Section 170 IAC 1-3-4 - Material benefit definedAuthority: IC 8-1-1-3
Affected: IC 8-1-2-4
Sec. 4.
Material Benefit. Advertising expenditures which "produce a material benefit" are, without limitation because of enumeration:
(A) advertising limited exclusively to demonstration of means for ratepayers to eliminate energy waste;(B) advertising conveying safety information in the direct use of energy or equipment using such energy;(C) demonstration of methods by which ratepayers may reduce their costs and those of the serving public utility;(D) advertising explaining the use, cost, applicability or availability of new or existing telecommunicating equipment and other public utility services where energy consumption would either be reduced or not materially increased;(E) advertising means or desirability of decreasing consumption, particularly during shortage and peak periods;(F) furnishing factual and objective data programs in educational institutions on the subject of energy or communications technology;(G) advertising concerning excavation near the location of underground transmission or distribution lines; and(H) legal advertising required by statute or notices to ratepayers required by statute, rule or order of the commission.Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission; No. 34132: Advertising Expenditures by Utilities Rule 4; filed Dec 29, 1975, 1:35 pm: Rules and Regs. 1976, p. 392; readopted filed Jul 11, 2001, 4:30 p.m.: 24 IR 4233; readopted filed Apr 24, 2007, 8:21 a.m.: 20070509-IR-170070147RFA; readopted filed Aug 2, 2013, 2:16 p.m.: 20130828-IR-170130227RFAReadopted filed 4/11/2019, 9:04 a.m.: 20190508-IR-170190136RFA