A utility shall preserve the following records in a readable format and keep them available for inspection by the commission for the periods indicated. The list is not a complete list of all types of utility records.

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Note: See Federal Power Commission Orders 54 and 156 for preservation of records. Public Service Commission’s Classification of Accounts, and s. 18.01, Stats.

Note: * Note that if meter test records are being used as meter history records under PSC 134.19 (1) (c), the meter test records must be preserved for the time period required for meter history records.

Note: See also “Investigation to Consider Proposed Changes to Records Retention Requirements for Electric, Gas and Water Utilities” adopted by the commission in docket 5-US-114, December 12, 2006, as amended March 19, 2009, for a more comprehensive listing of retention periods of specific records.

History

History: Cr. Register, February, 1959, No. 38, eff. 3-1-59; CR 13-033: am. Register July 2015 No. 715, eff. 8-1-15.