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GA Code § 46-2-70 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 4 - Allocation of Gas and Electricity to Protect Public Health and Safety|§ 46-2-70. Definitions

 As used in this article, the term:    "Corporation" means any private corporation, municipal corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, or other organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, or a receiver or trustee of any of the foregoing.   "Person" means an individual or a corporation.   "Utility" means any person who supplies, furnishes, or sells a utility service.   "Utility service" means gas or electricity which is supplied, sold, or furnished by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the commission.    (Ga. L. 1972, p. 470, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Implied obligation with respect to character or extent of service by gas company, 21 A.L.R. 671.    Measure and amount of damages for breach of duty to furnish water, gas, light, or power service, 108 A.L.R. 1174.   Landlord supplying electricity, gas, water, or similar facility to tenant as subject to utility regulation, 75 A.L.R.3d 1204.
GA Code § 46-2-72 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 4 - Allocation of Gas and Electricity to Protect Public Health and Safety|§ 46-2-72. Immunity From Liability of Persons Acting in Accordance With Ruling or Order of Commission Entered Pursuant to Code Section 46-2-71

 Any person who supplies, furnishes, sells, limits, withholds, receives, or otherwise acts with respect to any utility service in accordance with a directive, ruling, or order entered by the commission pursuant to the authority granted by Code Section 46-2-71 will not be held liable to any other person by reason thereof in any action at law or in equity.   (Ga. L. 1972, p. 470, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Implied obligation with respect to character or extent of service by gas company, 21 A.L.R. 671.
GA Code § 46-2-93 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Offenses and Penalties|§ 46-2-93. Criminal Penalty; Venue for Actions; Calling of Agents and Employees of Company as Witnesses; Use of Testimony Against Agents and Employees

 Every officer, agent, or employee of any company under the jurisdiction of the commission who violates or procures, aids, or abets any violation by any such company of any provision of this title; or who fails to obey, observe, or comply with any order of the commission; or who aids or abets any such company in its failure to obey, observe, and comply with any such order, direction, or provision, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Such officer, agent, or employee shall be subject to prosecution in any county in which the company or the officer, agent, or employee violates any provision of this title or any provision of any order of the commission, or in any county through which the company operates. Such officer, agent, or employee shall also be subject to prosecution under this title in any county in which a subordinate agent or employee of the company violates any provision of this title, by the approval or direction, or in consequence of the approval or direction, of such officer, agent, or employee; and the agent or employee who locally in any county violates the rules or directions of said commission pursuant to the direction or authority of a superior officer may be called as a witness and be compelled to testify as to the authority by which he acted. Such testimony shall not be used against such subordinate employee or agent, nor shall he thereafter be subject to prosecution for said offense.   (Ga. L. 1907, p. 72, § 13; Civil Code 1910, § 2668; Penal Code 1910, § 527; Code 1933, § 93-9901; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 46.)   Cross references.   - Prohibition against compelled self-incrimination, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XVI.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Penalty provisions apply only after commission order found lawful.    - Where judicial review is timely sought, the penalty provisions of the law apply only to subsequent violations after the order of the commission has been judicially established to be a lawful order. Southern Ry. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 218 Ga. 157, 127 S.E.2d 12 (1962).    Cited in Wight v. Pelham & H.R.R., 18 Ga. App. 195, 89 S.E. 176 (1916); Savannah Elec. Co. v. Lowe, 27 Ga. App. 350, 108 S.E. 313 (1921); Jenkins v. State, 65 Ga. App. 16, 14 S.E.2d 594 (1941); Georgia Power Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 211 Ga. 223, 85 S.E.2d 14 (1954); Gas Light Co. v. Georgia Power Co., 313 F. Supp. 860 (M.D. Ga. 1970).
GA Code § 46-2-94 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Offenses and Penalties|§ 46-2-94. Operation as Household Goods Carrier for Hire Without Having Valid Certificate Prohibited

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2004, p. 366, § 2, effective July 1, 2004.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Code 1981, § 46-2-94, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1640, § 2.
GA Code § 46-2-95 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 2 - Public Service Commission|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Offenses and Penalties|§ 46-2-95. Civil Actions; Standard for Obtaining an Injunction

 The commission may bring a civil action to enjoin the violation of any law administered by the commission or any rule, order, or regulation established by the commission. It shall not be necessary to allege or prove that there is no adequate remedy at law to obtain an injunction under this Code section.    (Code 1981, §46-2-95, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 475, § 5.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2002, p. 475, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as the 'Natural Gas Consumers' Relief Act.'"   Law reviews.   - For note on the 2002 enactment of this chapter, see 19 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 285 (2002).
GA Code § 46-3-70 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 2 - Nonprofit Rural Electrification Membership Corporations|§ 46-3-70.

