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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77460</law_id><section_number>56-231.50</section_number><catch_line>Regulation by State Corporation Commission</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="2">Utility Aggregation Cooperatives Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">regulated utility services</span> and operations of any <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> organized under this article shall be subject to the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> in the same manner and to the same extent as are all other providers of such <span class="dictionary">regulated utility services</span> under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of this Commonwealth; but with regard to sales of <span class="dictionary">energy</span> at wholesale, no <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> shall be subject to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Duty to furnish adequate service at reasonable and uniform rates" href="/56-234/">56-234</a> through <a class="law" title="Temporary increase in rates" href="/56-245/">56-245</a>, <a class="law" title="Commission may change regulations, measurements, practices, services, or acts" href="/56-247/">56-247</a> and <a class="law" title="Reports by utilities" href="/56-249/">56-249</a> through <a class="law" title="Recovery of fuel and purchased power costs" href="/56-249.6/">56-249.6</a>. With regard to business activities which are not <span class="dictionary">regulated utility services</span>, no <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> shall be subject to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Duty to furnish adequate service at reasonable and uniform rates" href="/56-234/">56-234</a> through <a class="law" title="Temporary increase in rates" href="/56-245/">56-245</a> and <a class="law" title="Reports by utilities" href="/56-249/">56-249</a> through <a class="law" title="Recovery of fuel and purchased power costs" href="/56-249.6/">56-249.6</a>. All other business activities of a <span class="dictionary">cooperative</span> and its <span class="dictionary">affiliates</span> shall be subject to the <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> to the extent provided by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Separation of regulated and unregulated businesses" href="/56-231.50_1/">56-231.50:1</a> and any other applicable <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of this Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>1999, c. 874.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
