A municipality owning and operating an electric utility shall charge only the person receiving the electric service. Charges shall not be limited to measurement by kilowatt or the kilowatt hour. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale by a municipality of surplus electric power and energy derived from its generating facility or its interest in a jointly owned generating facility.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-23-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1979, ch. 260, § 5; 1999, ch. 70, § 1.
Cross references. — For charge for service becomes a lien against property served, see 3-23-6 NMSA 1978.
For municipal liens, see 3-36-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, deleted "which shall be measured by the kilowatt or the kilowatt-hour" from the end of the first sentence and added the second sentence.
This section controls the general provisions of 3-23-6 NMSA 1978 and is not irreconcilable with it. 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-18.
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