                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INCREASE TO MAKE UP FOR LOSSES DUE TO EXCESSIVE TEMPORARY REDUCTION (§ 56-244)

If upon a final disposition of the issues involved in a proceeding mentioned in
§ 56-242, the rates or charges as finally determined by the Commission, or the
court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, are in excess of the rates and
charges prescribed in any temporary order issued in such proceeding, then such
public utility shall be permitted, over such reasonable time as the Commission
shall fix, to amortize and recover, by means of a temporary increase over and
above the rates and charges finally determined, such sum as shall represent the
difference between the gross income obtained from the rates and charges
prescribed in such temporary reduction order, and the gross income which would
have obtained, during the period such temporary reduction order was in effect,
based upon the same volume, from the rates and charges finally determined.

HISTORY: 1934, p. 366; Michie Code 1942, § 4071a.