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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 - Middlesex 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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Middlesex County Results
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City/Town Ward Pct Blanks Total Votes Cast
Totals
170,246
442,358
41,952 654,556
Acton
 
2,396
4,989
1,237
8,622
Arlington
 
8,001
18,988
1,223
28,212
Ashby
 
185
869
48
1,102
Ashland
 
733
3,269
190
4,192
Ayer
 
468
1,647
93
2,208
Bedford
 
1,560
4,089
331
5,980
Belmont
 
3,849
11,785
789
16,423
Billerica
 
3,655
9,711
456
13,822
Boxborough
 
220
966
25
1,211
Burlington
 
3,046
7,009
546
10,601
Cambridge
 
17,264
22,631
3,335
43,230
Carlisle
 
418
1,250
51
1,719
Chelmsford
 
3,246
11,947
404
15,597
Concord
 
2,095
6,317
459
8,871
Dracut
 
2,083
7,422
435
9,940
Dunstable
 
182
527
40
749
Everett
 
4,352
11,499
2,445
18,296
Framingham
 
5,909
23,384
1,142
30,435
Groton
 
506
2,042
90
2,638
Holliston
 
1,075
4,759
172
6,006
Hopkinton
 
621
2,473
107
3,201
Hudson
 
995
5,621
351
6,967
Lexington
 
4,825
11,230
1,076
17,131
Lincoln
 
788
1,970
110
2,868
Littleton
 
662
2,561
100
3,323
Lowell
 
8,077
26,840
2,579
37,496
Malden
 
7,074
16,222
2,301
25,597
Marlborough
 
2,386
10,610
533
13,529
Maynard
 
937
3,476
229
4,642
Medford
 
8,678
18,743
2,168
29,589
Melrose
 
4,188
10,595
1,228
16,011
Natick
 
3,040
11,128
775
14,943
Newton
 
13,043
29,000
3,779
45,822
N. Reading
 
1,743
3,704
166
5,613
Pepperell
 
636
2,100
145
2,881
Reading
 
3,029
8,655
446
12,130
Sherborn
 
391
1,736
49
2,176
Shirley
 
320
1,261
72
1,653
Somerville
 
11,433
18,026
2,445
31,904
Stoneham
 
3,132
6,918
632
10,682
Stow
 
377
1,866
54
2,297
Sudbury
 
1,475
5,698
181
7,354
Tewksbury
 
2,601
7,353
295
10,249
Townsend
 
472
1,825
95
2,392
Tyngsborough
 
528
1,679
85
2,292
Wakefield
 
2,868
9,753
731
13,352
Waltham
 
5,842
15,530
2,744
24,116
Watertown
 
5,566
11,780
1,659
19,005
Wayland
 
1,632
5,248
211
7,091
Westford
 
1,270
4,615
163
6,048
Weston
 
1,294
4,712
229
6,235
Wilmington
 
2,088
4,806
572
7,466
Winchester
 
2,531
8,088
757
11,376
Woburn
 
4,461
11,436
1,374
17,271
County Totals
170,246
442,358
41,952 654,556