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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54242</law_id><section_number>56-263</section_number><catch_line>Commission may order increase in service</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>56-264</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="10">Heat, Light, Power, Water and Other Utility Companies Generally</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Water and Sewerage Companies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>, after due notice to such <span class="dictionary">public service corporation</span>, shall investigate such complaint and if, upon such investigation, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall determine that the public health of the community or its safety from fire is impaired or threatened with impairment by reason of the failure of such <span class="dictionary">public service corporation</span> to perform or carry out any of the duties imposed by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Duties of companies furnishing water or sewerage facilities" href="/56-261/">56-261</a>, or by this chapter, it shall embody such <span class="dictionary">finding</span> in an <span class="dictionary">order</span> to be entered upon its records and at the same time shall enter an <span class="dictionary">order</span> requiring such <span class="dictionary">public service corporation</span> to make such increase in its water supply or such increases, changes, modifications and extensions of its distribution or disposal system and such changes, modifications and extensions in its service charges and facilities as may be requisite to the proper protection of the public health or safety of the community. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall fix in its <span class="dictionary">order</span> a reasonable time within which such increases, changes, modifications and extensions shall be completed and may require reports from such <span class="dictionary">public service corporation</span> of the progress of the work so ordered.</p></section></text><history>1924, p. 690; 1928, p. 632; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 4073c.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
