ART. 23]

CORPORATIONS.

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Public Service Commission. 413A. -"Common carrier" includes mo- tor vehicle transportation com- panies ; municipal corporations supplying gas or electricity in- cluded in "gas or electric cor- porations." 414. Commissioners; appointment; re- moval ; term of office ; salaries ; counsel. Secretary; office force. 416. Office; office hours; equipment; meetings ; seal ; quorum ; deci- sion by one commissioner ; ap- proval of commission. 438. Counsel and assistant of Public Service Commission; preference of cases. 428A. Steamboats may give free trans- portation in exchange for adver- tising, when. 435A. Mileage, excursion and commu- tation tickets, regulation of. 435B. Commission may require carriers to receipt for milk containers; form thereof; law applicable upon passage of such require- ment. 438A. Section 438 applies to abandon- ment by carrier of franchise or right actually being exercised for public service ; discontinuance upon repeal of franchise; pro- viso. 439A. Public service corporations may issue stocks, bonds, notes, etc.,

payable at longer periods than twelve months under certain .conditions; validity of prior or- ders of commission not affected. 445. Supervision over gas and electric companies ; investigation of qual- ity of gas and electricity ; access to premises, books, plants, etc.; divulgence of information by em- ployees of commission ; valua- tion of assets, franchises, etc.; may prescribe methods of keep- ing accounts ; reports to commis- sion, what to contain; examina- tion of witnesses; meter inspect- ors ; test of meters. 447A. Section 447 applicable to aban- donment by gas or electric com- pany of franchise actually being exercised for public service. 448A. Gas or electric companies may issue stocks, bonds, notes, etc., payable at longer periods than twelve months under certain conditions ; prior orders of com- mission not affected. 458A. Transcript of papers and pro- ceedings certified by secretary of commission to be filed before trial ; transcript is evidence. 466A. Approval of issue of securities of corporations sold under judi- dicial, etc., proceedings; capital- ization of assets other than franchise.

1.

See notes to section 68.

Provisions for Formation.

3.

As to the articles of incorporation of state banks, see article 11, sections
21 and 22; as to articles of association of savings banks, see article 11,
section 31; as to articles of incorporation of trust companies, see article
11, section 42, et seq.

1904, art. 23, sees. 51, 52 & 56. 1888, art. 23, secs. 43, 44 & 48. 1868, ch. 471,

sees. 38, 39 & 43. 1888, ch. 454. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 4.

1914, ch. 789, sec. 4.

4. After the certificate is acknowledged before a Justice of the
Peace, his official character shall be certified by the Clerk of the
Circuit or Superior Court under his official seal; every certificate shall