Law Creating the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado (Classic Reprint)

Law Creating the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
133143839X
ISBN-13
9781331438397
Category
Reference
Pages
54
Language
English
Published
2015-07-15
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
UNKNOWN. AUTHOR

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Excerpt from Law Creating the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado Section 3. The term "public utility," when used in this act. includes every common carrier, pipe line corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, person or municipality operating for the purpose of supplying the public for domestic, mechanical or public uses, and every corporation, or person now or hereafter declared by law to be affected with a public interest, and each thereof, is hereby declared to be a public utility and to be subject to the jurisdiction, control and regulation of the commission and to the provisions of this act; Provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to irrigation systems, the chief or principal business of which is to supply water for the purpose of irrigation. Section 4. A Public Utilities Commission is hereby created which shall be known as The Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado and which shall consist of three members who shall be appointed by the Governor, except as in this section otherwise provided. Aaron P. Anderson is hereby designated and named as one commissioner, and shall hold his office until the second Tuesday in January, 1915; Sheridan S. Kendall is hereby designated and named as one commissioner and shall hold his office until the second Tuesday in January, 1917; and immediately upon the taking effect of this act the Governor shall appoint a commissioner who shall hold his office until the second Tuesday in January, 1919. The term of office for each commissioner thereafter to be so appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, shall be for the term of six years from and after the expiration of the several terms as herein fixed. No two members of The Public Utilities Commission shall at any time be residents of the same Judicial District, and any appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term. The Governor shall designate one member of the Commission as Chairman of the Commission. The Commissioners herein named shall receive as compensation for their services the sum of Three Thousand Dollars each per annum for the remainder of the respective terms for which they were elected as Railroad Commissioners. All Commissioners appointed after the passage of this Act shall receive as compensation the sum of Four Thousand Dollars each per annum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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