Oklahoma § 17-291 - Definitions
Full text of Oklahoma Oklahoma Statutes § 17-291 — Definitions, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 17-291. Definitions
As used in this act:
1. "Commission" means the Corporation Commission;
2. "Incumbent electric transmission owner" means any Oklahoma
electric public utility, as recognized by the Commission, or its
affiliates, or subsidiaries or any electric cooperative, any
municipal power agency or any municipal utility that owns, operates
and maintains an electric transmission facility in this state or any
public utility, as recognized by the Commission, that is engaged in
the development of an electric transmission facility in the state as
of the effective date of this act;
3. "Local electric transmission facility" means a high-voltage
transmission line or high-voltage associated transmission facilities
with a rating of greater than sixty-nine (69) kilovolts and less
than three hundred (300) kilovolts; and
4. "Southwest Power Pool" means the Southwest Power Pool or any
federally recognized successor entity.
Added by Laws 2013, c. 355, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
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