Florida Statutes 361.13 – Powers
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 361.13
- Electric utility: means any municipality, authority, commission, or other public body, investor-owned electric utility, or rural electric cooperative which owns, maintains, or operates an electrical energy generation, transmission, or distribution system within the state on June 25, 1975. See Florida Statutes 361.11
- Foreign public utility: means any person, as defined in subsection (3), the principal location or principal place of business of which is not located within this state, which owns, maintains, or operates facilities for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electrical energy and which supplies electricity to retail or wholesale customers, or both, on a continuous, reliable, and dependable basis; or any affiliate or subsidiary of such person, the business of which is limited to the generation or transmission, or both, of electrical energy and activities reasonably incidental thereto. See Florida Statutes 361.11
- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Project: means a joint electric power supply project and any and all facilities, including all equipment, structures, machinery, and tangible and intangible property, real and personal, for the joint generation or transmission of electrical energy, or both, including any fuel supply or source useful for such a project. See Florida Statutes 361.11
Any electric utility, or any organization, association, or separate legal entity whose membership shall consist only of electric utilities, participating in an agreement to implement a project has the following additional powers as they may relate to the project:
(1) To plan, finance, acquire, construct, purchase, operate, maintain, use, share the cost of, own, lease, sell, or dispose of any project or projects within or without the state.
(2) To exercise the power of eminent domain, except to acquire the generating, transmission, or distribution facilities of any other electric utility or foreign public utility.
(3) To purchase capacity or energy, or both, in any quantity agreed upon in the joint power agreement from any project in which the purchaser has an ownership interest.