Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 301:62

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
A rural electric cooperative which has filed a certificate of deregulation with the public utilities commission shall not, without prior authorization of the commission, after consent to jurisdiction pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 301:60, notice, and hearing, charge, through its stranded cost recovery charge, delivery services rates, or any other rate or surcharge, any member who does not purchase generation services provided by or acquired through such rural electric cooperative, for any costs of generation services incurred by such rural electric cooperative after retail competition is certified to exist pursuant to N.H. Rev. Stat. § 38:36, except for electric power consumed directly by the rural electric cooperative. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent any member or members from entering contracts of any duration with such rural electric cooperative for the purchase of generation services and being bound by their terms, including damages for termination.