Ch. 100

2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(2) A PARTY WHO REQUESTS THAT THE COMMISSION ACT BY ORDER OR
WHO FAILS TO OBJECT TO THE ACTION OF THE COMMISSION BY ORDER RATHER
THAN BY REGULATION MAY NOT APPEAL THE COMMISSION'S DECISION TO ACT BY
ORDER.

[(b)] (C) The Commission shall be made a party to a proceeding under this
section.

[(c)] (D) A petition under this section shall be filed in the Circuit Court for
Baltimore City or the circuit court for the county where the petitioner has its
principal office in the State.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That notwithstanding any
provision of the Administrative Procedure Act, an order of the Public Service
Commission issued in a generic or quasi-legislative proceeding after January 1, 1988,
and prior to June 1, 2002, is valid and enforceable regardless of whether the order
meets the definition of a regulation under § 10-101 of the State Government Article.
This section may not be applied or interpreted to affect any court case that is filed or
has become final on or before June 1, 2004.

SECTION 3. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 2004.

Approved April 27, 2004.

CHAPTER 100
(Senate Bill 179)

AN ACT concerning

Public Service Commission - Liquefied Petroleum Gas

FOR the purpose of subjecting gas service installations serving a certain number of
customers through gas storage tanks to the jurisdiction of the Public Service
Commission if a portion of the system is located in a public place; repealing a
provision relating to central service to separate residential dwelling units; and
generally relating to the Commission and liquefied petroleum gas.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Public Utility Companies
Section 11-102
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1998 Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows

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