CHAPTER 354

An Act to amend and reenact § 56-265.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain definitions for purposes of the Public Utilities Facilities Act.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 56-265.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows: ,

§ 56-265.1. In this chapter the following terms shall have the fol-
lowing meanings:

(a) “Company” means a corporation, an individual, a partnership,
an association, a joint-stock company, a business trust, a cooperative, or
an organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not; or any
receiver, trustee or other liquidating agent of any of the foregoing in his
capacity as such; but not a municipal corporation or a county.

(b) “Public utility” means any company which owns or operates
facilities within the Commonwealth of Virginia for the generation, trans-
mission or distribution of electric energy for sale, for the production,
transmission, or distribution, otherwise than in enclosed portable con-
tainers, of natural or manufactured gas for sale for heat, light or power,
or for the furnishing of telephone service, sewerage facilities or water.
Provided that the term “public utility’? shall not include any company
furnishing sewerage facilities or water to less than fifty customers.

(c) “Commission” means the State Corporation Commission.