Current Status Bill Number:4599 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19960213 Primary Sponsor:Herdklotz All Sponsors:Herdklotz, Sandifer, Cain, Rice, Easterday, Haskins, Limehouse, Kirsh, Kelley, Tripp, Rhoad and Fleming Drafted Document Number:bbm\10541jm.96 Companion Bill Number:1161 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee 26 HLCI Subject:Public utility defined
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House 19960213 Introduced, read first time, 26 HLCI
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 58-5-10, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM "PUBLIC UTILITY", SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A CORPORATION OR PERSON FURNISHING STEAM FOR PURPOSES OTHER THEN RESIDENTIAL HOME HEATING SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED A PUBLIC UTILITY BY VIRTUE OF FURNISHING THE STEAM.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 58-5-10(3) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 389 of 1994, is further amended to read:
"(3) The term `public utility' includes every corporation and person delivering natural gas distributed or transported by pipe, and every corporation and person furnishing or supplying in any manner heat (other than by means of electricity), water, sewerage collection, sewerage disposal, and street railway service, or any of them, to the public, or any portion thereof, for compensation; provided, however, that a corporation or person furnishing, supplying, marketing, and/or selling (a) natural gas at the retail level for use as a fuel in self-propelled vehicles or (b) steam for purposes other than residential home heating shall not be considered a public utility by virtue of the furnishing, supplying, marketing, and/or selling of such natural gas or steam; and"
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.