Safety and health of public and employees--promulgation ofrules--territorial rights, rules.
386.310. 1. The commission shall have power, after a hearing hadupon its own motion or upon complaint, by general or special orders, rulesor regulations, or otherwise, to require every person, corporation,municipal gas system and public utility to maintain and operate its line,plant, system, equipment, apparatus, and premises in such manner as topromote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, customers,and the public, and to this end to prescribe, among other things, theinstallation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety andother devices or appliances, to establish uniform or other standards ofequipment, and to require the performance of any other act which the healthor safety of its employees, customers or the public may demand, includingthe power to minimize retail distribution electric line duplication for thesole purpose of providing for the safety of employees and the generalpublic in those cases when, upon complaint, the commission finds that aproposed retail distribution electric line cannot be constructed incompliance with commission safety rules. The commission may waive therequirements for notice and hearing and provide for expeditious issuance ofan order in any case in which the commission determines that the failure todo so would result in the likelihood of imminent threat of serious harm tolife or property, provided that the commission shall include in such anorder an opportunity for hearing as soon as practicable after the issuanceof such order.
2. The commission shall not make any rule, regulation, decree ororder with respect to allocation of territory or territorial rights amongelectric suppliers pursuant to sections 386.310 and 394.160, RSMo.
3. For the purposes of gas pipeline safety regulation, thejurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties created and established bythis chapter will extend to the following:
(1) Operators and owners of distribution systems where natural gas,excluding petroleum gas, is measured by a single meter and distributed toother users within a single structure or to multiple structures;
(2) Operators and owners of high pressure pipelines which aresupplied, directly or indirectly, by an intrastate and interstate pipeline,where natural gas, excluding petroleum gas, is supplied to the owner oroperator of the high pressure pipeline solely for consumption by the owneror operator;
(3) Intrastate natural gas facilities owned and operated byinterstate natural gas pipeline companies serving direct sales customerswould be subject to enforcement of federally mandated pipeline safetystandards; and
(4) Operators and owners of gas plants where natural gas is supplieddirectly or indirectly, other than for consumption by and on the propertyof the supplier, to institutional buildings including, but not limited to,schools and hospitals.
Safety and health of public and employees--promulgation ofrules--territorial rights, rules.
386.310. 1. The commission shall have power, after a hearing hadupon its own motion or upon complaint, by general or special orders, rulesor regulations, or otherwise, to require every person, corporation,municipal gas system and public utility to maintain and operate its line,plant, system, equipment, apparatus, and premises in such manner as topromote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, customers,and the public, and to this end to prescribe, among other things, theinstallation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety andother devices or appliances, to establish uniform or other standards ofequipment, and to require the performance of any other act which the healthor safety of its employees, customers or the public may demand, includingthe power to minimize retail distribution electric line duplication for thesole purpose of providing for the safety of employees and the generalpublic in those cases when, upon complaint, the commission finds that aproposed retail distribution electric line cannot be constructed incompliance with commission safety rules. The commission may waive therequirements for notice and hearing and provide for expeditious issuance ofan order in any case in which the commission determines that the failure todo so would result in the likelihood of imminent threat of serious harm tolife or property, provided that the commission shall include in such anorder an opportunity for hearing as soon as practicable after the issuanceof such order.
2. The commission shall not make any rule, regulation, decree ororder with respect to allocation of territory or territorial rights amongelectric suppliers pursuant to sections 386.310 and 394.160, RSMo.
3. For the purposes of gas pipeline safety regulation, thejurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties created and established bythis chapter will extend to the following:
(1) Operators and owners of distribution systems where natural gas,excluding petroleum gas, is measured by a single meter and distributed toother users within a single structure or to multiple structures;
(2) Operators and owners of high pressure pipelines which aresupplied, directly or indirectly, by an intrastate and interstate pipeline,where natural gas, excluding petroleum gas, is supplied to the owner oroperator of the high pressure pipeline solely for consumption by the owneror operator;
(3) Intrastate natural gas facilities owned and operated byinterstate natural gas pipeline companies serving direct sales customerswould be subject to enforcement of federally mandated pipeline safetystandards; and
(4) Operators and owners of gas plants where natural gas is supplieddirectly or indirectly, other than for consumption by and on the propertyof the supplier, to institutional buildings including, but not limited to,schools and hospitals.
Safety and health of public and employees--promulgation ofrules--territorial rights, rules.
386.310. 1. The commission shall have power, after a hearing hadupon its own motion or upon complaint, by general or special orders, rulesor regulations, or otherwise, to require every person, corporation,municipal gas system and public utility to maintain and operate its line,plant, system, equipment, apparatus, and premises in such manner as topromote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, customers,and the public, and to this end to prescribe, among other things, theinstallation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety andother devices or appliances, to establish uniform or other standards ofequipment, and to require the performance of any other act which the healthor safety of its employees, customers or the public may demand, includingthe power to minimize retail distribution electric line duplication for thesole purpose of providing for the safety of employees and the generalpublic in those cases when, upon complaint, the commission finds that aproposed retail distribution electric line cannot be constructed incompliance with commission safety rules. The commission may waive therequirements for notice and hearing and provide for expeditious issuance ofan order in any case in which the commission determines that the failure todo so would result in the likelihood of imminent threat of serious harm tolife or property, provided that the commission shall include in such anorder an opportunity for hearing as soon as practicable after the issuanceof such order.
2. The commission shall not make any rule, regulation, decree ororder with respect to allocation of territory or territorial rights amongelectric suppliers pursuant to sections 386.310 and 394.160, RSMo.
3. For the purposes of gas pipeline safety regulation, thejurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties created and established bythis chapter will extend to the following:
(1) Operators and owners of distribution systems where natural gas,excluding petroleum gas, is measured by a single meter and distributed toother users within a single structure or to multiple structures;
(2) Operators and owners of high pressure pipelines which aresupplied, directly or indirectly, by an intrastate and interstate pipeline,where natural gas, excluding petroleum gas, is supplied to the owner oroperator of the high pressure pipeline solely for consumption by the owneror operator;
(3) Intrastate natural gas facilities owned and operated byinterstate natural gas pipeline companies serving direct sales customerswould be subject to enforcement of federally mandated pipeline safetystandards; and
(4) Operators and owners of gas plants where natural gas is supplieddirectly or indirectly, other than for consumption by and on the propertyof the supplier, to institutional buildings including, but not limited to,schools and hospitals.
