Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 15B — Natural Gas
§ 717o. Administrative powers of Commission; rules, regulations, and orders
Statutory text
The Commission shall have power to perform any and all acts, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as it may find necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Among other things, such rules and regulations may define accounting, technical, and trade terms used in this chapter; and may prescribe the form or forms of all statements, declarations, applications, and reports to be filed with the Commission, the information which they shall contain, and the time within which they shall be filed. Unless a different date is specified therein, rules and regulations of the Commission shall be effective thirty days after publication in the manner which the Commission shall prescribe. Orders of the Commission shall be effective on the date and in the manner which the Commission shall prescribe. For the purposes of its rules and regulations, the Commission may classify persons and matters within its jurisdiction and prescribe different requirements for different classes of persons or matters. All rules and regulations of the Commission shall be filed with its secretary and shall be kept open in convenient form for public inspection and examination during reasonable business hours.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Natural Gas Act
Pub. L. 75–556 § 16 · 52 Stat. 821
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 717o
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 16, 52 Stat. 830.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 16, 52 Stat. 830.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 16. administrative powers of commission; rules, regulations, and orders The Commission shall have power to perform any and all acts, and to prescribe, issue, make, amend, and rescind such orders, rules, and regulations as it may find necessary or appropriate to Rules and regulations. carry out the provisions of this Act. Among other things, such rules and regulations may define accounting, technical, and trade terms used in this Act; and may prescribe the form or forms of all statements, declarations, applications, and reports to be filed with the Commission, the information which they shall contain, and the time within which they shall be filed. Unless a different date is specified therein, rules and regulations of the Commission shall be effective thirty days after publication in the manner which the Orders. Commission shall prescribe. Orders of the Commission shall be effective on the date and in the manner which the Commission shall prescribe. Classification of persons and matters. For the purposes of its rules and regulations, the Commission may classify persons and matters within its jurisdiction and prescribe different requirements for different classes of persons or matters. Availability of rules and regulations. All rules and regulations of the Commission shall be filed with its secretary and shall be kept open in convenient form for public inspection and examination during reasonable business hours.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 16, 52 Stat. 830.)