PRINTER'S NO. 644

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 576 Session of 1983


        INTRODUCED BY PHILLIPS, ZWIKL, NOYE, SHOWERS, PITTS, MANMILLER,
           GEIST, CIMINI, WASS, BELFANTI, JOHNSON, CLYMER, REBER,
           PERZEL, MERRY AND E. Z. TAYLOR, MARCH 23, 1983

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, MARCH 23, 1983

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the metering of
     3     electricity supplied to churches and other places of worship
     4     and volunteer fire companies.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     8  Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
     9  § 1510.  Metering of electricity supplied to places of worship
    10             and volunteer fire companies.
    11     A public utility supplying electricity to a church or other
    12  actual place of worship and volunteer fire companies shall
    13  measure the consumption of electricity supplied thereto by the
    14  same method that electricity to residential customers is
    15  measured.
    16     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.


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