§ 7-604. Consumer protection orders or regulations

   (a) Adoption; goals. -- On or before July 1, 2001, the Commission shall adopt consumer protection orders or regulations for gas suppliers that:

   (1) protect consumers from discriminatory, unfair, deceptive, and anticompetitive acts and practices in the marketing, selling, or distributing of natural gas;

   (2) provide for contracting, enrollment, and billing practices and procedures; and

   (3) the Commission considers necessary to protect the consumer.

(b) Consistency with protections and requirements for electricity. -- In adopting orders and regulations under this section, unless the Commission determines that the circumstances do not require consistency, the Commission shall:

   (1) provide customers with protections consistent with applicable protections provided to retail electric customers; and

   (2) impose appropriate requirements on gas suppliers that are consistent with applicable requirements imposed on electricity suppliers.

HISTORY: 2000, ch. 669, § 2.