SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1815 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WARWICK.

5258H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk

AN ACT To amend chapter 394, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to optional service by electrical cooperatives.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 394, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be 2 known as section 394.400, to read as follows: 394.400. 1. In any city with more than ten thousand but fewer than eleven 2 thousand inhabitants and that is the county seat of a county with more than thirty 3 thousand but fewer than thirty-five thousand inhabitants, any new structure, as such 4 term is defined in section 394.315, shall have the option to connect to any electrical 5 service available to such structure, including any: 6 (1) Electrical corporation, as defined in section 386.020; 7 (2) Municipally owned or operated electric power system, as defined in section 8 91.025; or 9 (3) Rural electric cooperative organized and operating under the provisions of 10 chapter 394. 11 2. Nothing in this section shall require any electric service provider to enter into 12 a territorial agreement under section 394.312. ✔

EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

Statutes affected:
Introduced (5258H.01): 394.400