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Sponsor: Multi Man, MP
Type: Act of Parliament
Preamble: The recent update to Minetorio, while presently temporarily reverted, will ultimately cause pollution to be much harder to manage as we currently do. We must pursue a clean energy agenda through a public utility, building public power and pipeline networks that will help provide for low-pollution energy sources and while promoting continued growth of industry.
1. Short Title and Enactment
(a) This Act is called the "Public Utility Empowerment Act".
(b) This Act takes effect immediately upon Royal Assent.
2. Definitions
(a) The "Free District" means the Free District of Salmonberry, which is District 2.
(b) The "Company" means the Salmonberry Power Company established by the Salmonberry Public Utility Ordinance, using the in-game business name SalmonberryElectric.
(c) A "public utility company" is formed to provide utility services and is wholly or partly owned or controlled by a territorial district, directly or through another entity.
(d) "Utility services" means Minetorio power, pipeline, and pollution control services. These cover electricity and steam for Minetorio machinery, industrial wastewater from that machinery, and public pipelines carrying oil, fresh water, and other fluids used or produced in Minetorio.
(e) A "territorial district" is a geographic district on the current electoral map, counted once. At-large districts are excluded.
(f) An "industrial plot" is an "I" plot or another plot designated for industrial use by the Ministry of Urban Development.
(g) A "power generation facility" is a plant, generator, or other equipment whose function is to generate electricity or steam. Equipment used only for storage, transmission, or distribution is network infrastructure.
(h) The "public sewer" is the existing public industrial wastewater pipeline in the Azalea Isles, including its public connecting pipes, discharge points, and attached Minetorio equipment used to carry or discharge the wastewater. It includes later public extensions and replacements. Customer-owned pipes and equipment remain customer property.
3. Public Utility Companies
(a) Among the territorial districts, the Free District alone may establish, own, or control public utility companies, directly or through another entity.
(b) The Company is a public utility with its own legal identity. The Free District must retain full ownership of it. The Company may own property, enter contracts, and start or defend legal proceedings in its own name. Notwithstanding any provisions of other law, liability of the Company is limited to the Company and shall not extend to the Free District, nor to the Azalea Isles as a whole.
(c) The Free District may set the Company's structure, management, and policies by local ordinance or mayoral order. The Mayor may appoint or remove managers and must use a mayoral order to delegate management or change or end a delegation. All changes to management delegations must be recorded in mayoral orders.
4. Utility Services and Works
(a) The Company may provide utility services and undertake new projects throughout the Azalea Isles, including outside the territorial districts and beyond the projects in its establishing ordinance.
(b) For those purposes, the Company may:
(c) The Company may set and collect fees for supply, use, connections, capacity, installation, maintenance, and other utility services. It may publish service terms and technical standards, approve or deny applications for connections, and suspend or end service under those terms.
(d) The Company may receive grants and other funding, keep and invest revenue, set aside reserves, and return surplus funds to the Free District. It may borrow or issue bonds with the Mayor's prior written approval.
(e) This Act authorizes Company projects in place of district approval under section 3(j) of the Local Representation Act. The Company must obtain the land rights and national plot creation, zoning, construction, environmental, and safety approvals required for each project.
(f) The Company has the right to use public land owned by the national government or a territorial district, including public roads and the space below them, for Minetorio power poles and their electrical connections. This shall be treated as an easement on public land.
5. Location of Industry and Power Generation
(a) Whenever five or fewer territorial districts are drawn under the electoral map in force:
(b) During that period, the Ministry of Urban Development must keep industrial plots wholly within the Free District when creating, designating, expanding, or maintaining them. It must keep plot records current and order industrial use to stop on any plot wholly or partly outside the Free District until the plot meets paragraph (a) or its industrial designation and use are lawfully ended.
(c) During that period, the Company must locate any generation facility it builds or acquires wholly within the Free District. It must take any facility covered by paragraph (a)(ii) that lies wholly or partly outside the Free District out of service and restore compliance by moving or removing it, or ending its ownership, lease, and operation of it.
(d) These location rules apply directly under national law and remain binding when a borough zoning exception is granted.
(e) Power poles, steam pipes, sewer pipes, other public pipelines, customer connections, and other distribution or transmission infrastructure owned by the Company may extend and be placed throughout the whole Azalea Isles.
6. Transfer of the Public Sewer
(a) When this Act takes effect, the Free District takes ownership and control of the entire public sewer across the Azalea Isles and becomes responsible for operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, and improving it. Later public extensions and replacements become the Free District's property as they are built or acquired.
