                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DESIGNATION AS PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATION (§ 56-1.1)

The State Corporation Commission may designate a business enterprise operating
as a telephone or telecommunications company to be a public service corporation
when, upon appropriate inquiry and public hearing, the Commission determines
that the enterprise is engaged in any of the public utility services described
in § 56-1. However, this section shall not apply to any mutual telephone
association existing prior to January 1, 1984.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 648.