Bill Text: MI SB0320 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public utilities; consumer services; notice requirement for utility shutoff; establish. Amends 1939 PA 3 (MCL 460.1 - 460.11) by adding sec. 9d.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-04 - Referred To Committee On Energy Policy And Public Utilities [SB0320 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0320-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 320

 

 

March 4, 2009, Introduced by Senators JACOBS, PRUSI, BRATER, SWITALSKI, OLSHOVE, CLARKE, WHITMER, CHERRY, GLEASON, ANDERSON, HUNTER, BARCIA, SCOTT, CLARK-COLEMAN, KUIPERS, PAPPAGEORGE, BIRKHOLZ, KAHN and JANSEN and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy and Public Utilities.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 3, entitled

 

"An act to provide for the regulation and control of public and

certain private utilities and other services affected with a public

interest within this state; to provide for alternative energy

suppliers; to provide for licensing; to include municipally owned

utilities and other providers of energy under certain provisions of

this act; to create a public service commission and to prescribe

and define its powers and duties; to abolish the Michigan public

utilities commission and to confer the powers and duties vested by

law on the public service commission; to provide for the

continuance, transfer, and completion of certain matters and

proceedings; to abolish automatic adjustment clauses; to prohibit

certain rate increases without notice and hearing; to qualify

residential energy conservation programs permitted under state law

for certain federal exemption; to create a fund; to provide for a

restructuring of the manner in which energy is provided in this

state; to encourage the utilization of resource recovery

facilities; to prohibit certain acts and practices of providers of

energy; to allow for the securitization of stranded costs; to

reduce rates; to provide for appeals; to provide appropriations; to

declare the effect and purpose of this act; to prescribe remedies

and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"

 

(MCL 460.1 to 460.11) by adding section 9d.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 9d. A provider may not shut off electric or natural gas

 

service to a customer who has failed to satisfy an obligation to

 

the provider unless the provider sends notice to the customer by

 

certified mail or personally serves the notice to the customer not

 

less than 15 days before the specified date for shutoff.