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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 4. ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATIONS AND FOREIGN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES · Part 2. CORPORATE PURPOSES AND POWERS

46-3-200. Purposes of electric membership corporations.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. An electric membership corporation may serve any one or more of the following purposes:

  2. (1)

    Furnish electrical energy and service;#

  3. (2)

    Assist its members in the efficient and economical use of energy;#

  4. (3)

    Engage in research and promote and develop energy conservation and sources and methods of conserving, producing, converting, and delivering energy;#

  5. (4)

    Provide and operate broadband facilities and provide and use the broadband services described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (8.1) of Code Section 46-3-171;#

  6. (5)

    Furnish on a nondiscriminatory basis the broadband services described in subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (8.1) of Code Section 46-3-171;#

  7. (6)

    Form, fund, support, and operate a broadband affiliate, directly or indirectly, contingent upon compliance with Code Sections 46-5-163 and 46-3-200.2; and#

  8. (7)

    Engage in any lawful act or activity necessary or convenient to effect the foregoing purposes.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1937, p. 644, § 3; Code 1933, § 34C-201, enacted by Ga. L. 1981, p. 1587, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 226, § 2/SB 2.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, pages 249 to 250; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.