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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 - Franklin 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
5,796
23,705
2,168 31,669
Ashfield
 
202
544
27
773
Bernardston
 
145
727
32
904
Buckland
 
166
776
62
1,004
Charlemont
 
97
385
28
510
Colrain
 
152
592
28
772
Conway
 
190
494
26
710
Deerfield
 
451
1,720
84
2,255
Erving
 
68
611
17
696
Gill
 
99
546
23
668
Greenfield
 
1,314
6,410
1,203
8,927
Hawley
 
39
80
6
125
Heath
 
65
165
10
240
Leverett
 
282
388
34
704
Leyden
 
44
184
7
235
Monroe
 
11
85
1
97
Montague
 
735
3,409
218
4,362
New Salem
 
71
273
11
355
Northfield
 
225
1,070
68
1,363
Orange
 
327
2,300
101
2,728
Rowe
 
38
174
6
218
Shelburne
 
128
779
40
947
Shutesbury
 
184
268
21
473
Sunderland
 
422
824
42
1,288
Warwick
 
60
222
17
299
Wendell
 
117
184
28
329
Whately
 
164
495
28
687
County Totals
5,796
23,705
2,168 31,669