PRINTER'S NO. 1245
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1189
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY GILLESPIE, BROOKS, JAMES, HILL-EVANS, MILLARD,
CIRESI, ZIMMERMAN AND WHEELAND, APRIL 15, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 15, 2021
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 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 5607. Purposes and powers.
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(h) Specific provisions for resource recovery facilities.--
(1) An electric distribution company shall purchase from
an authority that owns, leases or is a party to an agreement
whereby a third party operates a facility for generating
surplus electric power under subsection (a)(7) or (12), or
other similar resource recovery facility that is not owned,
operated or leased by the authority but which receives refuse
material from the authority, as authorized by subsection (a)
(7), or municipality, through an agreement effective as of
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