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In addition, all such public utilities shall file with the Commission and keep current a description of its purchasing and construction practices.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1380772,"text":"Every public utility subject to the annual or biennial review provisions of Title 56 shall use competitive bidding to the extent practicable in its purchasing and construction practices. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 627 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1978 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2007, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0888\">888<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?071+ful+CHAP0933\">933<\/a>; in 2008, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?081+ful+CHAP0522\">522<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1475753,"object_type":"law","relational_id":370145,"identifier":"56-233.1","token":"56\/10\/1.1\/56-233.1","url":"\/56-233.1\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/56-233.1\/","token":"56\/10\/1.1\/56-233.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Public utilities purchasing practices","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 56-233.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Every public utility subject to the annual or biennial review provisions of Title 56 shall use competitive bidding to the extent practicable in its purchasing and construction practices. 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