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278.018 Right to serve certified territory.
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Except as otherwise provided herein, each retail electric supplier 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;
provided that any retail electric supplier may extend its facilities through the
certified territory of another retail electric supplier, if such extension is
necessary for such supplier to connect any of its facilities or to serve its
consumers within its own certified territory. In the event that a new
electric-consuming facility should locate in two (2) or more adjacent certified
territories, the commission shall determine which retail electric supplier shall
serve said facility based on criteria in KRS 278.017(3).
Except as provided in subsections (3) and (5) of this section, any new
electric-consuming facility located in an area which has not as yet been
included in a map issued by the commission, pursuant to KRS 278.017(2), or
certified, pursuant to KRS 278.017(4), shall be furnished retail electric service
by the retail electric supplier which has an existing distribution line in closer
proximity to such 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.
The commission may, after a hearing had upon due notice, make such findings
as may be supported by proof as to whether any retail electric supplier
operating in a certified territory is rendering or proposes to render adequate
service to an electric-consuming facility and in the event the commission finds
that such retail electric supplier is not rendering or does not propose to render
adequate service, the commission may enter an order specifying in what
particulars such retail electric supplier has failed to render or propose to render
adequate service and order that such failure be corrected within a reasonable
time, such time to be fixed in such order. If the retail electric supplier so
ordered to correct such failure fails to comply with such order, the commission
may authorize another retail electric supplier to furnish retail electric service to
such facility.
Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, no retail electric supplier
shall furnish, make available, render or extend retail electric service to any
electric-consuming facility to which such service is being lawfully furnished by
another retail electric supplier on June 16, 1972, or to which retail electric
service is lawfully commenced thereafter in accordance with this section by
another retail electric supplier.
The provisions of KRS 278.016 to 278.020 shall not preclude any retail electric
supplier from extending its service after June 16, 1972, to property and
facilities owned and operated by said retail electric supplier.
Notwithstanding the effectuation of certified territories established by or
pursuant to KRS 278.016 to 278.020, and the exclusive right to service within
such territory, a retail electric supplier may contract with another retail electric
supplier for the purpose of allocating territories and consumers between such
retail electric suppliers and designating which territories and consumers are to
be served by which of said retail electric suppliers. Notwithstanding any other
provisions of law, a contract between retail electric suppliers as herein provided
when approved by the commission shall be valid and enforceable. The
commission shall approve such a contract if it finds that the contract will
promote the purposes of KRS 278.016 and will provide adequate and
reasonable service to all areas and consumers affected thereby.
Effective:April 1, 1979
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 379, sec. 5, effective April 1, 1979. -- Created
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 83, sec. 4.
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