(a) The commission may prescribe reasonable rules, regulations and standards to secure the substantial accuracy of all meters, safety devices, regulators and mileage indicators and appliances for measurement which shall be complied with by the utility and consumer.
(b) The commission may provide for the inspection of the manner in which any utility complies with the rules, regulations and standards fixed by the commission to secure the accuracy of all meters, safety devices, regulators, mileage indicators and appliances for measurement, and the commission may examine and test the same under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe. At all inspections and tests made in pursuance of complaints, representatives of the utility complained of and of the complainant may be present.
(c) Any consumer or user may have any meter or appliance for measuring tested by the commission upon payment of fees fixed by the commission. The commission shall declare and establish reasonable fees to be paid for examining and testing such appliances on the request of consumers, the fee to be paid by the consumer or user at the time of his request, but to be paid by the utility and refunded to the consumer or user if the measuring appliances are found unreasonably defective or incorrect to the substantial disadvantage of the consumer or user.
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