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type: "LegalText"
title: "15 U.S.C. § 717l"
description: "Complaints"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
chapter_number: "15B"
chapter_name: "NATURAL GAS"
section: "717l"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 717l"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 717l - Complaints

## Text

Any State, municipality, or State commission complaining of anything done or omitted to be done by any natural-gas company in contravention of the provisions of this chapter may apply to the Commission by petition, which shall briefly state the facts, whereupon a statement of the complaint thus made shall be forwarded by the Commission to such natural-gas company, which shall be called upon to satisfy the complaint or to answer the same in writing within a reasonable time to be specified by the Commission.

(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 13, 52 Stat. 827.)