37-4-150
Section 37-4-150 Electric transmission facilities. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Energy Security Act of 2015. (b) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that due to the economic, financial, and service impacts associated with the development of electric transmission facilities used for the furnishing of electric service to consumers in this state, it is in the public interest to provide incumbent electric suppliers the right to construct, own, operate, and maintain new transmission facilities that connect to their own electric systems. The Legislature further finds and declares that providing incumbent electric suppliers this right furthers their ability to satisfy their respective obligations to provide service to Alabama consumers. This section implements these findings. (c) As used in this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission. (2) ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION FACILITY. Any transmission...
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37-6-3
pledge, or otherwise dispose of or encumber electric transmission and distribution lines or systems, electric generating plants, electric refrigeration plants, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, water systems, and sanitary sewer systems, television reception equipment through the use of television program decryption equipment and subscriber owned, leased, or rented satellite dishes, lands, buildings, structures, dams, plants, and equipment and any and all kinds and classes of real or personal property whatsoever, which shall be deemed necessary, convenient or appropriate to accomplish the purpose for which the cooperative was organized or in which it subsequently lawfully engages. Electric generating plants, transmission, and distribution lines or systems as referred to in this section shall include any arrangement or agreement for the purchase, exchange, or transmission of electric power, capacity or energy, whether sole or as joint owner of all or any part in common with one...
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37-6-42
contrary to the provisions of Sections 37-14-1 through 37-14-17 or Sections 37-14-30 through 37-14-40. (2) To construct, purchase, take, receive, lease as lessee or otherwise acquire, and to own, hold, use, equip, maintain, and operate, to sell, assign, transfer, convey, exchange, lease as lessor, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or encumber telephone lines, facilities, or systems, lands, buildings and structures, plants and equipment, and any and all kinds and classes of real or personal property whatsoever which shall be deemed necessary, convenient, or appropriate to accomplish the purpose for which the cooperative is organized; provided, however, that no electric cooperative organized and no corporation converted into an electric cooperative, under Article 1 of this chapter, shall construct, purchase, take, receive, lease as lessee, or otherwise acquire or maintain or operate any telephone lines, facilities, plants, or systems, other than telephone lines, facilities,...
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37-14-4
Section 37-14-4 Primary supplier's option to acquire facilities within existing municipal limits. The primary electric supplier within each municipality shall, at its option, have the right to acquire all distribution facilities of any secondary electric supplier used to supply retail electric service within the existing municipal limits and shall have the right to serve all premises within the existing municipal limits of such municipality subject to the following; (1) The primary electric supplier must announce its intention to exercise its option in writing by registered or certified mail to the affected secondary suppliers within each municipality, addressed to the chief executive officer or manager of such secondary supplier, no later than nine months after April 26, 1984. Simultaneously with the delivery of the notice of exercise of its option by the primary electric supplier, the primary electric supplier shall deposit in escrow with a bank whose principal office is in Alabama...
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37-14-32
Section 37-14-32 Electric service outside existing municipal limits. Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (2), (3), (4) and (6) but notwithstanding any other provision of this article, in areas outside existing municipal limits (including areas annexed to municipalities on or after April 26, 1984), no electric supplier shall construct or maintain electric distribution lines for the provision of retail electric service to any premises being provided retail electric service by another electric supplier, or to any new premises located within the boundaries of assigned service areas of another electric supplier. Assigned service areas outside existing municipal limits are hereby established as set forth in this section. (1) Except as specified in subdivisions (2) and (3) herein, each electric supplier is hereby granted a legislative franchise and assigned the sole obligation, in areas outside existing municipal limits and within existing municipal limits to the extent the standards...
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37-4-140
public safety, power quality, and system reliability. The customer shall at all times be responsible for the proper installation, maintenance, and operation of the distributed generation facility and all related wiring, equipment, and apparatus. The utility shall have no obligation to install, maintain, operate, or inspect any electrical facilities owned or operated by the customer and shall not be liable to any person, group of persons, or legal entity for damage to or loss of property, injury, or death that arises in any way from the improper installation, maintenance, or operation of the customer's electrical facilities or the failure of the customer to satisfy all applicable interconnection requirements. (d)(1) A commission non-jurisdictional electric supplier shall not purchase electrical energy from any distributed generation facility at a price that exceeds the commission non-jurisdictional electric supplier's avoided costs. (2) Subdivision (1) shall not apply to a renewable...
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45-23A-93
Section 45-23A-93 Auxiliary communication services. (a) As used in this section, the word "city" shall mean the City of Ozark in Dale County. (b)(I) In addition to all other powers, rights, and authority heretofore granted by law, the city is authorized and empowered to acquire, purchase, lease, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve as part of the system facilities for the provision to inhabitants of the city and surrounding territory of auxiliary services which may be identified generally as any communication service, not including cable television transmission, which shall include, but not be limited to, burglar alarm systems, data transmissions, facsimile service, home shopping service, and any allied or similar communication services. (2) The city shall provide, without the requirement of any franchise, to any requesting communication company or utility regulated by the Public Service Commission, or any electric cooperative organized under Chapter 6, Title 37,...
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11-50A-1
this chapter and any successor or successors thereto. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the authority. (3) BONDS. Any bonds issued by the authority under the provisions of this chapter, including refunding bonds. (4) BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES. Short term obligations issued by the authority in anticipation of the issuance of bonds. (5) COSTS. All costs of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, equipment, alteration, repair, or extension of any project; all costs of real and personal property required for the purposes of any project, including any rights or undivided interest therein; all costs of easements, franchises, water rights, fees, permits, approvals, licenses, and certificates, and all costs of securing any permits, approvals, licenses, and certificates, and preparing applications therefor; all costs of machinery and equipment, including equipment for use in connection with construction; all costs of the initial fuel supply or additional fuel inventories...
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11-50A-8
and of the parties thereto; (2) To adopt and alter a corporate seal; (3) To make and alter at pleasure all needful bylaws, rules, and regulations for the transaction of its business and the control of its property and affairs; (4) To have the same right of eminent domain through condemnation conferred by Section 10-5-1, or any subsequent statute of similar import; provided that nothing herein shall be construed to grant to the authority the power to acquire by condemnation any real or personal property or right-of-way of any utility as the term "utility" is defined in Section 37-4-1(7)a.; (5) To acquire in its own name by purchase on such terms and conditions and in such manner as it may deem proper, or by exercise of the power of eminent domain, or by gift, grant, lease, or otherwise, real property or rights and easements therein and franchises and personal property necessary or convenient for its corporate purposes; and to insure its property against any and all risks with...
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37-4-30
Section 37-4-30 Obtaining electric service under a private contract; definitions. (a) No existing electric customer shall obtain electric service under a private contract for electric service without first giving written notice to the utility currently providing it retail electric service at least 45 days prior to the date on which the private contract for electric service is to become effective. In the event any utility currently providing service to the existing electric customer determines that it or its other electric customers will be adversely affected by the loss of the existing electric customer due to the private contract for electric service, it may, within 45 days of the date of the existing electric customer's written notice of a private contract for electric service, file a petition for review of the private contract for electric service as set forth below and service under such contract shall not be initiated until 45 days after such review has been completed and an order...
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