O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-2-26.4 (2019)

Accounting procedures in gas utility rate proceedings

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) The accounting treatments specified in this Code section shall apply in any proceeding before the commission to determine the rates to be charged by a gas utility. (b) In any proceeding commenced after April 1, 2002, to determine the rates to be charged by a gas utility, the gas utility shall file jurisdictionally allocated cost of service data on the basis of a test period, and the commission shall utilize a test period, consisting of actual data for the most recent 12 month period for which data are available, fully adjusted separately to reflect estimated operations during the 12 months following the proposed effective date of the rates. After the initial filing, and until new

rates go into effect, the utility shall file actual cost of service data as they become available for each month following the actual data which were filed. The utility shall have the burden of explaining and supporting the reasonableness of all estimates and adjustments contained in its cost of service data.

History

(Code 1981, § 46-2-26.4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1705, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 475, § 4.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For note on the 2002 enactment of this chapter, see 19 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 285 (2002).

The 2002 amendment, effective April 25, 2002, in the first sentence of subsection (b), inserted ‘‘commenced after April 1, 2002,’’ near the beginning and substituted ‘‘12 months following the’’ for ‘‘12 month period commencing five months from the’’ near the end. Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2002, p. 475, § 1,

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm’n, 212 Ga. App. 575, 442 S.E.2d 860 (1994).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1994–1994 · leading case: Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 442 S.E.2d 860 (Ga. Ct. App. 1994).

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Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 442 S.E.2d 860 (Ga. Ct. App. 1994). · cites it 16× “Under OCGA § 46-2-26.4 (b), “The utility shall have the burden of explaining and supporting the reasonableness of all estimates and adjustments contained in its cost of service data.”

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