GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 560
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 62-36A reads as rewritten:
"§ 62-36A. Natural gas planning.
(a) The Commission shall
require each franchised natural gas local distribution company to file reports
with the Commission detailing its plans for providing natural gas service in
areas of its franchise territory in which natural gas service is not
available. Initial reports shall be filed at a time set by the
Commission, but not later than January 1, 1990. Commission rules
shall require that each local distribution company shall update its report at
least every two years.
(b) The Commission shall develop rules to carry out the intent of subsection (a) of this section, and to produce an orderly system for reviewing current levels of natural gas service and planning the orderly expansion of natural gas service to areas not served.
(c) Within 120 180
days after all local distribution companies have filed their initial or
biennial update reports, the Commission and the Public Staff shall
independently provide analyses and summaries of those reports, together with
status reports of natural gas service in the State, to the Joint Legislative
Utility Review Committee."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1994.
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Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives