2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 15 - CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS
Chapter 73 - Electric Cooperative Corporations
7355 - Obligations and rights within certified territory; new electric-consuming facilities.

     § 7355.  Obligations and rights within certified territory; new
                electric-consuming facilities.
        (a)  Service within certified territory.--Except as otherwise
     provided in this section, each retail electric supplier shall be
     obligated (upon receipt of an application in accordance with its
     tariffs, rules, regulations or bylaws) and shall have the
     exclusive right to furnish retail electric service to all
     electric-consuming facilities located within its certified
     territory and shall not furnish, make available, render or
     extend its retail electric service to a consumer for use in
     electric-consuming facilities located within the certified
     territory of another retail electric supplier. Any retail
     electric supplier may extend its facilities through the
     certified territory of another retail electric supplier if the
     extension is necessary for the supplier to connect any of its
     facilities or to serve its consumers within its own certified
     territory, but any such extension shall not be deemed to be an
     existing distribution line.
        (b)  Service to new electric-consuming facilities.--Except as
     provided in subsections (c) and (e), any new electric-consuming
     facility located in an unincorporated area which has not as yet
     been included in a map issued by the Pennsylvania Public Utility
     Commission pursuant to section 7354(c) (relating to maps of
     certified territories) or certified pursuant to section 7354(d)
     (relating to commission certification of service territories)
     shall be furnished retail electric service by the retail
     electric supplier which has an existing distribution line in
     closer proximity to the electric-consuming facility than is the
     nearest existing distribution line of any other retail electric
     supplier. Any disputes under this subsection shall be resolved
     by the commission.
        (c)  Correction of inadequate service.--If the commission,
     after hearing, determines that the retail electric service being
     furnished or proposed to be furnished by a retail electric
     supplier to an electric-consuming facility is inadequate and is
     not likely to be made adequate, the commission may authorize
     another retail electric supplier to furnish retail electric
     service to that facility.
        (d)  Electric-consuming facilities served by another retail
     electric supplier.--Except as provided in subsection (c), no
     retail electric supplier shall furnish, make available, render
     or extend retail electric service to any electric-consuming
     facility to which the service is being lawfully furnished by
     another retail electric supplier on July 30, 1975, or to which
     retail electric service is lawfully commenced thereafter in
     accordance with this section by another retail electric
     supplier.
        (e)  Extension of service.--The provisions of this subchapter
     shall not preclude any retail electric supplier from extending
     its service after July 30, 1975, to its own property and
     facilities, but any facilities involved in the extension shall
     not be deemed an existing distribution line.