§ 54-22-101 — Title -- Legislative findings.

(1) This chapter is known as the "Stray Current or Voltage Remediation Act."
(2) The Legislature finds that:

(2)(a) to protect livestock and livestock operations, it is necessary and appropriate to establish an actionable level of stray current and voltage that is safely below any level that is capable of harming livestock or adversely affecting the behavior, health, or productivity of livestock;
(2)(b) the efficient, effective, and safe generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical energy by electric entities is critical to the well-being of the citizens and the economy of the state;
(2)(c) permitting an electric entity to face liability based on a level of stray current or voltage that is incapable of adversely affecting livestock seriously threatens the efficient, effective, and safe generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical energy in the state, as well as the continuing viability of economic activity that depends on electrical energy;
(2)(d) to guarantee the sufficient availability of efficient, effective, and safe electrical energy in the state, which requires the continuing operation of electric entities, it is necessary and appropriate for the Legislature to establish a uniform actionable level for an electric entity with respect to stray current and voltage and livestock; and
(2)(e) because the actionable level is set sufficiently below any level that is capable of adversely affecting the behavior, health, or productivity of livestock, any potential of harm to livestock from stray current or voltage below this level is highly remote and unexpected.

Legislative History

Enacted by Chapter 230, 2018 General Session