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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 - Berkshire County - 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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City/Town Ward Pct Blanks Total Votes Cast
Totals
8,455
56,130
5,344 69,929
Adams
 
624
4,811
315
5,750
Alford
 
40
177
9
226
Becket
 
89
343
58
490
Cheshire
 
153
1,409
63
1,625
Clarksburg
 
66
810
16
892
Dalton
 
361
3,059
145
3,565
Egremont
 
135
478
30
643
Florida
 
51
298
24
373
Great Barrington
 
452
2,388
397
3,237
Hancock
 
63
264
12
339
Hinsdale
 
93
633
31
757
Lanesborough
 
151
1,131
89
1,371
Lee
 
305
2,232
209
2,746
Lenox
 
368
2,365
229
2,962
Monterey
 
137
255
23
415
Mount Washington
 
16
40
2
58
New Ashford
 
21
81
2
104
New Marlborough
 
118
373
39
530
N. Adams
 
866
6,785
401
8,052
Otis
 
88
309
46
443
Peru
 
39
201
14
254
Pittsfield
 
2,660
20,331
2,730
25,721
Richmond
 
125
704
28
857
Sandisfield
 
85
167
49
301
Savoy
 
31
163
17
211
Sheffield
 
216
1,042
64
1,322
Stockbridge
 
267
1,082
85
1,434
Tyringham
 
28
145
13
186
Washington
 
49
181
9
239
W. Stockbridge
 
130
558
37
725
Williamstown
 
578
3,075
147
3,800
Windsor
 
50
240
11
301
County Totals
8,455
56,130
5,344 69,929