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Summary of Question 7

The proposed act would impose a general requirement that every electric utility company charge a uniform rate per kilowatt hour of electricity. The proposed act would except from this general rule rates charged to other electric utility companies and to residential customers who heat their principle place of residence by electricity. The Act would also permit a different rate to be charged residential customers for the first three hundred (300) kilowatt hours they consume each month, and would authorize "peak load" pricing whereby a higher rate than the uniform rate per kilowatt hour may be charged during the periods of the day or seasons of the year when consumption of electricity is the greatest. The Act would authorize the Department of Public Utilities to issue implementing rules and regulations and provides for enforcement.

1976 - Statewide - Question 7Do you approve of a law summarized below, which was disapproved by the House of Representatives on May 3, 1976, by a vote of 182-49, and on which no vote was taken by the Senate before May 5, 1976?

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County Blanks Total Votes Cast
Barnstable More »
 
22,708
46,746
4,859
74,313
Berkshire More »
 
8,455
56,130
5,344
69,929
Bristol More »
 
39,524
137,265
18,416
195,205
Dukes More »
 
2,043
2,678
501
5,222
Essex More »
 
66,888
220,594
20,182
307,664
Franklin More »
 
5,796
23,705
2,168
31,669
Hampden More »
 
32,395
143,697
12,328
188,420
Hampshire More »
 
14,508
43,457
3,000
60,965
Middlesex More »
 
170,246
442,358
41,952
654,556
Nantucket More »
 
878
1,528
257
2,663
Norfolk More »
 
77,041
214,700
16,148
307,889
Plymouth More »
 
41,856
116,805
9,175
167,836
Suffolk More »
 
75,791
124,274
38,449
238,514
Worcester More »
 
50,562
219,085
19,770
289,417
Totals
608,691
1,793,022
192,549 2,594,262