Minnesota Session Laws - 1991, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1991 

                        CHAPTER 147-H.F.No. 282 
           An act relating to public utilities; exempting from 
          prior rate regulation gas utilities that have 650 or 
          fewer customers in any one municipality and a total of 
          2,000 or fewer customers; amending Minnesota Statutes 
          1990, section 216B.16, by adding a subdivision. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 216B.16, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 12.  [EXEMPTION.] A municipality may file with the 
commission a resolution of its governing body requesting 
exemption from the provisions of this section for a public 
utility that is under a franchise with the municipality to 
supply natural, manufactured, or mixed gas and that serves 650 
or fewer customers in the municipality as long as the public 
utility serves no more than a total of 2,000 customers.  The 
commission shall grant an exemption from this section for that 
portion of a public utility's business that is requested by each 
municipality it serves.  However, the commission shall require 
the utility to adopt the commission's policies and procedures 
governing disconnection during cold weather.  The utility shall 
annually submit a copy of its municipally approved rates to the 
commission. 
    If a municipality files with the commission a resolution of 
its governing body rescinding the request for exemption, the 
commission shall regulate the public utility's business in that 
municipality under this section. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 20, 1991 
    Signed by the governor May 22, 1991, 5:50 p.m.