Attorney General's Opinion Letter 170-2002
Topics:
Initiative petition.
Initiatives.
Summary conclusion
Review and approval of legal content and form of a summary statement prepared pursuant to Section 116.334, RSMo 2000, regarding an initiative petition proposal to revise Chapter 640 by adding one new section, Section 640.887, Consumer Clean Energy Act.
Contents of letter
December 20, 2002
Honorable Matt Blunt
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Blunt:
On December 18, 2002, you submitted to us a summary statement for the petition submitted by Larry Rice relating to the proposed Consumer Clean Energy Act. The summary statement, prepared pursuant to Section 116.334, RSMo 2000, is as follows:
Shall Missouri statutes be amended so that a customer of a public utility may generate electricity from hydrogen fuel cells, solar cells, wind power generators, biomass generating, or any combination of the same, and sell excess electricity back to the public utility at the same rate the customer is paying the public utility for electricity?
Pursuant to Section 116.334, we approve the legal content and form of the proposed statement. Since our review of the statement is mandated by statute, no action we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition or as the expression of any view regarding the objectives of its proponents.
Sincerely,
JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON
Attorney General