2018 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 41 - WATER
CHAPTER 7 - IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
ARTICLE 8 - PUBLIC IRRIGATION AND POWER DISTRICTS
SECTION 41-7-865 - Liberal construction; restrictions; regulation by public service commission.
41-7-865. Liberal construction; restrictions; regulation by public service commission.
(a) This act shall be construed liberally for the purpose of making it possible for irrigation districts by the development and sale of hydroelectric energy and power through the construction or purchase of necessary and required properties and works to create sufficient income to make said works in connection with their irrigation works a feasible project to save, conserve and preserve their full water rights under the laws of Wyoming.
(b) The generation of electric energy and power under the provisions of this act and under the provisions of chapter 137, Session Laws of Wyoming 1937, as amended, codified and compiled in W.S. 41-7-801 through 41-7-835, shall be restricted to the generation of hydroelectric energy and power for wholesale transmission and sale and such irrigation and public power districts established under the provisions of said acts shall be subject to the regulations of the public service commission of Wyoming in the establishment of wholesale rates and transmission facilities, applicable to any other public utility generating electric energy and power for wholesale transmission and sale.
