Florida Statute 350.06 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXVII
RAILROADS AND OTHER REGULATED UTILITIES

Chapter 350
FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

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350.06 Place of meeting; expenditures; employment of personnel; records availability and fees.—

(1) The offices of said commissioners shall be in the vicinity of Tallahassee, but the commissioners may hold sessions anywhere in the state at their discretion.

(2) All sums of money authorized to be paid on account of said commissioners shall be paid out of the State Treasury only on the order of the Chief Financial Officer.

(3) The commissioners may employ clerical, technical, and professional personnel reasonably necessary for the performance of their duties and may also employ one or more persons capable of stenographic court reporting, to be known as the official reporters of the commission.

(4) When needed, the commission may engage supplementary qualified reporters at their usual rate of compensation; however, the supplementary reporters shall furnish the commission the original certified transcripts of testimony taken by them.

(5) The commission shall make available to the public counsel the original copy of all transcripts for use and study in the commission offices. If the commission makes any copies of transcripts for internal use and if the public counsel has so requested in writing to the clerk of the commission, the commission shall supply the public counsel with a copy of the transcript at no charge.

(6) The commission shall collect for copying, examining, comparing, correcting, verifying, certifying, or furnishing orders, records, transcripts of testimony, papers, or other instruments no more than the same fees that are allowed clerks of the circuit courts of this state. In cases where the fee would amount to less than $1, no fee shall be charged.

(7) Copies of commission orders furnished to public officials, newspapers, periodical publications, federal agencies, state officials of other states, and parties to the proceeding in which the order was entered and their attorneys shall be without charge. However, the commission may in its discretion charge fees for the furnishing of more than one copy of any order to any of the foregoing.

(8) The commission shall keep accounting records in which all fees collected by it as provided for herein shall be recorded, together with the amount and purpose for which collected. The accounting records shall be public records. All moneys collected pursuant to this section by the commission shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Florida Public Service Regulatory Trust Fund.

History.—s. 2, ch. 4700, 1899; GS 2887; s. 1, ch. 5625, 1907; s. 1, ch. 7811, 1919; RGS 4612; s. 1, ch. 11365, 1925; s. 2, ch. 12218, 1927; CGL 6697; s. 1, ch. 15720, 1931; s. 2, ch. 75-109; s. 2, ch. 81-318; s. 9, ch. 85-61; s. 6, ch. 87-50; s. 23, ch. 87-225; s. 534, ch. 95-148; s. 377, ch. 2003-261; s. 5, ch. 2006-214.

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Citizens of the State of Florida, etc. v. Florida Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 146 So. 3d 1143 (Fla. 2014).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 39 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 519, 2014 Fla. LEXIS 2581, 2014 WL 4257733

...olations present in Citizens v. Mayo, 333 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 1976), where the OPC was denied from participating fully in a public hearing that the Commission conducted on an aspect of a utility’s rate increase request. In support, Citizens cites to section 350.0611, Florida Statutes, the OPC’s enabling legislation, and this Court’s opinions in Mayo and South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Ass’n v....

...(2012). As more fully explained below, Citizens’ argument regarding the Commission’s authority to approve a settlement agreement objected to by the OPC is without merit because the Commission independently determines rates for 3. Citizens framed this issue as a question of statutory interpretation of section 350.0611, Florida Statutes (2012), which details the OPC’s duties and powers. -8- utilities, the Commission is authorized by statute to resolve rate-making proceedings by approving negotiated settlements, and nothing in the language of section 350.0611 or this Court’s holdings in Mayo and Jaber supports Citizens’ position that the Commission is precluded by law from authorizing a non- unanimous settlement where the OPC objects to the terms of the settlement. Citizens’ argu...

...ses of customers; and public acceptance of rate structures.” § 366.06(1), Fla. Stat. (2012). - 10 - pertain” when the OPC intervenes on behalf of Citizens in a rate-making proceeding, and language in section 350.0611 operate to preclude the Commission from approving any settlement to which the OPC actively objects. Section 350.0611 is the OPC’s enabling statute and provides that the OPC’s powers include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) To recommend to the commission or the counties, by petition, the commencement of any procee...

...(5) To appear before other state agencies, federal agencies, and state and federal courts in connection with matters under the jurisdiction of the commission, in the name of the state or its citizens. - 11 - § 350.0611, Fla....

...ing that the Commission perform its duties independently and also enacted sections 366.04(1) and 366.06(1), which provide that the Commission has exclusive jurisdiction to fix fair, just, and reasonable rates of electric utilities. Thus, although section 350.0611 does not contain an exhaustive list of the OPC’s specific powers and section 366.01, Florida Statutes (2012), provides that chapter 366 shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of protecting the public welfare, adopti...

...final order, the Commission is not required by statute or case law to address each issue of disputed fact in its final order, and the final order otherwise satisfies section 120.569(2)(l). Regarding the argument that the Commission abdicated its obligations, section 350.06(3), Florida Statutes (2012), allows the Commission to “employ ....

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State Pub. Serv. Comm'n v. Terrence Indus., Inc., 294 So. 2d 343 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1974).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1974 Fla. App. LEXIS 7222

...intiff held a contract with the defendant. In separate counts plaintiff claimed performance and non-payment, and sought damages for an alleged breach of the contract by the defendant. We hold that the denial of the defendant’s motion was error. By § 350.06 Fla....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1974).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

Florida Appellate Rules. AS TO QUESTION 3(a): Section 350.06, F.S., provides that the commission may also

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