PRINTER'S NO. 2243
No. 1507 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, FONTANA, ORIE, EARLL, KITCHEN, BOSCOLA,
WAUGH, WOZNIAK, O'PAKE, GREENLEAF, RHOADES, C. WILLIAMS AND
STACK, JUNE 25, 2008
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 25, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in municipal authorities, further
3 providing for purposes and powers.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5607(d) of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
8 § 5607. Purposes and powers.
9 * * *
10 (d) Powers.--Every authority may exercise all powers
11 necessary or convenient for the carrying out of the purposes set
12 forth in this section, including, but without limiting the
13 generality of the foregoing, the following rights and powers:
14 * * *
15 (34) To operate as an aggregator or market aggregator,
16 as those terms are defined in 66 Pa.C.S. § 2803 (relating to
17 definitions), and to solicit bids from electricity suppliers
18 for the sole purpose of selling electricity to residents of
1 the municipality or municipalities that organized the
2 authority or to any municipality or school district located
3 wholly or partially within the boundaries of the municipality
4 or municipalities that organized the authority, provided that
5 the authority may not require residents to purchase
6 electricity from the authority.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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