FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 311

92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 

 

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ROARK, WRIGHT, VIEBROCK AND MARSH (Co-sponsors).

         Read 1st time January 29, 2003, and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

1319L.01I


 

AN ACT

To repeal section 91.020, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to electric utilities.





Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:


            Section A. Section 91.020, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 91.020, to read as follows:

            91.020. Any city in this state, which owns and operates any electric light or power plant, may, and is hereby authorized and empowered to, supply electric current from its light or power plant to other municipal corporations for their use and the use of their inhabitants, and also to persons and private corporations for use beyond the corporate limits of such city, and to enter into contracts therefor for such time and upon such terms and under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon by the contracting parties; provided that any home rule city with more than one hundred fifty-one thousand five hundred but less than one hundred fifty-one thousand six hundred inhabitants may only supply electric current from its light or power plant to persons and private corporations for use beyond the corporate limits of such city in a nondiscriminatory manner at the same rates that such city charges its inhabitants to supply electric current.