Ch. 191

1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

company, street railroad company, sleeping car company, taxicab company, toll bridge
company, and transit company. ["Common carrier" includes any person engaged in the
public transportation for hire by motor vehicle of flammables in bulk.] Any provisions of
this article to the contrary notwithstanding, "common carrier" does not mean and shall
not include any county revenue authority or any toll bridges or other facilities owned and
operated by any county revenue authority. "Common carrier" does not include any
vanpool or launch service.

[(e)] (D) "Company", as a designation for a type of enterprise, such as "public
service company" or "electric company" means and includes any person owning such
enterprise, whether in his own right or as agent, trustee, or receiver.

[(f)] (E) "Electric company" means and includes any public service company,
other than a company generating and/or transmitting electricity exclusively for its own
use, (1) which (A) owns any electric plant and (B) transmits, sells, or distributes
electricity, or generates electricity for distribution or sale; or (2) any such company which
is authorized to erect, lay down or maintain wires, pipes, conduits, ducts or other fixtures
in, over, or under streets for furnishing or distributing electricity, or to maintain
underground conduits or ducts for electrical conductors; or (3) every municipal
corporation in the business of supplying electricity for other than municipal purposes.

[(g)] (F) "Electric plant" means plant owned by an electric company and includes
but is not limited to batteries, boilers, buildings, cables, conduits, converters, dams, ducts
(or other devices for containing or carrying electrical conductors), dynamos; easements,
lamps, meters, motors, poles, power stations, real estate, services, transformers,
waterfalls, water plant and water property.

[(h)](G) "Gas company" means and includes (1) any public service company
authorized to erect, lay down or maintain pipes, conduits, ducts or other fixtures in, over,
or under streets for furnishing or distributing gas; and (2) any public service company
which (A) owns any gas plant, and (B) transmits, sells, supplies, or distributes artificial or
natural gas, or manufactures gas for distribution or sale; and (3) every municipal
corporation in the business of supplying gas for other than municipal purposes.

[(i)] (H) "Gas plant" means plant owned by a gas company and includes but is
not limited to boilers, buildings, condensers, easements, extensions, holders, lamps,
mains, meters, pipes, pipe galleries, purifiers, retorts, real estate, scrubbers, services, and
water gas sets.

[(j)] (I) "Own" means own, operate, lease to, lease from, manage, or control.

[(k)] (J) "Person" includes individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association,
company, cooperative, joint stock company or association, and any other form of business
enterprise.

[(l)] (K) "Personnel of the Commission" includes commissioners, general
counsel, officers and employees of the Commission.

[(m)] (L) "Plant" includes gas plant, electric plant, railroad, street railroad,
telegraph lines, telephone lines, water plant and all material, equipment, apparatus,

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