69-8-302. Cooperative utility -- customer choice -- education of customers -- continued service. (1) Except as provided in 69-8-311, cooperative utilities shall propose a method for cooperative utility customers to choose an electricity supplier.
     (2) Customer choice may be phased in to promote the orderly transition to a competitive market environment.
     (3) Cooperative utilities shall educate their customers about customer choice so that customers may make an informed choice of an electricity supplier. This education process must give special emphasis to education efforts during the transition period.
     (4) If a cooperative utility customer has not chosen an electricity supplier by the end of the transition period, then the electricity supplier is the cooperative utility that filed the plan or an electricity supplier designated by the cooperative utility.

     History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 505, L. 1997.