196.374 Energy efficiency and renewable resource programs.
196.375 Adequate service; reasonable rates.
196.377 Renewable energy sources.
196.378 Renewable resources.
196.39 Change, amendment and rescission of orders; reopening cases.
196.395 Test, conditional, emergency and supplemental orders; order conditions.
196.40 Orders and determinations; time of taking effect.
196.43 Injunction procedure.
196.48 Incriminating evidence.
196.485 Transmission system requirements.
196.487 Reliability of electric service.
196.49 Authorization from commission before transacting business; extensions and improvements to be approved; enforcement of orders; natural gas.
196.491 Strategic energy assessment; electric generating facilities and transmission lines.
196.493 Construction of nuclear power plants limited.
196.494 Regional transmission planning.
196.495 Avoidance of duplication in electric facilities.
196.496 Distributed generation facilities.
196.497 State policy regarding the long-term disposal of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste.
196.499 Regulation of telecommunications carriers.
196.50 Competing public utilities; indeterminate permits; telecommunications utility certification.
196.503 Telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations.
196.505 Construction of chapter.
196.51 Prior permits and franchises validated.
196.52 Relations with affiliated interests; definition; contracts with affiliates filed and subject to commission control.
196.525 Loans to officers or directors and loans to and investments in securities of holding companies; penalty.
196.53 Franchise, foreign corporation not to have.
196.54 Indeterminate permits.
196.58 Municipality to regulate utilities; appeal.
196.59 Merchandising by utilities.
196.595 Utility advertising practices.
196.60 Discrimination prohibited; penalty.
196.604 Rebates, concessions and discriminations unlawful.
196.605 Telecommunications cooperatives with federal loans.
196.61 Facilities in exchange for compensation prohibited.
196.625 Discrimination by telecommunications utilities.
196.63 Telecommunications interruption in crisis situation.
196.635 Unbilled utility service.
196.64 Public utilities, liability for treble damages.
196.642 Customer liability for treble damages.
196.643 Owner responsibility for service to rental dwelling unit.
196.65 Penalties relating to information and records.
196.66 General forfeiture provisions.
196.665 Unlawful combinations, trusts.
196.675 Unlawful for carriers and public utilities to employ assistant district attorneys or judicial officers.
196.68 Municipal officers, malfeasance.
196.69 Interference with commission's equipment.
196.70 Temporary alteration or suspension of rates.
196.71 Municipal public utility contracts.
196.72 Accidents; public utility report; investigation.
196.74 Electric lines; safety and interference.
196.745 Construction and operation; safety; commission orders.
196.76 Other rights of action; penalties cumulative.
196.78 Voluntary dissolution.
196.79 Reorganization subject to commission approval.
196.795 Public utility holding companies.
196.796 Real estate activities.
196.80 Consolidation or merger of utilities.
196.807 Energy affiliate and utility employees.
196.81 Abandonment; commission approval required.
196.84 Commission's holding company and nonutility affiliate regulation costs.
196.85 Payment of commission's expenditures.
196.855 Assessment of costs against municipalities.
196.857 Stray voltage program.
196.858 Assessment for telephone relay service.
196.859 Assessment for telecommunications utility trade practices.
196.86 Assessments for air quality improvement program.
196.91 Acquisition of existing dams.
196.92 Procedure for acquiring dams.
196.975 Local access and transport area boundaries.
Ch. 196 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also
PSC, Wis. adm. code.
196.01
196.01
Definitions. As used in this chapter and
ch. 197, unless the context requires otherwise:
196.01(1b)
(1b) "Access service" means the provision of switched or dedicated access to a local exchange network for the purpose of enabling a telecommunications provider to originate or terminate telecommunications service. "Access service" includes unbundled local service provided to telecommunications providers.
196.01(1d)
(1d) "Alternative telecommunications utility" means any of the following:
196.01(1d)(a)
(a) Cable television telecommunications service providers.
196.01(1d)(f)
(f) Any other telecommunications provider if the commission finds that the service offered by the telecommunications provider is available from other telecommunications providers within this state directly or indirectly to the public.
196.01(1g)
(1g) "Basic local exchange service" means the provision to residential customers of an access facility, whether by wire, cable, fiber optics or radio, and essential usage within a local calling area for the transmission of high-quality 2-way interactive switched voice or data communication. "Basic local exchange service" includes extended community calling and extended area service. "Basic local exchange service" does not include additional access facilities or any discretionary or optional services that may be provided to a residential customer. "Basic local exchange service" does not include cable service or services provided by a commercial mobile radio service provider.
196.01(1j)
(1j) "Basic message telecommunications service" means long distance toll service as provided on January 1, 1994, on a direct-dialed, single-message, dial-1 basis between local exchanges in this state at tariff rates. "Basic message telecommunications service" does not include any wide-area telecommunications service, 800-prefix service, volume, dedicated, discounted or other interoffice services or individually negotiated contracts for telecommunications service.
196.01(1m)
(1m) "Broadcast service" means the one-way transmission to the public of video or audio programming regulated under
47 USC 301 to
334 that is provided by a broadcast station, as defined in
47 USC 153 (dd), including any interaction with a recipient of the programming as part of the video or audio programming offered to the public.
196.01(1r)
(1r) "Cable television telecommunications service provider" means a person who provides one or more telecommunications services but who, during the previous taxable year, received at least 90% of his or her gross income in the particular television franchise area in which telecommunication services are provided from the operation of a cable television system subject in whole or in part to
47 USC 521 to
559.
196.01(2g)
(2g) "Commercial mobile radio service provider" means a telecommunications provider that is authorized by the federal communications commission to provide commercial mobile service.
