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This law was first created in 1999. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 874<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":59958,"section_number":"13.1-334","catch_line":"Application to existing associations","order_by":null,"url":"\/13.1-334\/"}],"permalink":{"id":251469,"object_type":"law","relational_id":66528,"identifier":"56-231.47","token":"56\/9.1\/2\/56-231.47","url":"\/56-231.47\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-231.47\/","token":"56\/9.1\/2\/56-231.47","dublin_core":{"Title":"Adoption of article","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-231.47","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any cooperative<\/span> of this Commonwealth engaged in the purchase, sale, generation or transmission of electric energy<\/span> products or services for sale or resale may come under the provisions of this article by filing with the Commission<\/span> a certificate of adoption in the manner provided by subsection (b) of \u00a7 13.1-334<\/a> and relinquishing all rights and powers granted by its former charter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nADOPTION OF ARTICLE (\u00a7 56-231.47)\n\nAny cooperative of this Commonwealth engaged in the purchase, sale, generation\nor transmission of electric energy products or services for sale or resale may\ncome under the provisions of this article by filing with the Commission a\ncertificate of adoption in the manner provided by subsection (b) of \u00a7 13.1-334\nand relinquishing all rights and powers granted by its former charter.\n\nHISTORY: 1999, c. 874.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}