66-1235. Same; findings. The legislature finds that:

(a) Actual and threatened acts of terrorism directed at the American people make it clear that government must take enhanced measures to protect its citizens and provide for greater security of services essential to the public welfare.

(b) The threat of terrorism extends to utilities that provide basic services upon which individual citizens, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, day care centers, businesses and industry rely.

(c) Under these extraordinary circumstances, practices and procedures that would otherwise apply in regulatory proceedings shall not hamper the government in performing its most basic purposes: Providing for the security of its citizens and protecting the public welfare.

History: L. 2003, ch. 132, § 2; May 1.