Whenever the Commission shall find, after hearing, that the rates, fares, tolls, rentals, charges or classifications or any of them, however or whensoever they shall have theretofore been fixed or established, demanded, observed, charged or collected by any public utility for any service, product or commodity, or that the rules, regulations or practices, or any of them, affecting such rates, fares, tolls, rentals, charges or classifications, or any of them, are unjust, unreasonable, noncompensatory, inadequate, discriminatory or preferential or in any wise in violation of any provision of law, the Commission shall, subject to review by the courts, as herein provided, determine the just and reasonable fares, tolls, rentals, charges or classifications, rules, regulations or practices to be thereafter observed and enforced and shall fix them by order as herein provided.
S.C. Code Ann. § 58-5-290
Correction by Commission of improper rates and the like
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Seabrook Island Property Owners Ass'n v. South Carolina Public Service Commission (1991)
Most recently applied in Hunt v. Avondale Mills, Inc. (November 2009)
1962 Code SECTION 58-119; 1952 Code SECTION 58-119; 1942 Code SECTION 8210; 1932 Code SECTION 8253; Civ
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