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 6, effective July 1, 1981.   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 46/HB 737, effective May 3, 2016, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, designated Code Section 46-3-70 as reserved.
GA Code § 46-3-71 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 2 - Nonprofit Rural Electrification Membership Corporations|§ 46-3-71. Through 46-3-97

 Repealed by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 6, effective July 1, 1981.
GA Code § 46-3-110 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-110. Declaration of Necessity

 Whereas certain political subdivisions of this state now own and operate electric distribution systems to serve their citizens, inhabitants, and customers by providing them electricity for all purposes; and whereas, if such political subdivisions are to furnish, and if the members of the public in the areas they serve are to receive, adequate service, such political subdivisions must have adequate, dependable, and economical sources and supplies of bulk electric power; it is declared that there exists in this state a need for an authority to function without profit in developing and promoting for the public good in this state adequate, dependable, and economical sources and supplies of bulk electric power and energy for the purposes expressed in this Code section.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 1.)
GA Code § 46-3-112 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-112. Creation of Authority; Status of Authority as Instrumentality of State; Location of Principal Office and Legal Situs or Residence of Authority

 There is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia, which shall be a public corporation of the State of Georgia and shall have a perpetual existence. This authority, however, shall not be a state institution nor a department or agency of the state but shall be an instrumentality of the state, a mere creature of the state, having distinct corporate entity and being exempt from Article 2 of Chapter 17 of Title 50. The authority shall have its principal office in Fulton County, and its legal situs or residence for the purpose of this article shall be Fulton County.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 2; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1200, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 29 C.J.S., Electricity, § 25.
GA Code § 46-3-114 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-114. Residency Requirements for Authority Members; Ineligibility of Election Committee Representatives for Membership; Eligibility of Members to Succeed Themselves

 Each member of the authority shall be a resident of one of the political subdivisions represented on the election committee, but, insofar as is mathematically possible, no two members shall reside in the same political subdivision. Representatives to the election committee shall not be eligible for membership on the authority. Members shall be eligible to succeed themselves.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-115 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-115. Terms of Authority Members Generally; Time of Meeting of Election Committee Prior to Annual Meeting of Authority

 Upon the expiration of the terms of the first members of the authority, members shall be elected for three-year terms, provided that in the year in which a member's term is to expire, the term shall not expire until the adjournment of the annual meeting for that year and until a successor is elected. The election committee shall meet at a date not more than 30 days prior to each annual meeting of the authority and shall elect members to fill the terms which will expire at the conclusion of such annual meeting.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)   Cross references.   - Annual meeting of authority, § 46-3-121.
GA Code § 46-3-116 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-116. Selection of Additional Representatives to Election Committee by Political Subdivisions Subsequently Contracting With Authority

  Each political subdivision contracting with the authority (other than for short-term purchases) following the election of the first nine members of the authority shall designate a representative to the election committee no more than 30 days following the execution of such contract by and between the authority and such political subdivision. The term of such additional representative shall begin with the next meeting of the election committee.   Representatives to the election committee shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body of the political subdivision which appointed them.    (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-118 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-118. Vacancies on Authority

 Any vacancy in the membership of the authority shall be filled by a new member who shall be elected by the remaining members of the authority and who shall serve until the next meeting of the election committee. At the first meeting of the election committee following the filling of such vacancy, the election committee shall elect a member to fill the remainder, if any, of the unexpired term for which such vacancy was filled. Upon such election by the election committee, the membership on the authority of the member previously elected by the remaining members of the authority to fill such vacancy shall terminate.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-119 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-119. Officers of Authority

 The authority shall elect from its membership a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary-treasurer, and an assistant secretary-treasurer. Such officers shall serve for such terms as shall be prescribed by resolution of the authority or until their successors are elected and qualified.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-120 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-120. Quorum of Authority; Action by Majority Vote; Adjournment of Meetings at Which Less Than a Majority Is Present

 At all meetings of the authority, the presence in person of a majority of the members in office shall be necessary for the transaction of business, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the members then in office shall be necessary for any action of the authority. No vacancy in the membership of the authority shall impair the right of such majority to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the authority. If at any meeting there is less than a majority present, a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting to a fixed time and place, and notice of such time and place shall be given in accordance with subsection (c) of Code Section 46-3-121, provided that if the time element of subsection (c) of Code Section 46-3-121 cannot reasonably be complied with, such notice, if any, of such adjourned meeting shall be given as is reasonably practical.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-121 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-121. Annual Meeting of Authority; Special Meetings; Notice of Meetings; Waiver of Notice; Regular Meetings Other Than Annual Meeting

