                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMISSION MAY ORDER INCREASE IN SERVICE (§ 56-263)

The Commission, after due notice to such public service corporation, shall
investigate such complaint and if, upon such investigation, the Commission 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 public
service corporation to perform or carry out any of the duties imposed by §
56-261, or by this chapter, it shall embody such finding in an order to be
entered upon its records and at the same time shall enter an order requiring
such public service corporation 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 Commission shall fix in its order
a reasonable time within which such increases, changes, modifications and
extensions shall be completed and may require reports from such public service
corporation of the progress of the work so ordered.

HISTORY: 1924, p. 690; 1928, p. 632; Michie Code 1942, § 4073c.