216B.361 TOWNSHIP AGREEMENT WITH NATURAL GAS UTILITY.
A township may enter into an agreement with a public utility providing natural gas services
to provide services within a designated portion or all of the township. If a city annexes township
land for which a utility has an agreement with a township to serve, the utility shall continue to
have a nonexclusive right to offer and provide service in the area identified by the agreement with
the township for the term of that agreement, subject to the authority of the annexing city to manage
public rights-of-way within the city as provided in sections
216B.36,
237.162, and
237.163.
Nothing in this section precludes a city from acquiring the property of a public utility under
sections
216B.45 to
216B.47 for the purpose of allowing the city to own and operate a natural gas
utility, or to extend natural gas and other utility services into newly annexed areas.
History: 1Sp2003 c 11 art 3 s 5