Public utility regulation-joint powers boards.

2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0158
Introduced
1.2

SENATE FILE

NO.

SF0079

Public utility regulation-joint powers boards.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Burns and Representative(s) Biteman

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to the regulation of public utilities; providing an exemption from regulation for joint powers entities; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 37
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101
(
a)(vi)
(H)(II)
is amended to read:

37
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101
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Definitions.

(a)

As used in chapters 1, 2, 3, 12 and 17 of this title:

(vi)

"Public utility" means and includes every person that owns, operates, leases, controls or has power to operate, lease or control:

(H)

None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to:

(II)

To public utilities owned and operated by a municipality of the state of Wyoming

or
owned and operated
by a joint powers entity
pursuant to
the Wyoming Joint Powers Act,
W.S. 16
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102
through 16
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110
,
and comprised of two (2) or more municipalities
, except as to that portion of a municipality owned and operated
public utility

or joint powers entity owned and operated
public utility
, if any, as may extend services outside the corporate limits of a municipality and except that if any municipal

or joint powers
utility

owns an undivided interest in a facility for the production of electricity which is also p
artly owned by an agency subject to the jurisdiction of the public service commission, the sale of
electricity in excess of the participating municipalities'

or joint powers entity's
need is subject to this act;

Section
2
.

This
act is effective July 1,
201
7
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