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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75936</law_id><section_number>56-231.33</section_number><catch_line>Adequate service; rates</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>56-582</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="56">Public Service Companies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9.1">Utility Consumer Services Cooperatives and Utility Aggregation Cooperatives</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Utility Consumer Services Cooperatives Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p><span class="dictionary">Regulated utility services</span> offered by a <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> shall be reasonably adequate, subject to the regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Regulation by Commission" href="/56-231.34/">56-231.34</a>. The charge made by any such <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> for any regulated utility service rendered or to be rendered, either directly or in connection therewith, shall be nondiscriminatory, reasonable and just, and every discriminatory, unjust or unreasonable charge for such regulated utility service is prohibited and declared unlawful. Reasonable and just charges for service within the meaning of this section shall be such charges as shall produce sufficient revenue to pay all legal and other necessary expenses incident to the operation of the <span class="dictionary">system</span>, and shall include but not be limited to maintenance cost, operating charges, interest charges on <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or other <span class="dictionary">obligations</span>, to recover such stranded costs and transition costs as may be authorized in this title, to provide for the <span class="dictionary">liquidation</span> of <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or other <span class="dictionary">evidences</span> of indebtedness, to provide adequate funds to be used as working capital, as well as reasonable reserves and funds for making replacements and also for the payment of any taxes that may be assessed against such <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> or its property, it being the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> and purpose hereof that such charges shall produce an income sufficient to maintain such <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> property in a sound physical and financial condition to render adequate and efficient service and additional amounts that must be realized by the <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> to meet the requirement of any <span class="dictionary">rate</span> covenant with respect to coverage of principal of and interest on its debt contained in any indenture, mortgage, or other <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with holders of its debt, provided that any such indenture, mortgage or other <span class="dictionary">contract</span> must have been approved by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> pursuant to Chapter 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/56-55/">56-55</a> et seq.) of this title. Any <span class="dictionary">rate</span> for <span class="dictionary">regulated utility services</span> that is too low to meet the foregoing requirements shall be unlawful.</p></section></text><history>1999, c. 874; 2000, cc. 944, 999.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
