Indiana § 8-1-2.2-1 Findings and purpose

Indiana Statutes

§ 8-1-2.2-1 — Findings and purpose

Indiana § 8-1-2.2-1

Art. 1UTILITIES GENERALLY

Ch. 2.2Municipal Electric Utility Programs

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Municipalities owning facilities for the
distribution of electric power and energy are required by law to
provide, and serve a public purpose by providing, customers with an
adequate, a reliable, and an economical supply of electric power and
energy. Individually, such municipalities or joint agencies are not
financially capable of providing the planning, financing, locating, and
building of needed new facilities for generation and transmission or
operating or managing these facilities. Therefore, the general assembly
finds it necessary and proper to provide a method for certain of those
municipalities to jointly finance, develop, own, manage, and operate,
either by themselves or with public utilities, electric generation and
transmission facilities appropriate to the present and projected

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Municipalities owning facilities for the
distribution of electric power and energy are required by law to
provide, and serve a public purpose by providing, customers with an
adequate, a reliable, and an economical supply of electric power and
energy. Individually, such municipalities or joint agencies are not
financially capable of providing the planning, financing, locating, and
building of needed new facilities for generation and transmission or
operating or managing these facilities. Therefore, the general assembly
finds it necessary and proper to provide a method for certain of those
municipalities to jointly finance, develop, own, manage, and operate,
either by themselves or with public utilities, electric generation and
transmission facilities appropriate to the present and projected electric
energy needs of such municipalities and to the changes in the electric
utility industry affecting these municipalities or joint agencies.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.68, SEC.1. Amended by
P.L.54-1992, SEC.1; P.L.81-1997, SEC.1.