2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality
RS 30:551 - Regulatory designation

§551. Regulatory designation

A. Pursuant to Section 2(A) of Article IX of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, the assistant secretary shall be the authority to regulate natural gas and natural gas transporters and distribution companies as provided in this Chapter; provided, however, that the Louisiana Public Service Commission shall remain the authority to regulate the sale of natural gas moving by pipeline to local distributing systems for resale, and shall regulate resales by those distributing companies, for the purposes of fixing and regulating the rates and services charged and rendered by public utilities in such sale; except that those distribution companies or systems owned or operated by the governing authority of one or more political subdivisions or subject to regulation in accordance with the provisions of a home rule charter or plan of government shall be regulated, except as provided in Subsection B, hereof, by the owning or operating governing authority or as provided by such home rule charter or plan of government.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A of this Section, the assistant secretary shall be the authority to regulate all public and private natural gas distribution systems with respect to natural gas pipeline safety, except where prohibited by federal laws. The assistant secretary, as permitted by 49 U.S.C.A. Section 1674, may certify annually to the United States secretary of transportation that the state, through the office of conservation, has regulatory jurisdiction over the safety standards and practices of intrastate pipeline transportation.

Added by Acts 1973, Ex.Sess., No. 16, §1, emerg. eff. Dec. 8, 1973, at 9:55 A.M. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 669, §1; Acts 1985, No. 250, §1, eff. July 6, 1985.

{{NOTE: SEE ACTS 1985, NO. 250, SECOND §2.}}