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18-15-501. Right-of-way construed.
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18-15-501. Right-of-way construed.
The right-of-way provided for under this section and §§ 18-15-502 — 18-15-509 shall be construed to include all lands necessary for dams and the backwater resulting therefrom, levees, approaches, abutments, canals, reservoirs, powerhouses, and other purposes incident to the business of generating, transmitting, distributing, or supplying electricity to or for the public for compensation or for public use by an electric utility, as defined in § 18-15-512.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-15-501
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18-15-501. Right-of-way construed.
The right-of-way provided for under this section and §§ 18-15-502 — 18-15-509 shall be construed to include all lands necessary for dams and the backwater resulting therefrom, levees, approaches, abutments, canals, reservoirs, powerhouses, and other purposes incident to the business of generating, transmitting, distributing, or supplying electricity to or for the public for compensation or for public use by an electric utility, as defined in § 18-15-512.
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18-15-502. Exception.
No action to condemn the right-of-way over, upon, or along any street or alley in any city or incorporated town shall be instituted or maintained by an electric utility as against any city or incorporated town.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-15-502
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 18-15-502. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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18-15-509. Destruction or injury to company property.
A person who destroys or injures the wire, cable, pole, dam, reservoir, canal, power house, machinery, or appliances therein of the electric utility is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than ten (10) days nor more than six (6) months.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-15-509
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 18-15-509. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
18-15-512. Definition of “electric utility”.
(a)(1) As used in this subchapter, “electric utility” means a public utility, as defined in § 23-1-101, that owns or operates for compensation in this state equipment or facilities for producing, generating, transmitting, distributing, selling, or furnishing electricity or another agent for the production of light or electric power to or for the public in this state.
(2) “Electric utility” does not include:
(A) An exempt wholesale generator as defined in § 23-1-101;
(B) Any person not otherwise an electric utility or a business unit of an electric utility that:
(i) Is a power broker who acts as an agent or intermediary on behalf of another person for the purpose of facilitating the sale or purchase of electricity;
(ii) Is a power marketer who acquires, purchases, or generates electric energy on its own behalf with the intent of reselling the electric energy to another person at wholesale;
(iii) Is a qualifying facility that is a cogeneration or small power production facility entitled to the rights and privileges of a qualifying facility under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, 16 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; or
(iv) Is a municipal corporation owning a municipal electric utility; or
(C) An independent transmission system operator, independent transmission company, independent regional transmission group, or other independent transmission entity operating transmission facilities in this state as an independent transmission company, an independent regional transmission group, or other independent transmission entity that is not a public utility, as defined in § 23-1-101.
(b) As used in this section, “person” means an individual or entity, including without limitation a partnership, corporation, co
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 18-15-512
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 18-15-512. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.