(b) Existing sewer access and use rights held by public bodies transfer to the Free District under their current terms. The Free District may use those rights through its staff or appointed utility company. National ministries and other public bodies must hand over the related records, equipment, keys, and access permissions and update their ownership and management records within seven days after this Act takes effect.
(c) Existing lawful customer connections and agreements continue.
7. Sewer Management
(a) The Mayor may, for the Free District, delegate all or part of public sewer management to a public utility company the Free District owns or controls, including the Company. This may cover operation, maintenance, repairs, expansion, connection applications, service standards, fees, payment collection, and contracts.
(b) The Mayor must use a mayoral order to make, change, or end a delegation and may do so at any time. The order must name the company, set out its work and powers, and state when it takes effect. The Free District remains responsible for the sewer.
(c) The Free District or its appointed utility company may set and publish sewer connection and usage fees, material requirements, connection limits, and technical and service conditions. These conditions may cover accepting or refusing connections and suspending or ending service.
(d) The existing $50 installation fee, applicant-supplied material requirement, and limit of two connections per plot apply until new conditions are published. Existing applications remain valid and must be passed to the Free District or its appointed utility company for a decision.
(e) Sewer fees and receipts belong to the Free District. It may allow its appointed utility company to collect, keep, and use them for sewer and other utility services.
8. Amendments
(a) The Local Representation Act is amended as follows:
(b) Section 6(a)(i) of the Governing Structure Act is amended as follows:
(c) Section 4 of the Property Services Act is amended as follows:
(d) The Integrated Property Regulation Act is amended as follows:
Enactment: This Act takes effect immediately upon Royal Assent.
Type: Act of Parliament
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EMPOWER AN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY THROUGHOUT THE AZALEA ISLES
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EMPOWER AN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY THROUGHOUT THE AZALEA ISLES
Preamble: The recent update to Minetorio, while presently temporarily reverted, will ultimately cause pollution to be much harder to manage as we currently do. We must pursue a clean energy agenda through a public utility, building public power and pipeline networks that will help provide for low-pollution energy sources and while promoting continued growth of industry.
1. Short Title and Enactment
(a) This Act is called the "Public Utility Empowerment Act".
(b) This Act takes effect immediately upon Royal Assent.
2. Definitions
(a) The "Free District" means the Free District of Salmonberry, which is District 2.
(b) The "Company" means the Salmonberry Power Company established by the Salmonberry Public Utility Ordinance, using the in-game business name SalmonberryElectric.
(c) A "public utility company" is formed to provide utility services and is wholly or partly owned or controlled by a territorial district, directly or through another entity.
(d) "Utility services" means Minetorio power, pipeline, and pollution control services. These cover electricity and steam for Minetorio machinery, industrial wastewater from that machinery, and public pipelines carrying oil, fresh water, and other fluids used or produced in Minetorio.
(e) A "territorial district" is a geographic district on the current electoral map, counted once. At-large districts are excluded.
(f) An "industrial plot" is an "I" plot or another plot designated for industrial use by the Ministry of Urban Development.
(g) A "power generation facility" is a plant, generator, or other equipment whose function is to generate electricity or steam. Equipment used only for storage, transmission, or distribution is network infrastructure.
(h) The "public sewer" is the existing public industrial wastewater pipeline in the Azalea Isles, including its public connecting pipes, discharge points, and attached Minetorio equipment used to carry or discharge the wastewater. It includes later public extensions and replacements. Customer-owned pipes and equipment remain customer property.
3. Public Utility Companies
(a) Among the territorial districts, the Free District alone may establish, own, or control public utility companies, directly or through another entity.
(b) The Company is a public utility with its own legal identity. The Free District must retain full ownership of it. The Company may own property, enter contracts, and start or defend legal proceedings in its own name. Notwithstanding any provisions of other law, liability of the Company is limited to the Company and shall not extend to the Free District, nor to the Azalea Isles as a whole.
(c) The Free District may set the Company's structure, management, and policies by local ordinance or mayoral order. The Mayor may appoint or remove managers and must use a mayoral order to delegate management or change or end a delegation. All changes to management delegations must be recorded in mayoral orders.
4. Utility Services and Works
(a) The Company may provide utility services and undertake new projects throughout the Azalea Isles, including outside the territorial districts and beyond the projects in its establishing ordinance.
