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Or. Rev. Stat. § 757.225

Utilities required to collect for their services in accordance with schedules

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      757.225 Utilities required to collect for their services in accordance with schedules. No public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the state, or for any service in connection therewith, than is specified in printed rate schedules as may at the time be in force, or demand, collect or receive any rate not specified in such schedule. The rates named therein are the lawful rates until they are changed as provided in ORS 757.210 to 757.220. [Amended by 1971 c.655 §71; 1985 c.550 §3; 1991 c.67 §204]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 1979–2019 · leading case: Gearhart v. Public Utility Commission
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Gearhart v. Public Utility Commission (2014) or · cites it 11× “The Court of Appeals reasoned that the PUC had relied on an incorrect interpretation of ORS 757.225 in concluding that it had no authority to issue refunds.”
Utility Reform Project v. Oregon Public Utility Commission (2007) orctapp · cites it 16× “The PUC reasoned that URP’s premise “violates the filed rate doctrine, which is embodied in Oregon law in ORS 757.225[.]” That statute provides: “No public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the…”
Dreyer v. Portland General Electric Co. (2006) or · cites it 12× “Plaintiffs further alleged that they and other ratepayers were damaged in an amount equal to the unlawful charges.”
Gearhart v. Public Utility Commission (2013) orctapp · cites it 13× “Generally, under ORS 757.225, the utility must then charge only those approved rates: “No public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the state, or for any service in connection therewith, than is…”
Holman Transfer Co. v. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. (1979) or · cites it 7× “*399 Specific overcharges as violations of public utility statutes Plaintiff has argued that all of the overcharges constituted charges in excess of Bell’s tariffs or published rate schedules in violation of ORS 757.225: "No public utility shall charge, demand, collect or…”
Northwest Climate Conditioning Ass'n v. Lobdell (1986) orctapp · cites it 2× “ORS 757.225 and ORS 757.310(1) 5 prohibit a utility from charging directly more *566 or less for any service than is prescribed in the rate schedule or than it charges anyone under similar circumstances.”
Dreyer v. PGE (2019) orctapp · cites it 2× “4 ORS 757.225 provides that “[n]o utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less compensation for any service performed by it within the state, or for any service in connection therewith, than is specified in printed rate schedules as may at the time be in…”
Utility Reform Project v. Oregon Public Utility Commission (2016) orctapp · cites it 2× “02-227 “were ‘neither just nor reasonable’ because the PUC erred as a matter of law in concluding that ORS 757.225 precluded it from addressing the recovery of past, unlawful charges when determining the offsetting charges and liabilities related to Trojan.”
Gearhart v. PUC (2014) or · cites it 11× “The Court of Appeals reasoned that the PUC had relied on an incorrect interpretation of ORS 757.225 in concluding that it had no authority to issue refunds.”
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