Chap. 18.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4067 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to and defining public utilities. [H B 91]

Approved February 12, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty hundred and sixty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 4067. 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 equipment or
any part of a plant or equipment within the State for the conveyance of
telephone messages or for the production, transmission, delivery, or fur-
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nishing 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 business 1s
the operation of a hotel and which may supply heat, light, water, telephone
service, 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.