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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 422

CHAPTER 422

(House Bill 1420)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Master Individual Metering

FOR the purpose of exempting central heating and cooling
systems for new public housing units from master
individual meter restrictions under certain
circumstances.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 51(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

Section 51(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1980 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

51.

(b) (1) The Public Service Commission may not
authorize a gas company, an electric company, or a gas and
electric company to service any new residential multiple
occupancy building on which construction begins after July
1, 1978 or any new shopping center on which construction
begins after July 1, 1985 unless the building or shopping
center has individual metered service for each occupancy
unit or shopping center unit that is individually leased or
owned. However, subject to rules and regulations
established by the commission, it may authorize service to
the new shopping center by a gas company, an electric
company, or a gas and electric company for central heating
and cooling systems, or any combination of them when such
service has been shown to the satisfaction of the Commission
to result in a substantial net saving of energy used by
these systems over the energy saving that would result from
individual metering. The service restrictions of this
subsection do not apply to central hot water. THE SERVICE