69-3-1403. Customer choice. (1) A natural gas utility may voluntarily offer its customers choice of natural gas supplier and provide open access to its transmission facilities, storage facilities, or distribution facilities.
(2) If a customer choice offering results in transition costs, the commission may allow those transition costs to be recovered in separate identifiable charges to customers. Upon commission approval, the natural gas utility must have the opportunity but not the obligation to finance the fixed transition costs and related financing costs using transition cost financing as provided for in 69-8-103 and 69-8-503.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 506, L. 1997.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 69. Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 3. Regulation of Utilities
Part 14. Natural Gas Utility Restructuring and Customer Choice Act
69-3-1404. Functional separation -- code of conduct -- emergency services -- customer protection
69-3-1405. Licensing -- procedures -- commission rulemaking
69-3-1407. Optional performance-based ratemaking for natural gas utilities -- commission rulemaking
69-3-1408. Universal system benefits programs -- establishing nonbypassable rate -- exemption
69-3-1410. through 69-3-1412 reserved
69-3-1413. Statement of purpose
69-3-1414. Acquisition of rate-based facilities
69-3-1415. Application and approval of natural gas production and gathering resources
69-3-1416. Use of natural gas production and gathering resources