RSA 365:37 Expense of Investigations.

I. Whenever any investigation by the commission or the department of energy shall be necessary to enable the commission to pass upon any petition for authority to issue stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, for authority to operate as a public utility or to expand operations as a public utility, to make extensions into new territory, to discontinue service, to condemn property for flowage rights and dam construction, or for authority to sell, consolidate, merge, transfer, or lease the plant, works, or system of any public utility, or any part of the same, or for any other matter which requires the approval of the commission or the department of energy, the petitioner shall pay to the department of energy the expense involved in the investigation of the matters cov