Code of Virginia - Title 56 Public Service Companies - Chapter 10.1 Utility Facilities Act

56-265.1 Definitions
In this chapter the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Company" means a corporation, a limited liability company, an individual, a partnership, an ...
56-265.2 Certificate of convenience and necessity required for acquisition, etc., of new facilitie...
A. It shall be unlawful for any public utility to construct, enlarge or acquire, by lease or otherwise, any facilities for use in public utility ...
56-265.2:1 Approval by Commission required for construction of certain gas pipelines and related facilities; n...
A. Whenever a certificate is required pursuant to § 56-265.2 for the construction of a pipeline for the transmission or distribution of manufactured or natural ...
56-265.3 Certificate to furnish public utility service; allotment of territory transfers, leases or amendmen...
A. No public utility shall begin to furnish public utility service within the Commonwealth without first having obtained from the Commission a certificate of public ...
56-265.3:1 Certificates to furnish water and sewer service
A. Any company proposing to construct facilities after January 1, 1995, ultimately intended to make water or sewer service available to more than fifty residential ...
56-265.4 Certificate to operate in territory of another certificate holder
Except as provided in § 56-265.4:4, no certificate shall be granted to an applicant proposing to operate in the territory of any holder of a ...
56-265.4:1 Furnishing of electric public utility service or provision of facilities therefor by municipal corp...
If any municipal corporation or other governmental body, having legal authority by charter or other law, shall desire to supply electric public utility service, or ...
56-265.4:2 Extension of service by cities and towns into annexed areas
A. Any city or town in the Commonwealth which provides electric utility service for the use of its residents may, at any time following annexation ...
56-265.4:3 Mobile telephone service or radio paging service in certificated territory of another compan...
Nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the Commission, upon application from a telephone company, from permitting the applicant to provide mobile telephone service or ...
56-265.4:4 Certificate to operate as a telephone utility
A. The Commission may grant certificates to competing telephone companies, or any county, city or town that operates an electric distribution system, for interexchange service ...
56-265.4:5 Furnishing gas service to commercial and industrial customers in an area not certificated for publi...
A. Any company desiring to make an exempt sale, transmission or service under subdivision (b) (4) of § 56-265.1 shall notify the Commission of its ...
56-265.5 Effective date of certificates
Certificates issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be effective from the date of issuance unless a different date be specified therein and shall ...
56-265.6 Penalties for misrepresentations, violations of law, regulations or terms of certificates
The Commission may, by its order duly entered after hearing, held after due notice to the holder of any such certificate and an opportunity to ...
56-265.7 Appeal from order of revocations, etc
From any order of the Commission suspending, revoking, altering or amending any certificate, the holder thereof shall have the right of appeal to the Supreme ...
56-265.8 Proceedings before Commission on or before July 1, 1950
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to or in any way affect any proceeding before the State Corporation Commission on or before July ...
56-265.8:1 Inspection and approval of certain installations not regulated pursuant to this chapter
The owner or operator of any facility for the generation of electrical energy not subject to regulation under the Utilities Facilities Act but designed to ...
56-265.9 Title of chapter
This chapter may be cited as the Utility Facilities Act. (1950, p. 601.) ...

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