§486J-6 Confidential information. (a) Confidential commercial information presented to the commissioner pursuant to this chapter shall be held in confidence by the commissioner or aggregated to the extent necessary to assure confidentiality as governed by chapter 92F, including its penalty provisions.
(b) No data or information submitted to the commissioner shall be deemed confidential if the person submitting the information or data has made it public.
(c) Unless otherwise provided by law, with respect to data provided pursuant to sections 486J-3 and 486J-4, neither the commissioner, nor any employee of the department, may do any of the following:
(1) Use the information furnished under sections 486J-3 and 486J-4 for any purpose other than the statistical purposes for which it is supplied;
(2) Make any publication whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual under sections 486J-3 and 486J-4 can be identified; or
(3) Permit anyone to examine the individual reports provided under sections 486J-3 and 486J-4 other than the public utilities commission, the attorney general, and the consumer advocate, and the authorized representatives and employees of each. [L 1997, c 257, pt of §2; am L 2002, c 77, §4]