Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-160.1

Corporation Commission.

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A. The Corporation Commission shall have ratemaking authority

and general jurisdiction over all supply systems of natural gas,

steam heat and steam serving the general public notwithstanding

operation thereof by a trust, authority, cooperative and subsidiary

created for the benefit or furtherance of a public function pursuant

to a trust or public trust, unless the said body operating said

system has financing or is in the process of financing the

acquisition, improvement or extension of the said system with a loan

from the United States of America and is a nonprofit trust.

B. The Corporation Commission shall also have general

supervision over any person or entity to whom the function of

operating a natural gas, steam heat or steam supply system has been

delegated by such a trust, authority, cooperative or subsidiary.

Provided nothing herein shall be construed to apply to a public

trust whose Board of Trustees is composed of elected officials or is

elected by the customers or a majority of which is composed of

members selected by the governing bodies of municipalities in which

the public trust operates, or members which it serves, and which

Board of Trustees has the authority to establish and regulate its

own rates.

C. The Corporation Commission shall have ratemaking authority

and general jurisdiction over all supply systems of steam and

chilled water serving any portion of any municipality if such system

serves more than fifty (50) off-site commercial customers within

such municipality.

D. The Corporation Commission shall have the power to fix and

establish rates and to prescribe rules, requirements and regulations

affecting their services, operation and the management and conduct

of the business of persons and entities subject to this act, Section

160.1 et seq. of this title, and shall inquire into the management

of the business thereof, and the method in which same is conducted.

It shall have full visitorial and inquisitorial power to examine

such operations, and keep informed as to their general conditions,

their capitalization, rates, plants, equipment, apparatus and other

property owned, leased, controlled or operated, the value of same,

the management, conduct, operation, practices and services, not only

with respect to the adequacy, security and accommodation afforded by

their service, but also with respect to their compliance with the

Constitution and laws of this state, and with the orders of the

Commission.

E. The ratemaking authority and general jurisdiction of the

Corporation Commission, created under this act, shall be subject to

the following exceptions:

1. The Corporation Commission shall not have ratemaking

authority or general jurisdiction over:

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a. steam supply systems operated by public trusts which

supply steam to customers presently served by or

located within the mid-America industrial district, or

b. an institution of higher education, or related

entities, now operating such steam and chilled water

facilities not for profit; and

2. The Commission shall not have authority to:

a. compel an electric public utility to make inspections

of consumer-owned facilities, or

b. compel an electric public utility to provide electric

utility service wherein the electric public utility

believes such service is likely to endanger the public

health and safety or the health and safety of

employees of the electric public utility.