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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="7-405" title_number="7" title_name="Gas, Electric, and Water Companies" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Energy Conservation Building Standards">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an electric company may not provide electric service to any building on which construction is completed after July 1, 1982, unless the builder has filed with the company the certificate or statement of waiver that is required under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Paragraph (1) of this subsection does not apply to the temporary provision of electric service for use only during the process of constructing a building.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If it is later determined that a building did not conform to the energy conservation standards to which the builder has certified or that a false waiver was provided to the electric company by the builder, the electric company may not be held liable for that noncompliance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Certificates and statements of waiver filed with an electric company under this subtitle shall be made available to the public.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The electric company:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall provide a copy of any certificate or statement of waiver that it has on file to any person on request within a reasonable time not to exceed 5 working days; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may charge a reasonable fee for any copy of a certificate or statement of waiver that it provides.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The electric company is not required to retain a certificate or a statement of waiver filed with the electric company under this subsection beyond 3 years from the date the certificate or statement of waiver was filed with the electric company.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
