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LD 94 Title Page An Act To Credit Utility Customers with Certain Amounts Paid as Fines LD 94 Title Page
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §1510-A, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 505, §26, is
amended to read:

 
§1510-A. Disposition of administrative penalty

 
Administrative penalties collected by the commission must be
deposited in the Public Utilities Commission Reimbursement Fund
under section 117. When the commission imposes on a public
utility penalties totaling more than $100,000 in a 12-month
period, the commission may, after allocating whatever amount is
appropriate to the Public Utilities Commission Reimbursement Fund
to offset its costs of investigating the utility's misconduct,
require the utility to apply the remainder, along with any
accrued interest, as a credit on the bills of the utility's
customers.__In the month that the credit takes effect, customer
bills must include language identifying the credit on the bill as
"PUC-ordered administrative penalty: customer credit."

 
SUMMARY

 
Currently, all administrative penalties imposed and collected
by the Public Utilities Commission are deposited in the Public
Utilities Commission Reimbursement Fund, where they are used to
defray unbudgeted and incidental commission expenses. Any excess
is forwarded to the General Fund. This bill would permit the
Public Utilities Commission to credit the bills of affected
customers with amounts received as fines, net of expenses, from
penalties in excess of $100,000.


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