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2018 Georgia Code 46-3-125 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 46 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Section 3. Electrical Service, 46-3-1 through 46-3-541.

ARTICLE 3 MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC AUTHORITY OF GEORGIA

46-3-125. Purpose of authority.

The purpose of the authority shall be to acquire or construct, or to acquire and construct, and to operate and maintain, or to cause to be constructed, operated, and maintained, electric generation and transmission facilities. In addition, it shall be the purpose of the authority to take all other necessary or desirable action in order to provide or make available an adequate, dependable, and economical supply of electric power and energy and related services to those political subdivisions of this state identified in Code Section 46-3-130 which may desire the same and, incidentally and so as to take advantage of economies of scale in the generation and transmission of electric power and energy, to other persons and entities.

(Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 3.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Limitations on authority.

- The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG) Act did not authorize MEAG to apply to the Public Service Commission for a certificate to offer its excess telecommunications capacity to the public for hire. Municipal Elec. Auth. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 241 Ga. App. 237, 525 S.E.2d 399 (1999).

Cited in Thompson v. Municipal Elec. Auth., 238 Ga. 19, 231 S.E.2d 720 (1976); Appling County v. Municipal Elec. Auth., 621 F.2d 1301 (5th Cir. 1980).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 29 C.J.S., Electricity, § 25.

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