BILL REQ. #: H-1237.1
| State of Washington | 58th Legislature | 2003 Regular Session |
Read first time 02/12/2003. Referred to Committee on Technology, Telecommunications & Energy.
AN ACT Relating to joint operating agencies; and adding a new section to chapter 43.52 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1 A new section is added to chapter 43.52 RCW
to read as follows:
A city or district that is a member of an operating agency may
contract to buy from the operating agency electric power and energy
required for its present or future requirements including the capacity
and output of one or more specified projects. The contract may provide
that the city or district must make the payments required by the
contract whether or not a project is completed, operable, or operating
notwithstanding the suspension, interruption, interference, reduction,
or curtailment of the output of a project or the power and energy
contracted for. The contract may also provide that payments under the
contract are not subject to reduction, whether by offset or otherwise,
and shall not be conditioned upon the performance or nonperformance of
the operating agency or another member of the operating agency under
the contract or other instrument.