---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 825c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "825c"
heading: "Periodic and special reports; obstructing filing reports or keeping accounts, etc."
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/825c"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter III — Licensees and Public Utilities; Procedural and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §825c. Periodic and special reports; obstructing filing reports or keeping accounts, etc.

- (a) Every [licensee](/usc/16/796.md?p=5) and every public utility shall file with the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) such annual and other periodic or special reports as the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may by rules and regulations or order prescribe as necessary or appropriate to assist the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) in the proper administration of this chapter. The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may prescribe the manner and form in which such reports shall be made, and require from such [persons](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) specific answers to all questions upon which the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may need information. The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may require that such reports shall include, among other things, full information as to assets and liabilities, capitalization, net investment, and reduction thereof, gross receipts, interest due and paid, depreciation, and other reserves, cost of [project](/usc/16/796.md?p=11) and other facilities, cost of maintenance and operation of the [project](/usc/16/796.md?p=11) and other facilities, cost of renewals and replacement of the [project works](/usc/16/796.md?p=12) and other facilities, depreciation, generation, transmission, distribution, delivery, use, and sale of electric energy. The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may require any such [person](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) to make adequate provision for currently determining such costs and other facts. Such reports shall be made under oath unless the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) otherwise specifies.
- (b) It shall be unlawful for any [person](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) willfully to hinder, delay, or obstruct the making, filing, or keeping of any information, document, report, memorandum, record, or account required to be made, filed, or kept under this chapter or any rule, regulation, or order thereunder.

## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 304, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 855.)