FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 201
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CHILDERS.
Pre-filed January 4, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 20, 1999, and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Environment.
Reported from the Committee March 1, 1999, with recommendation that the bill do pass with Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 adopted March 9, 1999.
Taken up March 9, 1999. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S0932.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 91.030, RSMo 1994, relating to municipal owned utilities, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 91.030, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 91.030, to read as follows:
91.030. 1. Any city, town or village in this state, having authority to maintain and operate an electric light and power plant, may procure electric current for that purpose from any other city, owning and operating such plant, and to that end may enter into a contract therefor with such city having such plant.
2. Any city, town or village in this state, shall have the authority to maintain and operate a gas distribution system and may procure gas for that purpose from any source including but not limited to any gas corporation, supplier, pipeline, transportation company, distribution system, city, town or village, and to that end may enter into a contract with such gas corporation, supplier, pipeline, transportation company, gas distribution system, city, town or village to obtain such gas for resale.
3. Any city, town or village in this state, having authority to maintain and operate a gas distribution system may sell gas to non-residents of such city, town or village, unless said non-resident is already being supplied gas from an existing gas utility or city, town or village at the time of entry into the marketplace by the municipal gas distribution system. Distribution to non-residents under this section shall be considered a proprietary function.