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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72660</law_id><section_number>56-82</section_number><catch_line>Approval of loans to affiliates, 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>No <span class="dictionary">public service company</span> shall henceforth make, extend or renew any loan of money to any <span class="dictionary">affiliated interest</span> or assume, extend or renew any obligation or liability whatsoever of any <span class="dictionary">affiliated interest</span>, whether as guarantor, endorser, <span class="dictionary">surety</span> or otherwise, unless the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall first have approved such loan or assumption, or the extension or renewal of such loan, obligation, or liability, as being not inconsistent with the public interest, and then only upon such terms and conditions as may be set forth in the <span class="dictionary">order</span> of the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> approving such transaction. The <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> shall, after the filing of such a loan, obligation, or liability, approve or disapprove the loan, obligation, or liability within sixty days. The sixty-day period may be extended by <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> <span class="dictionary">order</span> for an additional period not to exceed thirty days. The loan, obligation, or liability shall be deemed approved if the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> fails to act within sixty days or any extended period ordered by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span>. This section shall not be construed so as to invalidate or impair any such loan, obligation, or liability lawfully made, extended or renewed, or assumed, extended or renewed, and entered into prior to March 29, 1934.</p></section></text><history>1934, p. 745; 1938, p. 21; Michie Code 1942, &#xA7; 3774i; 1998, c. 707.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
