Citizens Utility Board Act

The act provides for the creation of a citizens utility board — a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership corporation established to represent the interests of utility consumers — and defines its purpose, formation, membership, and the powers and duties it may exercise. Governance runs through a board of directors, seated at the outset by an interim board appointed under the act, together with board officers, an executive director, and an annual meeting of the membership, and the act imposes accountability requirements on that structure: open public records, financial-interest disclosure by directors, prohibitions on conflicts of interest and corrupt practices, and terms for dissolution. It also addresses the organization's funding through contributions, a prescribed mailing procedure, the liability of public utilities, and preemption of local home-rule authority over the subject.

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