00CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 54(STA)                                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to exclusive service areas for utilities certificated to provide                                       
02 electric utility service and to the definition of `general public' for utilities                                        
03 furnishing electric service."                                                                                           
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  INTENT.  It is the intent of this Act to state the policy only concerning                              
06 service areas for electric utilities.  The amendments made by this Act do not apply to other                            
07 utility services.                                                                                                       
08    * Sec. 2.  AS 42.05.221 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                               
09  (g)  A certificate issued under this section to a public utility providing electric                                   
10 service establishes an exclusive service area for the public utility providing the electric                             
11 service.                                                                                                                
12    * Sec. 3.  AS 42.05.990(3) is amended to read:                                                                       
13   (3)  "public" or "general public" means                                                                              
14   (A)  a group of 10 or more customers that purchase the service                                                      

01 or commodity furnished by a public utility;                                                                             
02   (B)  one or more customers that purchase electrical service for                                                     
03 use within an area that is certificated to [AND PRESENTLY OR FORMERLY                                                   
04 SERVED BY] an electric utility if the total annual compensation that the                                                
05 electrical utility receives for sales of electricity exceeds $50,000; and                                               
06    (C)  a utility purchasing the product or service or paying for the                                                 
07 transmission of electric energy, natural or manufactured gas, or petroleum                                              
08 products that are re-sold to a person or group included in (A) or (B) of this                                           
09 paragraph or that are used to produce the service or commodity sold to the                                              
10 public by the utility;