Maryland Statutes
Title 7 - Gas, Electric, and Water Companies
Subtitle 5 - Electric Industry Restructuring

Part I - General Provisions

Section 7-501 - Definitions - (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings...

Section 7-502 - Exemptions for Small Rural Electric Cooperatives - (a) Except as required under subsection (b) of this section,...

Part II - Electric Industry Restructuring Enabled

Section 7-504 - Purpose of Subtitle - The General Assembly finds and declares that the purpose of...

Section 7-505 - Transition to a Restructured Electric Industry - (a) (1) In assessing and approving each electric company’s restructuring...

Section 7-506 - Distribution Services - (a) The electric company in a distribution territory shall provide...

Section 7-507 - Licenses to Supply Electricity - (a) A person, other than an electric company providing standard...

Section 7-508 - Transfer of Assets - (a) An electric company may transfer any of its generation...

Section 7-509 - Electric Company's Authority to Regulate - (a) (1) On and after the initial implementation date, the...

Section 7-510 - Phased Implementation of Customer Choice - (a) (1) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the...

Section 7-510.1 - Customer Education on Customer Choice - (a) The Commission shall educate customers about customer choice in...

Section 7-510.2 - Customer Choice Shopping Website for Electricity Suppliers - (a) The Commission shall establish a customer choice shopping website...

Section 7-510.3 - Community Choice Aggregation Pilot Program -- Actions by County Prior to Initiating the Process -- Filing With Commission -- Notice to Residential and Small Commercial Electric Customers -- Permission to County Inferred -- Automatic... - (a) In this section, “small commercial electric customer” means a...

Section 7-511 - Competitive Billing and Metering - (a) Except for electric cooperatives and municipal electric utilities: (1)...

Section 7-512 - Previously Unregulated Electric Companies - (a) This section and § 7-513 of this subtitle apply...

Section 7-512.1 - Universal Service Program - (a) (1) The Commission shall establish an electric universal service...

Section 7-513 - Transition Costs - (a) (1) In accordance with this subsection, an electric company...

Section 7-514 - Investigations of Anticompetitive Conduct - (a) (1) On complaint or on its own motion, for...

Section 7-515 - Interstate Competition - An electricity supplier that also provides distribution service, or that...

Section 7-516 - Transition Procedures - (a) (1) In recognition of the potential environmental impacts of...

Section 7-517 - Short Title - This subtitle may be referred to as the “Electric Customer...

Part III - Rate Stabilization

Section 7-520 - Definitions - (a) In this part the following words have the meanings...

Section 7-521 - Applicability - This part applies to an electric company that: (1) has...

Section 7-522 - Filing Rate Stabilization Plan - (a) An electric company subject to this part may file...

Section 7-523 - Deferrals - (a) The Commission may require that a deferral of expenses...

Section 7-524 - Tariffs Implementing Rate Stabilization Plan; Application for Qualified Rate Order - (a) Tariffs implementing a rate stabilization plan may provide that:...

Section 7-525 - Recovery of Actual Cost of Deferred Expenses - (a) The Commission may authorize an electric company to recover,...

Section 7-526 - Application for Qualified Rate Order - (a) An electric company may apply to the Commission for...

Section 7-527 - Order to Include Costs and Recovery Time Period - (a) The qualified rate order shall set forth the rate...

Section 7-528 - Effectiveness and Irrevocability; Review - (a) A qualified rate order shall become effective in accordance...

Section 7-529 - Time Limit for Commission's Decision - The Commission shall make a final decision on the issuance...

Section 7-530 - Qualified Rate Stabilization Charges -- Imposition and Collection Are Nonbypassable - A qualified rate order approved by the Commission shall include...

Section 7-531 - Commission to Establish Procedures and Time Frames for Review - The Commission shall establish specific procedures and time frames for...

Section 7-532 - Termination, Expiration, and Extension of Orders - (a) A qualified rate order shall terminate and expire 1...

Section 7-533 - Retiring and Refunding Bonds - (a) At the request of an electric company, the Commission...

Section 7-534 - Modified or Additional Qualified Rate Orders - (a) At the request of an electric company, the Commission...

Section 7-535 - Bond Not Debt, Liability, or Pledge of State or Governmental Unit - (a) A rate stabilization bond issued under this part is...

Section 7-536 - Permissible Provisions of Order - A qualified rate order under this part that authorizes the...

Section 7-537 - Rate Stabilization Property - (a) The rights and interests of an electric company or...

Section 7-538 - Exemption From Taxes and Charges - A transaction that involves the transfer and ownership of rate...

Section 7-539 - Status of Agreement as Sale - (a) An agreement by an electric company or assignee to...

Section 7-540 - Interest of Assignee or Pledgee Not Subject to Setoff, Counterclaim, Surcharge, or Defense; Order Effective Despite Bankruptcy - (a) The interest of an assignee or pledgee in rate...

Section 7-541 - Required Statements in Electric Bills - (a) (1) The electric bill of an electric company that...

Section 7-542 - Liens or Assignments of Rate Stabilization Property - (a) (1) Rate stabilization property does not constitute an account...

Section 7-543 - Successors to Perform and Satisfy Obligations - (a) This section applies to a person that is a...

Section 7-544 - Assignees or Financing Parties Not Considered Public Service Company or Electric Supplier - An assignee or financing party may not be considered to...

Part IV - Rate Stabilization -- Specific Provisions

Section 7-547 - Scope of Part - This part applies to an investor-owned electric company that has...

Section 7-548 - Rate Stabilization Plans and Recovery of Costs - (a) (1) (i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article,...

Section 7-549 - Recovery of Actual Costs of Carrying Costs and Expenses - (a) In this section, “actual cost” means the costs and...