As Amended
SEC. 77-1-1. Creation of commission; terms, compensation and qualifications of commissioners.
A public service commission, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the commission, is hereby created, consisting of three (3) members, one (1) to be elected from each of the three (3) Supreme Court districts by the qualified electors of such district. Elections for such officers shall be held in the general election in November, 1959, and every four (4) years thereafter, and the terms of office of the three (3) commissioners elected at the general election in November, 1959, shall expire on December 31, 1963.
The commissioners shall each receive a yearly salary fixed by the Legislature, payable monthly.
The commissioners shall each possess the qualifications prescribed for the Secretary of State. The commissioners shall not operate, own any stock in, or be in the employment of any common or contract carrier by motor vehicle, telephone company, gas or electric utility company, or any other public utility that shall come under their jurisdiction or supervision.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 7688; Laws, 1938, ch. 139; 1948, ch.
417, Sec. 1; 1952, ch. 330, Sec. 1; 1956, ch. 371, Sec. 1; 1960, ch. 394,
Sec. 1; 1964, ch. 542, Sec. 6; 1966, ch. 445, Sec. 23; reenacted without
change, 1982, ch. 389, Sec. 1; 1989, ch. 573, Sec. 1; reenacted, 1990,
ch. 530, Sec. 1, eff from and after July 1, 1990. Reenacted and amended,
Laws, 1993, ch. 616, Sec. 1, eff from and after August 30, 1993 (the date
the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section
5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the amendment of this section); reenacted
without change, 1996, ch. 526, Sec. 1, eff from and after the date said
ch. 526 is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
as amended and extended; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, Ch. 303,
§ 1, HB 1291; Reenacted without change, Laws,
2002, ch. 452, § 1, SB 2820, eff July 3, 2002 (the date
the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section
5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the reenactment of this section.).
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2002.