Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4136 – Rules and rates
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1. Rules. The agency may make and enforce rules consistent with the purpose of this chapter.
[PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4136
- Agency: means the Maine Municipal and Rural Electrification Cooperative Agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Project: means any plant, works, system or facilities inside or outside the State, and real and personal property of any nature or any interest in any of them, together with all parts of them and appurtenances to them, used or useful in the generation, production, transmission, distribution, purchase, sale, exchange or interchange of electricity and in the acquisition, extraction, conversion, transportation or storage or reprocessing of fuel of any kind for any purposes or an interest in, or the right to the use, services, output or capacity of a plant quota, works, system or facilities; provided that "project" does not include construction of nuclear generating facilities or the storage, reprocessing or transportation of nuclear fuel within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
2. Rates. The agency may establish, levy and collect or may authorize by contract, franchise, lease or otherwise, the establishment, levying and collection of rents, rates and other charge:
A. For the services afforded by the agency or afforded by or in connection with any project or properties which it may construct, erect, acquire, own, operate or control or with respect to which it may have any interest or any right to capacity; and [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
B. For the sale of electricity or of generation or transmission capacity or service as it determines necessary, proper, desirable and reasonable. [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
Rents, rates and other charges shall be at least sufficient to meet the expenses of the agency, including operating and maintenance expenses, reasonable reserves, interest and principal payments, including payments into one or more sinking funds for the retirement of principal, and other requirements of any trust agreement or resolution and any additional amounts which must be realized in order to meet the requirements of any rate covenant imposed by any resolution or trust agreement authorizing and securing bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness. The agency may pledge its rates, rents and other revenues, or any part of them, as security for the repayment, with interest and redemption premiums, if any, of any money borrowed by it or advanced to it for any of its authorized purposes and as security for the payment of amounts due and owed by it under any contract.
[PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1987, c. 141, §A6 (NEW). PL 1991, c. 855, §§1,2 (AFF).