| *Sec. 11. Directors to establish rates. All individuals, partnerships, |
firms and corporations, whether private, public or municipal, |
shall pay the rate established by the board of directors for the |
electricity and natural gas used by them, and the rates for |
electricity and natural gas so supplied shall must be uniform |
within the territory supplied by the electric works wherever the |
installation and maintenance of transmission lines and apparatus |
for distribution of electric power and pipelines, mains and |
apparatus for distribution of natural gas and the cost of |
services is substantially uniform, but nothing in this Act shall |
preclude said precludes those directors, with the approval of the |
Public Utilities Commission, from establishing higher rates than |
the regular rates in sections where, for any reason, the cost of |
construction and maintenance or the cost of service exceeds the |
average, but such higher rates shall must be uniform throughout |
the section where they apply. All rates shall be are subject to |
the approval of the Public Utilities Commission and shall must be |
so established as to provide revenue for the following purposes: |