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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="7-537" title_number="7" title_name="Gas, Electric, and Water Companies" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Electric Industry Restructuring">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The rights and interests of an electric company or successor under a qualified rate order, including the right to impose, collect, and receive qualified rate stabilization charges authorized in the order:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>become rate stabilization property when they are first transferred to an assignee or are pledged in connection with the issuance of rate stabilization bonds; but</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>are only contract rights before that first transfer or pledge.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Rate stabilization property constitutes a present property right:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for purposes of contracts concerning the sale or pledge of property, even though the imposition and collection of qualified rate stabilization charges depends on further acts of the electric company or others that have not yet occurred; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for all purposes until the later of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the period provided in the qualified rate order, to the extent provided in that order; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the payment in full of the rate stabilization bonds, including all principal, interest, premium, costs, and arrearages on the bonds.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>All revenues and collections resulting from qualified rate stabilization charges are proceeds only of the rate stabilization property arising from the qualified rate order.</text>
  </level>
</section>
