12-8,111.   Certificates of public convenience for municipal energy agencies;jurisdiction of corporation commission.(a) The provisions of K.S.A. 12-885 to 12-8,109, inclusive, and any provisionsamendatory or supplemental thereto, shall constitute a certificate of publicconvenience, and any municipal energy agency is authorized to operate asa public utility pursuant to such provisions without obtaining a certificatedescribed in K.S.A. 66-131 or any amendments thereto.

      (b)   Except with respect to such certificate described in subsection (a),any municipal energy agency created under the provisions of K.S.A.12-885 to 12-8,109, inclusive, and any provisions amendatory or supplementalthereto, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the state corporation commissionin the same manner as a public utility.

      History:   L. 1981, ch. 255, § 2; April 25.