Opinion No. (1997)

Dear Representatives Hefner

¶ 0 This office has received your recent request for an official Opinion asking, in effect, the following questions:

1. Are the residents of an Oklahoma municipality prohibited from using propane in lieu of natural gas for their individual energy needs when the municipality owns and operates a natural gas distribution system for the benefit of its residents, and when the municipality purchases all gas used in the system from a natural gas public utility pursuant to a wholesale rate schedule, approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the relevant terms of which…