NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 782

SENATE BILL 266

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE UTILITIES COMMISSION TO REGULATE THE PAYMENTS BY PUBLIC UTILITIES TO SPECIAL OR PREFERRED CUSTOMERS AND TO PROHIBIT THE APPROVAL OF PREFERRED RATES WITHIN THE SAME CLASSIFICATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 62-70 is hereby amended by adding a subsection at the end of said Section, which shall read as follows:

"(a)       No public utility shall offer or pay any compensation or consideration or furnish any equipment to secure the installation or adoption of the use of such utility service except upon filing of a schedule of such compensation, or consideration or equipment to be furnished and approval thereof by the Commission, and offering such compensation, consideration or equipment to all persons within the same classification using or applying for such public utility service; provided, in considering the reasonableness of any such schedule filed by a public utility the Commission shall consider, among other things, evidence of consideration or compensation paid by any competitor, regulated or non-regulated, of the public utility to secure the installation or adoption of the use of such competitor's service.

"Provided, further, that nothing herein shall prohibit a public utility from carrying out any contractural commitment in existence at the time of the enactment hereof, so long as such program does not extend beyond December 31, 1963."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1963.