§ 117-3. Authority not granted power to fix rates or order line extensions; right of suggestion and petition. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 117‑3.  Authoritynot granted power to fix rates or order line extensions; right of suggestionand petition.

The Authority itself shall not be a rate‑making body, and shallhave no power to fix the rates or service charges, or to order the extension oflines by the power companies. The function of making rates and service chargesand orders for the extension of lines shall remain in the Utilities Commissionof North Carolina, and the Authority shall only have the right of suggestionand petition to the Utilities Commission of its opinion as to the proper ratesand service charges and line extensions, and no rate recommended or suggestedby the Authority shall be effective until approved by the Utilities Commission:Provided, that if the Utilities Commission of North Carolina does not have theright under the existing law to fix service charges in addition to the ratesprescribed for electrical energy, and the power to order line extensions, suchpower and authority is hereby granted the Utilities Commission of NorthCarolina to fix and promulgate service charges in addition to rates in anycommunity which avails itself of this Article, and form a corporationauthorized hereunder to be known as electric membership corporation, and toorder line extensions when it shall determine that the same is proper andfeasible. (1935, c. 288, s.3.)