Download or read book Attorney General Opinion No. 1997-047 written by Carla J. Stovall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holding in Energy Reserve Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power & Light Co., 230 Kan. 176 (1981), cannot be construed as conclusive authority for the constitutionality of legislative intervention into private electric utility contracts, but the case does provide the criteria which legislative intervention must meet in order to overcome a constitutional challenge for impairing a contract. The Kansas Corporation Commission has the authority to abrogate utility contracts but only after an express finding that the contracts at issue are unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unduly preferential and adversely impacting the public welfare. Cited herein: K.S.A. 55-402; 55-404; K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 66-101b; 66-101c; 66-101d; 66-101e; 66-101f.