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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 - Hampshire 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
14,508
43,457
3,000 60,965
Amherst
 
4,732
5,699
711
11,142
Belchertown
 
711
1,863
145
2,719
Chesterfield
 
79
300
25
404
Cummington
 
98
292
13
403
Easthampton
 
1,267
5,729
298
7,294
Goshen
 
63
214
14
291
Granby
 
485
1,885
131
2,501
Hadley
 
557
1,581
155
2,293
Hatfield
 
332
1,245
79
1,656
Huntington
 
152
605
41
798
Middlefield
 
32
138
11
181
Northampton
 
3,112
9,894
734
13,740
Pelham
 
193
360
26
579
Plainfield
 
33
144
8
185
S. Hadley
 
1,118
6,950
271
8,339
Southampton
 
316
1,472
37
1,825
Ware
 
779
3,469
210
4,458
Westhampton
 
84
405
14
503
Williamsburg
 
256
875
55
1,186
Worthington
 
109
337
22
468
County Totals
14,508
43,457
3,000 60,965