Chap. 511.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4067 of the Code of
Virginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sec-
tion 2 of an act entitled an act, imposing public duties on heat, light,
power, water and telephone companies and providing for the control and
regulation of such companies by the State Corporation Commission, which
was approved March 27, 1914, as heretofore amended, approved March 15,
1918. [S B 374]

Approved March 28, 1922.

_ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion four thousand and sixty-seven, as amended by an act approved
March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, entitled an act to
amend and re-enact section two of an act of the general assembly
of Virginia, entitled an act imposing public duties on heat, light,
power, water and telephone companies and providing for control and
regulation of such companies by the State corporation commission,
which was approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and
fourteen, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 2 Public utility defined—The term “public utility” as used
in this act shall mean and embrace every corporation, other than a
municipality, company, individual, or‘association of individuals, their
lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever,
that now or hereafter may own, manage or control any plant or equip-
ment or any part of a plant or equipment within the State for the
conveyance of telephone messages or for the production, transmis-
sion, delivery, or furnishing of heat, light, power, or water, either
directly or indirectly, to or for the public.

Provided the term “public utility” as herein defined, shall not be
construed to include any hotel or corporation whose principal bust-
ness is the operation of-a hotel and which may supply heat, light,
water or power to a limited number of patrons out of its temporary
surplus, nor to individual plants which furnish lights or electrical
current or other power to inhabitants of towns or territory adjacent
thereto in which operatives or employees of such plants live, provided
no public utility operates in such town or territory.

2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.