandate of the Board
The Board receives its mandate from the Public Utilities Act and Regulations.
The Board's mandate, in summary, includes the following:
- issuing orders fixing rates of a public utility
- prohibiting or limiting any proposed rate change
- fixing proper and adequate rates and methods of depreciation, amortization or depletion in respect of the property of any public utility
- fixing standards, classifications, regulations, practices, measurements or services to be observed, provided or followed by a public utility, and
- determining areas that services of a public utility shall provide
The Board also requires the public utility to establish, construct, maintain, and operate any reasonable expansion of its existing services as well as determining the conditions that may be imposed by a public utility to establish, construct, maintain or operate an expansion of its existing services.