No municipal electric corporation or utility, not previously subject to assessment under P.L. 1940, c.5 (C.54:30A-49 et seq.),shall be deemed a remitter for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of this act. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. of this section, sections 36 through 45, sections 47 through 49 and section 67 of P.L. 1997, c. 162(C.54:30A-100 through C.54:30A-109, C.54:30A-111 through C.54:30A-113 and C.48:2-21.34) to the contrary, a municipal electric utility that collects sales tax for electricity sales that are not exempt from sales tax pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of subsection a. of section 26 of P.L. 1997, c. 162(C.54:32B-8.46), shall also collect on each such nonexempt sale during any year in which the transitional energy facility assessment is imposed, an additional assessment, in place of the transitional energy facility assessment otherwise determined pursuant to those sections, equal to the "TEFA unit rate surcharge" that would have been applicable to that sale if the sale had been made by the electric public utility, other than a municipal electric utility, within whose franchise area the customer is located.
N.J.S. § 54:30A-110