Missouri ‘hot weather law’ begins next week

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Missouri’s “how weather law” will be in effect from June 1-Sept. 30.

The Missouri Public Service Commission sent a reminder in a press release on Friday.

The law was made to protect residential customers of investor-owned utilities from having electric or natural gas service disconnected because of nonpayment “when electricity or natural gas is used as the source of cooling or to operate the only cooling equipment at the residence,” the release says.

Regulated companies are not allowed to disconnect service “if the National Weather Service local forecast between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. predicts that within the following 72 hours the temperature will rise above 95 degrees Fahrenheit or the heat index will rise above 105 degrees Fahrenheit.”