(b) For those purposes, the Company may:
(i) Plan, design, build, obtain, own, and operate utility facilities, pipeline and electrical networks, and equipment, including buying, renting, installing, inspecting, maintaining, repairing, replacing, moving, expanding, and removing them;
(ii) Generate, buy, store, supply, distribute, and sell electricity and steam, and obtain fuel and materials for the provision of those services;
(iii) Carry and dispose of industrial wastewater through public pipelines, and use Minetorio equipment to reduce pollution;
(iv) Provide public pipelines for oil, fresh water, and other fluids used or produced in Minetorio, and buy, store, carry, supply, and sell those fluids through the pipeline networks;
(v) Obtain and use land, equipment, materials, access rights, and other property;
(vi) Hire staff and contractors, buy goods and services, and make agreements with districts, other public bodies, businesses, and customers; and
(vii) Carry out other work needed or useful to develop, fund, provide, or improve utility services.
(c) The Company may set and collect fees for supply, use, connections, capacity, installation, maintenance, and other utility services. It may publish service terms and technical standards, approve or deny applications for connections, and suspend or end service under those terms.
(d) The Company may receive grants and other funding, keep and invest revenue, set aside reserves, and return surplus funds to the Free District. It may borrow or issue bonds with the Mayor's prior written approval.
(e) This Act authorizes Company projects in place of district approval under section 3(j) of the Local Representation Act. The Company must obtain the land rights and national plot creation, zoning, construction, environmental, and safety approvals required for each project.
(f) The Company has the right to use public land owned by the national government or a territorial district, including public roads and the space below them, for Minetorio power poles and their electrical connections. This shall be treated as an easement on public land.
5. Location of Industry and Power Generation
(a) Whenever five or fewer territorial districts are drawn under the electoral map in force:
(i) Every industrial plot in the Azalea Isles, regardless of its owner or operator, must lie wholly within the Free District; and
(ii) Every power generation facility owned, leased, or operated by the Company, including a facility operated on its behalf, must be located wholly within the Free District.
(b) During that period, the Ministry of Urban Development must keep industrial plots wholly within the Free District when creating, designating, expanding, or maintaining them. It must keep plot records current and order industrial use to stop on any plot wholly or partly outside the Free District until the plot meets paragraph (a) or its industrial designation and use are lawfully ended.
(c) During that period, the Company must locate any generation facility it builds or acquires wholly within the Free District. It must take any facility covered by paragraph (a)(ii) that lies wholly or partly outside the Free District out of service and restore compliance by moving or removing it, or ending its ownership, lease, and operation of it.
(d) These location rules apply directly under national law and remain binding when a borough zoning exception is granted.
(e) Power poles, steam pipes, sewer pipes, other public pipelines, customer connections, and other distribution or transmission infrastructure owned by the Company may extend and be placed throughout the whole Azalea Isles.
6. Transfer of the Public Sewer
(a) When this Act takes effect, the Free District takes ownership and control of the entire public sewer across the Azalea Isles and becomes responsible for operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, and improving it. Later public extensions and replacements become the Free District's property as they are built or acquired.
(b) Existing sewer access and use rights held by public bodies transfer to the Free District under their current terms. The Free District may use those rights through its staff or appointed utility company. National ministries and other public bodies must hand over the related records, equipment, keys, and access permissions and update their ownership and management records within seven days after this Act takes effect.
(c) Existing lawful customer connections and agreements continue.
7. Sewer Management
(a) The Mayor may, for the Free District, delegate all or part of public sewer management to a public utility company the Free District owns or controls, including the Company. This may cover operation, maintenance, repairs, expansion, connection applications, service standards, fees, payment collection, and contracts.
(b) The Mayor must use a mayoral order to make, change, or end a delegation and may do so at any time. The order must name the company, set out its work and powers, and state when it takes effect. The Free District remains responsible for the sewer.
(c) The Free District or its appointed utility company may set and publish sewer connection and usage fees, material requirements, connection limits, and technical and service conditions. These conditions may cover accepting or refusing connections and suspending or ending service.
(d) The existing $50 installation fee, applicant-supplied material requirement, and limit of two connections per plot apply until new conditions are published. Existing applications remain valid and must be passed to the Free District or its appointed utility company for a decision.
(e) Sewer fees and receipts belong to the Free District. It may allow its appointed utility company to collect, keep, and use them for sewer and other utility services.
8. Amendments
(a) The Local Representation Act is amended as follows:
(i) After section 3(j)(i), insert:
(ii) After section 3(r)(i), insert:
(iii) At the end of section 9(a), add:
(b) Section 6(a)(i) of the Governing Structure Act is amended as follows:
(c) Section 4 of the Property Services Act is amended as follows:
(d) The Integrated Property Regulation Act is amended as follows:
(i) After section 6(c), insert:
(ii) After section 16(f), insert:
Enactment: This Act takes effect immediately upon Royal Assent.
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