HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1671

company, person or corporation, after receipt of any notice as
hereafter provided of the filing of said map or maps and
statement, to begin the construction of any electric distribu-
tion lines within said area or areas or to solicit customers for
electric service therein or in any manner to conflict, interfere
or compete with the proposed system of said filing corporation,
until after the expiration of six months from the date of said
filing of said map or maps and statement. The words area or
areas as used herein in connection with the maps to be filed
by said filing corporation shall be deemed to mean the areas
which may be served in normal practice by secondary voltage
extensions from the primary voltage lines indicated in said
maps, which in any event shall not be less than a distance
of fifteen hundred feet from either side of said primary lines.

(b) In the event that said filing corporation within said
six months period shall enter into any loan agreement with
any Federal Agency for the financing of its proposed electric
system, and shall file a written notice thereof with the Com-
mission, together with a copy of said loan agreement, no such
electric utility, power and light company, person or corpora-
tion after receipt of such loan agreement shall begin the con-
struction of any electric distribution lines within said area or
areas or solicit customers for electric service therein until after
the expiration of twelve months from the date of filing said
notice of said loan agreement.

(c) It shall be the duty of the Commission to give notice
in writing of the filing of said map or maps and statement
and said loan agreement to each electric utility and power
and light company having any electric transmission or distri-
bution lines or system within, or within ten miles of, any area
shown in said maps where said filing corporation intends to
operate its proposed system. There shall be attached to said
notices blue print copies of said maps, a copy of said state-
ment, and a copy of the notice of said loan agreement in the
event that such an agreement shall have been entered into,
sufficient copies for the purpose of such notices shall be fur-
nished to the Commission by and at the expense of the filing
corporation. The filing corporation may give the notices re-
quired by Subsections (a) and (b) hereof and such notices
shall be effectual for the purposes of this subheading notwith-
standing any failure of the Commission to give the notices
herein provided for. Any notice shall be deemed to have been
given within the requirements of this subheading when it has
been deposited in the mails with postage prepaid and ad-
dressed to the principal office of any said electric utility,
power and light company, person or corporation.

(d) The Commission is hereby authorized to make and pro-
mulgate reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the