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hold any office or position under the Commission, who holds
any official relation to any common carrier, railroad corpora-
tion, street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical
corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation,
water company, heat and refrigerating company, transporta-
tion of property or freight company, or other public service
corporation subject to any of the provisions of this Act, or
who own stocks or bonds therein, or who has any pecuniary
interest therein.

JURISDICTION OF THE COMMISSION.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly,
That the jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the
Public Service Commission herein created and established shall
extend under this Act:

1. To railroads and street railroads lying within this State,
and to the person or corporation owning, leasing, operating or
controlling the same.

2. To street railroads, any portion of whose lines lie within
any incorporated city or town within this State, containing
not less than two thousand inhabitants, and to all transporta-
tion of persons or property thereon, and to the person or cor-
poration owning, operating, controlling or leasing the said
street railroads.

3. To such portion of the lines of any other railroad as lie
within this State, and to the person or corporation owning,
leasing, operating or controlling the same, so far as concerns
the construction, maintenance, equipment, terminal facilities
and local transportation facilities and local transportation of
persons or property within the State.

4. To any common carrier operating or doing business
within the State.

5. To the manufacture, sale or distribution of gas, natural
and artificial, and electricity for light, heat and power, within
the State of Maryland, and to the persons or corporation own-
ing, leasing, operating or controlling the same; and to gas and
electric plants, and to persons or corporations owning, operat-
ing, leasing or controlling the same.

6. To all telephone lines, as above defined, and all tele-
graph lines as above defined, and to every telephone company,
and to every telegraph company, so far as said telephone and
telegraph lines are and lie, and so far as said telephone com-
panies and said telegraph companes conduct and operate such
line or lines, respectively, within this State.