THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, BROWNE, FONTANA, BRUBAKER, WAUGH, GREENLEAF, YUDICHAK, M. WHITE, FERLO, ERICKSON, ALLOWAY, BOSCOLA AND WOZNIAK, MARCH 22, 2011

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 22, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in municipal authorities, further

providing for purposes and powers.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 5607(d) of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:

§ 5607.  Purposes and powers.

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(d)  Powers.--Every authority may exercise all powers

necessary or convenient for the carrying out of the purposes set

forth in this section, including, but without limiting the

generality of the foregoing, the following rights and powers:

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(34)  To operate as an aggregator or market aggregator,

as those terms are defined in 66 Pa.C.S. § 2803 (relating to

definitions), and to solicit bids from electricity suppliers

for the sole purpose of selling electricity to residents of

the municipality or municipalities that organized the

authority or to any municipality or school district located

wholly or partially within the boundaries of the municipality

or municipalities that organized the authority, provided that

the authority may not require residents to purchase

electricity from the authority.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.