§269-5  Annual report and register of
orders.  The public utilities commission shall prepare and present to the
governor, through the director of finance, in the month of January in each year
a report respecting its actions during the preceding fiscal year.  This report
shall include summary information and analytical, comparative, and trend data
concerning major regulatory issues acted upon and pending before the
commission; cases processed by the commission, including their dispositions;
utility company operations, capital improvements, and rates; utility company
performance in terms of efficiency and quality of services rendered;
environmental matters having a significant impact upon public utilities;
actions of the federal government affecting the regulation of public utilities
in Hawaii; long and short-range plans and objectives of the commission;
together with the commission's recommendations respecting legislation and other
matters requiring executive and legislative consideration.  Copies of the annual
reports shall be furnished by the governor to the legislature.  In addition,
the commission shall establish and maintain a register of all its orders and
decisions, which shall be open and readily available for public inspection, and
no order or decision of the commission shall take effect until it is filed and
recorded in this register. [L 1913, c 89, §3; RL 1925, §2191; RL 1935, §7943;
RL 1945, §4704; RL 1955, §104-4; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §6; am L 1963, c 114,
§3; HRS §269-5; am L 1976, c 165, §4]