# APPLICATION OF RULES

**Citation:** NCUC Rule R6-1  
**Type / status:** regulation / current  
**Agency:** North Carolina Utilities Commission  
**Effective:** Not stated  
**Published:** Not stated

These rules apply to any gas utility operating within the State of North Carolina under the jurisdiction of the North Carolina Utilities Commission and also to interstate natural gas companies having pipeline facilities located in North Carolina insofar as safety is concerned. (1) These rules are in

## Document text

These rules apply to any gas utility operating within the State of North Carolina under the jurisdiction of the North Carolina Utilities Commission and also to interstate natural gas companies having pipeline facilities located in North Carolina insofar as safety is concerned.

(1) These rules are intended to promote safe and adequate service to the public, to provide standards for uniform and reasonable practices by utilities, and to establish a basis for determining the reasonableness of such demands as may be made by the public upon the utilities.

(2) If unreasonable hardship to a utility or to a customer results from the application of any rule herein prescribed, application may be made to the Commission for the modification of the rule or for temporary or permanent exemption from its requirements.

(3) The adoption of these rules shall in no way preclude the Commission from altering or amending them, or from making such modifications with respect to their application as may be found necessary to meet exceptional conditions.

(4) These regulations shall in no way relieve any utility from any of its duties under the laws of this State.

(NCUC Docket No. G 100, Sub 9, 7/26/67.)

## Provenance

- Official: Yes
- Source: <https://www.ncuc.gov/ncrules/Chapter06.pdf>
- Source ID: `nc-ncuc-chapter-6`
- SHA-256: `32d0f5e5d3bc5249c81d335f2cfde9f6c0ed1560be8c1f9e01e0800140c2ec27`
- Retrieved: 2026-08-20T09:05:56.011Z
- Exported: 2026-08-22T11:18:14.029Z
- Document slug: `nc-ncuc-r6-1`

### Source metadata

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  "selectedRuleCount": 23,
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  "statutoryAuthority": "N.C. Gen. Stat. § 62-50",
  "incorporatedFederalStandards": [],
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  "scopeCaveat": "This is a bounded Chapter 6 pipeline/gas-safety corpus, not the entire 122-page Natural Gas chapter and not a claim to all North Carolina pipeline law. It preserves complete selected rules while excluding broader tariff, billing, customer-relations, metering-administration, service-territory, accounting, expansion-funding, and economic-development rules, plus repealed and reserved provisions.",
  "applicabilityCaveat": "Applicability depends on NCUC jurisdiction under G.S. 62-50, operator and facility status, the rule-specific definition of utility, federal/state jurisdiction and preemption, Commission exemptions or orders, and incorporated federal standards. Chapter 6 also reaches interstate natural-gas companies only insofar as the Commission has safety jurisdiction; it does not establish state jurisdiction over every pipeline or customer-owned installation in North Carolina.",
  "incorporationCaveat": "R6-39 and R6-41 incorporate federal pipeline requirements and amendments, including 49 CFR Parts 191, 192, 193, 198, and 199, with stated North Carolina modifications. Other selected rules refer to privately published ASME, NFPA, ASA, AGA, NARUC, and testing standards. This connector preserves references but does not reproduce or determine the current content, licensing terms, or legal effect of incorporated material.",
  "publicationCaveat": "The source is the current agency-hosted Chapter 6 compilation retrieved on the recorded fetch date. NCUC warns on its rules index that posting can lag an order adopting or revising a rule. Publisher history dates are retained as history entries and are not represented as effective dates unless the source expressly says so.",
  "rights": "North Carolina government text and official source links are preserved for provenance. Public availability does not determine rights in agency seals, site presentation, privately authored standards, or incorporated third-party material; redistribution and downstream use require rights review.",
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