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Current through October 23, 2012
The term "electric company" when used in this subtitle includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, or person and doing business in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, physically transmitting or distributing electricity in the District of Columbia to retail electric customers. The term excludes any building owner, lessee, or manager who, respectively, owns, leases, or manages, the internal distribution system serving the building and who supplies electricity and other related electricity services solely to occupants of the building for use by the occupants.
(Mar. 4, 1913, 37 Stat. 976, ch. 150, § 8, par. 1; May 9, 2000, D.C. Law 13- 107, § 201(b)(5), 47 DCR 1091.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 43-215.
1973 Ed., § 43-115.
Effect of Amendments
D.C. Law 13-107 rewrote this section which formerly provided:
"The term 'electrical corporation' when used in Chapters 1-10 of this title includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock company or association, partnership, or person doing business in the District of Columbia, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, owning, operating, controlling, or managing any electric plant, including any water plant, or water property, or water falls, or dam, or waterpower stations, except where electricity is made, generated, produced, or transmitted by a private person or private corporation on or through private property solely for its own use or the use of tenants of its building and not for sale to or for the use of others."
Legislative History of Laws
For Law 13-107, see notes following § 34-201.
