SENATE BILL No. 719

 

 

August 31, 2005, Introduced by Senator ALLEN and referred to the Committee on Economic Development, Small Business and Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1972 PA 299, entitled

 

"An act to provide for the assessment, collection and disposition

of the costs of regulation of public utilities,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 460.111), as amended by 1992 PA 36.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Commission" means the public service commission.

 

     (b) "Department" means the department of commerce.

 

     (c) "Public utility" means a steam, heat, electric, power,

 

gas, water, wastewater, telecommunications, telegraph,

 

communications, pipeline, or gas producing company regulated by the

 

commission, whether private, corporate, or cooperative, except a

 

municipally owned utility.