CHAPTER 498
(House Bill 1178)

AN ACT concerning

Electricity - Affiliate Wheeling Industrial Customer Choice

FOR the purpose of requiring the Public Service Commission to require electric
companies to offer nondiscriminatory affiliate wheeling on certain terms;
requiring a wheeling company to establish certain terms and conditions for
providing affiliate wheeling under certain circumstances; establishing certain
requirements for certain contracts for affiliate wheeling; prohibiting an electric
company from imposing certain charges on certain customers under certain
circumstances; providing for certain applications and appeals relating to
affiliate wheeling; requiring certain information to bo provided to certain
persons in a certain manner; prohibiting certain acts by electric companies and
wheeling companies; providing for certain notice before a certain customer
ceases to purchase electricity from an electric company; declaring the findings of
the General Assembly; defining certain terms; making the provisions of this Act
severable; providing for the termination of this Act; and generally relating to
affiliate wheeling of electricity, authorizing certain industrial electricity
customers to have access to customer choice during a certain period and under
certain circumstances; making this Act an emergency measure; and generally
relating to customer choice for certain industrial customers.

BY adding to

Article—Public Utility Companies

Section 7-501 through 7-500, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 5.
Affiliate Wheeling"

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1998 Volume)

BY renumbering

Article - Public Utility Companies
Section 7-510(e) through (f), respectively
to be Section 7-510(d) through (g), respectively
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume)

(As enacted by Chapters 3 and 4 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1990)

BY adding to

Article - Public Utility Companies
Section 7-510(e)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume)