--- title: Title 46, Chapter 2. Public Service Commission collection: code id: code:chapter:46-2 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/46/chapter/2 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-1.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2A.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION title_heading: PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION section_count: 62 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2.md?full=1 --- # Title 46, Chapter 2. Public Service Commission Title 46. Public Utilities and Public Transportation 62 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 46-2-1, Election of Commissioners; terms of office, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-1.md - 46-2-1.1, Elections for Georgia Public Service Commission Districts 2, 3, and 5, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-1.1.md - 46-2-2, Qualifications of Commissioners; restriction on any interest in companies under jurisdiction of commission; disqualification of Commissioner, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-2.md - 46-2-3, Oath of office of Commissioners, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-3.md - 46-2-4, Filling of vacancies on commission, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-4.md - 46-2-5, Chairperson of commission; selection, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-5.md - 46-2-6, Salary of Commissioners, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-6.md - 46-2-7, Employment of officers, experts, and other employees by commission; compensation of employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-7.md - 46-2-7.1, Director of utilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-7.1.md - 46-2-7.2, Public information officer, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-7.2.md - 46-2-8, Payment of salaries and expenses by commission; appropriations for salaries and expenses; designation of Public Service Commission Fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-8.md - 46-2-9, Domicile of commission; jurisdiction of actions involving commission or business entities regulated by commission; furnishing commission with office and supplies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-9.md - 46-2-10, Payment of special fee by corporations and utilities subject to jurisdiction of commission; notice of amount due; procedure on default, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-10.md - 46-2-20, Jurisdiction of commission generally; powers and duties of commission generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-20.md - 46-2-20.1, Electric vehicle charging services; operation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-20.1.md - 46-2-21, Extension of commission’s powers and duties to street railroads, telegraph companies, telephone companies, and gas and electric light and power companies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-21.md - 46-2-22, Jurisdiction of commission over express companies and telegraph companies, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-22.md - 46-2-23, Rate-making power of commission generally; special provisions concerning telecommunications companies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-23.md - 46-2-23.1, Alternative form of regulation; filing; notice; approval; release of interstate pipeline capacity, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-23.1.md - 46-2-24, Consideration by commission of quality of service in determining just and reasonable rates and charges, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-24.md - 46-2-25, Procedure for changing any rate, charge, classification, or service; recovery of financing costs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-25.md - 46-2-25.1, County-wide local calling; modification of existing rate schedules; plans for implementing service; methods of funding; rate-making power of commission not affected, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-25.1.md - 46-2-25.2, Sixteen-mile toll-free telephone calling; rate schedule modifications; telephone company recovery of expenses or lost revenues; rate-making power of commission not affected, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-25.2.md - 46-2-25.3, Toll-free calls within 22 miles of exchange; hearings; net gain, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-25.3.md - 46-2-26, Fuel-adjustment tariffs utilization restriction; rate change by utility based solely on change in fuel costs procedure; commission’s power over rate changes; utilities seeking rate change disclosure requirements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-26.md - 46-2-26.1, Accounting methods to be used by electric utilities in rate-making proceedings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-26.1.md - 46-2-26.2, Tax accounting by utilities in rate-making proceedings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-26.2.md - 46-2-26.3, Recovery of costs of conversion from oil-burning to coal-burning generating facility; filing of request; public hearing; determination of rate; adjustments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-26.3.md - 46-2-26.4, Accounting procedures in gas utility rate proceedings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-26.4.md - 46-2-26.5, Gas supply plans and adjustment factors; filings and hearing procedures; recovery of purchase gas cost, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-26.5.md - 46-2-27, Notation on bill of charges for fuel adjustment, meter reading and consumption, and where rates charged may be obtained, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-27.md - 46-2-28, Procedure for issuance of stocks, bonds, notes, or other debt by companies under commission’s jurisdiction; exemptions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-28.md - 46-2-29, Requirement of confidentiality of information obtained by commission member or employee in a proceeding under Code Section 46-2-28, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-29.md - 46-2-30, Power of commission to make rules and regulations generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-30.md - 46-2-31, Annual report by commission to Governor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-31.md - 46-2-32, Payment of fines into state treasury; cumulative nature of remedies provided by this title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-32.md - 46-2-33, Costs incurred by commission charged to utility; invoicing; recovery, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-33.md - 46-2-40, Creation; composition of section, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-40.md - 46-2-41, Appointment of director; compensation; qualifications; responsibilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-41.md - 46-2-42, Employment of assistant director and other personnel; application of rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-42.md - 46-2-43, Director, assistant director, or any other employee of Utility Finance Section prohibited from having any interest in or being employed by electric utilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-43.md - 46-2-44, Duties of Utility Finance Section generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-44.md - 46-2-45, Relationship of Utility Finance Section to commission, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-45.md - 46-2-50, Conducting of hearings and investigations generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-50.md - 46-2-51, Prescription by commission of rules of procedure and rules of evidence; promulgation of rules and regulations as to rehearing, reconsideration, and oral argument of orders, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-51.md - 46-2-52, Keeping of records of proceedings on formal investigations; transcribing of testimony, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-52.md - 46-2-53, Reports, rate schedules, orders, rules, or regulations of commission as admissible evidence in court proceedings, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-53.md - 46-2-54, Power to issue subpoenas; payments to witnesses; failure or refusal to obey subpoenas, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-54.md - 46-2-55, Compelling witnesses to testify before commission as to the giving or granting of rebates or as to discriminations in rates and charges by common carriers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-55.md - 46-2-56, Compelling witnesses to testify against common carriers or any other person in court, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-56.md - 46-2-57, Discovery rights; petitions for necessary orders, injunctions, and subpoenas; extension of suspension periods; timing, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-57.md - 46-2-58, Conducting of hearings by hearing officers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-58.md - 46-2-59, Permissible parties in proceedings before commission; intervention in proceedings generally; limited appearances; procedure for granting leave to intervene, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-59.md - 46-2-70, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-70.md - 46-2-71, Power of commission; findings required before commission exercises powers of allocation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-71.md - 46-2-72, Immunity from liability of persons acting in accordance with ruling or order of commission entered pursuant to Code Section 46-2-71, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-72.md - 46-2-90, Liability of companies subject to jurisdiction of commission generally; venue for actions generally; award of attorney’s fee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-90.md - 46-2-91, Penalties recoverable before commission; superior court filing of certain commission orders; venue; effect of judgment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-91.md - 46-2-92, Penalties recoverable by state through civil action, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-92.md - 46-2-93, Criminal penalty; venue for actions; calling of agents and employees of company as witnesses; use of testimony against agents and employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-93.md - 46-2-94, Operation as household goods carrier for hire without having valid certificate prohibited, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-94.md - 46-2-95, Civil actions; standard for obtaining an injunction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-2-95.md