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Ex. AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG-014 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

Emergency Order suspending door-to-door, public-event and in-person sales and marketing of competitive electric and natural gas supply (announced by press release of March 16, 2020)

PUC Suspends Door-to-Door, In-Person Marketing Activities for Energy Suppliers During Governor's Proclamation of Disaster Emergency

Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille (Emergency Order), Docket No. M-2020-3019254 · Pennsylvania (State public utility commission) (Sector regulator)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Pennsylvania (State public utility commission) · Pennsylvania
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
66 Pa.C.S. 1501; 52 Pa. Code 3.1 et seq.
Issued
2020-03-16 Mar. 16, 2020
Effective
2020-03-16
End
For the duration of the Governor's Proclamation of Disaster Emergency (the General Assembly terminated the proclamation June 10, 2021). (read as 2021-06-10)
In force
Mar. 16, 2020 to June 10, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Business closureOther
Addressees
  • all licensed competitive electric generation suppliers and natural gas suppliers and their sales agents and vendors
Functions reached
  • MK and SF direct sales channel of every competitive energy supplier closed (door-to-door, public-event and in-person marketing prohibited)
  • PL staffing and contract sales vendors idled
  • HR sales agents
  • CB customer acquisition
Collection
State utilities, housing and agriculture agencies AGY-ST-UTILITIES-HOUSING-AG

Operative words

Due to this unprecedented emergency, I find that door-to-door, public events and any in-person sales and marketing of competitive energy supply is not a necessity at this time, given the need to protect the public health and safety. (as quoted in the Commission's release of March 16, 2020)

Enforcement

66 Pa.C.S. 3301 (civil penalties); license conditions of competitive suppliers under 52 Pa. Code chs. 54 and 62; consumers directed to report violations to the Bureau of Consumer Services

Notes

An order limiting commerce in terms: it prohibited an entire in-person sales channel statewide for the duration of the disaster proclamation. The live page renders only a 'page not found' error to a headless browser although it serves to an ordinary fetch;

Retrieval note

Existence, date, docket number, statutory basis and the quoted finding confirmed from the Commission's own press release; the order text itself not read. Retrieval failed twice (rendered-live captured an error page; rendered-wayback produced no PDF).

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