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Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A. Public Utilities § 4709. Natural gas unbundling

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

1. Commission rulemaking. In order to foster the unbundling of natural gas services and the development of a competitive natural gas supply market in the State, the commission shall consider the need for and may adopt rules in the following areas:

A. The need to license gas marketers;

B. The need for a code of conduct governing the relationship between a gas utility and an affiliated gas marketer to prevent the affiliated gas marketer's exercise of market power and to ensure fair competition among all gas marketers;

C. The need for regulations to protect consumers from abusive practices by gas marketers; and

D. Any other subject of natural gas unbundling that requires additional regulation.

2. Major substantive rules. Rules adopted under this section are major substantive rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A.  1

1 5 M.R.S.A. § 8071 et seq.
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