The commission may approve or otherwise allow to become effective applications from public utilities, subject to the commission's jurisdiction under the Public Utility Act [Chapter 62, Articles 1 to 6 and 8 to 13 NMSA 1978], for clean fuel rates, tariffs or other programs in order to encourage, develop or promote the development and use of natural gas and other clean fuels used as vehicular fuels. For the purposes of this section, clean fuel rates or tariffs are rates or tariffs set at a lower level than the corresponding service rate or tariff for which a customer would otherwise qualify.

History: Laws 1992, ch. 58, § 10; 1993, ch. 282, § 32.

Compiler's notes. — Sections 62-6-4 to 62-6-26.1 of the Public Utility Act are still effective as the repeal of Chapter 62, Article 6 by Laws 1998, Chapter 108, Section 82, effective July 1, 2003 Chapter 108, Section 82 was repealed prior to taking effect by Chapter 23, Section 1, Laws 2003. Although Laws 2003, Chapter 336, Section 8, amended Laws 1998, Chapter 82, as amended, an amendment of a repealed section is ineffective. See Quintana v. N.M. Dep't of Corrs., 100 N.M. 224, 668 P.2d 1101 (1983). Laws 2003, Chapter 416, Section 5 also repealed Laws 1998, Chapter 108, Section 82, as amended, a second time, however, that repeal is of no effect as the section had previously been repealed by Chapter 23, Section 1, Laws 2003.

The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "The commission" for "The New Mexico public service commission" at the beginning of the section.