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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 66-1,174

  • Certified territory: means an electric service territory certified to a retail electric supplier pursuant to this act. See Kansas Statutes 66-1,170
  • Commission: means the state corporation commission. See Kansas Statutes 66-101a
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Public utility: means a public utility as defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 66-118a
  • Retail electric supplier: means any person, firm, corporation, municipality, association or cooperative corporation engaged in the furnishing of retail electric service. See Kansas Statutes 66-1,170

Except as provided by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 66-104f, and amendments thereto, a municipally owned or operated retail electric supplier shall be subject to commission jurisdiction as a public utility, as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 66-104, and amendments thereto, with respect to all operations within its certified territory extending more than three miles beyond its corporate limits. A municipal retail electric supplier shall be subject to regulation by the commission in matters relating to the right to serve in the territory within three miles of the corporate city boundary, except that the commission shall have no jurisdiction concerning such retail electric supplier within its corporate limits.