Ch. 3

1994 LAWS OF MARYLAND

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect word usage and ambiguous reference in Article 48A, §
714(e)(2).                                                               

Occurred: Ch. 405, Acts of 1993.

Article 78 - Public Service Commission Law

54D.                                                                                                         

(a) Except for a small rural electric cooperative, a steam heating, gas, or electric
utility which directly passes on to its customers any change in its fuel costs, costs of
purchased power, or costs of purchased gas is required each month to verify arid justify
the adjusted costs to the Commission. The Commission shall conduct a public evidentiary
hearing no less frequently than once every 12 months on these changes. The Commission
shall order a utility to charge off and amortize; by means of a temporary decrease of rates
any charges it finds were unjustified upon the failure of the company to show that its
charges were based solely on increased [fuel] FUEL, purchased [power] POWER, or
purchased gas costs or upon the failure of the company to follow competitive practices in
the procurement and purchasing of said fuel; purchased power, or purchased gas or upon
a showing that the company was unreasonable in its fuel procurement arid purchasing
practices:

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Omitted commas in Article 78, § 54D(a).

Occurred: Ch. 173, Acts of 1978.
Article 83A - Department of Economic and Employment Development

1-205.

(g) (2) This subsection does not apply to the powers, duties, functions, and
responsibilities provided in §§ 8-504, 8-506, 8-509, 8-510, 8-511, 8-512, 8-611(j),
[8-229(f)] 8-629(F), 8-638, 8-639, and 8-808(a) of the Labor and Employment Article.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect cross-reference in Article 83A, § 1-205(g)(2):           

Occurred: Ch. 21, § 3, Acts of 1991.
4-1A-01.

(a) In this subtitle the following-word's have the meanings indicated[:]

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