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§2627 Relationship to State Law

Title 16 › Chapter 46— PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES › Subchapter II— STANDARDS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES › § 2627

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Prevents a utility from using this chapter to collect more or less money, or to get a different rate of return, than other laws say is lawful. It also lets a State regulator or a nonregulated utility adopt state rules that are different from the standards in this subchapter. If an electric utility is a Federal agency, or if the Tennessee Valley Authority is treated as a State regulator under section 2602(17), then any mention of "State law" in sections 2621 or 2623 must be read as "Federal law."

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Title 16, §2627

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(a)Nothing in this chapter shall authorize or require the recovery by an electric utility of revenues, or of a rate of return, in excess of, or less than, the amount of revenues or the rate of return determined to be lawful under any other provision of law.
(b)Nothing in this chapter prohibits any State regulatory authority or nonregulated electric utility from adopting, pursuant to State law, any standard or rule affecting electric utilities which is different from any standard established by this subchapter.
(c)With respect to any electric utility which is a Federal agency, and with respect to the Tennessee Valley Authority when it is treated as a State regulatory authority as provided in section 2602(17) of this title, any reference in section 2621 or 2623 of this title to State law shall be treated as a reference to Federal law.

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This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this title”, meaning title I (§ 101 et seq.) of Pub. L. 95–617, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3120, which enacted subchapters I to IV of this chapter and section 6808 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and amended sections 6802 to 6807 of Title 42. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.

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16 U.S.C. § 2627

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60