2012 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation
Chapter 46 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES (§§ 2601 - 2645)
Subchapter II - STANDARDS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES (§§ 2621 - 2627)
Section 2627 - Relationship to State law
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 16 - CONSERVATION |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 16 - CONSERVATION CHAPTER 46 - PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES SUBCHAPTER II - STANDARDS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES Sec. 2627 - Relationship to State law |
Contains | section 2627 |
Date | 2012 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 95-617, title I, §117, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3128. |
Statutes at Large References | 92 Stat. 3128, 3120 |
Public Law References | Public Law 95-617 |
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Nothing in this chapter shall authorize or require the recovery by an electric utility of revenues, or of a rate of return, in excess of, or less than, the amount of revenues or the rate of return determined to be lawful under any other provision of law.
(b) State authorityNothing in this chapter prohibits any State regulatory authority or nonregulated electric utility from adopting, pursuant to State law, any standard or rule affecting electric utilities which is different from any standard established by this subchapter.
(c) Federal agenciesWith respect to any electric utility which is a Federal agency, and with respect to the Tennessee Valley Authority when it is treated as a State regulatory authority as provided in section 2602(17) of this title, any reference in section 2621 or 2623 of this title to State law shall be treated as a reference to Federal law.
(Pub. L. 95–617, title I, §117, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3128.)
References in TextThis chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I (§101 et seq.) of Pub. L. 95–617, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3120, which enacted subchapters I to IV of this chapter and section 6808 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and amended sections 6802 to 6807 of Title 42. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.
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