The Kansas Cold Weather Rule ends  March 31, and Kansans who are delinquent on electric and natural gas utility bills will be subject to disconnection of service.

The rule, in effect November 1 through March 31 each year, provides protection to residential customers who cannot fully pay winter utility bills from companies under the Kansas Corporation Commission’s (KCC) jurisdiction. That protection ends Saturday.

Hays-based Midwest Energy is under the KCC’s jurisdiction.

The KCC adopted the Cold Weather Rule to protect customers during cold winter weather by providing a reasonable and organized method of paying past due and current bills. The Cold Weather Rule applies only to residential customers of electric and natural gas utility companies under the KCC’s jurisdiction.