Montana Code 69-3-1406. Reciprocity
69-3-1406. Reciprocity. (1) All natural gas suppliers are afforded the comparable opportunity to compete.
Terms Used In Montana Code 69-3-1406
- Customer: means a natural gas customer or consumer of natural gas supply or natural gas transmission facilities, storage facilities, or distribution facilities. See Montana Code 69-3-1402
- Distribution facilities: means those facilities that are not transmission facilities:
(a)by and through which natural gas is received from a transmission services provider and transmitted to the customer; and
(b)operated by a distribution services provider. See Montana Code 69-3-1402
- Distribution services provider: means a person controlling or operating distribution facilities for distribution of natural gas to the public. See Montana Code 69-3-1402
- Open access: means that a natural gas utility has made its transmission facilities, storage facilities, or distribution facilities available to all natural gas suppliers, transmission services providers, distribution services providers, and customers on a nondiscriminatory and comparable basis. See Montana Code 69-3-1402
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(2)A natural gas distribution services provider or its affiliates may not use another natural gas distribution services provider’s facilities in the state of Montana to sell natural gas to customers in the state of Montana unless the natural gas distribution services provider or its affiliates offer customer choice and open access to their natural gas distribution facilities.