  The annual meeting of the authority shall be held on the anniversary date of the first meeting of the authority unless the date, time, and place of such annual meeting shall otherwise be fixed by resolution of the authority, provided that any such date so fixed shall be in reasonable proximity to the anniversary date of such first meeting.   Special meetings of the authority may be called by resolution of the authority, by the chairman or vice-chairman, or upon the written request of at least three members of the authority.   Written notice of all meetings shall be delivered to each political subdivision contracting with the authority other than for short-term purchases, and to each member of the authority not less than ten days prior to the date of such meeting in the case of regular meetings and not less than three days in the case of special meetings.   Notice of a meeting of the authority need not be given to any member who signs a waiver of notice either before or after the meeting. Attendance of a member at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting and a waiver of any and all objections to the place or time of the meeting or to the manner in which it has been called or convened, except when a member states at the beginning of the meeting any such objection or objections to the transaction of business. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the authority need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meetings.   In addition to the annual meeting of the authority, regular meetings of the authority may be established by resolution of the authority; and no notice, other than notice of the adoption of such resolution to any member of the authority who was absent when it was adopted, shall be required for such meeting, except for the notice required by subsection (c) of this Code section.    (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 46.)   Editor's notes.   - The first meeting of the authority, as referred to in subsection (a) of this Code section, was held on July 7, 1975.
GA Code § 46-3-122 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-122. Reimbursement of Members for Expenses; Making of Rules and Regulations by Authority; Employment of Staff and Personnel; Designation of Assistant Secretary-Treasurer

 The members of the authority shall not be entitled to compensation for their services but may be reimbursed by the authority for their actual expenses properly incurred in the performance of their duties. The authority shall make rules and regulations for its own government and may retain, employ, and engage all necessary staff and personnel, including professional and technical supervisors, assistants, and experts and other agents and employees, whether temporary or permanent, as it may require. Any one or more of such persons so engaged may be designated as an additional assistant secretary-treasurer of the authority and may be given the duties of keeping the books, records, and minutes of the authority, of giving all notices required by Code Sections 46-3-120, 46-3-121, and 46-3-123, and, in the absence of or in lieu of the secretary-treasurer, performing all other functions of the secretary-treasurer. Officers designated by the authority pursuant to this Code section shall serve at the pleasure of the authority.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-123 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-123. Removal of Authority Members From Office

 The election committee shall have the power to remove from office any member of the authority for cause after written notice and public hearing.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-124 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-124. Books and Records Generally

 The authority shall keep suitable books and records of all its obligations, contracts, transactions, and undertakings; of all income and receipts of every nature; and of all expenditures of every kind.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 4.)
GA Code § 46-3-125 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-125. Purpose of Authority

 The purpose of the authority shall be to acquire or construct, or to acquire and construct, and to operate and maintain, or to cause to be constructed, operated, and maintained, electric generation and transmission facilities. In addition, it shall be the purpose of the authority to take all other necessary or desirable action in order to provide or make available an adequate, dependable, and economical supply of electric power and energy and related services to those political subdivisions of this state identified in Code Section 46-3-130 which may desire the same and, incidentally and so as to take advantage of economies of scale in the generation and transmission of electric power and energy, to other persons and entities.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 29 C.J.S., Electricity, § 25.
GA Code § 46-3-127 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 3 - Electrical Service|Article 3 - Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia|§ 46-3-127. Policy as to Nonprofit Operation of Projects by Authority; Fixing of Rates, Fees, and Charges by Authority

 The authority shall not operate or construct any project for profit except insofar as any such profit will inure to the benefit of the public. The authority shall fix the rates, fees, and charges consistent with this declaration of policy such as will produce revenues only in amounts sufficient, together with all other funds of the authority, to pay principal and interest on bonds and obligations of the authority, to provide for maintenance and operation of the authority and of its projects, and to maintain such reserves as shall have been created in amounts sufficient in the judgment of the authority for the security of the bonds and for the improvement, replacement, or expansion of the facilities or services of the authority or to provide fuel for its generating projects.   (Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 12.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Utilities, § 73 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 29 C.J.S., Electricity, § 34.   ALR.    - Variations of electric utility rates based on quantity used, 67 A.L.R. 821.    Disposition of revenues from operation of revenue-producing enterprise owned by municipal corporation, 103 A.L.R. 579; 165 A.L.R. 854.    Right to cut off supply of electricity or gas because of nonpayment of service bill or charges, 112 A.L.R. 237.   Validity of "fuel adjustment" or similar clauses authorizing electric utility to pass on increased cost of fuel to its customers, 83 A.L.R.3d 933.   Advertising or promotional expenditures of public utility as part of operating expenses for rate-making purposes, 83 A.L.R.3d 963.