Morningstar Water Users Ass'n v. New Mexico Public Utility Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “when the legislature intended the [Public Utility Act] to apply to municipalities it did so explicitly”
• holding that the Commission may only exercise jurisdiction over utilities expressly included in the scope of the PUA
• recognizing that a municipality may choose to submit itself to full regulation by the PUA under Section 62-6-5
• recognizing that a municipality may choose to submit itself to full regulation by the PUA under Section 62-6-5
• stating that a reviewing court accords some deference to an agency’s interpretation of the statute that governs the agency
• stating that a reviewing court accords some deference to an agency's interpretation of the statute that governs the agency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).