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title: O.C.G.A. § 22-3-160. ‘‘Utility’’ defined.
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# O.C.G.A. § 22-3-160. ‘‘Utility’’ defined.

As used in this article, the term ‘‘utility’’ means a person, corporation, or other entity that generates, transmits, distributes, supplies, or sells electricity for public or private use in this state or generates electricity in this state for transmission or distribution outside this state.

## History

Code 1981, § 22-3-160, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 22/HB 95.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 22, redesignated the former provisions of this Code section as Code Section 22-3-160.1 and enacted the present provisions.