66-101b.
Electric public utilities; efficient and sufficient service; just and reasonable rates.
Every electric public utility governed by this act shall be required to furnish reasonably efficient and sufficient service and facilities for the use of any and all products or services rendered, furnished, supplied or produced by such electric public utility, to establish just and reasonable rates, charges and exactions and to make just and reasonable rules, classifications and regulations. Every unjust or unreasonably discriminatory or unduly preferential rule, regulation, classification, rate, charge or exaction is prohibited and is unlawful and void. The commission shall have the power, after notice and hearing in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act, to require all electric public utilities governed by this act to establish and maintain just and reasonable rates when the same are reasonably necessary in order to maintain reasonably sufficient and efficient service from such electric public utilities.
History:
L. 1911, ch. 238, § 10; R.S. 1923, 66-107; L. 1985, ch. 225, § 13; L. 1988, ch. 356, § 219; L. 1995, ch. 10, § 1; July 1.
Notes of Decisions
Kansas Gas & Elec. Co. v. Kansas Corp. Comm'n, 720 P.2d 1063 (Kan. 1986).
· cites it 2× “66-107 (Weeks), now K.S.A. 66-101b, provided the KCC with authority to require a public utility to furnish reasonably efficient and sufficient service and to establish "just and reasonable" rates.”
Danisco Ingredients USA, Inc. v. Kansas City Power & Light Co., 986 P.2d 377 (Kan. 1999).
· cites it 2× “K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 66-101b states: “Every electric public utility governed by this act shall be required to furnish reasonably efficient and sufficient service and facilities for the use of any and all products or services rendered, furnished, supplied or produced by such…”
Citizens' Util. Ratepayer Bd. v. State Corp. Comm'n, 284 P.3d 348 (Kan. Ct. App. 2012).
· cites it 2× “K.S.A. 66-101b charges the Commission with the task of deciding if rate case expenses were prudently incurred and preventing imprudent costs from being passed on to the ratepayer.”
Farmland Indus., Inc. v. Kansas Corp. Comm'n, 943 P.2d 470 (Kan. Ct. App. 1997).
“K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 66-101b. The ability to establish and maintain “efficient” service suggests the legislature anticipated an occasion might arise in which a public utility would be required to reduce rates.”
Grindsted Prods., Inc. v. Kansas City Power & Light Co., 901 P.2d 20 (Kan. Ct. App. 1995).
“K.S.A. 66-101b. The commission has the duty to investigate all rates, tolls, schedules, classifications, rules, and regulations of the utility to ensure that they are reasonable and nondiscriminatory.”
Danisco Ingredients USA, Inc. v. Kansas City Power & Light Co., 999 S.W.2d 326 (Mo. Ct. App. 1999).
· cites it 2× “K.S.A. 66-101b. KCP & L also asserted the legislature expressly gave the KCC the power to make and substitute its own rules and regulations for those filed by jurisdictional utilities, if it deems any of those filed by regulated utilities to be unjust or unreasonable.”
Kansas One-call Sys., Inc. v. State, 274 P.3d 625 (Kan. 2012).
“So long as One-Call operates the notification center, the government appears to be requiring a private company (One-Call) to engage in the production of services.”
Kansas One-Call Sys., Inc. v. State, 274 P.3d 625 (Kan. 2012).
“So long as One-Call operates the notification center, the government appears to be requiring a private company (One-Call) to engage in the production of services.”
Heritage Tractor, Inc. v. Evergy Kansas Cent., Inc. (Kan. Ct. App. 2024).
· cites it 3× “" K.S.A. 66-101b. To the extent a utility strays from that requirement, a provision which is analyzed and determined to be "unjust or unreasonably discriminatory or unduly preferential" will be deemed void.”
Kan. City Power & Light Co. v. Mo. Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 557 S.W.3d 460 (Mo. Ct. App. 2018).
“§§ 66-101a and 66-104 ; instead, the Kansas Commission found that the charging stations which KCP&L sought to install were not necessary "to furnish reasonably efficient and sufficient service and facilities" to its customers, as required by K.S.A. § 66-101b. 6 Confirming that…”
Sierra Club v. Kansas Corp. Comm'n (Kan. Ct. App. 2026).
“" K.S.A. 66-101b. As noted above, "Congress passed the FPA precisely to eliminate vacuums of authority over the electricity markets .”
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