Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3138

  • Foreign electric utility: means any entity organized under the laws of a state other than this State, or a province of Canada, that is authorized under the laws of the state or province in which it is organized to generate, transmit or distribute electricity, or to own, operate or otherwise participate in utility facilities or interests in utility facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131
  • Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
  • Utility facility: means an item of plant used or useful in the transmission and distribution utility business, and includes, but is not limited to, such items of plant as transmission lines, office buildings and equipment and transportation equipment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131
    • Notwithstanding Title 14, chapter 719, any domestic transmission and distribution utility or foreign electric utility that acquires or owns a joint or common interest with one or more other utilities or other persons in any property that is used or acquired for use as a utility facility may surrender or waive its right to have a partition by division or partition by sale of the property for a period that does not exceed the period for which the property is used or useful for transmission and distribution utility purposes. [PL 1999, c. 398, Pt. A, §53 (AMD); PL 1999, c. 398, Pt. A, §§104, 105 (AFF).]
    SECTION HISTORY

    PL 1987, c. 141, §A6 (NEW). PL 1999, c. 398, §A53 (AMD). PL 1999, c. 398, §§A104,105 (AFF).
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