Section 53.71. Previous rates and posting of supplement

(a) If the Commission, acting under the provisions of 66 Pa.C.S. § 1308(b) (relating to voluntary changes in rates), suspends any proposed rates, charges, or regulations contained in any tariff, the previous rates, charges, or regulations shall remain in effect during the period of suspension or until lawfully cancelled, reissued, or otherwise ordered by the Commission. Whenever an order of supension is received by a public utility against whose tariffs the order of suspension is directed, it shall be the duty of such utility to immediately post in its offices and file with the Commission a supplement, which shall bear no effective date, announcing that such schedules are suspended by order of the Commission until the date stated in the order of suspension. Reference in such supplement shall also be made to the tariffs where schedules remaining in effect during the period of suspension will be found.

(b) The provisions of 66 Pa.C.S. § 1308(e) shall apply to every public utility described in section 66 Pa.C.S. § 102 (relating to definitions).

The provisions of this § 53.71 amended November 18, 1977, 7 Pa.B. 3362. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (20928).