49-34A-16. Delay in effectuation of suspended rate schedule pending disposition of previously filed changes--Time--Violation as petty offense--Separate offenses.No public utility may put a suspended rate schedule into effect until at least forty-five days after the Public Utilities Commission has made a determination concerning any previously filed change of the rate schedule. An intentional violation of this section is a petty offense. After the first judgment, each day's violation is a separate offense. Source: SL 1975, ch 283, §9; SL 1976, ch 296, §16; SL 1983, ch 15, §142.
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