170 IAC 14-1-3 Incomplete applications

Sec. 3. (a) In the event the initial application for rate change is an incomplete application, the commission staff shall file, within twenty (20) days of the date of the filing of the initial application, a report with the secretary of the commission. The report shall specify which elements of the application are missing or incomplete. (b) In the event the initial application for rate change is deemed an incomplete application under subsection (a), the time frames specified under: (1) section 4(a) of this rule; (2) section 5(a) of this rule; and (3) section 6(b) of this rule; shall not be counted from the date an incomplete application was originally filed, but shall be counted from the date the commission staff files a report with the secretary of the commission stating that the small utility has corrected the deficiencies specified in the staff report filed under subsection (a) and is otherwise complete. (c) The commission may dismiss without prejudice any incomplete application which remains on file more than ninety (90) days.