46-3-2
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46-3-2.
The
public interest requires, and it is declared to be the policy of the State of
Georgia, that, in order (1) to assure the most efficient, economical, and
orderly rendering of retail electric service within the state, (2) to inhibit
duplication of the lines of electric suppliers, (3) to foster the extension and
location of electric supplier lines in the manner most compatible with the
preservation and enhancement of the state´s physical environment, and (4)
to protect and conserve lines lawfully constructed by electric suppliers, it is
necessary and appropriate that the state establish and implement a plan whereby
every geographic area within the state shall be either assigned to an electric
supplier or declared unassigned as to any electric supplier; that, to accomplish
such a plan, it is necessary that all electric suppliers within the state be
subject to this part; that the commission be delegated power, authority, and
jurisdiction with respect to such plan; and that all electric membership
corporations and all municipalities which furnish retail electric service be
additionally subject to regulation by the commission in the same manner as
provided for regulation of electric light and power companies, except as to the
fixing of their rates, charges, and service rules and regulations, it being
determined by the General Assembly that such electric membership corporations
and municipalities, which by their corporate nature are wholly or substantially
controlled by their consumers, should for regulatory purposes be classified
differently in certain respects from electric light and power companies.