PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                                 Ch. 3

(1)     Death or injury to persons [.];

(2)     Property damage to private and public property [.]; AND

(3)     Loss of services of public service companies to the general public.
DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incorrect punctuation in Article 78, § 28A(a)(l) and (2) and omitted
conjunction in Article 78, § 28A(a)(2).

Occurred: Ch. 863, Acts of 1974.

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 and 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] RATES, any charges it finds were unjustified upon the failure of the company to
show that its charges were based solely on increased fuel, purchased 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 and purchasing
practices.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

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

Occurred: Ch. 695, Acts of 1977.

Article 78D - Baltimore Metropolitan Council

5.

(a) The Council may:

(2) Sue, be sued, plead, and be impleaded, subject to the limitations of
TITLE 5, Subtitle 4 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article;

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Incomplete cross-reference in Article 78D, § 5(a)(2).
Occurred: Ch. 201, Acts of 1992.

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