Sec. 7. (a) This section applies if:
(1) a municipality adopts a regulatory ordinance before January 1, 2013;
(2) a dispute arises or exists between a utility owned by the municipality and another utility as to which utility provides service to customers that connected to service provided by one (1) of the utilities:
(A) after the date on which the regulatory ordinance was adopted; and
(B) before March 15, 2014; and
(3) the utilities are unable to resolve a dispute described in subdivision (2) through mutual agreement.
(b) Not later than October 1, 2014, a utility shall petition the commission for resolution of the dispute. The petition must be in the form and manner prescribed by the commission. Upon the filing of the petition, the commission shall assume immediate and exclusive jurisdiction over the utilities for purposes of resolving the dispute.
(c) Upon assuming jurisdiction under subsection (b) and after notice and hearing, the commission shall issue an order resolving all issues presented in the petition described in subsection (b), including determining the manner in which the utilities shall provide service to the customers that are the subject of the dispute, in the manner that the commission determines is in the public interest. In making the determination, the commission shall consider the criteria set forth in section 8(g) of this chapter. The commission shall issue the order within three hundred (300) days after the petition described in subsection (b) is filed.
As added by P.L.213-2014, SEC.7.
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