77. A natural gas distributor is required to supply and deliver natural gas to every person who so requests within the territory served by the distributor’s distribution system.
Within that territory, the distributor shall also, at the request of a consumer or at the request of a natural gas broker acting in his own name or in the name of a producer or a consumer, receive, transmit and deliver to the consumer natural gas purchased from a third person by the consumer for his own consumption.