Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power
§ 825e. Complaints
Statutory text
Any person, electric utility, State, municipality, or State commission complaining of anything done or omitted to be done by any licensee, transmitting utility, or public utility in contravention of the provisions of this chapter may apply to the Commission by petition which shall briefly state the facts, whereupon a statement of the complaint thus made shall be forwarded by the Commission to such licensee, transmitting utility, or public utility, who shall be called upon to satisfy the complaint or to answer the same in writing within a reasonable time to be specified by the Commission. If such licensee, transmitting utility, or public utility shall not satisfy the complaint within the time specified or there shall appear to be any reasonable ground for investigating such complaint, it shall be the duty of the Commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall find proper.
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.
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 306, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 856 · 49 Stat. 856
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 825e
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 306, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 856
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 306, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 856Electricity Modernization Act of 2005
Pub. L. 109–58 title XII § 1284(a) · 119 Stat. 594
Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 825e
Pub. L. 109–58 inserted “electric utility,” after “Any person,” and “, transmitting utility,” after “licensee” wherever appearing
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 109–58 inserted “electric utility,” after “Any person,” and “, transmitting utility,” after “licensee” wherever appearing.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Complaints.— Section 306 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 825e) is amended— (1) by inserting “electric utility,” after “Any person,”; and (2) by inserting “, transmitting utility,” after “licensee” each place it appears.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–58 inserted “electric utility,” after “Any person,” and “, transmitting utility,” after “licensee” wherever appearing.
Credits
1920–2005 · 2 acts
- 1920June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 306, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 856
- 2005amended Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1284(a), , 119 Stat. 980.
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(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 306, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 856; amended Pub. L. 109–58, title XII, § 1284(a), , 119 Stat. 980.)