{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-23-18-103","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 23-18-103","heading":"Purchase of electricity from affiliated company - Definitions","body":"(a) As used in this section: (1) \"Affiliated company\" means any business entity which is owned wholly or partly by an electric utility or which wholly or partly owns an electric utility, or any business entity which is owned by another business entity which wholly or partly owns an electric utility; and (2) \"Electric utility\" means an electric utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Public Service Commission. (b) Without the prior approval of the commission, no electric utility shall enter into any agreement for the purchase of electricity from an affiliated company. (c) Any agreement entered into in violation of this section shall be void. (d) The commission shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement this section. (e) This section shall apply to agreements entered into on or after June 28, 1985. Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2471, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 1985, No. 173, §§ 1-5; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 73-278 -- 73-278.4; Acts 1999, No. 1556, § 7; 2001, No. 324, §§ 3, 4; 2003, No. 204, § 4.\n\n(a) As used in this section: (1) \"Affiliated company\" means any business entity which is owned wholly or partly by an electric utility or which wholly or partly owns an electric utility, or any business entity which is owned by another business entity which wholly or partly owns an electric utility; and (2) \"Electric utility\" means an electric utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Public Service Commission.\n\n(1) \"Affiliated company\" means any business entity which is owned wholly or partly by an electric utility or which wholly or partly owns an electric utility, or any business entity which is owned by another business entity which wholly or partly owns an electric utility; and\n\n(2) \"Electric utility\" means an electric utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Public Service Commission.\n\n(b) Without the prior approval of the commission, no electric utility shall enter into any agreement for the purchase of electricity from an affiliated company.\n\n(c) Any agreement entered into in violation of this section shall be void.\n\n(d) The commission shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to implement this section.\n\n(e) This section shall apply to agreements entered into on or after June 28, 1985.","path":["AR Code","Title 23","Chapter 18","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"c4b2498306e97db3c58bdc2ba252868d5015cde9673464fd99420ea53c88eadb","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-23-18-102","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-23-18-104","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}