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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75419</law_id><section_number>56-81</section_number><catch_line>Summary order prohibiting treatment of payments as operating expenses, etc</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="4">Regulation of Relations With Affiliated Interests</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall find upon investigation (1) that any <span class="dictionary">public service company</span> is giving effect to any <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or arrangement of the character described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Certain contracts must be approved by the Commission" href="/56-77/">56-77</a>, entered into after March 29, 1934, when such <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or arrangement shall not have been filed with the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> as required by this chapter, or (2) that any <span class="dictionary">public service company</span> is making payment to an <span class="dictionary">affiliated interest</span>, although such payments have been disallowed and disapproved by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> under this chapter or in a proceeding involving the <span class="dictionary">public service company</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">rates</span> or practices, the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> may, in the former case, and shall, in the latter case, <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a summary <span class="dictionary">order</span> prohibiting the <span class="dictionary">public service company</span> from treating any payments made under the terms of such <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or arrangement or any payments so disallowed and disapproved as operating expenses or as capital expenditures for <span class="dictionary">rate</span> or valuation purposes, unless and until such payments shall have received the approval of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>.</p></section></text><history>1934, p. 745; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3774g, 3774h.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
