If upon investigation it shall be found that any regulation, measurement, practice, act or service of any public utility complained of is unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, preferential, unjustly discriminatory or otherwise in violation of law or if it be found that any service is inadequate or that any reasonable service cannot be obtained, the Commission may substitute therefor such other regulations, measurements, practices, service or acts and make such order respecting, and such changes in, such regulations, measurements, practices, service or acts as shall be just and reasonable.
The Commission shall investigate the promotional allowances and practices of public utilities and shall take such action as such investigation may indicate to be in the public interest.
Code 1919, § 4072; 1966, c. 552.
Notes of Decisions
Little Bay Corp. v. Virginia Elec. & Power Co., 219 S.E.2d 677 (Va. 1975).
· cites it 7× “Later in the same year, the General Assembly amended Code § 56-247 to provide that the Commission “shall investigate the promotional allowances and practices of public utilities and shall take such action as such investigation may indicate to be in the public interest.”
Appalachian Power Co. v. John Stewart Walker, Inc., 201 S.E.2d 758 (Va. 1974).
· cites it 2× “*530 Appalachian and the Commission argue further that Code § 56-247 (Repl. Vol. 1969) required the Commission to investigate promotional practices and to take action found to be in the public interest; that upon such investigation, the Commission promulgated its April 15, 1970…”
Cottrell v. Virginia Elec. & Power Co., 363 F. Supp. 692 (E.D. Va. 1973).
· cites it 3× “Va.Code § 56-247 requires the S.C.C. to substitute its own regulations or practices for those of a public utility which it finds unjust or unreasonable.”
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