Montana § 69-3-1403 Customer Choice

Montana Statutes

§ 69-3-1403 — Customer Choice

Montana § 69-3-1403

Title 69PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

Ch. 3REGULATION OF UTILITIES

Part 14Natural Gas Utility Restructuring and Customer Choice Act

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Mont. Code Ann. § 69-3-1403 (2026).

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69-3-1403 . Customer choice.

(1)A natural gas utility may voluntarily offer its customers choice of natural gas supplier and provide open access to its transmission facilities, storage facilities, or distribution facilities.

(2)If a customer choice offering results in transition costs, the commission may allow those transition costs to be recovered in separate identifiable charges to customers. Upon commission approval, the natural gas utility must have the opportunity but not the obligation to finance the fixed transition costs and related financing costs using transition cost financing as provided for in 69-8-103 and 69-8-503 .

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69-3-1403 . Customer choice. (1) A natural gas utility may voluntarily offer its customers choice of natural gas supplier and provide open access to its transmission facilities, storage facilities, or distribution facilities.
(2) If a customer choice offering results in transition costs, the commission may allow those transition costs to be recovered in separate identifiable charges to customers. Upon commission approval, the natural gas utility must have the opportunity but not the obligation to finance the fixed transition costs and related financing costs using transition cost financing as provided for in 69-8-103 and 69-8-503 .